Tim and Jen Live Here

I love books. All books. Even books I don’t like very much (there are a few). Walking into a library or bookstore feels like going home. This is Banned Books Week, in case you hadn’t heard. And of course, as people like to point out, banning a book is among [...]

Very Good Taste, a blog about eating and drinking, recently posted a list of 100 food items they feel every omnivore should try in their lifetime. Truly, I’m not sure why some of these items are on the list and others aren’t, but hey, it’s one person’s list and it’s fun. I’m still [...]

We’re through the first 6 months of 2008, and I thought I’d look back on a half-year’s worth of books read and listened to.
Stats:

43 books read
20 books listened to
5 books in progress
4 books started and put away, never to be returned to
1 book started and put away, to be returned to at some point

Some of [...]

to automatic things in public bathrooms?

I’m sure we’ve all been subjected to the over-zealous auto-flush toilet that flushes several times while we’re still mid-go. This is beyond frustrating and, of course, wasteful. Especially considering you still have to flush when you’re finished, when, inevitably, the auto-flusher will decide it’s already performed its final [...]

Again, I was reading outside. Twice I watched a paper wasp gather nest materials before I ran in to get the camera. I really, really tried to get video of this, because it was amazing. But I don’t know my camera well enough to get it to focus on the right spot [...]