As it were…

The astute reader will note in my sidebar that I’m currently reading Neal Stephenson’s The System of the World.  I just wanted to reassure you that I really am reading it every day.  I’m on page 585 now, so I only have about 300 pages left.  The two preceding books were also about 900 pages.  It’s starting to get interesting now that we only have "a little" of the story left.