Remainders: Last Weekend of October
And it’s finally cooled off, sort of. Yes, I enjoy this t-shirt weather and dread the impending frigidity as much as anyone who spent his formative years in Southern California and Florida (and who now prefers to winter in Hawaii) does, but I’d also prefer a gradual descent into coldness rather than the precipitous drop I’m bracing for. And by “bracing for” I mean “thinking I should have shopped for winter clothing already.”
There are other reasons to look forward to fall, namely:
- The Sandler Center for the Performing Arts, which opens next weekend with Itzhak Perlman (although I’m holding out for Tony Bennett in December). Now Hampton Roads is one step closer to … not being a cultural black hole?
- National Novel Writing Month, or, as seems incongruously short for an art tending to prolixity, NaNoWriMo! But while some will attempt to write a paltry 50,000 words in a month’s time, I’ll be reinvigorating my reading with my yearly re-read of Atlas Shrugged (565,223 words), an attempt to finish Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle (nearly 800,000 words) and a restart of In Search of Lost Time (1.5 million words). Also up for consideration are The Lord of the Rings (~470,000 words), Infinite Jest (479,198 words) and War and Peace (~560,000 words). Maybe I’ll save those for next year.
While looking up all those word counts I forgot what else I’m looking forward to. Hay rides? Pumpkin carving?
I did install Leopard this weekend. It’s at least a welcome respite from the old and cranky install of Tiger I was running. (OS X installs seem to degrade now that Macs have Intel inside. Oh how I miss the PowerPC!) The features are largely commensurate with the prerelease hype, and in any case Leopard beats anything Microsoft’s put out recently.
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