Of Love and Other Demons - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I liked this. He does a fine job of blending history, fact and fiction in a manner that makes you suspend all disbelief. He finds the heartstrings of reality...
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Kingfisher Books in Creston
This was a fortuitous discovery on the way back from the reunion - Kingfisher Books in Creston.
A congenial owner and fine selection of classics and vintage books in a cafe styled setting. I stocked up on winter reading, titles included:
- The Four Chambered Heart - Anais Nin
- The Wisdom of the Heart - Henry Miller
- Fantastic Fables - Ambrose Bierce
- Lectures on Don Quixote - Nabokov
++ The Master and Margarita and a poor translation of Choderlos de Laclos's "Dangerous Liasons". These last two I am perpetually recommending, thus to find them means I have something to pass on to other readers - when I meet them.
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3 Signs you should NEVER eat in a restaurant
My list of new deal-breakers for restaurants.
#1) The tip prompt goes above and beyond 20%. Even those tip prompts that offer "15-18-20%" are wrong. If the owner/proprietor sees nothing wrong with doing this - dine elsewhere. They don't have a fucking clue. And this is not to suggest that in some instances people might not want to tip their server better - but the "other" option provides for that.
#2) They employ any "Students of Hospitality". By these people I mean those international students who are brought in from abroad specifically to fill low-paying roles in hospitality under the guise of taking "a course" from Columbia or Selkirk College. This is clearly a ploy to get low-skilled workers at bargain basement prices. It's wrong. No one should have to take a course - 2 or 3 years in some instances I've heard - for a minimum wage job.
#3) They advertise a shortage of staff. This is Bullshit. They have a shortage of competent managers. Refer to the St. Eugene Staff Motivational Poster. Restaurants have no problem raising prices to reflect increasing food costs. If they don't realize they have to raise prices to pay their staff better or find other ways to be competitive then they should not be in business. The first few months after the pandemic, fine, but this now is too much.
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The Appalling Leisure of Golf
And, while I don't play I had opportunity to watch the family, from which I managed to figure a few things out:
That the entire sport comprises of counseling your opponent on how to do better - improve their swing, posture, stance. And whoever offers the "best advice" wins. Thus it is a game played largely in the minds and executed on the course.
I found it amusing...
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