1. - ‘Nation’ by Terry Pratchett. After the recent blog post about the two children’s books I read, I could not again post about how I mistakenly bought a children’s book, because if I did, at that point, you would be picturing me driving a black van and looking for my lost dog and then you would possibly be contacting Stabler and Benson. So I did not post a ‘What I’m reading’ blog post about ‘Nation’. Had I done so, I would have most probably blathered on about how ‘Nation’ teems with Pratchett’s imaginative take on a teen-aged boy coming of age upon his island nation getting destroyed by a tsunami, and, coincidentally, upon meeting the heir to the recently-ravaged-by-influenza British Crown, who is ship-wrecked on the island, and about how this is set in some quantum, parallel Earth in the early 1800s. Also, I would not have encouraged you to read this, because, well, Pratchett has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and are we not going to run out of new Discworld novels soon?
2. - My stereo system. OK, faithful readers, a number of you are way too young to appreciate how amazing it was in the early- to mid-1980’s, when you got your first summer job, to purchase an integrated stereo system, which included either an amp and a tuner or a receiver, a turn-table, a double cassette-deck, possibly a CD player, if you were at the cutting edge of technology at the time, and a solid pair of speakers. Your stereo components would have to be lodged in a stereo stand, with shelves for each component and, if you were lucky, a section at the bottom where you could fit your LPs. All of that can, these days, pretty much be handled by an i-phone or an i-pad. Well, screw you dead i-Steve Jobs, I still have my stereo stand. It holds my receiver (which BTW is always tuned to satellite radio, so some hip points to me, maybe?) my five-disc CD player, and a dust-encased turn-table, which really, really should be replaced. Also, there is a section at the bottom which is chock-full of bitching 33-RPM albums, which I will pull out and play just as soon as I replace the turn-table.
3. - An exercise bike. Unused in recent memory.
4- Me. Self-explanatory. And, yes, I just listed myself at number 4. There are clearly some self-confidence issues that need to be worked out…
5.-Oh look! A toonie!
6.-A half-empty bottle of Cannonau di Sardegna. Unfortunately, I am a bit of a wine snob. And a food snob. And a music snob. OK, I’m pretty full of what I like. Ehmm….can we get back to wine. As much as I like trying out new wines, I do come back to faithful favourites. And Cannonau di Sardegana is one of those. A Vintages’ ‘Classics’, (i.e., it’s always available at Vintages, no matter its vintage), it is a solid wine: very full-flavoured, which means that it is a great match with a roast or a tangy stew. Or, as is often the case, on its own, if you like a full-bodied wine. Given that it is a Vintages ‘classic’, it will always be there for the taking, which is a selling point when one is randomly looking for something one will like…
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