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How did we get to Memorial Day so fast?! Seems two weeks ago we had our “blizzard.” Speaking of blizzard…I want ice cream.
Days like today, coupled with weekends like this one, are great for stepping out of routine, letting myself relax, taking a breath, and inhale all the good stuff going on around. Not just in my life, but in the lives of people I know and love. Even with so much layered uncertainty I can say that at my core I see life as good. Very good.
So is fire. My fire pit served as the conduit to get to know the guy who lives behind us a couple of nights ago. I had a nice little fire going, and he hopped the fence to sit down and talk. Must have been out there for two hours talking. Turns out he’s in law school, and his wife is studying to be a rabbi. My neighbor next door is studying to be a chaplin. A few blocks away resides a woman to is a pastor of a church, and a few doors down is a guy who – I think – writes about philosophy. We have quite a neighborhood.
My latest candy addiction are Warheads QBZ. They’re shaped like little cubes, a la sugar cubes, but worse: They’re as processed as can be, and laden with who-knows-how-many food colorings and dyes. But, damn, are they good! Can’t have too many of them, though. I’ve worked my ass – literally – down to a 34″ waist and will not simply give it away to a bag of candy (or many of them).
Yesterday I finished reading “Seize The Night” by Dean Koontz. As I wrote before this was a sequel, but he wrote it so you didn’t need to read the first book. I found the whole story to be fascinating. He covered a lot of ground in a very short space. The ending brought closure to one story arc, but I think the biggest surprise at the end was that Koontz is writing a much bigger story – or at least that’s how read it. I could see 1-3 more books with these characters. My totally unsolicited advice to Mr. Koontz is to tone down the verbose diatribes that Chris Snow delivers. Especially those toward the beginning of this book. They don’t add depth the his character, and add nothing to the story. I noticed that toward the end of the story Snow delivered shorter and fewer of these rambling rants, and that’s a direction that this series would benefit greatly from. I think that it’s also appropriate for the maturation of the Snow character for him to tone it down. Anyway, overall I would suggest reading it if you like thrillers with a military/sci-fi twist/Art Bell-esque twist.
