I am always surprised about some things.

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I know not all have read the bible.  Probably only a few have, from beginning to end.  I have, many times now.  Last summer saw to, I think, the second but probably third reading of the OT and... the fifth or sixth reading of the NT, not including times I have read the book for a particular reason, hearing the words in Church on other occasions.  I have read the KJV, the RSV (or something), and now the Catholic standard edition.  I have the Douay-Rheims, on Kindle, and hope to give that a whirl before too long as well.  Latin would be nice to hit the Vulgate, but... that might be quite some time off.  Oh, I should get to Latin Lessons too.  I did say I would in January.  Urhm... it's... definitely January!  I know I read the NT through, the first time, before I was 12.  Many writers quote from the bible as well.  The bible is infused into much of life, if many don't even realize it.  Not just in words, either.  The ideas, and living parts of things in the bible, are cultural edifices and habits and even what some think of as superstitions.  Still, there are some people I just assume have read the bible who haven't?  Yeah, I was and remain a bit geeky though, in some ways.

A bit more reading, and I have stayed up to within my goal times.  Tired, though.  But it's a healthy natural sleepiness, not a weariness born on endless nothingness.  It is amazing, seeing what I do in this transition stage.  I can still clearly remember not being able to... well... remember, among other things.  I am still not fit.  That will take time, and it may never truly occur fully.  I will have to become physically fit, as part of it.  I will have to become mentally functional as another part of it.  And of course my health will have to become stable, regular, over a period of time to allow those other things to happen.  All of those are a lot for any plate.  Further, I fear, that as a 40-something, I will never know the breadth of what I knew, how I was, when in my 20s.  I will be waking to age.  I won't let that stop me from being what I can with what I have though.  There is still potential there.  That is, of course, if this is truly turning a corner, and assuming I don't meet a speeding bus as I turn the corner.  Heh!  I've... almost had worse.

Hmm, on to bed.  Definitely good night this time.