I am so proud!!

I am at our desktop surfin the net and I can hear my oldest playing music. I just heard Foreigner's "Feels like the First Time". Now I am listening to Def Leppard's "Pyromania". I am so proud. I have raised my kids right! I am always so sad when my kids have friends over and I find out they have never heard of Journey, Styx, or The Scorpions.

Come on parents, it is your duty to pass on the classics. Shame on you.

OMG!! Loverboy is on now. ***tears of happiness***

Communion

We haven't been to church in a long while. Long story, kinda was let down by our previous church, I took it hard and haven't been back. So we went today and they were having communion. While we were sitting there waiting for the "Body" and the "Blood", my oldest turned to me and said:
"Do you have some aspirins I can take with communion?"

It is kosher to wash down aspirin with the "blood of Christ?" I can't take my kids anywhere.

Daemon

What can I say about Daniel Suarez's Daemon. It is a book about war on a completely different level.

Matthew Sobel, the head of CyberStorm entertainment, is the developer of many on-line computer games. The games are warlike, one of which gamers work together to defeat the German army in WWII settings. Sobel has died from a brain tumor, yet hid a daemon (a computer program that runs in the background) to take over the world. The Daemon is autonomous and enlists the help of people who essentially sell their soul to obtain their dreams. One person is a reporter who desperately wants to be one of the top investigative reporters. The Daemon contacts her and uses her to achieve its goal. The Daemon also reaches out to a gamer and a prisoner and uses them to kill people who get in the way. As it takes over businesses the weapons and technology used to take over becomes more and more complex, as gamers walk around with glasses that allow them to see the 3D world in real time and space.

Sounds a little far fetched but not that far off. Certainly plausible that the next war could be fought over the internet, hacking in and taking over. Money makes the world go round and what people will go to, will sometimes make us wonder how trusting we should be of big business.

Some of the scenes in the book were disturbing to say the least. Also, not being tech savvy, some was over my head. It was entertaining though and made me think about how computers can expand and be used to take over. How do we regulate the internet to make sure things do not go to that extreme. The book follows several different story lines and brings us to a climax at the end that is not resolved. Promises of a sequel??? I certainly hope so. I was really upset when I got to the end though. It didn't just leave me thinking "what now?" it let me thinking, "WHAT?!?!" It just stopped, mid-story. So much happened in the book, I wonder if and when the sequel comes out if I will have to go back and reread this one. Far warning would have been nice. It kinda of leaves me perplexed. While it was a thrilling and relatively new ride, how can you end it with not one thing resolved?

I give this a 3 1/2 out of 5, mainly because of the ending.

Baron Thinks Dogs are People Too

I just read the children's book Baron Thinks Dogs are People Too by Laurie Dean. Its about a dog Baron and how he is looking for a best friend. He lives with a family that has a little boy and girl. The boy and girl play with Baron outside and Baron runs for the street. They take him to obedience school. Then the father is called to duty. Then Baron is outside watching the kids playing in the snow. He wishes he has a friend until his little boy is by himself. Baron runs up to him and pulls him on the sled and plays with him. Then Baron has a best friend.

My issue is if the boy was there all along, why weren't they best friends already? Why, out of no where, was the dad called to military service then nothing was said about it? Did he come back? I think there was an issue of coherence and fluidity with this book. The illustrations by Kevin Collier were wonderful but the story was confusing.

Perhaps I am thinking too much for a children's book. If you check on Amazon this book received all 4's and 5's with one 3 star. I just think even though it's a children's book there should be a clear story line that makes sense. This one just didn't deliver for me.

I'd have to give this book a 1 out of 5.