Stardate 070904.8

Captain's Log:

Sorry, but no day eight today. Maybe tomorrow. I do have other news though...

Latest weird news: A Rhode Island man was charged with kidnapping and demanding $20,000 ransom from his mother for her cat. Wow…what an idiot.

Yesterday was Labor Day, and as usual the government took the day off. This was nice. I slept in and then rode my bike to my parent’s house so that I could spend the day there with Luke before he left for college. Mostly I just sat in a chair and read, because he was packing for the next three months. For dinner we all went to Longhorn Steakhouse, which was quite good. Luke and my dad left this morning to travel up to Pensacola.

I did not ride my bike home in the night, but drove the Cavalier. I avoided a ticket, but risked my life nearly as much driving that car. It is making some funny noises, which sound dangerous.

I have been using my Zune for nearly a week now, and I have come up with many new ideas that Microsoft can implement to improve the software of their product. I am going to email them near the end of this week once I get all of my ideas down in writing. Maybe they can write the code for these changes fast enough so that they come out with the 1.5 version of the firmware. One can only hope…

I picked up the new Shannara book from the library today, and I am going to be reading that heavily over the next few days. I have not finished The Children of Hurin yet, but it is very good. The next book in the Saxon series is being published in January in the US; however, it came out this week in the UK, so I ordered it from amazon.uk and I will be getting it by the end of the week. Yet another book to read. John Grisham's new book is the last one in September that I want, and then there is only one more this year, I think, that I am going to get. Orson Scott Card is publishing his new book at the end of October.

Done for tonight…Boom!

Lorimer