Pete's Log: reading? for fun??
Entry #754, (Life in General)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
Wow. So this morning I started reading "Nightfall" by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg. It's a novel based on an earlier short story by Asimov of the same name. It's really quite good. I'm 235 pages into it and am likely to finish it off before I go to sleep tonight. I don't think I did any reading for fun this entire past semester, which is quite out of the ordinary. It's so much fun to really get into a book again. I'm really enjoying this one. Some of the scientific premises are kinda hard to buy, but it's one of those stories where all you need to do is suspend a little belief and the story becomes very good.
In other news, my odometer now reads 100 miles. 90 or so of those were put on it by me. So I only drove about 15 miles today. I'm definitely figuring out that the car has character. The light system is somehow fancy in some way I don't quite yet fathom. The good thing is that it looks like I'll be unable to leave the lights on accidentally and run out the battery. But it seems that to get the lights to come on all the way at night, you need to put the car into gear or something. But there seems to be more trickery to it than that, and I always get the lights on without more than 10 or 15 seconds of playing, but it's a very nondeterministic process. I could read the manual, I suppose...
Also fun is the fact that the car has no tachometer. So shifting is much more of an intuitive process than anything. So far it's all been alright, but sometime I really should drive around a bit without music, so I can hear the engine and get a better feel of what it wants...
Still haven't figured out a name for the little beasty. I'm thinking that with my personality and all that, something out of star trek or some kinda tolkienesque name would work best. Will need more research time. Will need a bit more time to get to know the car, too, so I can be sure the name is appropriate...