Categories: friends, study, television, reading, food, spiritual-writings
Date: 27 July 2007 07:47:22
...and I'm looking forward to a quiet one. I have Disc 2 of Simon Schama's A History of Britain -- I saw several episodes when it first screened here several years' back: I'm enjoying watching the ones I missed, and the ones I saw again.
It will also be a weekend of reading. I recently finished reading A Private Language? A Dip into Welsh Literature and Nineteen Minutes, both of which I greatly enjoyed. I've now moved on to Alan Rickman's The Wine of Angels and will start the Penguin History of Wales at some point soon. I like to have several books going at once and depending on the mood I am in I will pick up one of them. Once I finish reading St Gregory of Nyssa's very edifying The Life of Moses, I'll move on to The Way of the Pilgrim, which I've been looking forward to reading for a long time and only recently bought.
The CISCO course continued well: it continued to put a strain on my poor brain but I did learn a great many useful concepts, and even corrected several misunderstandings I had about networking. I forgot to mention in the previous post the glorious lunch they provided each day: a variety of foods, hot and cold, followed by a wondrous selection of desserts: custards, cakes, brownies, jellies, youghurts, fruits... Very nice indeed. My standard lunchtime sandwich or salad looks poor by comparision. I returned to the Lindt Shop and had some more lovely mochas and a delicious chocolate milkshake.
Tuesday night I had dinner with friends at The Belgian Beer Café: not being a big beer drinker, unless it is Weißbier, and I didn't feel like one that night, I dropped any pretence of manhood and had a very nice raspberry beer with my meatballs. Great to catch up with them again, and, God willing, I'll see them again soon when we watch La Vie en Rose next weekend.