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May 1 2008 Letter to the Editor - revised June 6 (use of the Tear Drop Flag is not intended to endorse any group or cause) The following comments explain why there is a fight in the State of California and the City of Costa Mesa...especially for the "rule of law." Roger Baldwin, former head of the...
There and Back Again The soul of the commuter. by Nick Paumgarten from the New Yorker (April 16, 2007 ) Last year, Midas, the muffler company, in honor of its fiftieth anniversary, gave an award for America’s longest commute to an engineer at Cisco Systems, in California, who travels three hundred...
Conversations Book Cub February 2008 Pick: The Street Life Series: Is It Suicide or Murder? By Cyrus A. Webb, Executive Director Conversations Book Club In January 2008, Kevin M. Weeks, the author who has been on the minds and lips of readers and critics for some time now, took time out to speak...
Well, for me, anyway. In the past six weeks I have: Scrubbed the kitchen cupboards, inside and out. Rearranged KT's kitchen cupboards so they are more practical for him. Polished my kitchen sink to a shine, which given the age of the sink is something. Polished KT's kitchen sink which was something...
Here we are with another collection of stories that wound up getting lost along the way to the movie theater... Summerland This children's fairy-tale based on a fantasy novel by Michael Chabon("Wonderboys') about baseball and the battle between good and evil in a world where fairies and werefoxes...
That's me... I really wish I knew why my body has no problem waking up before "weekday alarm time" on the weekends but does its best to paralyze me during the week at the same time. I can't remember the last time I slept in till say...8am? I have an old man brain in a middle aged (is that what I am?...
My coworker just loaned me three books, which I have dutifully put on the Book Project list. And then I looked at the list, and it is out of control. This is where we are: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Undertow by Sydney...
If you've been coding almost all of your adult life, you'd know that the first program any language you pick up gets you to write is the infamous Hello World program. So, here goes nothing. I've been told (very kindly) by Lay Theng that I write well and should therefore set up a blog so the good...
Having been told by many people in my life to SIT STILL AND BEHAVE so I can recover from the surgery, I have read the following in the last 2 weeks. So there. Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife (don't remember the author), and Jane Fairfax by Joan Aiken; both borrowed from Liz who is a Jane Austinophile,...
REQUIEM isn't a bad thriller by any means: it is short, swift, easy to read and has the makings of a sizzling plot. However, whoever teaches "thriller writing 101" should include type-examples by Lee Child and Dick Francis as part of the course. These two authors write (wrote) exciting, lean,...
I really love my ebookwise. I found a great site to download free ebooks (www.ebookhood.com) and it is amazing. I found "The Host" and all three in the Twilight series. Also, Catch-22 and Doctor Zhivago. These are book I own and would not want to pay for again, at least I don't have to carry around...
Welcome to the first week of summer and the third week of the library’s summer reading club. Now that it’s “officially” hot, we look forward to spending afternoons indoors, with the a/c running, reading. If reading is one of your favorite hot weather activities, join the summer reading club...
Clearly I have a lot of reading left to do. The Sister by Poppy Adams Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet: Because We're All in it Together by Suzanne Barnett, Jennifer...
I'm home alone for a couple of days. Its always a bit strange when it goes from a house of five to just me. I can eat dinner when I want. I can have what I want without having to give consideration to anyone else. I can watch whatever I want on television. I can turn television off when I feel like...
Feeling oh so silky smooth... Yes that the song that's been torturing my brain for the last 3 days... ever since I caught a few minutes of the old Eddie Murphy movie, 'Coming to America'. I think I'm going crazy. Anywho... so what I have been up to the last few days... - I've torn up my sister's...
Anyone read it? Discuss discuss! I just picked it up last night after enduring a 3+ hour of pouring rain, a very very lovely 3+ hour of pouring rain, and gusty winds, wearing only a pair of flip flops, a potentially fake, none the less thin pashmina scarf covering my head ghetto burka style, in the...
So....... after a week, back to the real world again, sort of. Thanks SO MUCH for all your kind words of encouragement and concern. It was lovely to read them. I am almost 100% better. Who knows, maybe I AM 100% better. I find that I do get tired at odd times and a teensy bit muddled occasionally...
1. Forever by Judy Blume 2. Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray 3. Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore 4. You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore 5. Rebel Angels by Libba Bray 6. Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray 7. Dedication by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus 8. Jemima J by Jane Green 9....
That explains my last 5 days of non-blogging. In a very random list here's what happened. Dad's brother died. Dad's family is filled with morons which caused drama. My sister possibly lost her job over a "joke" & then proceeded to wreck on her boyfriend's motorcycle. My neighbor hit my dog and...
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