always one more thing...or two

and because I didn't have enough to read with Dickens (and I'll have to check it out one more time, the last that I can, to finish it), I'm not even at page 200 (out of almost 800) I have also begun to read Riding with Reindeer by fellow northwesterner Robert M. Goldstein about his 2000 mile bike ride from Helsinki into the Arctic Circle and back, and also The Meaning of it All-Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist by Richard P. Feynman, from a 3-part lecture series at the University of Washington in April of 1963.  The first is because I'll be leaving for Finland in 3 months and need to know more, and that latter because someone left it on the free table at work, and in a former life, there were Feynman books around the house, and he always seemed good-humored and interesting to me, but I never got around to reading him.  They will both be fun reads.  Goldstein reminds me a bit of myself, and Feynman is talking about things I like to think about: religion, politics, science...fun stuff.  I'm also trying to learn Spanish (always, it seems), and a bit of Finnish.  We'll see how my brain comes out at the end of it all.  Peace.