“Conners sat back at her desk and looked at the three images Foreman had requested. Â There was no type of man-made interference that could do that as far as she knew. Conners stared at the three pictures once more. Â But something had.”
In the novel Atlantis
An article caught my eye as Pennsylvania’s new governor has floated another idea for a new tax. He’d like to tax lottery winnings. The Feds already tax the winnings, but apparently the state wants their piece also. This is not an anti-tax post, but part of the newspaper article stunned me (see photograph).
Here we have a 40-something woman who claims to purchase $300.00 worth of lottery tickets every week. Okay let me repeat that…she spends $3oo every freaking week to buy a chance to win big bucks and she seems to be driven by the fact that she won $2,500 a few years ago. So she spends over $15,000 a year to win $2,500 every couple of years. My God do we need to teach economics in our schools though it’s obviously far too late for this lady.
“What in the name of all that was holy had turned Nimposet into a murderer?”
James Bailey has just returned from England on an urgent mission from King Charles and finds himself in the middle of a mystery in the prudish town of Boston around the time of the French and Indian War. He has come to America to find out why a fellow emissary from the King was murdered, but he soon faces enemies from all sides and some that he doesn’t even know. His unusual traveling companions help him in unforeseen ways as he discovers the truth and seeks justice in a hostile land. Crow Hollow
Imagine a novel featuring J.R.R. Tolkien, dwarves, sword fighting, tall thin figures on carved out boats, and even an evil empire feeling its way across the world. No Dawn for Men
This is the third in Scott Meyer’s Magic 2.0 series about time traveling computer geeks.  These men (mostly men) stumbled upon a magical computer program that allows them to have “magical” powers and time travel…oh and never age.  One of the things they do police is the appearance of a new Wizard who must go through an apprenticeship.  Failing this they are sent back from wench they came…both local an time period and stripped of their powers and access to the Program.
In An Unwelcome Quest
Eisenhower warned of it…Bill O’Reilly hinted at it in his book – Killing Patton…meant still protest about the “vast military industrial complex.” Â In Bob Mayer’s 
“And do you know how many West Pointers there are working in the defense industry? Â How many ring-knockers [West Point Graduates] are sitting in boardrooms of companies that supply the tools we use to fight? Â And of course they justify it with reasons other than profits: Â got to keep those companies in business to keep our defense industry strong.”
One of God’s creatures had something other than glad tidings for me today…
Imagine what it’s like to be able to remember everything. We’re not talking about a good memory, but an extraordinarily detailed ability to “re-watch” something that happened yesterday, a week ago, or even twenty years ago. Oh and the bad stuff that we are able to let fade is just as vivid.  In David Baldacci’s 
This was played at a recent training that I attended. It may not be for everybody, but I LMAO.
Sorry, but you’ll have to go to youtube to watch at the following link as embedding was not allowed. It is worth the trouble.
“How thin the line of safety.”
One thing that is sort of on my list of things I thought I’d like to do was to hike the Appalachian Trail. This inspiring book by Gary Bond recounts his journey on the trail in 2008. Rethinking Life on the Appalachian Trail
