I’ve been neglecting ye olde blog because I haven’t had the inspiration to write highly interesting things about the last books I managed to get through in 2005. So I take the easy way out with a quick bulleted list and a backdated entry so I can move into the new year without blogging baggage… [...]

Several years ago, while visiting my cousin Becky in St. Louis for some concert or another, she passed along some books that she thought my mom and I would enjoy. I come from a long line of book passers. One of them was Seabiscuit which was excellent. The second was a book I’d never heard [...]

Coming for your mid-season replacement delight from FOX. Nevermind. Fox already cancelled that. I was nearly ready to just cancel this whole thrice-attempted post, but I decided to give it the “pictures are worth…” treatment since I’d already cropped, resized, and uploaded. Way back over Thanksgiving weekend, I left Coralville on Wednesday night and headed [...]

Let me formally welcome Donor and Jenniffer to the blog world. Enjoy having your existence validated by a sidebar link. We look forward to knowing where you kids are at and what you’re doing while you’re there. Especially since I know where Jerry and Sara are most days now. Let me also point out that [...]

Most of my readers will know that I am a frequent poster on the forum on connick.com, the Harry Connick, Jr. fan site. I joined the group on Halloween 2001. Its been a blessing and a curse, but I have met or come to know some great people because of it. Today I am reminded [...]

The third Stephanie Plum book. Authors who write series that have numbers in the title make it easier for people to figure out which book they need to grab next. And somedays, that’s really all I ask of an author. I want to enjoy the book, not work too hard for it. Truthfully, it has [...]

I’m doing some stuff at Ye Olde Powerbook tonight and what started out as a search for my non-Harry Christmas music that I thought I ripped last year, has turned into me starting to dump all my archived cd’s and dvd’s of mp3 onto my new 300GB drive. Some are well-labeled with artists, number of [...]

While surfing around del.icio.us (recently slurped up by Yahoo!), I found this iTunes Signature Maker and while I’m here at work, I put two together from my stash of music at work: Most Played Songs (since my last system reboot) Highest Rated/Favorite Songs

I know I haven’t posted forever and I have to do a big catch up post for my own sanity, as per usual. But until I get that finished, I’ve decided to post other things. Today I had three encounters with people in the service industry, with varying degrees of success. I had ordered a [...]