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March 10^th, 2005

Excuses, Excuses - I hope you'll excuse the brevity of yesterday's posting. Work has suddenly become busy, which is both new and good. Couple that to a lack of inspiration for blogging and things around here get a bit sparse. I had to go out and price new PCs today, as we just took on another employee here at the salt mine. I stopped into Best Buy to look around and what should my wandering eyes behold but the completion of the best Sherlock Holmes series ever - Jeremy Brett in the lead role for the Granada Television's Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and the Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. Oh, joy!

My parents got the Adventures, Return, and Movies for me last Christmas, and for a collector like me, there's nothing worse than an incomplete collection except a collection that cannot be completed. Now that those two sets are out, perhaps someone can get them for me off the wish list.

Hint, hint.

Books - Speaking of Sherlock Holmes, Hugh Hewitt had on his book segment the other day, and the tome of discussion was Michael Chabon's The Final Solution. It's not about Nazis. Well, sort of. It's about an old bachelor beekeeper in England, July 1944. Although Chabon never identifies him by name, the character is thoroughly identified to those versed in the classics of early 20th century English literature.

Poetry - A short ode to the deerstalker-wearing brainiac.

In silent interlude I contemplate
the evil that lurks in the mind's of men
spurred by smoke I cogitate,
considering facts, and then - !

The riddle made clear in an instant of time
the solution appears clear as day.
Though the hearts of men may be begrimed
against their concealment I've made headway.

I arise from my divan, the smoke dense in the parlour
we'll later fill in the flatfoots
I don my cloak and my deerstalker,
Come now, Watson, the game's afoot!

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