May 11
I would like to wish all the Moms that I know a Happy Mothers’ Day.
I hope it is as wonderful as you could have wished.
May 10
Just wanted to say thanks to those that submitted a review (or two … or more) to the 11th Edition of the Bookworm Carnival that I am hosting. The Carnival should be up sometime this weekend.
Also, I drew TWO names for books. I said that I was going to give a book away, and Dewey of The Hidden Side of a Leaf, and the SuperHost of the Carnivals, said that she would match the offer. The winners of the books are Melissa at Book Nut and Rebecca at Adventures in Reading. Congratulations! I will be talking to Dewey and then contacting both of you after the Carnival is up about your prize.
May 07
The deadline is FAST approaching! Friday as a matter of fact! If you would like to participate, and have a chance at winning a free book, you have to get those submissions into me! For more information, you can visit the special PAGE I have set up for it. You can email me with any questions. Even with me being out of town, I will be available to answer them.
May 06
Marcia, Nigel, and I will be heading out to Detroit this afternoon. Actually, we will only make it as far as the Pittsburgh area tonight, but by Wednesday afternoon we will be at my parents’ house. We are spending almost a week with them, mostly for the Mothers’ Day weekend. We are looking forward to seeing everyone again and hoping that Nigel gets plenty of time to play with cousins his age.
May 05
Haven’t been keeping up with this. I am sure all my usual readers have been wondering how my teams has been doing.
(OK, more then likely not, but I like to dream.)
My team has been having some issues this season, but the last two weeks have come up victorious. Hopefully it is the start of things. This week was a squeaker. The Freedom beat Glendale 898-870. The amazing thing is that Glendale’s captain scored an amazing 330 points! He was one of the first players on their team to finish their game this weekend, so I was figuring on a loss. But thankfully (for me) there were a few rather low scores on the rest of their roster, while my team came in with some very good games from most of the roster.
May 04
Last night I went to the Phillies game. It was the second time I have seen the Fightin’s since moving to Pennsylvania. I would like to go more, but living up in the Lehigh Valley makes it quite a trip. But last night it was put together by Brian, a friend and fellow Aussie Rules fantasy league player, from the sports forum that we are members of, the Chris Creamer Sports Forum. He put together the site mostly to track the different logos teams have used over the years, but the forum is more then active on other aspects of sports, as well as off-topic conversation.
It was really cool to meet Brian, Will, and Steve. (Will is also a participant in the Aussie Rules league.)...
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May 03
I mentioned in the most recent post, which seems like eons ago, that I had some pictures of Nigel to post. Well, here they are.
Apr 29
New Job
I am busy already. And that’s a good thing. Right away they got me started on something. It was also a great project to start back with, refreshing my memory of a particular software they use.
Posts
Because of being busy, I haven’t been able to post much. Home life is busy with other things, and we don’t ever get to do all we want to begin with. I had been doing many of my posts from work, and post dating them. I liked the idea of having one new post a day. Why do four or five in one day? So in this respect it looked like I was always running behind on reviews of books or movies or other things in general. Now I may be running behind with them but it will...
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Apr 28
Another friendly reminder that I am to host the next Bookworm Carnival. The theme is Urban/Contemporary Fantasy. For suggestions or help you can look at the PAGE I set up for it. You can email me with any further questions.
And as I mentioned before, there is an added incentive to get involved. I will have a drawing of one name of those that submit a review to win a book of their choice (so long as it is under $20 and available through Amazon.Com). So send in your submissions!
Apr 28
On Sunday Marcia and I watched (surprise, surprise) another movie with Al Pacino in it. This time it was “Glengarry Glen Ross”, also starring Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, Jonathan Pryce, and Alec Baldwin.
Here is a rundown on the plot, thanks to Patrick Dominick and IMDB, with a few changes by myself:
Times are tough in a Chicago real-estate office; the salesmen, Shelley Levene (Lemon), Ricky Roma (Pacino), Dave Moss (Harris), and George Aaronow (Arkin) are given a strong incentive by Blake (Baldwin) to succeed in a sales contest. The prizes? First prize is a Cadillac...
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