Kind of a long day today. Had an all-day meeting. Tonight I have a few things I need to get done, including a bit of rest.

I have been kind of lax with my Amazon reviews lately. Partially because I have not been reading/listening/reading as much as I have been. Still, I am keeping to my goal of 20 reviews minimum per month. Right now I am reading a Hardy Boys book, but I also have some new CDs to listen to and review.

I reviewed a CD from Coldplay, "Parachutes." Pretty good. Very mellow. If you like mellow pop or alternative, this CD could do it for you.

I am off to the exciting world of cleaning a hamster cage. I call the hamster the Rat. Same family, and he bites sometimes. Little snot is cute and eats out of my hand, but he also sometimes eats my hand. I guess instead of the exciting world of blogging, I better go do what I need to do.

Later!

I got an e-mail from my brother. He and his family made it to Korea okay. More on that in a later post.

Finished two reviews yesterday. One was for Santana's 1998 "Best of" release. Great album. The other was for a movie called "Prehistoric Women." I think I am getting tired of watching crappy science fiction movies, though that one and the one I watched before, "Wild Women of Wongo," were only marginal science fiction. More like fantasy.

I am continuing to work my way through the last 50 pages of "Fine Dining Madness" by John Galloway.

I am tired today, so I am going to finish for now.

Wow, I had not realized it had been so long since I had written anything in this blog. I kept thinking that I should write something everyday, and now months have gone by.

I have been reviewing very regularly on Amazon.com. How about 109 reviews since 1 January 2006? I have recently received a number of positive comments regarding my reviews, and a couple more books to review. Right now I am reading "Fine Dining Madness" by John Galloway in preparation for a review. Do not let the title deceive you; this book is excellent. It is funny and poignant and contains a lot of wonderful material about working the restaurant business. The entire book is a series of anecdotes about different people, and I must admit this book has sucked me in. I will be giving it five stars, with about another 70 or 80 pages to read.

My brother is headed off to South Korea for a year with his family. That kind of sucks, especially since our father is on oxygen. We keep hoping he will live forever, but I guess that has yet to happen, at least in a physical form. I think turning 50 has been a bit of a reminder of my own mortality. I know I have been thinking about retirement a lot more, though I am unsure if and when I will be able to retire or will want to retire.

My daughter left college (again). She has decided to enter the world of work. The bad news is that I think she has more potential than being a teller in a bank, though the possibilities are huge given that she does have an associate's degree. Also, her benefits are better than mine!!!

Great news! My son overcame an important hurdle to be able to progress in his career as a translator. All he has to do now is finish the last few months of school and he will be during his real job in the Air Force. Good luck to him!

Hopefully I will do better at writing posts than once every three months.