It’s not Fool Moon yet. That’s in April and I’m not going this year. It’s a very cool outdoor event but it can be crowded and I’m just not ready yet, even though I’m probably as immune as I’m gonna get, at least for now.

The truth is I’m still not really ready for any kind of Prime Time yet. Restaurants? Not yet. In that case it’s as much about the service issues that are probably still happening, at least on Friday night. Last summer when we briefly braved a few restaurants (four for me, I don’t even wanna know how many for the GG), the service was often as slow as molasses. I did NOT blame the restaurants or their beleaguered servers. They were excellent but working under horribly short-staffed conditions and I tipped well as I always do. Just that I don’t really want to spend a couple hours in any indoor space with a bunch of other people, many of them unmasked. I mean, how can you eat with a mask on.

I said I would blahg about the “Eide family trilogy” when I finished it. I did, a few days ago, and then a relative decided to read it so I decided I better get on the stick. (Geez, my dad used to say that and just now for the first time ever I wondered if it had a meaning I’d never thought of before 🤣🤣🤣)

Anyway the books are “The Lighthouse Road”, “Wintering”, and “Northernmost”. The first two books are set entirely on the north shore of Minnesota and the boundary waters, the “shore” meaning Lake Superior. A lot of the third is set in Norway and Svalbard. These books (like most) have their flaws but I liked the story and the writing (especially his descriptions of the natural areas the characters encountered). I think my relative will at least like the “adventuring in nature” parts of the story but I won’t be offended if they decide it’s not their cuppa.

Some folks on Goodreads complained that the books jumped back and forth throughout the years and they couldn’t follow that. I don’t usually have any trouble with that kind of story construction and thought that this one was particularly clear. The first book would have worked as a stand-alone with some loose ends left dangling but lots of books are like that. The second and third largely followed other people’s stories but it was all the same family. They provide info about some of the loose ends in the first book and it all kind of loops back together in the end.

The one part I didn’t like was a chapter or so of gratuitous sex in the third book. There was some sex in all of the books but it was usually relevant to the plot and not explicit. I am not a prude so I was only annoyed, not offended but I don’t really want to read descriptions of somebody’s “cock” in a book. But that was a very small nit and at least it wasn’t a mushroom p*nis 🐽🐽🐽.

Gotta go, we’ve got virtual porterization going on.

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