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January 3 2007 Wednesday
Topic Started: Jan 3 2007, 08:29 AM (85 Views)
JohnMaier
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John -- Delhi NY Western.Catskill Mts.
'morning Folks,

There's about as much on the agenda today is there is news on Yahoo. Looks like the same ole thing over and over. Today should be business as usual after the holidays, snail mail with overdue applications for this year's mail order prescription drug plan. And lets not forget the property tax bill.

Youz guys have a nice day,

JM
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Good afternoon, all,

I go along with your assessment, John. Nothing going on here and not a whole lot of that!

It's 5 weeks until I get to pack up the telescope and trailer and head down to the Keys, but it's too early to start getting stuff together. Been reading a bit lately and just finished Jeff Shaara's "The Rising Tide" - a novel about the Allied invasion of North Africa. Not bad, but not as good as Rick Atkinson's history of the same invasion in his "An Army at Dawn." Atkinson's book is well worth the read.

Also reading William K. Klingaman's "The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman." It's an interesting approach to that era in that it covers Rome and China - parallels and divergences.

Just got back from the library where Bill Bryon's "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" was waiting for me. I've read his "A Walk in the Woods" and enjoyed it (even if the second half was a letdown from the great first half.) The reviews were pretty good.

Still kicking around my new computer purchase. It's time to buy one, but keep hoping the price of the Core 2 Duo chips would drop a bit. I keep pulling up the Dell web and looking at their XPS class systems. Right around $1400 will put me where I want to be with the 6400 Core 2 chip and the 20" wide screen monitor. Maybe they'll go on sale...

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JohnMaier
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I'm half way through Atkinson's "In the Company of Soldiers:...". His take on the beginning of the current war in Iraq when he was embedded with the hundred-and-first for the start of combat. No surprises, but it confirms what many believe about the planning and staging of the war, as well as the lack of understanding by the administration of the culture of the region.
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