awesome book

I can tell the work week will fly this time around and as soon as I am off on Friday early evening, Shawna and I will drive down to Eugene and prepare for Oregon Country Fair the following day in Veneta. I'm really excited and hoping to run into some interesting experiences and characters there. No doubt it will be fun and for those who have never been, I can't even begin to describe, but I think it is one of the great American treasures that nearly no one even knows about. It's a slice of NW culture that relatively few have seen.
Meanwhile, got random projects piling up at work; if I am kept busy long enough I forget about how boring the work I am doing actually is from an objective standpoint. That is, I can get into it and focus even if it is pretty boring, as long as I have some tasks to give me a break from the data entry, which is most of what I do.
I finished reading "The Road" today as I sat on the 94 express bus coming home from work, good air flow going throughout the cabin. It's an incredible book. As soon as I finished the last sentence I thought I could flip the book back to the first page and read it all over again from the beginning. I know I will re-read it eventually. The story is really simple and slow yet somehow it is really encapturing, the prose so intense and beautiful. There's this feeling of impending doom as you read, page-by-page, and the few scattered moments of more definable 'action' are immensely haunting images. I cannot even analyze the book in words; it just stirred within me ambiguous emotions that I have never really felt before.
Anyway, it's time to snuggle up for bed soon after a little ironing of the shirt I'm going to wear tomorrow at work.....