Went to Md. this weekend – not a bad drive, if you discount my fear of heights and conviction that we would tumble off the side of this bridge. Before you scoff – there are no siderails, just this flimsy looking jersey wall, and me in a minivan that I’m not great at driving to begin with, making this vertical ascent that feels like the start to a bad roller coaster. The party we went to made up for it, though, even if we did have to cross it again on the way back 😉 Sadly, one of the coolest parts of the party was getting a chance to hang out with Dan, who lives 10 minutes from my house. Yeah, only I can drive 2 hours to hang out with someone that lives 10 minutes away. It’s a gift, really.
Almost done reading book 3 of George R.R.Martin’s Ice and Fire books, “A Storm of Swords.” If you take my recommendation for it, let me give you this heads up: This isn’t the kind of series you can just pick up arbitrarily, you have to make a commitment to start at book one and go forward in order (otherwise, even if the story makes sense, you’ll miss the significance of the lies the characters tell each other later). It’s true, its a fantasy series, but I found the first book to start off a bit dry. Why? I was thinking fantasy, high magic galore, wizards and warlocks and the whole nine yards, but it isn’t that kind of fantasy (ok, there’s a little of the magic in the later books, but it isn’t one of those kinds of series). What am I going to do when I finish book three? Take a breather with a lighter (<900 page) book, and dive into the next one of course!