Saturday, June 13, 2009

Book Corner - Finished Reading

Death Trust by David Rollins
Paperback 416 pages
Fiction - Military mystery thriller

It started off as a good read, but then I started getting turned off by the mistakes in the technical details and how far fetched all together the story was. Of course this is to be expected, but the ending just went overboard for me and I could almost not finish reading the last three chapters.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

The Round Up

I haven't been posting nearly as much as I should. My Internet service has been worse than usual, horribly slow. This has made streaming television and movies horrible. We are subscribing to a U.S. VPN service that assigns us a U.S. based IP address thus allowing us access to view on demand shows on NetFlix, NBC.com etc that otherwise does not let you view from other countries. It costs $15 per month but being that we don't have cable or satellite TV it's worth it.

Getting cold here! I have to wear my heavier jacket and knit cap on my walk to work in the mornings. The heat is on at the apartment which is good and bad. Good because it's warm, bad because we can't control the temperature and sometimes it gets too warm, we then open the doors.

I saw the saddest stray dog at the bus stop this morning on my way to church. There usually is a few stray dogs around the mall in the morning, this one really looked like it would make someone a good companion if it got cleaned up and a nice meal. The are so many stray dogs here, often times when you see them they have collars on, they were somebodys pet at one time.



Monday, June 1, 2009

Colder and colder

It's 9:46PM, the wind is howling outside (30+mph) and 52F. So maybe not exactly freezing, it sure is cold. Had put away my wind breaker and take out a heavier jacket and knit cap.

Book Corner - Finished Reading

Prey by Michael Crichton
Paperback 384 pages

You might know Michael Crichton by his well known movie "Jurrasic Park". Well this could be considered Jurrasic Park but on a microscopic scale. It's about nanotechnology gone out of control. You techno-thriller readers would enjoy this.