Caricatures

Well, here we are at the end of the virtual walk in Dublin.  It's been fun!  It just so happened that I finished this one up on the last day of March.  I'm looking forward to getting that medallion soon enough.   It's been a quiet day.  Here's a few caricatures until I come up with something clever to say:

We have this caricature artist coming for Easter, and so I was curious to see what AI would do, and if it could create caricatures of people - and of course, it can.  Pretty neat stuff, huh?

Pretty quiet day today.  No events tonight, and that's all good.  The A's beat the Braves tonight in part two of the "Battle of the A's."  I say that because Atlanta also has a capital "A" on their ball cap.  Tomorrow night is the rubber match, and though this is disappointing, it's also a good thing to remember that this is not the inferior A's team of old, and that they are improving rapidly.  Anyway, BravesVision is such a great streaming service, with all kinds of extra things thrown in to make it something we'll be probably watching all summer long, and into fall.  Hopefully we can get to a game to see in person too!

Tonight we read from our DiscWorld novel, the first pages of the book "Thud!"  I remember when this one was published, and I remember finding it at a book store down on the Georgia-Florida border.  That was back in 2005, and yes, that was the last time I read this book.  But here we are again, and the memory of it all is coming back to me now.  I'm actually eyeing the board game of the same name, although that's a special order.  

We used to stop by that bookstore on every trip to Florida.  We'd spend over an hour there, the automatic break on the way home.  We picked up so much material for KidPak there, getting ideas from all these books that we still have in our collection here.  And of course there were the other novels too.  It was a nice stop in a discount book store, with lots of treasures found along the way.  I remember even getting supplemental things like an inflatable surfboard for our surfing series, or little giveaways for kids who did their memory verses or things like that.  We used to stop there all the time, although nowadays there's Buc-ee's, and that sort of serves the same function.  The quality of the books sort of went down, not necessarily the feel or condition of the books, but the topics and authors themselves.  Of course, Terry Pratchett passed away, and really there hasn't been as much of a reason to stop by there - although we just might do that anyway in a couple weeks, just to check in on things.

Anyway, here we go with yet another Terry Pratchett book.  No worries - we've got so many more of these still yet to read.

Okay, so tonight we said our prayers of course afterwards.  The Plush Entourage got all tucked in, and it was time for some rest.