"i haven't done all the good things i could"

i wasn't stuck guruing today...not sure why, maybe she's done...hopefully...anyway, not too coincidentally i finished reading The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy...it's a book i tried to read many years ago and quit halfway through the first story 'cuz i did not like it at all...well, i gave it another shot and i'm glad i did...the first story ("Family Happiness") was still not good but the other three were pretty good...not quite the reversal of opinion when i reread Absalom, Absalom! but another not total write-off...