Analog-Theater 2.0

To continue my previous post, I forgot to mention a funny little story about the violin.  I drove out to Winchester, VA to buy it from a guy.  Since I was that far west, I decided to see where West Virginia was.  It was about 5pm, so I decided to just follow the setting sun.  After taking back roads for about an hour, I finally found the state line and just beyond that a little place called Wardensville.  Being hungry after driving for so long, I decided to pull into the first restaurant that I saw, Kac Ka Pon.  It was a very nice home style restaurant with some really nice photos on the walls.  The food was tasty, though the sweet potato pie was a little funny with the pecans that put on it.  After dinner, I headed back east with my new violin.  I got home and started to tune it and broke a string.

I looked at my book cases this morning and saw a few other books I want to mention. There is a really nice trilogy by John C. Wright about titans and gods from Greek mythology living in modern day England; Orphans of Chaos, Fugitives of Chaos, and Titans of Chaos.

And of course, there was my favorite book on chess, Attacking Chess: Aggressive Strategies and Inside Moves from the U.S. Junior Chess Champion. It is a very insightful and easy to understand book for anyone wanting to improve their skills at chess. His other book, The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence, is also a very good read. It is less about technical skills and more about the philosophy and “art” of learning to do anything. He talks about his experiences learning to play chess and then learning Tai Chi.

I mentioned the Malazan series in yesterdays part of this post. The new book, Dust of Dreams, coming out in January. Robert got the UK edition which was released this month and has started reading it. However, he does not seem to be impressed. His exact words were “it’s a hard read”, but I’ll invite him to tell you all more about it.

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