"The Move to Badgershire" - Intro

We've got a map of Badgershire on the wall. With a to-do list. And job opportunities for Rabbi in a clip board. The plan is for Mrs. Kubota to stay home with Baby Kubota and I, Rabbi, to go to work.

On the to-do list:

Sell car - posted an ad on Wednesday. Actually having trouble unloading thirteen year old Toyota. I blame George Bush and the weak economy.

Buy tickets for April - This is a trip to look for apartments in Badgershire. This is done. We're going for a long weekend (thursday to monday) the first weekend in April.

Set up job interviews for April trip - Hmm... Better get cracking on this...

Find apartments to look at - Mrs. Kubota's aunt has offered us a free apartment, but we will still look for a place that we really like since our pet cats pay more rent than most residents of Badgershire.

Find POD, or moving van - I'm voting for getting the moving van, sending Mrs. Rabbi and Baby Rabbi ahead on a plane and driving out myself with whoever I can get.


Next time... What job opportunities are posted in the clip board? Who will drive with Rabbi? And how will Rabbi and Baby Kubota fare while mom is in Italy?

Milton!

Yeah, that's right. I'm reading Paradise Lost. Just finished Part I. It's not so hard if you don't worry about understanding it.

Reading

So, true to my word, I've read the last Harry Potter and I'll be reading Ford's Independence Day next.

I've also just finished Dodson's biography of Ben Hogan. I recommend it.

Leaving Los Angeles

Mrs. Rabbi and me are going to leave Los Angeles in May of 2008. We'll be moving to Madison, WI. It's a sad thing. And a happy thing. It is hard to imagine live somewhere else. No Thai food. No friends. No sunshine. But we'll have grandparents and aunts and uncles. "Real" weather. Lush green golf courses eight months out of the year. Maybe we'll get to buy a house!

Not sure what else to say about that except that I'll miss LA terribly. I already do.

Notice of Change to Service

So, this post represents the renewal of A Brief History of the Rise and Fall of Ten Minutes Ago, the RabbiKubota blog.

WhatShouldIDoJason.com is no longer in service.

You can still look at videos of my baby here.

And you can see what I've been reading over on the right. Next on my literary plate is the Dodson biography of Ben Hogan, Ford's Independence Day, and the final Harry Potter book.

New Posts

If you've found your way here you should know that the only portion of this blog that is being updated is the lists of books I've read in 2007.

My current project is this advice column blog:
http://www.whatshouldidojason.com.

or you can look at videos of my baby here.


J.

Books I Read in 2006

Clean slate now. So I'm going to publish this here for my own reference. It's heavy on the golf books, but otherwise I think I did okay this year. My recommendations from this list are Eyeing the Flash, Peter Fenton's memoir of his teenaged life as a carnival con-man, and, if you like golf, Curt Sampson's biography of Ben Hogan. Also, you'll see that I won't be listing videos or movies this year. They're boring lists, and hard to maintain.

State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
The Scheiber Theory by David Kipen
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester (book on tape)
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England edited by Antonia Fraser (book on tape)
The Swamp Thing Saga graphic novel
Uncle Sam (!) graphic novel
Eyeing the Flash (!) by Peter Fenton
Consider the Lobster(!!) by David Foster Wallace
Q School Confidential by David Gould
Los Angeles Diaries (!) by James Brown
Rebuilt by Michael Chorost
Who's Your Caddie by Rick Reilly
The Big Show by Steve Pond
My Dark Places by James Ellroy
Hogan(!) by Curt Sampson
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The Tent by Margaret Atwood
How to Learn Golf by Harry Hurt
England, England by Julian Barnes
In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
The Truth About Babies by Iain Sansome
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Giver by Lois Lowry