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Christmas 2013

Thursday, December 26th, 2013 Will No comments

I had a good Christmas this year. I decided to remain in Portland this year. It’s nice to spend a holiday resting instead of traveling. I missed seeing my family, but I didn’t mind missing out on the airports. I worked on Christmas Eve for the first time ever, but I did take a vacation from work beginning on Christmas Day and ending on New Year’s Day. On Christmas Day I saw two movies, two of many movies I plan to see during my break. I’m going to a game night on New Year’s Eve, but that’s the only social activity. I have planned.

What did I get for my birthday and Christmas? My friends and family took very good care of me this year.

Grimm lore book
Batman figure
The Shining by Stephen King
Princess Mononoke on DVD
2(x)ist underwear
Pizza pan
Beanie
Enterprise-D model
C.O.P.S. Vol. 1 and 2 on DVD
Batman snuggie

I sent my niece a toy Dora the Explorer guitar. I hear that she really liked it and was doing air guitar not long before she got her gift.

Tags: batman, books, C.O.P.S., Enterprise, grimm, movies, Princess Mononoke, star trek, stephen king, television, The Shining

The Colorado Kid / Bitter Seeds

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 Will No comments

These are going to be short and sweet from now on if they weren’t already.

The Colorado Kid by Stephen King. I only read this book because the new Syfy series Haven is based on it. From the Haven previews, I think it’s only going to be loosely based on the book. Almost the entire book consists of these two old journalists telling their intern a story about an unsolved mystery that happened years earlier. Reading it made me remember why I don’t read Stephen King anymore. Something about his writing style gets on my nerves. I advise passing on this one and just watching the TV show. I read this book using the Kindle apps on my iPhone and my work PC. It’s the first time I’ve read a book that way.

Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis. This was another Sword and Laser pick. It was interesting. Think alternate history WWII with super-powered people that use batteries to power their abilities. I love alt history and I love superpowers and they go pretty well together in this book. I wasn’t really into the beginning and the end, but I really enjoyed the middle. When I started getting close to the end I could tell that this was the first in a series. I later found out that it is the first in a trilogy. If I had known that before I started, I may have waited to read it. At this point, I’m not sure if I’m going to finish the trilogy. Maybe if I had the other two to read right away I would’ve been more likely to continue.