Nice days ahead...

Hi:

It sure makes my angry about this oil spill in the Gulf area. Why not bring in the big tankers to suck up the oil and water. The Exxon tanker that went ashore in Alaska dumped 13 million gallons of oil. Two or three of these tankers could have sucked it up so fast. But now we are going to see seafood prices go up because most of our seafood comes from the Gulf area. Like I said, it makes me so angry to see this oil spill spread like it is doing.

I am getting to Shell Games, how poachers are taking so many geoduck clams from the Washington area that it will wipe them out in Puget Sound. This, too, makes me angry to see this resources decimated like this.

We have finished the first editing of Redemption, the long epic poem written by the late Raymond Geraths. We will edit a few more times before putting it on the Kindle page. Right now it is 44 pages all typed out. It will come a few pages less than that once I take away the paragraph numbers off of each stanza.

His three epic poems are handwritten, in a style that is hard to read at times. I typed it up at the rate of five pages a day, taking me about 13 days to finish it.

He has two other epic poems, Creation and Sanctification. The latter poem is 92 pages long. I will not type that one out. Creation is about the same size as Redemption.

The coming weekend will be so nice. the nicest so far this spring.

Steven

Mid-week now...

Good morning:

This hole is for the older people reading this blog, like this writer. I am now 60 years old, but I feel no older than 40. A few years ago my cousin told me, as she was then 60, that 60 is the new 40.

I am now reading a book called Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty. It is about people who steal fish, clams and other stuff from nature to sell on the black market and to Asia. This book came from the Silver Falls library, part of the regional library we have here. My other two books here from the library also came from Silver Falls library.

This book is about Puget Sound but does have traffic coming to Oregon to sell their illegal catches.

There is a new book out now that I got on my Kindle. Phillip Pullman, the author of the Dark Materials trilogy, now has written a book called The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. I heard about it on NPR yesterday morning. Pullman is an atheist and got the idea for the book from the Archbishop of Canterbury.

This novel has two characters: Jesus and his twin Christ. Jesus is the carpenter turned preacher and Christ is in the background who writes about his brother, making up miracles and telling other lies about his brother. This is my kind of truth, even though this is a novel. I treat the bible as a novel too, nothing even close to the truth. Nice stories in the new testament, but none are true.

It is will be nice for the rest of this week. and it is about time we get some good days in a row.

Steve

A new week starts...

Hello:

Yet another surprise picture from Bill's collection.

Close to being finished with Too Big to Fail. It is 526 pages long, a bigger book than I usually read, but it is such a good book.

My next book is China's First Emperor and His Terra Cotta Warriors. Like I told you before , I enjoy reading about China and its history, both old history and new history. The terra cotta warriors are near Xi'an. I visited them and took many pictures with my new camera then. But unfortunately I did not know how to transfer pictures to my computer so I deleted them from the disk once I thought I transferred them to the computer, but then found out they did not transfer correctly.

Once I go back to China I do plan on visiting the Xi'an to see the warriors again.

Steven

Sunday now...

Hi again:

This is another surprise picture; I wonder what happened to these people 3 seconds later.

I am listening to a new podcast I found, Kindle-women. Two ladies, one in Italy and other somewhere here, talk about the Kindle and every other podcast review a book. The next book is The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo. I checked the library but too many reservations for the book, but I found it on the Kindle site for $5.50. It is now on my Kindle.

I want to finish Too Big to Fail. Four hundred pages into it, Lehman Brothers has filed bankruptcy and AIG gets a huge goverment bailout. At least the government kicked out the management of AIG, the ones who created such a problem in that company. AIG, unlike Lehman Brothers, was deemed too big to fail in that it would impact all of the banks and securities dealers in New York. But I believe it should have failed like others. There should have been no bailouts at all, from Wall Street to the car companies.

What all of this shows is that government wants to save corporations and not people. No One Would Listen is another book on my list that talks about the losers of the Madeoff scandal. Again, those people got no relief but all of these corporations get relief, as they are too big to fail.

Just think what would happen if every person in the United States got $75,000 to $100,000 each. What that would do to spur the economy. Instead these corporations get the money and we did not.

End of this rant.

How is your weekend going?

Steve

Weekend is here...

Hello again:

This is another surprise picture. Indeed a surprise....

It is not raining yet, so I will be heading out soon on my bike.

I spent last night reading Too Big to Fail. It is such a good book, a detailed look at Lehman Brothers, AIG, and all of the other bailout recipients.

I am at the place in the book where Lehman Brothers must file bankruptcy and then disappear.

Have some fun this weekend.

Steven