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To say I’ve been bad about posting is an understatement, and I just realized today how long my most recent book took me to read.  I think I’m slowing down with the summer.  Baseball, barbequeing, and other things of that nature are keeping me from books, which is just fine really.  I did just finish The French Quarter:  An informal history of the New Orleans underworld by Herbert Asbury, the author of Gangs of New York.

Pretty interesting book, written in the 1930s with a lot of information.  I know far more of New Orleans history now than I could have imagined.  So, now I’m on to the most recent book in the L.E. Modesitt’s Recluce series Natural Ordermage which I plan to start sometime today.

In other news we went down to my parents house for the 4th and now we can tell the world at large, we’ve chosen Nashville as our future area.  We head down in the middle of August to check out some properties and hopefully figure out where our homesite is going to be.  Very very exciting.  Also, while at my parents I was totally able to man-out with manly tasks.  In the span of 3 hours I used a chainsaw, built a bonfire, used an arc-welder, climbed on a rough, and rode a motorcycle.  In a word, I was AWESOME.

Of course I must fess up to my general suckitude in terms of posting.  Really, I just end up forgetting about it and not making time.  Not sure if that will change or not, we’ll see.  But here’s to good summer livin’!