My brain is fried. I’m on my fifth day of being home alone with the girls. While there is a lot going on around here I’m not quite with it enough to write about it, so. . . I decided to lift a meme from Baggage and Bug. I hope I’m not breaking any important Meme Rules. I guess that technically I’m not, since she sort of tagged everyone.

The meme works as follows:

1) Find the nearest book
2) Open to page 123
3) Type lines 6-8 of said book
4) Tag three others

Unlike the ambitious Ahmad Shah, Zahir Shah had never wanted to be king and was only nineteen when the throne was thrust upon him, just four years after unexpectedly becoming crown prince. He was born into a side-branch of the Durrani dynasty in November 1914, a time of particular turbulence in Afghanistan which prepared the ground for may things that were to happen later. his father General nadir Shah was commander in chief of the forces of King Habibullah, who was said to have taken a wife or concubine from each region as a way of keeping all the different ethnic groups under control, and had more than thirty-five sons. When Zahir Shah was five, Habibullah was assassinated, murdered in his sleep while on a hunting trip to Jalalabad. Nadir Shah was arrested in the initial round-up but then released and again made commander of the Afghan army by his distant cousin Amanuallah, one of Habibullah’s sons, who had taken the throne and many believed had plotted his father’s murder, spurred on by his ambitious mother.

Ok, my fingers are tired now. And I have thoroughly confused spell check.

The book I found is The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan by Christina Lamb.

Now for the tagging. Random Thoughts, J. LeRoy and a bicycle built for three, consider yourselves tagged.

Now I’ll know if you’re really reading my blog.