While waiting to pick up Laurie’s poster from Kinko’s this afternoon, a woman turned to me and said “Has anyone ever told you that you look like Bill Gates?” I told her that she was the first, trying to decide whether to be “insultated” as J.C., who calls into to Coast to Coast AM, says. She said  “Well I think you look just like him!”  Maybe techie types start looking alike after awhile, but what’s funny about that is I haven’t shaved in a week, inspired by Jean Reno (Wasabe, The Professional, La Femme Nikita, Les Visiteurs), and I’ve never seen a photo of Bill Gates with a scruffy face. Now if she would have said “Has anyone ever told you that you look like Jean Reno?” I wouldn’t have felt the least bit “insultated”.

I finished “The Count of Monte Cristo” last night. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it, it’s an excellent book. I also got my replacement Kindle, got it set up and all my books back on it plus a few easy French readers and learn French books that were free. I forgot I had a copy of “The Heliand: The Saxon Gospel” on my Kindle, so I started reading it this morning. It’s the New Testament written as an epic poem in Old Saxon in the first part of the 9th century.