Just Keeping Busy

Reading has become one of my favorite past times.  I have enjoyed it for some time now, but with having no TV as a distraction or much communication with the outside world books have become my main outlet.  I finished reading The Other Boleyn Girl this past weekend and really enjoyed the book immensely.  Since then I have read The Good Wife and Last Night at the Lobster, both by Stewart O' Nan.  Now I am reading Thuderstruck by Erik Larson.  

While going to the dry cleaners today, yes I go frequently, I had a new woman wait on me.  This one was also quite friendly and spoke more English than the other attendant I normally have.  She was also very patient with me and helped me to understand what the details on the receipt mean.  Though I had already figured this out from my other times there, I thought it so polite that she would try to help me out in this way. 

In the evening Carsten brought home two board games.  We enjoy board games quite a lot and though most of the ones we play are German games,  we don't play any that have to do with words.  However, since I rarely win I guess it wouldn't make much difference :)  The game we played tonight was Just 4 Fun.  I'd provide a link for it, but it is all in German.  If is sort of like Connect Four, but with more strategy and not as straight forward.