This is brief.

I want to go read my book. And watch the recorded football game. It is the UEFA Champions League.
So excuse this lame post as me doing my duty and not missing a day. I'm tired. I had to haul ten 70lb bales of hay into someone truck and then go to the gym. And I still want to go read my book.

DAY FOUR

Pennies

Down With The Penny!

My country has finally seen the light and in the fall we will stop making pennies. Huzzah! Since beginning my career in giving people change for twenty dollar bills, I have become a firm hater of the penny. Also I have seen the math and listened to some smart people talk about the penny. And New Zealand is doing just fine without it.

So, yay us! We are getting rid of our penny. I will of course save some to show my children.
On a less approving note. The new plastic money sticks together. It can make life difficult. And it just doesn't feel like money. But I approve of no pennies, so I can forgive about the plastic money, and I am sure that in time I will become used to it. I hope.

NO MORE OF THESE BABIES!

DAY THREE
Post Script: If you are interested you can watch the No Pennies things here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU4E6SSy5Yg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5UT04p5f7U&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77C47XYm_3c&feature=youtu.be
Have fun.

3D

I finally saw Hunger Games yesterday. Fortunately for my sake it was not as powerful as the book. I would have not been able to sit in the theater if it had been.
As an adaptation of a book I thought they did well. Having the author co-write the screen play probably  helped.
The cinematography was effective and the sound track did not distract me.
But the thing I was most thankful for was that it was not in 3D. If it had been in 3D it would have been more about the effects and not the story. Which is how had to be told if this book was going to become a movie worth watching. And I thought they did well.

DAY TWO

I don't prank.

First of all it is Palm Sunday. Just thought I would mention this so that you know I have higher thoughts in my mind, because I sound like a heathen for the rest of this. It is about...

Second, Happy April fools.

Third, it is the beginning of BEDA, again, so soon. And now if you want there will be material form moi, to read.
  
Back to April Fools. Imagination is used in so many aspects of life, and how it is used differs for the circumstance. Someone who is a brilliant creative writer might not be able to decorate a room. Etc. etc. and so forth.
I lack imagination in many aspects of my life. Pulling pranks is one. I cannot think up a decent prank, and most certainly cannot execute. Always wished I could, though. The camaraderie that pulls people together to pull off the trick has always pulled at me. I figure but don't know for sure that maybe a feeling like that exists between siblings. I had hoped that maybe they were close and that I could pull pranks and by proxy get siblings, but I can't prank. So, that was that. April Fools is just the first day of April for me. Not a day to show of a talent, and gain family. Oh well.

Post Script: I do have adopted siblings. They adopted me, so I didn't have to be spectacularly selfish. And suffer from unending Only Child Syndrome.

DAY ONE.

Post Post Script: It is the first day of April and the daffodils have not bloomed yet. Are we getting Spring? Ever?

Post Post Post Script: Should I use pictures more?

My Soap Box.

Allow me to get on my soap box. I don't often rise to this height, and very rarely about a book, if I am not directly talking to someone, and able to gauge their reaction.

But since convincing my mother to start this series,which was an uphill battle, I think I will rise and speak.
(BTW she doesn't like mythology.)

Please, if you have ever liked a book, any book, something written and then published, read this trilogy.

http://bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com/bookshelves_of_doom/2006/02/my_letter_to_me.html

(If you have never read a librarians blog about books, now is the time. I just thought this would be a good link to start with.)

Dear Book of Knowledge,
I would never have loved con men or thieves to the degree that I do, without you, and your beautiful books, Megan Whalen Turner.
Thank you.
I fall deep into these snapshots of a different world, each shaped and written so well, that I can never go back and read just my favorite bits, I re-read from the front cover. All the time.
Really, thank-you.
Christina

I don't get on this box often, I find I am a little rusty.
Anyway, go READ.
NOW!

Look... Photos!

I found the place for my video card, finally. So, pictures. I did take some. Of my cat. Of Oxford. Of food. And now I have proof.

That's me. In a photo. That I'm sharing. Without a gun being pointed at my head. Be proud.

Magdalen College. See, proof.

My cat does not photograph well in the dark. And I am too lazy to do anything about that. Tolliver. The small fry.

Food as promised. The best part of lent is the pretzels.

I can take and post pictures.
So there!
GERONIMO
P.S. I have never claimed to be a good or even mediocre photographer. If there is a problem with the quality of the pics. DON'T SAY ANYTHING! Clear? Good.

I'm a thief.

So, I was go to begin posting again with something deep and profound, but, something happened and I just have to share.

Back story.
As my family was leaving to go to Vancouver, my poor flustered parents each locked different doors in our house. (We don't normally lock ALL the doors.) No one, myself included checked to make sure I had my keys.
I was coming home a day before any other keys.

Anyone see were I am going with this?

Yes. I had to break into my own home.

Fortunately for me, I always keep my window open, or I would have been really stuck. As it was, my window is not the easiest to get in. And I now have that knowledge.

So, in the future I will leave professional burglary to the professionals.

(Note to self: remember keys.)