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I have a lot of reading I need to write up, but right now I want to write up what I read this last week. My parents were here last week, and I spent a lot of time working (while they hung out with the kids) and hanging out with them, of course. But the main thing I was doing when I wasn't doing that (and the reason I haven't been around at all, if I owe you a comment) was betaing (and betaing and betaing and editing and proofing and typesetting -- basically making up for a year of doing some but not a whole lot on) my dad's memoirs. (The deal was that he would play with the kids while I was working on it.) His memoirs are actually really fascinating reading.

( Content note for near-death situations, emotional abuse, people having pretty crap lives )

I got about halfway through; fortunately, I expect the second half to take less long because a) I have now done most of the wrestling with Microsoft Word (GAH) b) I've actually done an editing pass on the second half already (I hadn't even ever read the first half before). I don't know when I'll do the rest. I'd really like to do it soon if I can, because there is a LOT of redundancy (it is really clear where my inability to communicate things in a straight line came from) and I have to filter all that out, which is easier to do if I do it all at once.