Well, Noah is pointed in his book recommendations. Yes, I need more room for failure and slack in my life. I know.

I feel like the risk management discussion in this book is especially prurient relevant (I don’t know what I was freakin thinking) towards discussions of managing finances. Everyone should build buffers into their financial planning. It’s fucking hard to get there. It takes risk. It takes sacrifice. It’s hard. I didn’t manage until I had steady settlement money so I’m not in a position to judge someone else not getting there. But that is what provides safety and security for adjustments in life, he’s right.

The problem with this ‘slack’ time is I always find work to fill it. I am not good at idle. I know it is useful, but it’s hard. I like working.

It was a relatively easy read. It focused mostly on corporate management strategies so it probably won’t be interesting to everyone, but there are good points that generalize. I’d give it a B+.

I have now finished reading five volumes of Saga by Fiona Staples and Brian K Vaughan. A friend gave me volume one for Christmas and I had to buy the rest of it immediately.

I’m not normally a big fan of graphic novels. I have been dragged reluctantly into reading them. This book grabbed my attention in the first three pages and I feel kind of cranky I have to put it down now.

It’s about love and family and race and war. It’s about what it means to find and lose love. It is about what it means to be a parent.

It is about the fact that life is always just a bit more complicated than you want it to be.

On top of that the art is beautiful. The characters are fantastically real in their balance of good and evil.

Totally worth a read.