{"id":69,"date":"2010-02-15T18:28:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T23:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2010-02-15T15:33:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T20:33:32","slug":"oop-a-week-almost-passed-quick-brain-dump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Oop! A week almost passed! Quick! Brain dump!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It happens.&nbsp; I had a lot to do, and little time to do it in, so the social aspects of the Internets had to suffer for a while.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve taken care of some things that I&#8217;ve let slip by the wayside; and had some good times with family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuc.ca\/news.htm\">Kanata United Church Book Fair<\/a> is coming up in a couple of weeks.&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t go last time for sundry reasons, But I&#8217;m ready for a triumphant return!&nbsp; Honestly, my reading fell off the rails the last few years thanks to other commitments, but I&#8217;m back in the game, having read as many books so far this year as I did last.&nbsp; Oop.&nbsp; One thing that hung over my head: I hadn&#8217;t input any new books into my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/profile\/bojnberry\">LibraryThing<\/a> account for nearly two years!&nbsp; This is fundamentally important to have up to date before going to such a fair, so I don&#8217;t end up with triples of books.&nbsp; I am looking for books that I really enjoyed as a child that are no longer available in the library(!!!), so that I can pass my love for these stories along to Trevor and Owen.&nbsp; One that I&#8217;m always on the lookout for is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingmatters.co.uk\/book.php?id=78\">The Machine-Gunners<\/a> by Robert Westall.<\/p>\n<p>Chrispy rented a studio and took photos of us this weekend too. 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