yes minister - lynn & jay (1984)

snarky situational comedy and sardonic humor with bursts of convoluted linguistics as only career civil servants can do it. yessss sirree.

what a nice surprise

i discover, to my amazed delight, that there is this dinky button-y fixture on the side of the bus seat that opens up to reveal  USB sockets to charge my devices.  

next to air-conditioning, this is be my favorite bus amenity.

collezione

HOM's growing stash, courtesy of the times he goes to the airport in jeans and forgets to pack a belt.

book list

so many books, too much net trawling, too stuffed bookshelves. books i'd like to get my hands on and to read:

• the courage to be disliked, kishimi & koga
• this is what inequality looks like, you yenn teo
• kenneth e. bailey
• rumpole
• medical nihilism, stengenga

mid-point (almost)

june creeps up quiet like, and i've been gymming for nigh on six months now. during which time i have:

• wept with my hamstrings in shared agony
• wept with my butt after the rowing machine
• wept with absolute boredom on the cross-trainer 
• wept with my newly-discovered triceps, and 
• discovered that my neck thinks it's my core but it really is not.

the Guy tells HOM (because they have a gym session together too) that i am always checking the time on the 'phone. i don't need to, i say indignantly. i've set my alarm to mark time.

Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes - Kenneth E. Bailey (2008)

it's reading an entire treasury of great bible teaching, substantial and satisfying and terribly humbling. it's a book of reasonable and careful exegesis to make up for indifferent sunday sermons. it's an exercise of scholarship to inspire me to look at old passages anew. 

for those of us haplessly hunting in the wilderness of christian life for meat, not more milk, this is a good place to start.