Roman Times

Everyone soon or late comes round by Rome.
-- Robert Browning

Tuesday, August 15, 2000

Two years ago: Green Lake
Three years ago: Odds and Ends

At work: Kellie is working on implementing the redesign. We are doing this so incrementally, no users will notice the change! Our high-school-age java developer Jonathan is working on something very cool (but I can't reveal what -tease!).

The servlet that Pete's been working on (that generates our SharpCharts) got a high rating from jars.com. He laconically said that he'd be getting a "swelled head" now.

I saw the inside of the Redmond Library this afternoon -- because of a call of nature! I started feeling bad while waiting for the bus, but it became clear after I boarded that I couldn't possibly make it all the way home. So I got off and dashed across the street. It's a nice building, and I'd been curious to see it, but not under these circumstances. I did feel better after a while, and I think I caught the very next bus! (What a gus-like story.)

I finished the Lindsey Davis Roman mystery I've been reading the past few days, Venus in Copper, and started an Avram Davidson book (coauthored with Grania Davis), Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty. The Davis books are wonderful! A gritty mystery set in ancient Rome. She's done her research but doesn't hit you over the head with it, and there is great humor. Davis's website is a good one! Her mailbag page lets her display her crotchetiness.

Davidson has such a wildly baroque style. His vocabulary must be one of the largest -- bedizened with unusual expressions that make the story exotic.

One of the benefits of taking the bus -- time to read, so long as I don't make myself carsick.