Loaded, Ready to Roll, Chuck Paced © 2007
Last night after helping Scott and Anni move their large heavies with the help of Mike Wilson, Scott's dad Gary Proctor and cousin Trent I came home and unwound with a very violent and hectic movie "Smokin' Ace's", which has about a third of hollywoods current actors in it. Then, to further unwind I went out and picked up debris, and mowed the yard. Those two activities having less of a cathartic result than I expected I decided on a hot, therapeutic, scintillating soak in the tub with the water massage and epson salts. I took along the Douglas Adams book "Mostly Harmless" (an alternate multi-verse, Hitch Hikers Guide book from 1992) and read from page 100 to 142. Not only was I scintillated, hot, bubbled and treated to the vapor therapy as anticipated I was also very happy to get 43 pages out before returning to the dryer more upright activities that make up an evenings spin-down. Since I had only managed 99 pages in the previous 47 years and 43 days of my life I feel this was quite an achievement (shamelessly I have to admit I haven't been applying myself to completing this literary work the entire time, since much if it was unwritten until after my 32nd birthday, but that's just an excuse, I know). It has all the expected people, just slightly off; Trisha McMillan (Trillian), Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect , Vogons and all that in the first 142 pages. Who knows what (where or when) lies on the back of the next page or ever farther in until the thrilling conclusion at the middle of page 277. I am running out of Douglas Adams books to read, and have found his output to have dwindled to almost nothing since his departure from (or incorporation into) his beloved Earth in 2001 (but once again I feel this is more of an excuse than anything else).
Chuck Pace © 2007
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