Three New Reads

I find myself incredibly short of time. I am gainfully employed and, my profession being somewhat counter cyclical, am very busy right now. Not all of this is due to straightforward economics. Finding myself at the bottom of the pile in a second career means I generally feel pressure to work like I did through my twenties and early thirties. But I do it for more non-strictly economic reasons: I acquired debt to retrain myself that is not easily repaid over the typical 40 year career window. My window has been shut partway - so I have a lot of catching up to do.

I have three themes for the evening.

First: 100 things to do is partly about a love for the dodgers, and also a love for this town. Here you can love the clippers and hate the lakers, but I don't see how you could hate the dodgers.

Second: apparently Thomas Pynchon lived here in the last sixties and has now written about it. It is said to be a noir piece with hallucinations. Hopefully it is better than the Robert Altman movie version of the long goodbye. Reviews are positive, the price for a hardcover is not. I'll wait for the paperback.

Finally, somehow I became aware of belle waring and john holbo. A couple with a mighty fine web-site(s) and who I suspect are much smarter than me. John has written a book on classics and reasoning - with pictures. As a lawyer trained engineer, I have to admit that pictures help a lot.

PS: I still keep box score when I can. It keeps the game in much better focus. Like tonight in SF where LA is winning.