Time play catch-up.
Sorry, it's been a long time. A lot has gone on since May.
Firstly, I was deeply involved in a job from hell, which I will recount in glorious, excessive detail in the very near future. I had my 10th anniversary second honeymoon with my lovely wife in the Bahamas. A bartendress there asked me if anyone ever told me I look just like that guy on American Idol. "The host?" I asked. "No, that guy who sings..." "Taylor Hicks, the grey haired guy?" "Yeah!" Ouch.

I read two books by Jack Finney, called Time and Time Again and Time After Time. The second is the sequel to the first. The first one involves a guy named Simon, who is asked by the government to go back in time to 1880s New York City to do something which I won't divulge. The next 9/10 of the book is spent detailing what life and the world was like in 1880. The plot is only there to make it seem less like a history book. The second book continues Simon's trips through time, this time to 1912 New York City. Again, the bulk of the book seems to be in detailing life in 1912, with a time travel plot thrown in. Interestingly enough, Simon travels through time by way of the Dakota buildingg in NYC, because that building is one of the only ones functional now as it was in 1880. The Dakota also figures in such recently reviewed time travel books as The Time Machine Did It and Shroud of the Thwacker. Coincidence? After all this crazy time travel stuff, I went to the library to find something new to read. A copy of Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut was on the table. I picked it up and took it out. It's a classic and I'd never read it. So I start reading it and, among other things, it's about time travel! I can't get away from time travel books!

I also read an interview book called This Is Orson Welles. It's a fascinating and frustrating look at the life and career of Orson Welles. I could go on for days talking about Orson Welles, but I won't. At least not now.

Other than that I've been pretty busy at work, taking side jobs and trying to finish this CD project I started writing and recording about 8 years ago. Hopefully I'll be blogging you to buy it by the end of the summer. So that's it in a nutshell. I'll try to check in more often again. Ciao!