Fair

The County Fair is opening to the public tonight, and we're walking distance from it.

What time is it? FRIED FOOD TIME! WHOOOOOOoooOOOOoOOOoOOOOoooOooo!

Reading

I'm now a fifth of the way through Wealth of Nations. I feel asleep reading it last night, so I've probably got to double back and skim.

That's my problem with summer time: the heat just saps my energy. Since I read in the evening, it is a constant struggle to keep my focus. Coffee helps, but then I'm up till midnight and that leads to me getting my ass handed to me the next day at work. Which then means I'm more tired the next evening.

I'm enjoying the bits of the book that aren't long tracts of accounting for the prices of silver and corn.

Maybe I'll give audible a shot. Seems expensive, though. Project Gutenberg ebooks are free...

Family

My niece is going to Germany as an exchange student soon. My brother and his wife announced yesterday that they're having a Mandatory Family Dinner on Sunday for her. They've known that this meal would be happening for ages, but they have the planning horizon of a Labrador.

They also haven't actually told me about it. They just told Mom and assumed she would disseminate The Word.

Frustrating.