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Update, and Reading

I’ve let more than a week go without an update. This bodes ill for the future of this project.

Tomorrow is my last day at the call centre. Tuesday I resume working for my father-in-law again, trying to get his farm ready for a big food safety inspection in August. This will take at least a week. Then it’s back to the farmers’ markets — 14 hours a day, 6 days a week. If I’m to keep up with this whole blogging thing I hear the kids are into these days, I’ll have to double my resolve at least.

My long-suffering wife continues with her bed-ridden pregnancy. There has been little change there. Her last OB/GYN visit was positive, and the doctor sees no pressing need to induce labour at this time. Good news for my son (since this means he’s healthy), while bad for my wife (since this means her bed rest restriction is on for at least another week).

I’ve done a bit of reading in the last week, however. I finished The Wrecking Crew, and recommend it to all and sundry. I’m also close to done with Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem. This has been a fantastic book; one I wish I’d had 18 months ago for writing one of the last papers of my Masters. Replacing these two books, I’ve started two more: John Ralston Saul’s newest A Fair Country, and Kevin Phillips’ The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America. I am just at the beginnings of both, so I’ll report when I read more.

Happy Father’s Day.