September 2011
So I can't renew my library card online?
I can apply for a new one. I can pay fines. I can request books. I can renew books. All online. But I can’t renew my library card. That blows.
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For Jim
In May of 1989, the month I graduated from 8th grade, 17 year old Michael Chang defeated Ivan Lendl in the fourth round of the French Open, a tournament he would go on to win. It was the single most amazing athletic performance I’ve ever seen. Chang, doubled over with…
Up early...Not thrilled.
My plan is to go back to sleep after I take my kid to practice at 7:15, but now that I drank a cup of coffee, I don’t know if I’ll be able to. Back up plan is to read, but now I have to pick a new book to start. Which one?
I just found out I can get Kindle books from my library.
This makes me happy.
So I finished this book 33 AD which was about vampires and Jesus.
And I’m not sure how I feel about it. It’s whole premise was silly. But aren’t vampires and the story of Jesus sort of silly on their own. I definitely got hooked, and had to finish the book, but I was scoffing at it as I was reading it.
And for clarity, these are not sparkly cute vampires like in the Twilight series or handsome and sexy like in the Sookie Stackhouse series. These guys (there don’t seem to be any women) grow claws and canine fangs and rip their prey apart. They are really monsterous, although still have many human traits.
And the religious folk glow to the vampires. I found that corny. Especially Jesus. He has a whole aura around him, and the vampires burn if they touch him. That was dumb.
