for me, the first real sign of spring, other than the warmer weather and rain (which we've had lately, yay!), is Tim Horton's Roll Up the Rim to Win. I never win anything beyond a free coffee; I'm not sure what the big ticket item is this year. My theory is that in the warmer weather, people like myself who are more about the hot chocolates and mochas start to buy less, so they bring out the contest to keep us interested. It works, of course.
I'm still muddling my way through A Short History of Nearly Everything, but not because I'm a terribly slow reader. I've read a couple of other books in the meantime, to break it up a bit. It's all very interesting, but it's quite fact-filled, so a bit slow going. Recently I've learned that there are a lot of people who have discovered very important things and not gotten any credit for it, and that we are all here due in no small part to incest. Marie Curie and her husband Pierre both made outstanding discoveries relating to radiation, as most of you know. He started showing signs of radiation sickness but was, mercifully, run over and killed by a carriage before he could feel its full effects. Marie was not so lucky and died of lukemia; her papers are now kept in lead lined boxes and can only be handled when the viewer is wearing protective clothing.
more to come!
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