reading

my new bilingual (spanish/english) bible is on the way. i'm pretty excited. the one i have now is the new international version (niv) translation in english and reina-valera in spanish, which is comparable to the old king james version. there's some great antiquated spanish words (like "unigénito", which google language tools says isn't translateable, but is the old-world spanish word for 'only begotten' - yes, as in john 3:16). but the spanish version of the niv came out about 6 months after i bought my bilingual bible, so i couldn't justify getting another. until this week. it's been a good 10 years. that's enough reason to buy another.

along with the bible i got boswell's life of johnson. i've been wanting to read it for ages but never got to buying it. now it's never in any bookstores so i got it from amazon. powells would've had it, but i found a used copy on amazon for under $3.i also bought more popout maps. those are the coolest. i currently have them for london, paris, york and edinburg. when the others arrive i'll have berlin and one that's just london tube and busses. i would like one that was the paris metro only since the metro map on the one i have is so tiny it was almost no good. if all goes well we will be using all of those maps on our trip this fall.

speaking of the trip this fall...i think our plans changed agin. kathleen and i were talking last night and realized some of our favorite people in edinburgh might be in germany when we were planning to be in edinburgh. that just won't due. so we're looking at spending a few nights in paris at the front instead (or maybe prague. we'll see) so we can spend some lovely time with chris and anneleen and the others there we know and love. that means i'll have to see if my work will shift the hotel they booked for me. hmmm...too many options.