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Let’s start again. I love books. My good mate, Troy at Orbit Now has challenged me to answer the following questions about books, so here we go:

1. How many books do you own? 800 … ish.
2. What was the last book you read? The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Australia’s Unknown Hero  
3. What was the last book you purchased? Star Wars: Betrayal (why are you laughing?)
4. What five books are most meaningful to you? The Bible, The Fifth Discipline, The Five Love Languages (sounds like a soppy love story, it isn’t, it’s more like Relationships 101), The Way of the Wild Heart, and The Hiding Place (one of those books that will always – in every printing – have a dorky cover, but the dorkkiness hides a gripping and moving true WW2 story).
5. What is your most obscure favorite book? Liege Killer (it’s 1980s sci-fi but I read it for the 4th time recetnly and it still works. The main thing I like about it is that it was innovative and original).

 I now tag the following people to answer the same questions, if they’d like:

1. Young entrepreneur Mat Newton
2. Joe @ Fathered Five
3. Bill @ Make It a Double
4. Kerry @ Aspiring Author
5. Songwriter Warren @ Waking Up

It’s been fine ever since. I was amazingly calm under the circumstances, though I had the normal visions of being without it for weeks while technicians sat it on their workbench, drank coffee and did anything but fix it for me.

Maybe I’m actually getting better at handling the unexpected, or maybe the cartoon below is closer to the truth.

I did go for a walk and do some chores and everything did return to normal after that. Hmmmmmm…..