Changing reading mid-stream
Dan Fogelberg's 1974 Souvenirs album has a song titled “Changing Horses [in the Middle of the Stream].” Third song on side one, right after “Illinois [looks like you're gonna have to see me again.] Completely beautiful. I definitely need to listen to Fogelberg again. The “mid-stream” subject term made me think of it....
So I'd been reading Chris Sells' Windows Programming in C# and its a great book, but its a book that's best experienced while sitting next to your computer and going through the examples chapter after chapter. I do most of my reading during the late afternoon while on my Nordic Trac Achiever Ski Machine which sits in my home office. I crank up the tunes, put a .NET book on the Ski machine's reading attachment, and I'm set. But I just wasn't enjoying the skiing/reading experience much lately.
So it was time to turn to more familiar territory: Steve Smith and Rob Howard's ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook. I got so into this book this afternoon that I stayed on the nordic trac much longer than I planned. More on the book later, I just had to take a minute to say how charged up I am about this great book.
Sidebar: All links in this post are to BarnesandNobles rather than my usual Amazon. Amazon seems to be down at the moment....