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Finally finished Second Foundation which means I am now done with the Foundation series. Or at least the original. Now the question is do I attempt to finish Velvet Elvis or pick up another book. I won't make very good pace for another month or two but it looks like my lunch buddies will be leaving in the next couple months for better offers in other places so by the end of the year it may be just me reading at lunch again. Oddly I don't mind. I kinda liked plowing through books. Granting I like being social too. It's a weird balance of life I guess.

I should read more when I am home but half the time I can't get focused in until I should be sleeping. Maybe it's cause I page randomly through RPG books. Right now I am bouncing between Damnation City, Vampire: the Reqiuem and Werewolf: the Forsaken. Damnation City and WoD: Chicago really inspired me to get the two core books because otherwise I don't know what the heck some of the terms are. The nWoD games are very political and having the cores helps to make sense of the situations. Too bad there are supplements to better support Chicago for Prometheans or Changelings as it'd be interesting to see how all the different types of WoD "races" interacted in a city. I'd bet it'd be very strange. Not that werewolves, vampires, and mages aren't strange enough (plus ghosts and spirits cause ya know they're mainstays).

In retrospect I really should finish Velvet Elvis but it just hasn't grabbed me. It started out good but not so much. Maybe I just don't quite agree with Rob Bell's views and it silently grates on me. Or if it does it's just not as well written as Mark Driscoll's book whose name I can't remember now and am too lazy to get up and look in the library two rooms over or search this blog. Driscoll tossed a lot of humor into his books which made them amusing even if I disagreed on some of his points.

Still haven't narrowed down the prints choices yet. Sort of putting it off. I have so many other things I need to do I guess that it may wait. This week will be busy. This weekend sure has. Helped Jeff get his deck in order. Mostly I just held things in place so he could screw/saw/mark up them. I might actually be able to put a deck together on my own tho now. It probably wouldn't be as good as if someone whose worked more with wood would be but I am learning I guess. This week I think I have stuff going on every night. Hanging with Carl Monday, getting my hair cut and then over to Ellen's to hang on her porch Tuesday. Movie night Wednesday? More porch time Thursday (although that's tentative). And last movies in the park Friday and it's Star Wars so should pull a big crowd. Oh and cleaning the apartment Monday for sure maybe more later in the week if I don't get done! At least I will be done with the apartment after that.

Think that's all for now. This was a long rambling post.