I dropped off the world for a bit, didn't spend anytime on making it a better place, unless my absence was a positive thing. Five or six wargames yesterday, two today, I did watch The Patriot with Mel Gibson (it is almost Braveheart done in the late 18th Century). Read more about the Revolutionary War, and then Sunday I posted, went to church and then sank into dropping off the world again. This time I watched Waterloo with Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer - when I say I am a certain pattern I do know what I am talking about. By time dinner was done and my wife was off to her church I was ready to break out -- so I did.
If this were a soap opera I would be off to find some foolish females, but they are stuck on television and the gossip columnist's page of the vanishing newspapers. I was out for the ride, and maybe some new warmer dryer gauntlets for the Trusty Triumph, tomorrow will have just above freezing waiting for me. The Eagle Leather was closed, they didn't know I was coming, so I continued my ride, hard and fast down I-5, then turning off to go to the bookstore - such a guy, such a library guy. I wanted a copy of Paul Revere's Ride, and the History of the Rifle (which is really American Rifle A Biography) I didn't find the second book but did run across Fusiliers : The Saga of a British Redcoat Regiment in the American Revolution, so I grabbed it and went to the non-fiction upstairs to see what was there -- and found the book I didn't have the proper title for. Now I always kid the inmate patrons about how if they don't know the title and author they will have to put up with whatever I find that could be close - and don't ask me to spell correctly for them either -- still I try, so did the sales people at Borders, I walked out a richer man for my gain, and helped stimulate the economy a bit more. Ever try to stick three books in their bag inside your leather bad boy jacket and not look like you should be riding an H-D Fat Boy, cause you are one? No, well, except for being a bit blocky in the belly I am sure no one noticed. Well, I have enough reading awaiting, and after the Beautiful Ladies get done talking on Korean television I get to watch the Iron Empress. Life is good.
3 comments:
I know that feeling well of not being missed. The world spins away and life goes on.
Glad that you got to ride. And read. One to clutter your mind and one to clear it. Nothing better than that.
Meandering through a bookstore, a wonderful way to relax. Hope you're recharged for a new week.
If you are referring to this book, I was rather disappointed by it. It doesn't really give much to any firearms enthusiast who has done much reading, including the earlier editions of Small Arms of the World.
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