Currently Reading I

Turkey Unveiled (In My Apartment On Monday nights and any other time I am not on duty or on the ship)

Cultural Amnesia (on board the ship while I am on a lunch or dinner break, or preparing to go to sleep, I read an essay at a time)

Japan Rising (on the 2 hour ferry ride to and fro Everett to Bremerton two-three times a week)

The ship’s summer deployment schedule continues to be held hostage to various issues, further delaying my plans for multi-week bloc reading learning and note-taking efforts on networks, Latin American history and pre-colonial Africa. Aggressive note-taking habits learned from ZenPundit and Chirol of Coming Anarchy allow me to better understand and experience real learning from the books I read, but do slow my normal speedy reading habit.  I am eternally grateful for the blogosphere which enhances my meager abilities and expands my limited understanding of the world and its enormous, awe-inspiring diversity of beliefs, ideas, traditions and challenges.