The Pulse Of Life

It has been an eventful week though at the same time I cannot exactly say what went on. I can say that the week past dragged quite a bit and I'd lost my edge on Thursday night.

Of course, given the typical Friday fucking around when I go in during the daytime, let's just say that I'm glad that this particular week is over.

I still have one extra day to work, but that's on Sunday.


I did go out "on the town" in the middle of the week and felt the "pulse" of life as I walked down the street in downtown Long Beach one sunny and cool afternoon. By pulse of life, I mean that I had my eyes and ears open to what was going on around me and the thrum of life in the big city flowed through my senses. I didn't have anywhere to be until I went to work and was going to do some more book shopping, but as I went to the bookstore, I noticed all the goings-on around me.

It wasn't a particularly earth-shattering observational period, but I felt more or less at home in the crowd just doing my thing. It makes me realize that there are countless folks exactly like me all around the world. We all do our thing, just trying to get by while idiots and blowhards speak in our name as they strut across the international stage.

Sometimes that bothers me. Others, it's as irrelevant as wondering if I can lift a house with my fingertips.

Book Shopping

After going to visit a friend of mine last night, I went out and spent most
of the day on the street and looking for good prices on paperback books
to read. Here's what I picked up:



Harold Coyle

1. Against All Enemies
2. More Than Courage
3. Dead Hand
4. Code Of Honor

Laura Joh Rowland

1. Black Lotus
2. The Dragon King's Palace
3. Bundori
4. The Concubine's Tattoo

Mario Puzo

1. The Fourth K
2. The Sicillian
3. Omerta
4. The Godfather Papers

James Patterson

1. Violets Are Blue
2. Jack & Jill
3. The Jester

I also picked up Richard Price's Freedomland, Glenn Meade's Sands Of Sakkara, Richard North Patterson's The Outside Man and Balance Of Power, Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, Larry Bond's Day Of Wrath, PT Deutermann's The Edge Of Honor, and Richard Herman's Against All Enemies.



This is in addition to the four Star Wars Extended Universe novels that I'm wading through at the moment. They are:

1. Shatterpoint by Matthew Stover
2. The Cestus Deception by Steven Barnes
3. Jedi Trial by Dan Cragg and David Sherman
4. Yoda: Dark Rendezvous by Sean Stewart.

Shatterpoint and The Cestus Decpetion were quite good and I am enjoying Jedi Trial.



There are few things that I like to do more than read books. Now I've got some books to keep my mind occupied.

A Return Of Sorts

Tra la la...

I'm more or less back. My machine has stabilized a bit so I can post wtih some regularity now.

There hasn't been a whole lot to say of late other than I'm digging more and more in to the Star Wars realm with book purchase after book purchase. Though I'm not entirely sold on some of the post-Return Of The Jedi series, they do have their moments and I enjoy those immensely.

Where my current interest lies is in the pre-Revenge Of The Sith era Clone Wars books. I'm currently Reading Shatterpoint by Matthew Stover and am enjoying it quite a great deal. It tells a tale with Jedi Master Mace Windu as the main protagonist. I've gained a new perspective on Windu and I'm not even done with the book yet.

Such is a testament by Stover's ability to weave a story.