Yesterday I put koto music on Spotify and transported myself to 1937 Japan while reading The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo. Really enjoyed it; a good bit of escapism.
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I can't see the Celtics winning this year. They just aren't at the levels of last season. Cavs and OKC look too strong but you never know what happens in the play offs.
Nice win for the Bucks last night. Wondering how they will do in the post-season.
https://www.nba.com/watch/video/game-recap-bucks-121-nuggets-112
Currently reading Bill Gates ... My Beginnings. Looking forward to finding out about his life.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/468308/source-code-by-gates-bill/9780241736678
Source Code
Bill Gates is one of the most transformative figures of our age. In Source Code he takes us back to his beginnings. He describes with candour his childhood in Seattle, the centrality of family – his close relationship with his card-playing grandmother and his demanding but caring parents – his struggles to fit in, his rebelliousness, his first deep friendships and the impact of losing his closest friend. We see Gates’s extraordinary mind developing, the restless teenager who discovered a love of coding and computing at the dawn of a new era and felt that ‘by applying my brain, I could solve even the world’s most complex mysteries’. We see the earliest signs of his phenomenal business acumen, which led him to drop out of Harvard at the age of 20 to devote all his energies to Microsoft, the company he started with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He writes about his first encounters with three Steves – Jobs, Wozniak and Ballmer – who would play a crucial role in so much that followed. The book ends in the late 1970s when Microsoft, still with only a dozen employees, signed its first deal with Apple. The deals would go on and Microsoft would grow unimaginably. Yet Gates never forgot his mother’s reminder that he was merely a steward of any wealth that he gained. This warm and inspiring book, Bill Gates’ origin story, allows readers to understand his energy and ambition – and to see how he sets himself in the world.
The #Celtics meet #Biden. And an excellent speech from #Biden
Love this https://www.youtube.com/live/CDQVHCIn0Io
Boston Celtics visit the White House
The Boston Celtics, the 2024 NBA Champions, are visiting President Joe Biden at the White House.
This is an enjoyable yarn - The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer. Very enjoyable with some likeable characters, good humour and some plot twists. Recommended. #thesatsumacomplex #bobmortimer #books