It took a couple months, but I finished Joyce’s Ulysses! (I’m generally not an exclamation-point-kind-of guy, but that sentence deserves it.)
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Stuff I’m thinking about.
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Upon reading Ulysses
Top photo: Photograph of a first edition, 1st printing of the book Ulysses by James Joyce, published by Paris-Shakespeare, 1922. No. 302 of a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies, held by the State Library of New South Wales RB/0131. Uploaded to Wikipedia by the book’s owner, Geoffrey Barker. CC BY-SA 4.0 -
A stack of gift books, round 2
Top photo by me. And now, I present the second round of books I bought from our local bookstore, The Book Seller, using the balance of a retirement gift from my colleagues. Unlike the first round, which I more or less impulsively bought based on what was available in the store, I special-ordered these.
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A stack of gift books, round 1
Photo by me. Here’s the first round of books I bought from our local bookstore, The Book Seller, using some generous gift certificates I’d accrued — a retirement gift from my colleagues, as well as a birthday gift from The Younger and a Christmas gift from his mom. These were, for the most part, impulse buys, based on what the store had in stock.
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Schrödinger’s Retirement
Schrödinger’s lolcat originally appeared on icanhascheezburger.com (according to Know Your Meme), but it doesn’t seem to be there any more. I exist in a state of superposition, simultaneously retired and not-retired.
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The Best, Etc., of 2024
Photo by Shutter Speed on Unsplash I missed 2021’s “Best, Etc.” post without realizing it. I almost skipped this one on purpose, thinking that (aside from a wildly disappointing election) it had been a relatively uneventful year.
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Under 200
Top photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash For the first time in over two years, I weigh under 200 pounds.
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