Almost Back Online!

After my session at the library today, it's off to Frye's to get a wireless router. This under instruction from The Computer Guy who is coming out Monday afternoon to get us going again. It will connect the computer wirelessly to our current internet connection, thus eliminating the whole issue of wheelchair wheels and electrical and phone cords and their inherent incompatibility. What a relief.

This morning was a good morning. Nine loads of laundry done and miscellaneous other household chores. It felt good to that the huge pile of laundry all sorted, washed, and then dried. Later today it will all be put away.

After Frye's, I'll stop at IKEA (three freeway stops on the way back home) to get the last of the shelves for the kitchen and the twin bed frame for the living room. We have a full-size bed in there now but KidOne pointed out that she thought a twin would work better and KidThree (the usual inhabitant of the living room bed) concurred, so a twin it is. That will free up more floor space, a good thing in a small apartment.

Since appropriating KidOne's library card, I've been a reading fiend--trying to make up for lost time. I just finished a biography of Jane Boleyn, Anne's sister-in-law. After reading that entire book, I couldn't believe it had even been written. There was almost no direct information on Jane, it was all 'probably,' 'likely,' 'possibly,' and 'may have been's,' with everything else being the same things written in so many other books about Henry VIII and his wives (Jane was lady-in-waiting to Wives Three, Four, and Five, in addition to Anne). Apparently Jane had been given a bad rap by history and this author wanted to correct that, but I found her explanation of that (at the end of the book) so brief that it could have been done in a scholarly article instead of a book. The book was interesting in that I find everything to do with Elizabethan and Jacobean England to be interesting, but as far as Jane herself went, ho hum, there wasn't any personal stuff to learn.

I also read a book called "Covert" by a man who infiltrated the Mafia in New Jersey in the seventies. That was interesting, especially after watching the Sopranos the last several years. I picked up another book on Darwinism and Christianity but didn't finish it, as it was a compilation of things I've read in so many other books. Then I read a book called "Shakespeare Unbound," a biography that took the perspective of his life as apparently reflected in his writings. That book also had a lot of 'probably this' and 'possibly that,' but not nearly so many as the book about Jane Boleyn and the author did a good job of explaining just why he was supposing the different potentialities. I thoroughly enjoyed that book and may get it for myself. I do so love reading Shakespeare and reading about Shakespeare and this book gave me some new insights to the plays and poems. It also referenced a lot of historical research that I've already read, which made me feel quite smug and well-informed.

Now I'm starting a book by Strobe Talbott on the rise of modern nations and the global economy, which I also find intensely interesting, and have waiting a biography of John and Jesse Fremont, two players on the early California stage whom I'd love to learn more about. And a biography of Marcus Garvey, because I'm also interested in African American history and don't know much about his particular story and where he fits into things.

It feels so good to be reading again. And now off to Frye's for our wireless router.

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