Multi-tasking

Teetorbilt

Is anyone really good at this? I'm watching the Patriots/Falcons game, listening to SRV, alternating between proposals/invoicing and here, cooking supper, messing with the new geetar and a few other things.

How do women do it?

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Tscarborough

I can not do only one thing at a time, with one exception: Reading. When I read, it is full on, would-not-notice-an-earthquake, attention (although I can easily have 5 books going at once). At all other times, I usually have 3 or 4 things going at once, or I get bored and start reading.

Teetorbilt

Ts, I'm a reader too. When I tie into a good one I may only sleep a few hours a day.

I was part of a speed reading experiment back in the 50's, I have no idea why it was dropped. When last tested, I could read just under 2K WPM with a 98% comprension rate. 'Fun books' like Hiassen, Clancey, Cussler, et.al., I usually crank out in a single sitting. McCullough, Michner and the like, I tend to savor and slow down.

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You can't solve you're problems with the same level of thinking that created the problems.

Albert Einstein

Tscarborough

Me too. Even working 10+ hours a day with 2 kids and a large yard to maintain, I manage to continue read a book a a day, as I have since about the 6th grade. I do not read to comprehend novels (so I can enjoy them again), but manage to do pretty well with history and technical reading, which is about 90% of my volume. My major problem is what to do with my books, since I hate to get rid of them. Luckily, there is a Half-price (four of them actually) bookstore here, and in their discount area the price is a buck a book.

Tscarborough

Here is what I picked up yesterday, for the whopping price of $4.28, which I will consume this weekend:

Zipper by Robert Friedel, a history of the zipper (I love these kind of books).

The Westerners by Dee Brown (the biggest masonry contractor in the US, BTW).

Captain Cook, the Seaman's Seaman by Alan Villiers.

The Bones of Joesph by Gareth Lloyd Jones (A study of biblical scholorship in relationship to curent ecuminical trends).

I read anything and everything.

Teetorbilt

You ought to see my place! Ol#2 is a reader too. We just bought more bookshelves last weekend. My office hasn't any pictures, just ceiling to floor bookcases and a rifle cabinet. I have many very old books including The Horseless Age to 1898, The MotorCar to 1912, a first edition of Dickenson's works plus many individual volumes that go back to the 16th century.

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You can't solve you're problems with the same level of thinking that created the problems.

Albert Einstein

Tscarborough

Sweet! My wife saw our current home and thought I might like it. I walked in and saw the library plus the other couple of hundred linear feet of bookshelves the owner had built in. I signed the contract on the spot without even bothering to ask about anything else. Now all of the bookshelves are full, so I am weeding through the fiction (I simply do not get rid of historical or technical books) to clear more space. I am afraid that my collection of SF from the sixties to now must go, though selected books will not. I only have a few valuable or signed books, but I do have a lot of technical books from the 1800's on, since they were clear, concise and explain the concept and practical application of the referenced field.

I am glad that my daughters share the interest in reading, though the younger only does it to please me (I think). The older reads like I do.

Teetorbilt

I'm with you. I keep my fun stuff like Hiassen but Cussler and Clancey are in and out, no room at the inn.

I also have everything that Louis L'Amore ever wrote. Dime novels too. Read them all. Fun and informative reading.

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You can't solve you're problems with the same level of thinking that created the problems.

Albert Einstein

Tscarborough

Doc Savage? Them I ain't giving up.

Teetorbilt

Doc Savage? No idea.

__________________
You can't solve you're problems with the same level of thinking that created the problems.

Albert Einstein