What I'm reading, etc.

Recently started:  Your Brain at Work, audio;  why I can't do more than one complex or even simple task at a time.  I'm not retarded.  http://www.amazon.com/Your-Brain-Work-Strategies-Distraction/dp/0061771295

And 2666 by Roberto Bolano, also on audio via Audible credits.

Very excited to get the Bolano book for just one credit.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2666_(novel)

Also went to the library today with Abhaya in the ergo, read some amazing William Carlos Williams and checked out Hemingway's Boat, a new book in hardcover, which I started to read.  

http://www.amazon.com/Hemingways-Boat-Everything-Loved-1934-1961/dp/1400041627

I also checked out another book which is now on my reading list, http://www.amazon.com/Camus-at-Combat-Writing-1944-1947/dp/0691120048

This is the first translation into English of all of the articles that Camus wrote for Combat, the Resistance underground publication during WWII Nazi occupation.  

I am also reading plenty of comics, and keeping up on the news.  South Sudan, the Republican Primaries, etc. Things are hopeful in Burma/Myanmar.  

I need to finish publishing my new novel, and try, maybe, to get to my studio sometime soon, or find one closer to home.  Having a studio somewhere close to the Oakland Art Murmur might be great, as long as I was not required to be ready to show every month.  It could happen soon.

There is a lot I could say about being a dad, working the office job, life in Oakland now.  Being a dad is wonderful and challenging of course, but not in a bad way.  Office life is a way of earning a living I enjoy and can get by on 8 hour days with my short commute most of the time.  I am lucky in that way. Of course there are times when I need to work more and travel and that's fine.  Being a parent can make one more efficient to make the most of every hour of the day.  I also know that I help thousands of people with the services and software that I sell in a pretty direct way, in terms of education and related areas.  Right now reading about Hemingway I am inspired to live and write.  Writing is more difficult.