Reading Woes

Currently, I am reading five books; four nonfiction, one fiction. In reality, one of the nf books is actually a volume of reporter entries during WW2 and I only read it when I don't really feel like reading any of the others. So I really only have 4nf books I'm reading. The fiction is a rather long hardback about G.H. Hardy, the English mathematician during the first part of the Twentieth Century and his sponsoring and association with a young Indian man, Srinivasa Ramanujan. But it is also about England during WW1, as well as the life at Cambridge, and later Oxford.

The reason I mention this novel is that I am going to add another nonfiction, an "easy" mystery so that I can relax when I don't want to read any of my other selections. I just need to choose one. And if you know me at all, that's not an easy task.

My next entry will announce my selection.

TJ's Birthday et al

I tried very hard to write yesterday but things got away from me. Most of you know that it was Thomas Jefferson's birthday, but did you know that it was also mine? Incidentally, did you know that I was named after Ronald Reagan? Yes, I was. But that is a story for another.time.

75 years young. A lot has happened. I've been spending a great deal of time recently looking back. I was even trying to see if I could decide on my favorite year, but in the end too many good things happened in so many years, I couldn't pick just one.

I did have a cake of sorts. My wife made me a triple chocolate cheesecake. But without the candles.

More Freddie

Here are some more pictures of Freddie as he moves around the house.

And of course here is the Master of the Universe in all of this 

Freddie, or is it Freddy?

Our cat, Allie, has a stuffed toy that looks like a square bear with a large black tail. At least I think it is a bear. Whatever it is, I named it Freddy a while ago. I named it in honor of a small rat/mouse toy a previous cat named Max had. You can see him (or her) in this Prisma photo at the bottom on the floor.

Anyhow, Freddie (or Freddy if it is female - we don't know) gets moved quite often during the night when Allie decides to play with it. Usually, it gets moved only a short distance along the living room floor. But sometimes it gets to go on a longer trip. Here, it got to travel into my study.

A few times it has even been able to travel upwards to Allie's sleeping areas in the living room. Here the bear made it to Allie's favorite chair and sleeping spot.

If you look closely, you can see its nose and eyes. Usually, when we find Freddy in the morning, it is always lying face down, execution-style you might say.