Loving the new computer so much I forgot to blog...

Work is going well and so is life. Auburn football this season so far has been exciting to say the least 6 out of 9 games decided in the final two minutes of the football game, but with the win this weekend over Ole Miss, Auburn is bowl eligible for the 8th straight year one shy of the record set in the 80s and 90s of 9 consecutive. The wife and I are traveling to her Alma Mater this weekend to watch the Alabama vs. LSU "Saban Bowl" which should be a great game and sadly will make it even on Alabama and Auburn games attended this season. The outage and duty weekends really killed my chances of seeing many Auburn games this year.

I wanted to pass on a couple of books this time that I finished and immensely enjoyed especially the second one which has been on my list for a long time but I never purchased until recently.

Playing for Pizza - John Grisham (2 out of 5) This was a good book but nothing compared to his law thrillers. If this wasn't written by Grisham I probably wouldn't have even picked it up. It is about a NFL backup QB who causes a playoff loss so terrible he is dubbed the worst in history. He doesn't want to give up the game so he goes to Italy to play in the American football league there. Good story but short much like his other non-law books.

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (5 out of 5) Wow I loved this book. I read it in a week and it' no slouch at 370 pages. It's a fictional story about a wealthy young boy who grew up in Afghanistan before the Russian takeover and his life up to present day. He is forced to deal with racism in a best friend that is from a lower class of Afghans, life in America after he and his father escape the country and courtship in a flea market that still resembles the traditions of his father. It has wonderful insight into the culture, country and beliefs of a people that are continually looked at suspiciously since 9-11 and how little the world(and I) really knows about them.

Still Naked but My clothes have been ordered...

I am still without my home computer but thanks the folks at Dell I only have 3 - 5 business days to wait until it arrives. I'm pretty pumped through a deal at work I was able to get a reasonable price on it and it kicks my other computers butt well it wouldn't beat up a dead computer but while it was running it would have kicked it's butt I'm sure of it. For you disk heads out there here are the stats

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+ (2.6 GHz) Processor
• INVIDIA GeForce 8300GS Video Card (w/ 128 MB of additional RAM)
• 2 GB of RAM
• 250 GB Hard Drive

Quite and upgrade from my 6 year old model that wasn't even two gigs of processor speed, how did I even get around the Internet :)

My previously described work "week" is finally coming to a close tomorrow. With a grand total of 33 consecutive days worked. Just to put that in perspective I was last off all day on September 9th when I was still 25 years old. That has got to be an NCAA as well as the volume of my manly and not at all high pitched scream as my Auburn Tigers downed UF with a last second field goal. I know we have already had a game since then but give me a break I was working. Hopefully now I will be able to get back to a more normal routine. Sadly my beautiful wife will be working this weekend for my first days off in a month. At least I will have football to comfort me. Alabama and Auburn will both be on TV this weekend so that should be fun.

WAR DAMN EAGLE!!!!

The Ragamuffin Gospel - Brennan Manning (3.5 out of 5) A good book about joys that can be found in being the least, last and lost. A little depressing at times but all in all a very insightful view of Christianity and it's roots in Jesus and his love of the "least of these". This book has been around for awhile and I urge you to push through the beginning it gets better once he gears up.