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The Coffin Daggers cancelled.; they were replaced by the Krektones. There's also 22 bands, not 21. As for the Cave, they have been notified. Interestingly, they have the poster (with the correct info) in the news section, but incorrect info in the calendar section. It took me a while to find the wrong stuff on thar.
Regardless, all of the up-to-date information was included in the press release I sent the Indy a while back, and I'm wondering why this wasn't used for reference. Should I be sending it to someone other than Mr. Currin? I always appreciate the exposure you folks have given the Summit--it makes a HUGE difference--but I want to make sure the stuff I send gets read.
The Coffin Daggers cancelled. There's also 22 bands, not 21. All of this info was given in the press release I sent you a while back. Is there some place else I need to send it instead? I appreciate the exposure-(believe me, it helps immensely) but I want to make sure these things get read.
A nice summary by Mr. Parker, but he talks about a band that cancelled their show over a month ago, and wasn't listed in the official press release, either. I hope next year he double-checks with the promoter, as he has in years previous.
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Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things (KJV).
I don't watch television much. Other than a few football games (I'm a Green Bay Packers fan) or children's videos it's never on. My husband watches it a bit more. Even then, he follows a few shows on Hulu and that's it. There's a reason.
Few things can rob my peace faster than the news or many current shows. An agenda is obvious. Sitcoms are off color, full of sexual innuendos, and inappropriate things I don't want my children viewing. And it seems we are desensitized to the evil and violence in the world. It's just normal to hear about some awful thing that happened to someone somewhere. Apparently it was decided by the powers that be the definition of news=negativity. Our mind is in a battle and our focus is key. Feelings follow focus. Peace is worth protecting.
Social media is another place peace can be taken quickly. Sadly, it seems a few of my Facebook friends have a fascination or perhaps feel compelled to expose/share the current evils of the world. Lots of it. After just a few minutes life seems dark and hopeless. And, it is. But God. Yeshua (Jesus) makes all the difference. Know Him, know peace. No Him, no peace.
Today, I want to encourage you to think about what you're thinking about. There's so much darkness out there. Life is full of challenges and details to potentially worry about. Remember Matthew 6:34 Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble (ESV). Don't worry. Choose to meditate on scripture and positive things.
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Philippians 4:6 ESV Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
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Friday I was stuck at work late, watching brief blizzard conditions. When i finally left, I ended up sliding down the hill, feeling the anti-lock feedback of the brake pedal, hoping silently that I would stop before I reached the intersection. The roads were very icy. As I headed up our hill, there were cars stuck, and cars behind them backing down in reverse. I was able to slip by and maintain my momentum to make it to our street. After some effort, I was able to clear the final hill and final corner to reach our garage. I must get the snow tires on soon!
Last night we took Julian in the carriage and went out to eat at Dolly Dimples, the only restaurant in walking distance. Their Italian pizza was quite good. It continued to snow as we walked home. The snow eventually turned to rain. By morning the temperature was maybe 8 or 9C, and there was no evidence of snow remaining. Everything is green again. We took Julian for a walk today, and contemplated which day cares to include in our application. We need to choose four. While it is almost a year away, the enrollment period closes in a few days. Of course, we cannot imagine leaving him anywhere, but we have months to sort this all out anyway. It is nice to make it home by 4pm and still see daylight. It almost smells like spring today. Lise thinks winter is over- after almost a week. Of course now it is raining again-- which is even worse. At least the weather here always gives me something to complain about.
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SNC offers week-long camps to youth 3-16 years throughout the summer, exploring a number of dynamic topics such as local wildlife, ecosystems, plants, water and wetlands. Two Summer Associates will be leading our Summer Camp Program this year at Stokes Nature Center, and they will play a crucial role in providing a fun, safe and supportive environment for our campers.
Summer Camp Staff will be working with the SNC Summer Camp Coordinator to finalize lesson plans and camper activities around the established camp themes for each week. We look for input from our interns on the topics, activities, and field trips that they feel comfortable presenting and excited to share.
Summer Camps run from June 4 – August 10. Most camps run 9 am to 4 pm Tuesday through Thursday, with an overnight camp out on Thursday nights. Friday mornings include a campfire breakfast and camper pick up by 10 am.
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- Evaluations regarding managers.
- What is their managerial potential?
- How to maximize performance and delivery of the management team?
- What are the employees' attitudes toward the organization and its management?
- What do customers think of the services they get from the organization?
Evaluations regarding managers.
What is their managerial potential?
How to maximize performance and delivery of the management team?
Assessment centers / Individual assessments / 360 PDP
Customer satisfaction survey / Customer satisfaction focus groups
O.C.S. – Organizational Climate Survey
Casting / Boarding / Reconstructing
1. Assessment centers :A process conducted in order of assessing, selecting and matching participants to future managerial and executive positions as well as for creating a talent pool.
2. Individual assessments :A process using state of the art diagnostic tools allowing evaluation of personal capabilities and traits related to the organization's core competences in order of drawing a career path for given persons.
3. 360 PDP (Personal Development Program) A full range evaluation of managers' performances on various behavioral, mental and managerial issues done by frontal interviews made with their superiors, peers and direct reports. The aimed result is assembling a personal development program (PDP) for the given manager.
Evaluations regarding managers.
What is their managerial potential?
GENESIS Solutions to
1. Casting – The organizational Drama Defining the managerial casting needs. Constructing the human drama. Casting the suitable players. Exploring reasons for connections, frictions and collisions. Creating the affective stage. etc.
2. Boarding – Strategic teamwork A process aimed to team board members and discover their added value. Process starts with a 3 days tailored off-site followed by methodological implementation of gained results.
3. Reconstruction / reorganization :Re-correlating the organization's chart to the natural evolution of its vision, missions and goals. Process allows flattening chart, reducing number of managers, unifying units and enables efficient conduct and delivery.
How to maximize performance and delivery of the management team?
GENESIS Solutions to:
1. Customer satisfaction survey : A process of face-to-face interviews with all or a sample of customers, conducted in local language, aimed to reflect customers' attitudes toward the organization and the quality of services they get. The gathered and analyzed information will be used in order of improving services given.
2. Customer satisfaction focus groups: An informal assembly of people whose opinions are requested for the analysis and understanding of a targeted topic. The goal is to elicit the participants' perceptions, feelings, attitudes and ideas. The gathered and analyzed information will be used while constructing marketing, sales and customer care strategies.
What do customers think of the services they get from the organization?
GENESIS Solutions to
O.C.S. – Organizational Climate Survey :
1. Surveying the inner organizational climate. Measuring, by using quantitative and qualitative tools, the employees' attitudes, whether managers or workers, toward the organization and its management.
2. The gathered information and its analysis will allow process aimed to correlate the inner-organization climate to the organization's vision, strategy and goals.
3. An effective usage of the gathered information will allow increasing engagement ratio and motivating people.What are the employees' attitudes toward the organization and its management?


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Do you like lady bugs? If you have a lot of old golf balls lying in your basement or probably in the attic then it is time for you to take them out with your painting brushes and red and black paints; let's make some beautiful golf ball lady bugs! Don't worry – you would not be doing any mess at all by making these beauties. Also, these are pretty and harmless enough to be gifted to your friends or their kids. If you have kids at home, they can make these beauties all by themselves and impress their friends or classmates!


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Now that I have begun this foray into fandom, I know that the Sox season doesn't even start until a few weeks after March 17th. Let's take a closer look at each of these symbols of the season.
Beer. Saint Patrick's Day was originally a Catholic holiday celebrating the patron Saint of Ireland, circa AD 38-461. Because Saint Paddy's Day fell during Lent, it served as a one-day break during the Lenten period of fasting (and abstaining from alcohol). Soon after Saint Patrick's Day was named an official public holiday in Ireland in 1903, and no doubt the day-off was largely spent at the pub, a law was passed requiring bars to be closed on March 17th and was in effect until the 1970s.
Parade. The Irish Society of Boston organized what is believed to be the first Saint Patrick's Day parade in the world on March 18, 1737. The parade was actually a demonstration by workers of Irish descent protesting their low wages and treatment in the workplace. This preceded the first Saint Patrick's Day parade in Ireland by almost 200 years.
Red Sox. Don't tell Youkilis, but the Cincinatti Reds were the first team to wear green for Saint Patrick's Day in 1978. The Red Sox followed with green hats in 1990 and green jerseys in 2004. Today even the bases were green at City of Palms Park. Dustin Pedroia had his socks jacked up to honor leprechauns the world over.
Now this will blow your mind and provide even more validation to bluehats who have no shame knocking pinkhats while wearing green hats themselves. According to Wikipedia, the original color associated with Saint Patrick and Ireland was BLUE!
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Deliverance (1972)
Adventure, Drama, Thriller1972 Year 109 Mins 7.7 Imdb
Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
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Happy New Year to all!
We had a lovely day, had a nice New Year's Day lunch and as we let the kids stay up past midnight, they were all gracious enough to sleep in way past their usual crack of dawn rising time.
Well, Christmas and New Year's are over for another year...The eldest's 15th birthday is coming up soon and then there is the 'back to school' business to attend to.
Here are a few layouts I've done since my last blog post.
credits here: Christmas Countdown Calendar
This is the Christmas card I made this year. My Uncle calls us Rob and the Robette's. I think it is because our children look so much like my husband Rob....? I think it's cute anyway.
Credits: bg paper is by Laurie Ann from 'Quirky Guitar Hero' overlayed over another paper by Catherine Designs 'Esprit de Noel' the glitter alpha is by Diane Rigdon, Santa, lollies, candy cane and paper that the present is made from and red mat also by Laurie Ann 'Christmas Crinkles' element pack and 'Putting On The Ritz' paper pack. The holly is by Alana Designs from 'One Magic Night' frame is by Flergs from 'Into the Twilight', the scroll border on the mat is a Dover image and the poinsettia cluster is by MDesigns.Credits Here: Red T-shirts. This was done for a DST diamond membership challenge. Cool prize hey? So I had to enter it, plus I adore Syrin's stitches too (can you notice ;) ) Credits here: Little Santas. My boys with some funny lollipops.And here is a layout I just uploaded tonight. Credits here: Making Christmas Cookies.
Now I am off to bed. We are hoping to go swimming tomorrow, with a little luck it won't be raining.
Hope everyone had a Happy Christmas and a safe, healthy New Year to come.
Saturday, 2 January 2010
New Years Day
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Here are some real Ingenious Notions and such!
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Ingenious Notions - Repurposed Sewing and Craft Items
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Hi Laurie , i have a question for you on the picture you have here with the peg board wall can you send me the link to this site, blog, or any information you have on it? Please and thanks in advance Linda SteaplesReplyDeleteReplies
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Sorry Linda I didn't see your post. Did you mean the one with the thread spool holders? I will see if I can find it!Delete
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Members will remember all too well that in 2010 the major credit-card companies raised merchant fees to reflect the increased security features required in the marketplace. IBABC's agreement for a member-preferred rate came up for renewal around this time, so we undertook a thorough review of rates offered by all card-processing providers. Earlier this year we negotiated new member rates with Moneris.
The IBABC/Moneris Preferred Merchant Program allows members of the association to receive discounted rates on their terminal rentals, credit-card processing and Interac processing fees. These rates are very competitive, especially for the category that represents the majority of transactions processed by brokers: the over-the-phone or email transactions, otherwise known as card-not-present transactions.
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If you are a Moneris customer but didn't stipulate when you set up the account that you are an IBABC member, you may not be getting the member rate. Check your invoice from Moneris. The member rate for card-not-present transaction on a Visa consumer card is currently 1.74%; for a MasterCard consumer card, 1.83%.
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Cast: Jean Dominique
As owner and operator of his nation's oldest and only free radio station, Haitian journalist/freedom fighter Jean Dominique was frequently at odds with his country's various repressive governments and spent much of the '80s and early '90s in exile in New York, where Academy-Award winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme interviewed him over the years.
Dominique fought tirelessly against his country's overwhelming injustice, oppression, and poverty but it was Dominique's shocking and still-unsolved assassination in April of 2000 that gave the director the impetus to assemble more than a decade's worth of material into a celebration of this dynamic man and his legacy.
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Producer(s): Jonathan Demme, Peter Saraf, Bevin McNamara
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790863924720060692018-05-28T23:01:49.577-05:00Writing Myself CrazyMy Journey Towards Becoming a Professional WriterAndyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-48761145743996569952012-06-28T15:12:00.000-05:002012-06-28T15:12:34.424-05:00#ALA12 #ARCgate #BunheadGate
OK all of the drama on twitter is ruining my day. So I have to jump in as the voice of reason because I want all of you to shut up so that I can get my sports news and find some, one-liner witticisms and jokes to enjoy. So here we go:<o:p></o:p>

1. You are not a book blogger or a librarian how are we ruining your twitter?<o:p></o:p>

I work in a library as a computer technician. My wife is a librarian and a blogger. My world overlaps with you people. Frankly, I enjoy many of your thoughts throughout the year but whenever there is this drama after library conferences I want to unfollow all of you. But as some of you are friends and others of you are interesting I don't want to have to make that choice.<o:p></o:p>

2. Why should I give a flying ducky about what you have to say?<o:p></o:p>

Good question. There really is no good reason to care about what I say other than I have experienced a few ALA conferences and I don't really have a dog in the fight, so I can offer an outsider's perspective. <o:p></o:p>

3. So who is right, bloggers or librarians?<o:p></o:p>

The short answer? Neither of you. First to bloggers, I am not going to rehash the tongue-lashing that you have already gotten from librarians, but I am going to observe that in my conference experiences I have witnessed a large number of bloggers doing terrible things. I know the good bloggers out there are decrying the injustice of being grouped together with the bad ones, however, in my experience there are more bad bloggers than good ones. <o:p></o:p>

But quite frankly I don't really care about you, if you are a blogger I do not expect you to act as a professional because you aren't one (at least not in this context of librarian vs blogger). Expecting you to act as a professional at an event that you only have to pay $25 to attend and at which there are no real professional consequences for bad behavior is like inviting a group of people into a bank vault unsupervised and saying don't take the money. Some will obey the social conventions, most will take some of the free money, and many will pack their clothes so full of money that they will look like the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man. You may matter to publishers and to ALA, but you simply do not matter to me. <o:p></o:p>

However, I would say that using any ARC that you receive at a library conference as a giveaway on your blog is unethical unless you have the written consent of the publisher. If a publisher sends you a book because they like your blog do whatever you want with it, but if you get an ARC at a library conference I would encourage you to read it and then donate it to your local library, or if your library does not want it, any other worthy charity that needs books.<o:p></o:p>

Now to the Librarians, God knows I love you all, and as my marriage can attest I think that everyone should have an intimate relationship with a librarian somewhere in their lives. This does not mean that I believe you are entitled to the ARCs any more than the bloggers are. Sure, having them is a wonderful advantage and is an excellent tool for readers advisory and materials ordering, but the only reason that you have them is because you are relatively low cost mass marketing, plus you make up a significant segment of the profits that publisher's make when you buy materials for your library. A business exists to make money, lest we forget, and so publishers are not at these conferences because they think librarians are wonderful people who help people of all ages become exposed to information. They are there to make money. The ARCs are a part of that strategy, but if ARCs continue to be a problem you may find that publishers will stop providing them. Also, I know that you feel that as librarians you deserve the books, it is your conference after all, but I am sure the publishers want to get as much mileage out of each ARC as possible. It is in the publisher's best interest to put a hot book into the hands of a blogger with 5000 readers a day vs a librarian who might order 10 copies for their library and then give that ARC to 2-3 teens to read.<o:p></o:p>

As I see it the problem with bloggers versus librarians is not an issue with the bloggers or the publishers. The issue is between the librarians and your own professional organization. Just as the publishers see you and your organization as walking dollar signs, so your organization sees the bloggers. Every blogger who pays to get into the conference is probably $20 worth of profit to ALA. That money most likely goes into helping offset the costs associated with the conference as well as getting better or at least more well-known presenters for future conferences. Also higher attendance numbers will in turn entice more ARC offerings from publishers. In a way, the bloggers may end up being a necessary evil. They may be taking your ARCs but they are also providing you better conference opportunities as well. If you don't want bloggers at your conference, or you want them to pay higher costs or only be limited to one day, fine. Take it up with your professional organization, not your blog or the twitterverse. However, be prepared that your membership fees or conference fees may go up or the quality of available offerings may go down because of that decision. (P.S. I don't want to hear about the risings costs or decreased opportunities on twitter either, you are making this bed so you sleep in it)<o:p></o:p>

Oh and librarians with a blog I think this statement applies to you as well: I would say that using any ARC that you receive at a library conference as a giveaway on your blog is unethical unless you have the written consent of the publisher. If a publisher sends you a book because they like your blog do whatever you want with it, but if you get an ARC at a library conference I would encourage you to read it and then donate it to your library, give it to a patron who would enjoy it, or donate it to some other worthy charity that needs books.<o:p></o:p>

So what do you think? Am I right? Am I wrong? Am I being unfair to bloggers? Librarians? Publishers? Let me know in the comments and on twitter.<o:p></o:p>
Andyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-6899444841876978432012-01-02T19:28:00.001-06:002012-01-02T19:28:31.080-06:00Most Hated ChractersI feel a little bad about this post. I realize that I am going to be attacking people's work and so I feel some guilt. However, bad or disliked characters are going to pop up from time to time and if you create one of these monstrosities you just have to grin and bare it. You guys just might have to remind me of this if someone names one of my characters on a list like this. But without further ado here are my most hated characters (TV, Books, Video Games, and Movies are included):

10 Katniss Everdeen (Hunger Games Trilogy, Books and in March a movie)

So much whining, and she can never remain conscious during any climatic moment

9 Delores Umbridge (Harry Potter series, Books and Movies)

Flat, annoying, and one sided. Not nearly the quality of Rowling's other characters

8 Wesley Crusher (Star Trek The Next Generation, TV)

Know it all Mary Sue.

7 Doctor Octopus (Spiderman 2, Movie)

I knew he was a good guy the whole time which made it hard to cheer against him.

6 John Mandrake (Bartimaeus Trilogy, Books)

Could have been one of the best characters in YA lit, but I felt like he was underdeveloped compared to Bartimaeus.

5 Navi (The Legend of Zelda, Video Games)

Annoying voice and popped up all the time with useless information

4 Bella Swan and Edward Cullen (Twilight, Books and Movies)

Shallow, angsty, and oblivious.

3 Jar Jar Binks (Star Wars, Movies)

Not sure why he even exists. Maybe George Lucas owed someone a favor?

2 Jon and Kate Goslin (TV)

I know these are real people, but if you don't realize that people are portrayed as characters in a reality show then I pity you.

1 Holden Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye, Book)

Reading Catcher in the Rye made me want to claw my eyes out. I found Holden and his slow decent into insanity to be as uninspiring as anything that I have ever read.Andyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-71782289306805761172011-11-01T22:27:00.002-05:002011-11-01T22:27:19.411-05:00Favorite Characters
Who are your favorite characters of all time?

Mine include are not limited too:

Snape

Dumbledore

Zeddicus Zul'Zorander

Pug

Jimmy the Hand

Tyrion Lannister

Kvothe

Bartimaeus

Raistlin

I would love to hear some of yours
Andyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-41017645779448394902011-11-01T22:19:00.001-05:002011-11-01T22:20:50.817-05:00#NaNoWriMo Day 1 #amwritingDay 1 was a smashing success with over 2000 words. I am at a strange spot in the story where it is revolving around three characters at once. Sort of a Harry, Hermione, and Ron sort of thing. Except the Hermione of my story keeps getting lost in the shuffle. She has to be there, and her presence is important, but her minute to minute activities are getting lost in the story of the two guys.

It is appropriate for the scene, but not much like her character who is very boisterous. Do you think this is a problem? Have you noticed things like the before when there are multiple characters all traveling together in what you are reading or writing?

I only ask because they are about to take a journey together. Now I can write the story of the journey and throw in some mini adventure involving the magical horse they have with them, or I can skip the deals and get them to thier destination when the Hermione character is really going to take off.

What do you think?Andyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-10352096297356484492011-10-30T19:06:00.001-05:002011-10-30T19:07:31.339-05:00Warming up for #NaNoWriMo 2011 #amwritingI am back to blogging this month!

Since NaNoWriMo is just around the corner I am starting to get myself ready for the event. I am going to be continuing my work on last year's project so if everything goes well I will have 76000 words done by the end of November. You can look forward to daily updates as I blog to clear my head before writing.

So for the people who are doing NaNoWriMo this year: Are you doing a new project or are you working on something old?

I have not read nor edited anything from last year's project, but I am going to have to go back and reread it to get the thread of where I was in the story and to remember some of the nuance. Should I do any editing or should I just cringe my way through and edit when it is over? I would love your thoughts!Andyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-56134046090350486152011-03-22T21:32:00.004-05:002011-03-22T22:28:13.902-05:00Adult Fantasy: The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss About the Book: What happens to legendary heroes when they grow tired of saving everyone? How do you motivate a hero? How does someone go from being an ordinary, albeit talented child to being the greatest hero in a generation? The Wise Man's Fear is Day Two of the back story of the legendary hero Kvothe.

My Thoughts: Again relayed mostly through a series of flashbacks, this story continues to be fun fast paced and exciting. Rothfuss reclaimed his wonderful writing style and again the voice clearly changes when he is writing in the past versus writing in the present. Kvothe is flushed out much more as a character, but his story takes a darker and more dangerous turn. Adult relationships flourish in all of their complexity. While there were a couple breaks in voice as the book went on, for the most part Rothfuss quickly brought the story back to where I expected it to be. My biggest problems are that the middle of the book is a sexual romp in a fairy realm and the story seems to be progressing too slowly. I can handle sex in a book, but it seemed like 200 pages of the book was devoted to sex, it just kind of dragged on and on. The other problem with progressing too slowly is this. In the present, Kvothe is around 30 years old. By the end of the second book, he is not even twenty in his flashbacks. That means in the next book he has to cover 10 years worth of back story and I am not sure how he is going to do it.

Since this series is called The KingKiller Chronicle, I am hoping that the series will be longer than a trilogy. I have not heard how many books this series is scheduled for, but I image it will take at least 2 more.

Overall this book was very good and had a much better ending. Rothfuss has won me back and I well be impatiently awaiting the next book. I give it a 7 out of 10.
Andyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-88891936987683632662011-03-04T07:20:00.005-06:002011-03-04T07:49:35.761-06:00An "Appropriate" Ending *SPOILER ALERT*I don't care if the ending is happy or tragic. All I care about is an appropriate ending. I can't stand when everything changes at the end of the book. I don't like when the solution comes out of the blue without any foreshadowing, or when we find out the whole conflict really was no danger after all.

An inappropriate ending ruins books for me.

I have known where my ending was going to end up since the beginning, but I am wondering how to execute that ending.

**SPOILER ALERT**

It comes down to this question: How bothered would you be as a reader if the book ended on a very public murder, but you as the reader never knew which of the characters was killed?Andyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-28053913737198313582011-03-01T22:34:00.006-06:002011-03-01T23:04:43.265-06:00Adult Fantasy: The Way of Kings By Brandon Sanderson About the Book: Roshar is a world dominated by weather. Powerful, enchanted Highstorms sweep across the land with such fierceness and regularity that the plants have evolved to retract into the ground to avoid them. The energy of the storms provide powerful magic to Roshar's citizens and captured Stormlight can be used for everything from adding value to money to making legendarily powerful weapons and armor.

Kaladin is a brilliant soldier betrayed by his commander and sold into slavery for knowing too much. Shallan is a minor noble and talented artist who can capture a scene with a glance and duplicate it hours later, who's family no longer has enough money to survive, has a daring plan to steal a powerful magical item to try to save her family. Following the assassination of the king, and six years of war with the people who sent the assassin, Kaladin and Shallan must each risk everything just to stay alive.

My Thoughts: This book is massive, over 400k words and over 1000 pages. It is the first book of a ten book series, but it is amazingly written and the story is masterfully crafted. The characters are vibrant and leap off the page even if the background is more sparse than one typically finds in fantasy. The setting reminds me of the seafloor just without the water.

Part Lighting Thief, part Ben-Hur there is a lot of action and adventure. While not quite the page turner that Goodkind's Sword of Truth was for me, this book is definitely one of my favorites and I will be eagerly awaiting each new addition to this series. I have not spotted any major flaws other than perhaps its length, and a desire to see a few of the background characters flushed out a bit more particularly, Wit and Szeth. (of course assuming that the rest of the books will be just as large, Mr. Sanderson will have plenty of time to flush out these characters). I have had the ARC of the book for about a year and just never made the time to get to it, but now that I have I am drooling over the next one. I give it an 9 out of 10. Oh, and the audiobook is awesome too!Andyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-89483651421785203342011-03-01T22:25:00.002-06:002011-03-01T22:33:53.794-06:00Swag!I got Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss today! Even though I only gave Name of the Wind a 5 I am hopeful that his second book will be as good as I hoped his first book would have been.Andyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-5371641775561425922011-03-01T19:52:00.004-06:002011-03-01T22:24:29.268-06:00A Tribute to Dave DuersonMy blog has been a real downer lately. I don't post as often as I should and most of my posts lately have been about recent deaths.

I believe that the greatest stories are the ones around us. The stories that we live everyday. What triumph lives in the mind of man that cannot be found in real life, perhaps even in the lives of our friends or neighbors in real life? What horrific dreams of evil born in literature could not already be found the darkest souls of the depraved?

My tribute today will not be complete, it will be a fractured tale that comes from childhood memories that long ago obscured, like looking at the past through a frosted window.

Dave Duerson was a professional football player, but when I first met him that was only slightly important to me. Sure, I was excited to get to meet a professional football player, but I was young and I had yet to fall in love with football. My grandparents took me to a party that some wealthy friends had every year. At these parties I met many professional athletes, but since I was so young and the party rather formal, I was bored. I know at some point I ended up at an arcade playing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I was not very good, but as I played I received some help.

That help came from professional football player Dave Duerson. He came over with a bucket of quarters and played the game with me until we beat one of the bosses. We eventually ran out of quarters and he went back to the party, but for a little while he took time to bring joy to a bored little boy. I don't remember if I ever met him again. I know that the next year when the time for the party came around I had to stay home sick with the flu and Mr. Duerson asked about me and sent me a get well card along with an autographed photo.

Mr. Duerson had a fan for life and I began to pay more attention to pro football. I remember being sad that he retired, and he settled into obscurity off my radar.

He had not really settled into obscurity, he started a successful business and in his free time was busy working with former NFL players who were having trouble with brain injuries sustained while playing football.

That was until he began to show the same symptoms that the other former NFL player struggled with. He began to have trouble speaking and writing. His business floundered and his marriage fell apart. He was arrested for domestic abuse, but his exwife maintains that the incident was due to her husbands brain injury and that he was not responsible for what happened.

Two weeks ago Dave Duerson took his own life. He was 50 years old. A suicide ending the life of a former NFL player is not unusual, but the method that Mr. Duerson chose to end his was. Despite his problems with brain injury, Mr. Duerson shot himself in the chest. This way of committing suicide is particularly unusual because of the chance of suffering before death is so much greater and where the psychology of suicide by firearm normally leads. The following quote probably says it best: "Think of the old cliché about the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master. This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in the head. They shoot the terrible master."

So why did Dave Duerson take the harder death and spare the terrible master? Because he wanted to donate his brain to science so that they can continue to work towards finding out more about the injuries that made him take his life. His suicide note and his last text messages to his family both said to make sure that his brain was donated.

This is a tragic story of a desperate broken man. This man showed me a kindness as a child and I have never forgotten it. I grieve for his family and friends. I remember a life well lived until brain injury began to remove what made him who he was. I hope that his donation will save the lives of others.

Back when I made my post about Brian Jacques I realized that he was the second person that I had recently posted about and since superstition says that deaths come in threes I was wondering who I would next be writing about. I am hoping that this means that other people that I was worried about dying will be able to hold on. (I am looking at you George R. R. Martin). I am sorry things have been so somber. Look for my review of Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings soon, and I will be back to writing about writing soon.Andyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-68423572535796773922011-02-17T20:18:00.004-06:002011-02-17T21:16:59.206-06:00A Tribute to Brian Jacques
For the second time in 3 months, I write with a heavy heart. A couple weeks ago one of the authors who had a huge impact on me passed away.

When I was in fourth grade I was given a copy of Redwall by my parents. Within minutes I was lost in the rich world of brave mice, noble badgers, and diabolical vermin. It was in the series that I learned the value of librarians.

I have always been a fast reader and so I quickly made my way through the Redwall stories in my school library. My school librarian then began offering suggestions of other series that I could read, but also letting me know whenever a new Redwall book was coming out. But the school resources were limited and so I went to the public library. The librarians at the public library took up my cause and helped me fill in the gaps of the Redwall stories by getting books through interlibrary loan. Soon I had read every Redwall book published.

Through the help of librarians, and because of the vibrant stories that Brian Jacques wrote; I developed a deeper love of reading.

Eventually, I grew out of my love for the adventures in Redwall (although this was after literally wearing out several copies), but I never lost my respect for the author who influences my writing to this day.

I was sad to hear of his passing, and I was sad by how few people I saw lamenting his passing. But, I wanted to pay tribute in my way, and I hope that someday my writing will impact someone the way that the writing of Brian Jacques has impacted me.Andyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-66182310859370243042011-01-31T08:00:00.000-06:002011-01-31T08:00:18.738-06:00Guest Post on GreenBeanTeenQueenI just did a guest review of The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima for GreenBeanTeenQueen. Feel free to check it out by clicking hereAndyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-31678573140237090722011-01-30T23:37:00.005-06:002011-03-22T21:34:09.513-05:00Adult Fantasy: The Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussAbout the Book: What happens to legendary heroes when they grow tired of saving everyone, no matter what the cost to themselves. How do you motivate a hero. How does someone go from being an ordinary, albeit talented child to being the greatest hero in a generation. Kvothe already has most of those answers, but the answer he needs the most is the one that he cannot seem to find within himself. Maybe a chronicler who is asking about the past, a plague of demon attacks, and a worried magical friend will help him discover the passion he needs to reclaim who he used to be.

My Thoughts: Relayed mostly through a series of flashbacks, this story is fun fast paced and exciting. Rothfuss has a wonderful writing style and the voice clearly changes when he is writing in the past versus writing in the present. Kvothe is a vivid interesting character, who you cannot help but want to know more about. I had this book highly recommended to me and after reading a bit about it I was excited to read it. I was really enjoying it so much so that I actually turned off playoff football. (granted the game was out of hand and so I did not feel bad about turning it off, but still I turned off football!) My enjoyment of the book was not to last however, as the ending was perhaps the most disappointing end that I have read recently (well, excluding Mockingjay). It was like Mr. Rothfuss lost his voice with 70 pages left to go in the story. One moment he was writing a riveting story with a past and a present voice, then suddenly it switched into a slow boring monotone. Furthermore, the ending was soft and the climax seemed sudden and disjointed. It seemed like this book was cut from a larger book and definitely could not stand on its own but had to because the full book would be too long. Kvothe is a strong enough character that I want to keep reading the series to find out more about his past, but so much of the book is dedicated to Kvothe's past that I am not sure that unless the series goes for 6 books or so that there will be enough pages to tell the rest of the story of the present and the future. The other major flaw of the book is that we are told that Kvothe is a legendary warrior and hero and we are told that there are legendary stories about him. However, since the reader has yet to hear these stories and since references to the stories are frequently made in the story, I felt frustrated that I could not use these stories as reference points the way that many of the characters could. The flaws are not enough to stop me from reading on, unless Mr. Rothfuss cannot find his voice again. I give this book 5 out of 10, which is disappointing because if the story had continued as strongly to the end and it was in the beginning and the middle it would have been an 8 or a 9.Andyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-10571021719759941812011-01-27T20:09:00.004-06:002011-01-27T20:46:21.120-06:00NaNoWriMo and SEX?I suppose this is one of those big YA questions. Should sex be in YA, how much, and how much should be "on screen."

I think that writing about sex is part of writing for young adults. So I have no problem dealing with sex in my writing. But I have come to a part of the story that I am not sure how to get to the sex that I know is coming.

My main character is currently traveling with a beautiful but distant/mean girl that he studied with at school. He thinks she is beautiful but has not worked out whether he likes her or not.

The girl feels that the main character is interesting due to his potential, but really sees him as inferior to her because she is street smart and he is book smart. She thinks he is cute, but cannot get over how naive he is. So there is room for this to grow into something, but in her mind he is more casual friend material. However, if he started up some trouble it would be a different story.

Now comes the interesting part. While traveling they have met a handsome farm boy who is charming and witty, but also has shown an ability to protect himself when danger is around. The girl is completely smitten with him, and has been reduced to giggles on more than once occasion.

So here is the question. The girl would totally have sex with farm boy, like right now, if the opportunity arose. But, if this happens, main character will be turned off of her for good. However, if I throw the brakes on the sex for now and let the relationship develop more it could turn into an interesting series of love points to explore in the story.

So that is my dilemma, any advice?Andyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-73616846156380889252011-01-24T22:17:00.005-06:002011-01-24T22:25:09.765-06:00Family DistractionsMy return to NaNoWriMo today was less than successful as I was interrupted by family members calling, wanting to talk, or just wanting to cuddle (this would be my dogs/wife).

First, my wife wanted to cuddle on the couch, but I told her I needed to write so she let me go.

Next, my brother texted me and wanted me to get on skype to talk. While we were talking my other brother got on and so it conversation went way longer than anticipated.

Then, my father-in-law called and spent 25 minutes talking to me about sports.

Then the internet went out. (which I use the internet a lot when I write so not having it is like missing a hand.)

So now I am frustrated, my creative energies have been totally thrown off, and I just want to go to bed.

How do you deal with family distractions? Would this series of events put you off your writing, or am I just being silly?

Well, I suppose some good can come from this, I can tell my wife I am ready to cuddle now. :)Andyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-60156245877561894632011-01-23T22:23:00.004-06:002011-01-23T22:39:44.753-06:00Midwinter Institute Gushing part 2 #alamw11This is the part where I get to tell you about my honorary Master's degree. but not yet.

First to the swag. The book that GreenBeanTeenQueen got was called Glow, but I am not sure of the author. I received a free audiobook copy of the latest Wheel of Time book called Towers of Midnight. On the last day of the conference most display items are for sale or are even given away free so I made the most of that time too. I got the whole set of the Ranger's apprentice books, I got a hard cover edition of The Ring of Solomon the final book in the Bartimaeus series, I got the hard cover graphic novels of The Amulet of Samarkand and the Lightning Thief. So I was pretty happy. Wife got a lot more we wound up shipping or packing over 200 lbs of books for her teens at the library.

As for the rest of the trip, it was fun but rather uneventful until we went to a meetup with some of GreenBeanTeenQueen's blogger/librarian friends. We had dinner a couple times and walked around San Diego, until they decided that they were going to start their own library called The International Library of Awesome or ILOA for short. I was feeling a little left out since I was the only one who was not technically a librarian due to the fact that I do not have a Master's in Library Science. They solved that problem for me by granting me an Honorary Master's of Information and Library Science.

They also came up with an idea that will be a new segment on the blog. Once a month you will get to watch a video blog entitled P&G. This stands for Puke and Glitter, I will coordinate with another ILOA member to read the same YA book and give it a review on a one to five scale of buckets of puke if I did not like it, and buckets of glitter if I did like it. The book choices will generally be books that we expect will elicit a puke response from me and a glitter response from my co-host that month. However, you never know when I might give out some glitter (it will be manly glitter though, like blue glitter or camo colored or something.) So watch for that.

I guess that is it. Starting tomorrow I am going to try to finish the second half of NaNoWriMo. So I will post back with updates and you will see how I progress...Andyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-50091660067199640452011-01-08T13:29:00.005-06:002011-01-08T14:04:39.273-06:00Midwinter Institute Gushing part 1 #alamw11WARNING! Major gushing to follow.

Sorry it has been so long, but I hope to make up for it this week with my updates from the American Library Association's Midwinter Institute from sunny San Diego California.

GreenBeanTeenQueen and I arrived Wednesday night and made our way to our fabulous hotel - The Gaslamp Hilton and our room has a wonderful view of the convention center and the bay behind. We have been treated to beautiful sunsets and gorgeous mid 60s weather.

Thursday we woke up and made our way to the San Diego Zoo which was even better than advertised. I grew up going to the Brookfield Zoo which is considered the third best zoo in the United States, but I can fully understand why San Diego is number one. The landscape was beautiful, and I saw animals there that I did not know even existed. It was so much fun, I highly recommend it.

Then we went to the San Diego Maritime Museum and got to go on several ships. First we went on a 1874 merchant ship, then we went on a replica of a pre-civil war era warship, we went on a retired soviet submarine from 1974, then a retired American submarine from 1968. We also went on a steam liner from circa 1870. It was incredible to see all the craftsmanship and we got some great pictures that I will post later.

We closed our evening walking around the beautiful gaslamp district.

Yesterday we woke up and did all of our registration for ALA. Then we went to lunch at the wonderful Yard House. It was amazing, a lot of bar food, but it was bar food the way that a culinary school would do it. So good! Wifey got 3 cheese grilled cheese with tomato bisque soup and I got Parmesan crusted chicken with garlic mashed potatoes and 3 mushroom sauce.

After lunch wifey had a committee meeting so I wandered over to Petco Park where the San Diego Padres play. They have a beautiful stadium and you can walk all the way up to the outfield fence to take pictures of the field.

After wifey's committee meeting, we got to go to the opening of the exhibits. It was awesome, we ran into some friends, and then when the doors opened rushed to get all of the freebees. Within 11 minutes I was heading back to the hotel with bags bulging. After 3 additional hotel runs we went to the Yalsa Not so Silent Silent Auction. It was fun but a bit to rich for us so we left early for our YA Librarian/Blogger meetup. When we got there we found that a publisher had come and comped us drinks up to $500. We had a couple authors and many blogging librarians, it was an absolute blast. The publisher who came had worked for Tor and for Random House before moving to Baen, so I was his shadow for a lot of the night learning all that I could about those publishers. He also recommended a epic fantasy series by Steven Erikson which I am very excited to read. Eventually as the meetup slowed down we went back to the room, ordered room service, and went to bed.

Today has been amazing. We got up and went over to the convention center, and we got tweeted that Macmillan wanted to meet with us. We went over to the booth and found that that the amazing library marketing team had seen my tweets. I had tweeted about how upset I was that neither Tor nor Wizards of the Coast had come to midwinter institute. I had also tweeted how I was carry bags for GreenBeanTeenQueen and that I could use encouragement should anyone see me weighed down with books. Turns out that they had a surprise for each of us. For wifey, they had an ARC of a book that will not be published for more than a year to do a special review on. For me, they had a free audiobook from Tor! I can't give titles until after the conference so come back and I will tell all.

This totally made my day and gave me a whole new respect for Macmillan. I am so grateful for the gift and I promptly tweeted Macmillan's praises.

Now, I am off to lunch, and wifey is in committee today so I think I will take in some NFL playoff football. I would love to hear your thoughts.Andyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-73784875232339763562010-12-23T06:56:00.004-06:002010-12-23T07:41:31.185-06:00Least Favorite Christmas Songs?It is Christmas week! For many of us we will finally be getting relief from the incessant Christmas music that had been blaring through every story and every other radio station since Halloween. Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas music but I have two problems: 1. I love Christmas music but there are songs that I cannot stand, and 2. I pledge to fight Christmas Creep, I do not turn on Christmas music until the day after Thanksgiving.

So now after nearly two months of Christmas music I have to ask, what are your least favorite Christmas songs?

This is one of my favorite questions because so many people (including myself) get so upset about it. Lets face it there are some really terrible songs out there! I know that one persons terrible is another person's favorite, but I love that you can bring up this question and turn a room of friends into a bunch of bickering children as each tries to defend their favorites.

While I could list several I will restrain myself to my top three:

3. Christmas Shoes

I think this is the dumbest song, but while I dislike it I don't hate it enough to give it anymore space on this blog.

2. Do They Know its Christmas in Africa

I know that I am attacking a humanitarian aid project and the beloved music icons who came together to form BandAid, but while the intention was good the execution of the song was awful. Sure it is catchy but have you listened to the lyrics? Its like reading the Heart of Darkness, it is arrogant and self indulgent, and shows how little we still understand about these people. And as the song says, "Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you."

As bad as that is, it still does not make me turn off the radio or leave the room like my least favorite song.

1. Last Christmas

Ugh just writing those words makes me sick to my stomach. Again this as a very catching and beautiful song musically, but the lyrics kill it for me. Lets take a look at the narrative in the song:

Last Christmas the singer gave their heart to someone who broke it. Sad yes but things happen in relationships. It does sound like the singer got used instead of the breakup being part of the normal course of a healthy relationship that just is not right, but we don't know that for sure. I mean we only see it from one perspective.

But then we get to the line, "This year to save me from tears I will give it to someone special." Ok, I know that most people want to be with someone special at Christmas, but doesn't it seem that by putting some kind of artificial deadline on finding a relationship the singer is setting his or herself up for failure again? Love and relationships take time so it seems unlikely that the singer is going to find the love that they so desperately seek when they are working on a deadline.

Then the song takes another turn, the singer runs into the person that broke their heart last year and starts entertaining the idea of trying it again this Christmas with the same person. Its assumable this person is good looking, a good kisser and good in bed, all laudable traits, but is that really the only basis of human relationships?

Oh it gets better, as the singer laments how they were hurt, we find out that the singer is IN A RELATIONSHIP. The singer is willing to throw away what is described in future lines as exactly what the singer was looking for. The singer says that they would do to their current partner exactly the same thing that was done to them the year before.

I hate this song. What Christmas songs bother you?Andyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-78586688919919774572010-12-21T15:50:00.004-06:002010-12-21T16:04:41.053-06:00Getting published definately takes luck, but what makes luck?I am a upbeat, optimistic, and fairly observant person most of the time. I consider myself to be relatively lucky and so I am hopeful that if I am ever disciplined enough to finish my stories, that I will someday get published.

So what about people who are not lucky?

Well there has been some research done on the subject and while some things (like winning the lottery and being in the right place at the right time) cannot really be controlled, there are things that you can do to make yourself more lucky.

First, I found this article on yahoo:

A lucky find huh?

Then, I was in the right place at the right time to have a coworker show me this video:
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So do you consider yourself a lucky person? If so keep an eye out for a money tree.Andyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-9766781316847853012010-12-16T11:02:00.005-06:002010-12-16T11:21:06.379-06:00Faces in Weird PlacesI see faces in the strangest places. Perhaps it is because I am creative. Perhaps it is because I am ADD and my attention span is...about as long as...what was I talking about? Faces right!

Here are two that I have seen recently:

The first one was pretty easy to see. The second is a bit harder, but inspired me so much that I use it as a visual for one type of creature in my fantasy writing.

Did you see it? Here is a closer look.

These are just two examples. Do you ever see faces around anywhere? I would love to hear about your stories
Andyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-694330602432883502010-12-13T19:05:00.002-06:002010-12-13T19:22:46.677-06:00#NaNoWriMo ResultsWell as you can see from the widget on the left side of my blog my attempt to write 50000 words during NaNoWriMo failed. I ended the month with 24385 words. So what happened? I was on pace until I had to work a few overnight shifts at work. This threw off my groove and that was immediately followed by family coming in for thanksgiving. By the time the family left, I have four days to write 25000+ words. I was exhausted and had to go back to work immediately the next day so I was forced to throw in the towel.

In spite of falling short of my goal, I feel very good about what I achieved in NaNoWriMo. I wrote 24000 words in roughly 15 days. I learned that I enjoy writing YA and that I find writing first person easier than writing third person. I learned that when I write I do not have to reinvent the wheel or write the great American novel, I just have to write a story.

I had a wonderful NaNoWriMo experience and I can't wait to do it again next year. Although I may do it in October instead of November.

As for what happened to my NaNoWriMo project. I sent the first 25k to my CP and I am going to try to get to 50k by the end of the year. I will keep you posted.Andyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-923135781236635432010-12-03T11:58:00.003-06:002010-12-03T17:48:15.938-06:00Am I a Jerd, a Nock, or a Jerk?I am a weird mix of jock and nerd. I love sports but I also love fantasy. These two things sometimes seem like they cannot or should not coexist. I get pushback form both sides my jock friends cannot understand how I can stand to read and write when I could be playing or watching sports. My nerd friends wonder why I would ever want to leave my temperature controlled office to go run around with a bunch of Neanderthals in the heat, rain, or snow. I am a bad jock because I will turn off a bad game to watch something with my wife or to read or write. I am a bad nerd because I will get so emotionally invested in sports that it can run my day and prevent me from reading or writing.

I suppose I can engage so strongly in both of these cultures because both draw me with the same things: vibrant characters, intense storylines, and intellectual stimulation.

The reason for this post today (not only to get back to writing on this blog, since Thanksgiving broke me of the habit) is to lament the passing of one of the vibrant characters that I had admired for a long time.

He was diagnosed with a deadly and misunderstood disease when he was little more than a child, but kept that knowledge secret as he pursued his dreams. He pushed himself to be the best even though his disease severely limited what might have otherwise been limitless potential. Never bitter but always intense, he reached his career aspiration in spite of his limitations. He fought daily against not only his disease but as word got out about his disease against an unfair stigma even though he was one of the best at what he did. He was a happy person, he was an intense person, he was a fierce competitor who boisterously celebrated victory and angrily rejected any defeat. He was despised by his peers for his passion and success, but he did not stoop to firing back at his critics he let his success speak for him.

Eventually time wore away his greatness and so he left the career he loved. His legend continued to grow and he became like a king and ruled well, trading the trappings and power of office and fame to become a voice for those whom he originally entertained. He did not grow bitter at losing his place of esteem like so many others but instead became the most ardent and joyful supporter of those who came after him.

Yet his two greatest aspirations were denied to him, for he sought for the group that he was associated with to be hailed as the champions and he sought to be rightly acknowledged amongst the best of history in his career. But in a cruel twist of fate, luck and poor management defied him the former, and the peers who had despised him so, blocked his attempts at the latter.

His disease eventually began to destroy his body and he lost both his legs. But still he remained joyful and jubilant, and dutifully continued to represent the people who loved him. Other sickness eventually began to attack his body and today he finally could fight no longer.

Ron Santo died today at the age of 70.

Ron was the great Chicago Cubs player and broadcaster who lived and died with the success and failures of his beloved team. He was a character unlike any that I have found in fiction, and his warmth and passion will be sorely missed. People like Ron are why I can love sports and love fantasy because he could have been a beloved character in a novel just as easily as he was as a beloved sports personality.

To read a less fanciful account of Ron's life visit my other blog http://thecognitivecacophony.blogspot.com/ where I delve more into why he meant so much to me. And comeback soon to hear about my NaNoWriMo results!Andyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-65703467877049765252010-11-24T12:43:00.001-06:002010-11-24T12:43:00.391-06:00Teen Fantasy: Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Last Olympian by Rick RiordanB About the Book: Percy Jackson must lead the battle to protect New York.

The King's Ruling: The last of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, The Last Olympian is an action packed ending to a great series. I give the book and the series an 8 out of 10.

Spoilers (Highlight to View):--->This is not the last we have heard from the Olympians, so be on the lookout for the next series.<---
Andyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-83878975025498236442010-11-23T12:41:00.001-06:002010-11-23T12:41:00.125-06:00Teen Fantasy: The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott About the Book: Have you ever wondered why almost every different belief system and mythology have similiar circumstances, similiar monsters, and similiar heroes? Maybe it is because all of the legendary stories of mankind are based on, at least in part, all of the same legends. And what if those legendary heroes, monsters, and legends still lived in secret in the world today? Josh and Sophie, twins from the modern day city of San Francisco are about to find out.

The King's Ruling: A nonstop adventure from page one, the Alchemyst is the first of six books in the The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series. As the story is about a fantasy adventure taking place in present day there are moments that the reader must suspend his or her disbelief, but as a whole Michael Scott creates a great fantasy adventure that is accessible to everyone yet still grounded in historical mythology.

Spoilers:--->Even though Josh is the annoying twin I think he may turn out to be the hero of the story. I love the historical characters in this story but the gods seem to be pretty easy to kill off. <---Andyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-379086392472006069.post-67093159882344244852010-11-22T12:38:00.002-06:002010-11-22T12:38:00.571-06:00Teen Romance: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer About the Book: If you do not know what this book is about then you have been living under a rock

The King's Ruling: Chapters 15-22 saved this book from a 1 out of 10. While the first 14 and last 3 chapters were mindless drivel, chapters 15-22 were as compelling as any teen fiction that I have blogged so far. I hope to be writing a piece for the Springfield Greene County Library Teen Thing blog comparing and contrasting Twilight and Harry Potter soon so after I post that I will share it on this blog too.

Spoilers (Highlight to view):--->Edward is a vampire, Jacob is a werewolf, Bella makes it, Edward and Bella fall in love. While I extremely dislike Bella and Edward, I love the Cullens and wish the story was about them.<---
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Hoping you had a wonderful day with family today! Hoping and wishing for a better 2014 for you and your fqmily! Hugs from Illinois!ReplyDelete
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Merry Christmas Vicky to you and your family.ReplyDelete
Vicky, our living space was terrifically messy today. I was feeling a little out of sorts over it, but no longer. Thanks for the great reminder! Christmas blessings! RoxaneReplyDelete
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Merry Christmas Vicky...it sounds like yours was filled with Up's and down's..and life..and moments and embracing. Much love to you...2014 is your year...watch and see :) your year to spread your wings and fly...the lord has more in store for you...this I just feel stongly :) hugs and loveReplyDelete
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I wish Old 97's had done more songs from Satellite Rides Friday night at Webster Hall. (And I wish they didn't do that horrible electric arrangement of "Question," but I've been wary of Rhett Miller's song and arrangement judgement for a few years now so I shouldn't have been surprised.) At least they did "Rollerskate Skinny," my second favorite song on the album. The way Miller screams the line "I believe in love, but it don't believe in meeeeee" has always slayed me.
Really, that re-arrangement of "Question" has almost ruined the song for me as much as the version Miller recorded for his crappy second solo album. Check it out for yourself:
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I know that one thing for sure..if you have lost interest in something..u just lost faith and also motivation to do the thing. This apply to everything related to your life. people, work, books, or shoes.
Anyways, never forget to look at the bright side..although it looks like stormy days with "halilintar di sana sini" never give up and be positive. thats going to be my mantra this year! yes!. ( macam motivational speaker pun ada haha).
Its going to be end of the year soon. :( I love 2010. There are so many ups and downs but I survived! and lots of lessons that I've learned and still learning. This time of year, the chance of finding a partner drop 100% melainkan suddenly some guy come to me and ask me to be his gf ..ha tu lain citer la ye? hehehe
Ok. Happy holidays people..kepada sesiapa yang dah amik cuti until next year!..I'm very busy membuang lemak..guna pisau! ahahahahhaa :P


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Tamiya 25415 1/24 Citroen 2CV| plastic model kits | car | 1:24 |
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|After 1945
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|Passenger Cars
|Type (Cars)
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|Kit (not assembled)
The kit proposed by Tamiya company includes a plastic model kit of Citroen car in 1:24 scale.
Plastic parts should be cut out of frames, fit together and glued according to the assembly instruction. You should paint the whole model using modeling paints according to the proposed paint scheme in the instruction. It is important to remember that some plastic parts require painting before gluing. In the end, it is needed to apply decals according to markings or graphics in instruction.
Set contains:
Kit does NOT contain paints and glue.
Here are the basic tools and materials you need:
If you are not sure of any accessories or colors of paints you need for your model kit, please ask us, we will be glad to help you.
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