...absolutely nothing happened.  Well, okay, not really.  I went to work, blah blah blah...alright I just couldn't come up anything witty to write about today so I fell back on sarcasm, bullshit, and sheer evilness.  I must hang out at the ASOIAF message board too much.

I did learn someting interesting today: great libidos think alike.

And now ( Read more... )

Eating at Fuddrucker’s Sunday made me think about chain restaurants versus local spots.  Fuddrucker's has great food, but in my opinion a lot of the best food tends be from local places.  Some of my local favorites,

- Colony Inn, Amana      http://www.amanacolonies.com/colony-inn/
   German-American food in a historic inn turned restaurant in the ( Read more... )

Went to Davenport today (one of the Quad Cities) to buy some more books at Borders,
       A Dragonlance book
       Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield
       Hood, Stephen R. Lawhead
       Viriconium, M. John Harrison

Gates of Fire is supposed to be a pretty good novelization of the Battle of Thermopylae and a lot better than Frank Miller's 300.  I'm ( Read more... )

Guy at work got a full-time job elsewhere so last week I took over his morning shifts.  Since I work at a grocery store, the hours are a little earlier than most businesses.  The earliest I have to work is at 6am.  And I have to do this three times a week.  What joy.  Luckily, I'm starting to get used it.  Though if you ever hear of a rampage in a ( Read more... )

Those of you who know me, know that I have a disease.  That disease is compulsive buying.  But not of just anything, it's the buying of books.  I buy lots and lots of books.  I buy more than I can read.  This leaves me with piles of unread books that rival the number of read books.  And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Right now I'm reading the ( Read more... )

First post in LJ.  I'm not entirely what I'm going to put on here yet, but since I love to read I'll probably post a lot about books.  I just hope I don't end up boring anyone to death.