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.
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.
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