OTHER PLANS

Tomorrow is back to work. I've been on vacation for more than a week. I thought that would give me more time for blogging but as it turned out I was thinking of life before having a househusband. Back in the day, before Himself's enforced retirement, we were lucky if we could even get the same week off and when he was off he used it to catch up on lawn care, science fiction movies and naps. Now he has plenty of time for all three and was glad of some company. So there was no posting and not much visiting to other blogs either. I have some catching up to do.

I'm kind of pleased that I met some of my goals for the week. Some is better than none. We got Himself a suit for our nephew's wedding. I got some organizing at home done. What I didn't do was mostly the computer things. I didn't get my inbox all cleaned out. I didn't get this blog organized. I wanted to do links and some photos and things. I didn't get much work done on the other sites I maintain - for work and for my son's band.

I indulged in some reading just for fun. A woman at work gave me a copy of The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory. I love historical fiction if it sticks to facts where facts can be established. I don't mind of authors write narratives that are at odds with conventional wisdom as long as they don't take liberty with facts. After all, most serious historians seem to have their own pet theories about who really did what to whom and are always at odds with one set of colleagues or another. So why not novelists? One book leads to another, so I rummaged around the house and found a shortish biography of Elizabeth I that I'd never read. After that, maybe I'll plunge back into London, by Edward Rutherfurd. I love his books, but sometimes reading about generation after generation coming to some sort of misery or another requires a bit of a break.

And that's what I did on my summer vacation.