07.06.09
Just Checking In
I’m not using my usual computer, so won’t spend much time with this post. I just wanted to pop in to say that I hope everyone had a nice 4th.
There certainly has been a lot on the news lately, which sucked me into to it this morning and I pretty much wasted my blogging time, heheh. The media is sure having a field day with news material from the Iranian election, to the deaths of Farrah and Michael, to the Sanford scandal, and now Palin again has graced the net. . . Oh, and McNamara passed. . . oye. Too much to comment on those. All I have the energy to say so far about those is that I plan to stay away from the Staples Center on Tues. I really don’t want to deal the with traffic that’s going to bring.
I did manage to finish reading another book, which I’m too lazy to blog about right now, ack! So why am I blogging? Maybe just to make sure I update every so often, I guess. I also recently watched a rented movie, Definance. It wasn’t the greatest movie, but I like the star, Daniel Craig, and I like to watch movies that are based on true stories. This story was situated in Russia during WWII as the Germans were hunting down and killing off the Jews. Three brothers escape and then manage to help many other Jews survive out in the forest. It’s amazing the things people can do and have done. I find it encouraging to learn about these kinds of people, and while I realize that I’m behind on my book reviews, I have another book by Lindqvist called The Skull Measurer’s Mistake, which seems to have that same flare of brave people who have the courage to go against the grain and speak up for what they believe in. Oh, and I’m still in the middle of reading Me Against My Brother, which I’m finding very enlightening because I had no idea what Somalis are like. It has really made me rethink my position about gun control and that it really depends upon each country as to what control needs to be enforced.
Anyway, that’s about it for now. I may get back to reading and watching more news to amuse myself, heheheh. Oh, I just remembered that I’ve been reading a little on the reformation, and today, July 6, is the anniversary of when Sir Tomas More got beheaded for refusing to sign the Act of Supremacy, which declared King Henry VIII the head of the Church of England. I mention this because being the anniversary of More’s death reminds me that I have pictures of a re-enactment of More’s refusal to accept the CoE while Brian and I visited the Tower of London last year. I have some pictures on my computer, which I’ll try to share when I get back on my old computer.
Marlakins
