hopefully the spring break wrap-up wasn’t too wild and wacky. so much happened, and i had such a great time, i couldn’t really tackle the retelling without falling into a weird haphazard frenzy of fragmented recounting. i just wanted it to be interesting and readable but still complete as a valid record of the experience. hopefully in a few months if i go back to read it, it will all still make sense.

what’s worth sharing from today? well i brought my watch to get fixed from it’s critical canadian crash landing today, to a place called “house of time” which seemed like a strange thing to call a watch repair shop. it seems more like a carnival attraction or perhaps something from norse mythology. it was really just a very small shop on the third floor of a building in the jewelry district downtown though, with a very nice indeterminately foreign man who told me he needed disassemble and clean my watch because the “movement” (which is watch-speak for working parts) was very dirty. the watch isn’t broken because it’s still ticking, it’s just not working right because of all the grime. well, what do you expect? it’s a pocket watch, it spends all it’s time in my pocket with a bunch of lint, not to mention my greasy paws. i guess lasting through two whole years of that is actually pretty decent, now that i think about it.

oh, for posterity’s sake and those enrolled in the brian longtin book club ™, over spring break i finished this, and i had a fun time reading it. laughed out loud, didn’t want to put it down sometimes. now i’m about to finish this, which is pretty good too but doesn’t have any detectives or random bouts of cursing. well, not much anyway; or at least not in the same way. still enjoyable though.