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So I got a new book, (matt you will like this) The Last of the Mohicans, and Tammy Smiths book, Soul Healing. Pretty excited for both of them. I think the other books I was reading are going to the book shelf for another time. I always feel guilty if I don’t finish a book, but this time I think I am going to have to get over it, other wise I will get readers block.

Also the Kite will be visiting me tomorrow for a week, so the plan is to explore the beer of colorado. I told him it was the Napa Valley of micro brews, I think I read it somewhere and it makes me sound like I know what I am talking about.

So I am back…now I have a couple days off…

I am really happy to be home after a long trip, to sleep in my own bed and be greeted at the door buy a wife and dog who missed me…well it doesn’t get better than that. Here are a couple of pictures from my time.

PS thanks for a you who read my blog, its nice to know you are keeping up on my exciting life.

PSS I finished survivor, and zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance and was really happy with both books, I am thinking about starting to read more modern books, with authors who are still alive.

I got a brake in trinidad, co

We got a day off from doing wildlife counts, we are in trinidad, CO for the next 6 days. Its a strange little town, but if feels nice not to be going to a different town tonight. So far I have stayed the night in, Colorado Springs, Limon, Burlington, and now Trinidad. I look at a map and I think I have traveled on almost 1/3 of Colorado. Which is pretty cool considering I have only lived here since July. I will try and upload a couple of photos from the past couple of weeks, but I am using the hotels computer so I am not sure if it will work.

Right now I miss my wife and dog, and coming home at night, but still feel lucky to have a job that I like and feel extra lucky I am happy with life right now. Since I have been out I have been reading a lot and finished one book so far, Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor and recommended book from Ben Genson. I am also reading Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance, And Demons, by Dostoevsky. So the reading is doing me good. I am good are you doing good? I miss you who read this. Ben and Shalom.

The fading independent book store

I just read a story that barnes and noble cannot afford rent in NYC, so they are closing one of there stores. That makes me think what do the small inde book stores have to look forward to. I guess they just could own a store that doesn’t take up 3 stories and cost 1.15 million a year.

I know all you Michigan people are about borrowing a book from the library, which is great for the environment and the wallet, but I love to own a new book and read it and dirty the pages, put a book plate in it, and know its mine. I am sure there is something wrong with that though.

gypsy house, turkish coffee house

I read about this place from the Mile High buzz blog and you cant find places like this in columbus. I order a turkish coffee, a turkish proverb says, “Coffee should be as black as hell, as strong as death, and as sweet as love.”

It is. I have been having headaches a lot in the last couple of weeks and I have concluded it comes from not enough caffine in my body. So I am doing it up today. I already had one cup of regular coffee at the house before I left. Then a Americano, now a turkish coffee. It kind of smells like Matè tea.

I will finish reading Through the looking glass here…maybe smoke a hookah.

Tim you should check this place out.

Reading more…

I have been reading this book about Sir Francis Beaufort, he was a man who loved to record his life, everything. He was a 18 century blogger. I decided to make an effort to write more, one of my life goals is to write a book, so I am going to carry a small note book around to make notes on everything.

The other great thing about this book it describes how people of that age had to work learn how to do everything, unless they were just going to scrape by in life. Its really inspiring to me to learn and expand my knowledge of life.

Ye Old Cup

Its been a long time since I have been at the Joe having some brew(coffee) and reading and enjoying. I feel euphoric, happy, and relaxed. Its the smell of fresh toasted bagels, espressos, the random strangers with the same caffeine agenda.

All things from the past couple years of my life pile up in a messy methodical pile around me. They might be material but they represent the blessings God has given me. My Powerbook represents the great job and understanding wife I have, My iPod is also a testament of my wifes love for me. My books and music are all gems the past artists leaving their mark on the world, which I have been lucky to discover.

sometimes I daydream…

I think up scenarios that would make me act in a way unnatural to me, and they keep me up all night.

I have been reading the alice in wonderland, acid trip book…Wow. Its one of those books you would tell someone, “yeah its good, but if you smoke some weed and put on The darkside of the moon album, it all makes sense.”

Here is a quote from Alice in Wonderland.

books

:::patriotism:::

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and supporting your government when it deserves it.”

- Mark Twain

I stole this from My friend seans blog, and he stole it from M. Twain

I got this really awsome new book from Rilke a joy to read, and I also feel like an animal is growing in my stomach and eating away the soft warm membrame bit by bit…my recourse is to drink gallons of milk because its seems to be the only thing to work. I already drank 1 1/2 bottles of pepto. I also went to the dentist for the first time in 6 years and only have 1 cavity and am contemplating when to get it taken care of. He want to put a crown in my stupid chipped tooth but I wont give him the pleasure to take away my manliness as I cry when the nurse buts a bib on me.

New books but nothing else new, just…books.

Well Matt and I hit the jackpot at Village bookshop in worthington, I picked up 3 books all pretty, pretty, pretty; good deals. I also got to watch a movie about the real cowboys of the west (the straight west), they take “free ones” when they can and kill anybody whores tell them to.

Toa of Pooh

Just finished the short book by Benjamin Hoff, if there is a book that can calm you down and inspire you to take things slow and enjoy simple things as good as this one I would like to read it. Not that this book is the most clever, or sophisticated book, but that is the point. It does not have to be sophisticated, taking a walk in the unkept woods, is not sophisticated or clever, but it could clear you mind of worry and calm you down enough to help you make out what is important. I am not an advocate of empting your mind, but of clearing it of all Humanly thoughts. Thoughts of philosophy, and critical thinking. Then maybe we start to think like God, who created trees that dont grow in a day, but take lazy years to develope into powerful creation able to weather fires, and droughts. Eat some honey. Drink green tea.