Getting busy...

Today was checking books off against the list I had, and it was not easy. But I got it down to where only 5 books could not be found on the list and a half-dozen were listed but not in the stacks. I've let the powers that be know and they will have final word. Tomorrow comes printed matter that will be a bit easier, since it's numbered. For the most part.

I've found the WiFi in my hotel is too prone to letting others link to my laptop so I'm using my phone's hotspot. It's good, here. It's nearly non-existent at the job, but if I work it right I can do it there, too.

The photo is the view from my downstairs window. Not bad. Be better if i could see the ocean.

Got through more of APoS-New World For Old and hit a spot where Brendan starts to wonder about the arbitrariness of the world. He almost joined Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks in going to Dean Corll's party, but because he had a fan he wants to repair in hand (one he'd found in a trash can) he doesn't go. And two weeks later it comes out that those three were raping and killing boys.

It gets Brendan to thinking about this insane need for control so many people have. He's wondering if it's a way to stave off accepting that shit just happens in life, without rhyme or reason. If you can control someone else, that means you can control your circumstances and the world is no longer arbitrary...or something like that. It's a bit juvenile of a concept, but Bren is just 17. He thinks older, in many ways, but is naive in others.

I just don't want his slowly emerging awareness of life and its cruelty and beauty to be dismissed as childish prattle.