wRiting

Greetings. They say that writing a daily journal is good thing for creativity. 3 pages of streamed consciousness coming going from head to pen to paper every morning. mmm at the moment all I do is roll over and try to turn down the volume of the radio to snooze. I moved onto a sub-standard clock radio from a perfect Sony one just because I thought it would be good to be able to plug my iPod in. Or wake up to something on my iPod. As it stands I rarely put my iPod in the stand. Conclusion? Go back to the proper alarm clock...or get an iPod that STAYS in the dock... the latter sounds more attractive but not being the cash-rich gal that I once was seems a far away choice.. MORE stuff...even.

But anyway! Journalling...another thing to try on my list. But first, let's look at the price of iPods....

Hasta luego.

wRithmetic

Good day! I've been wlistening (the new efficient wreading for me) to an audio book in the car - Bill Bryson's A Short History of Everything. So far, it's fascinating - but full of lots and lots and lots of big numbers because he's been talking about the age of the planet Earth and at the moment E=(mc)squared. Good idea these audio books but not so good for numbers I've discovered. If I were reading the book I would have just looked at the trillion trillion billion xxx and realised it was a very big number, but when it's being read like a story - it's a bit of a waste of time because when the reader is reading he has to say this is one, zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero ....that is one trillion...PACH! ridiculous. However, not sure how else he could do it. Still doing a spiffing job. Have listened to the nearly 5 hours. Only another 14 to go...but I'm sure even after 19 hours we will only the briefest of histories of the world. Perhaps 0.0000000000000000000000000001% of it :-)

wReading

Welcome! I tried to register readingritingrithmetic but some bugger has posted something in 2003...and then nothing.

Anyhoo, on the topic of wReading.

Recently I was introduced to www.dailylit.com . It's a website that sends you books by instalments. What a great idea. It has loads of classics on it, books I've thought about and wanted to read for ages, but just the thought of lugging around a paperback along with all my other reading paraphernalia just doesn't attract.

So, as an email addict I find this a great way to read email...and books! First book I've read is "Ullysses" by James Joyce - a strange start but vaguely intriguing.

Until tomorrow.

wL.