Fortune Cookie spoke true.

No it didn't bother to say that I can't spell. That would be to mundane to warent this late night post. After all there are a lot of barb camps to be hit. When your troops has your food down to -1mil an hour it takes a lot of barbing to keep ahead of them. And I missed my morning session so was under a days food, and feel better when i have two days lee way.
And no it did not say I am way to attached to a silly computer game. after all it is just a bunch of 1 and 0. Again that would be to mundane to warnt this post. after all this is eat my barb time. Yes it might just be 1 and 0 but it is fun. even when my city gets sacked for no reason. (Yes it is a war came but we were not in a war just then so there was no reason for him to hit me 14 times. 1 or 2, but not 14.) Yes I know I am silly, but silly is fun.
Where was I? Oh yes the fortune cookie!
What It said was READ TO LIVE! Dose it get any better than that? I mean I have been a book worm since I was in the fourth grade, or was it the third? Years beyond count anyway. For that long books have spoken to my soal. Taken me places I would have no hope of going with out them. be it an untouched forest, a plague ridden city, the building of a cathedral that was completed long ago, or a battle in some war that never was, or that has long been added to history books. They have taken me to place so old that they live only in stories and fragments. Books let you see what might have been, what could be, and what was. With out books we would know so little of the world, and it if us. What a sad place the wold would be with out stories to show us the worlds that are beyond our powers to see.
Yes I know there is life outside of books to. Life I to often underrate, devalue. For it is from that life that the books come. Well in part. Books whether true or false are drawn from a mix of the stories and history all ready out there and the world that is lived in when they are written.
I know scolory books are supposed to be above influence. The whole pure history movement and all that. Sorry but it just is not possible. the person who writs, wrote, will write, them lives in a society that has certain ways of looking at the world. certain thing it views as right and certain things it views as wrong. Things that change over time, sometimes dramatically from one generation to next, sometimes slowly. But change they do. And as a part of that society, having been raised and educability in it shades how you see the wold. it can't be helped. It is there, often you are not even aware of it. but it IS there. and that shade will affect what you do. The way you tell the story. The way you look for truth, and in some ways the truth you find. had make no mistake you are telling a story, even if you are describing the way a cell reacts to a drug, you are telling a story. Even if you are solve a math problem, or coming up with a new answer for a physic. You are telling a story. And that will be shaded by what you all ready know, by what you have been taught. As for history. Well the winners right the books but there are two sides in every fight.
Oh I know there are those who have broken the laws of soiscity to tell a truth, and have paid for it. But they saw it inspite of the shade and no doubt the shade colerd how it was presented.
but that is more than enough of my pompous and silly ideas. For some reason Palto is ruining though my head with his "No man is wiser than he who knows he knows nothing"or something like that. but that is a even more selfish thing then my earlier writings, So I don't know where it came from, and should delete it. But that would not fit the spirit. So it will remain.
Talk about topic drift! this post has it in buckets. Sorry for that, but what can i say?
I had no idea where this was going to end up. I just meant to say that i was being told i was not reading enough lately, but went everywhere but there. Oh well. I will blame the time. (Oh and I am back to 36mil of food in my silly game. don't think I will hit much more before bed.)

Good night and good dreams imaginary reader.
May you have found something to think about somewhere in that jumble.

nothing but a post.

Well I am recovering from yesterdays trip to town. It was dun and I did find a few books but next year I am going to wait tell the seconded day to go. there were just to many people to be able to look. was there an hour and know I missed a lot because it was just imposable to really look. Live and learn. now i know it is not worth it. Still draind from all the shoping. we were gone all day and still forgot something i am sure. but it is nice to sepend a day away now and then even if it is tireing.

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I recently finished anther book, "The Dragon Book". This is a book of short stories. All have a dragon in them but not all dragons are what you would expect. It is surprising all the forms dragons can take. I am used to shape shifters, but this book was my first encounter with ice dragons. That is ones that breath ice. I had encountered dragons that lived in ice but not that breathed. There were tails of the past, of now and of other lands. There were dragons that were evil, that were good and some that just were. There is a tale of an author being hunted by an abandoned story. One that worry of what has been forgot. Dragons that were mountains, dragons that lived in the water. dragons that were loved and ones the were hated. Such images. It is surprising the place the mind can go.
I had been planing to go to anther book of short stories but this book made me want more shape shifting dragons. So I changed my plans a bit. funny how that works. Nice to have choices. As difficult as they can be at times. Well I truly don't know what to say so this will just be a short post.
Soon things will be green. that will be good.

good night and good dreams,
imaginary readers.

A ramble about ideas.

I had something I was going to say, but one thing and anther and it never got written. And so got turned to dust with the rest that never make it out of me head. So many ideas laying in wait of there resurrection. One can only hope that they come back stronger the next time and get writing down. I wonder just where ideas come from? How the get into the heads of those that share the? Be they inventions, stories or discoveries, it all has to start someplace. There are some that think they have an easy answer to this question, but do they? Is the answer an answer at all.
There are two answers that I can think of just now. But I find each a bit lacking, but then perhaps that is how it should be. After all it is not for us to have all the answers is it?
Oh what are the answers you ask? (that would be the voice in my head of course.)
Well the first is that the ideas come from without. that is divine inspiration or guidance. Now this is what fells right to me. but there are still questions that I can not answer. Like how they get from the source to me? Or why not all make it into life? Why they fail? Some of this could be answered by the fact that it is human error. That is we lack the tools to use the idea right, that we are to week. We need to grow more before we can use the idea right. that can be supported by history. If you look you can see times where a new idea has been put forth and dismissed only to be adopted latter. (Now if this was for something other than a ramble I would need a example here. Say some stuff on Galileo, the movement of the planets guy. You know how he knew the earth was not the center but his pers were not ready to here him. but as it is a ramble I am not going to bother.) That brings up more questions. Why was the Idea offered before the people was ready? Why weren't they just made ready? Witch can then lead us to the whole free will vs pre-destination argument. And I am not going there today. So lets just say there are questions to which I have no satisfactory answers. Which goes with out saying I have yet to see one I can not find questions with. But such is life. We need questions so we will seek answers and learn more.
Which brings us to the second answer. That it is human intelligence and curiosity. (there was anther wording but I am to lazy to go hunt a dictionary just now.) Then the question is where do those things come from? Well they come from the fact that man looked at the world around him and felt compelled to make since of it. So began to do so by looking for answers. I imagine that it started with things like why it rained, why this plant grew there and not there. then it went to why they were and why the world was. From there we get the various myths of how the world came to be. (Now a bit a definition here. By myth I do not mean something that is necessary false. I mean something that cannot be proven true or false. So all creation thoughts, including evolution are included in this.) As time went on and more was learn this explanation grew more complex as the questions grew in scope. So that makes since. But why were the questions asked? Why could things not just be accepted? And why can a leaf lead to a story about hidden messages, or a odd shadow to a ghost story? Where dose creativity fit? My response would be from the Divine. but that just gets us back to the first answer. So that is not what I want here.
Back up then. Where does it come from? From man his self. That is what the answer said after all. But why is it there? Because that is how man is. (this is hard to right avoiding made or created. But that is because it is how I am. lol) How did man become that way? Because he is. Sorry but that dose not work. The answer can't be the question for that is no answer. but It is what we are left with. I just cant seem to get past the fact that there must have been something to start it. Yet why did it have to? Why this insistence that everything has a start and an end?

Well I should stop but I fear that there will be more in this vain to come. After all I feel the need to explain why I stuck to using the Divine rather then the more tradition God. and that will lead me back to the original idea. that all tradions share. but that is for latter as I should be getting out of here.

So with that I will say.

GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD DREAMS.
IMAGINARY READER.
I tried it with out the imaginary and it just did not fell right. Yes I know you are real, but some things are just a habit. Nothing is ment by it, it is just how I like to close. Silly as it is since I know you read this. And like last time go get something for that head ach. I think it has been far to long since I have had to right a phil. paper. The ideas are attacking me.

books. longish, and confusing.

Well got that book done, but it took some time. I am glad I read it, but well it will take some time. It was so hard to get into. It was hard to relate to characters who took it for granted that others could and did own a part of them. Let me explain a bit more. The main in this book is a man who had himself frozen sometime around now. it dose not give a date. But it feels like it would be around now. Anyway he is a billionaire type and depend a bundle developing then hiding a self powering cryogenic unit. Then bought a played out mine and used it as his death/ freeze site. Years latter he is found and woken up. Soisity has suffered what sounds like a complete economic collapse brought about by V. R. and a few wars, some involving small nukes. And recovered from it in a odd way. People are broking in to stocks at birth, so many thousands of shares, I don't remember how many. Anyway right away the government gets 5% of them. It can not, by law, take more or less. Parents get 20% then the rest gets sold to pay for education and stuff, unless you are wealthy. Up to a certain %, which at the time of the book is at 25%. If you do not have 70% you are pretty much controlled by your share holders. though the more you own of you them more say you have.
In many cases that was a majority of them. The large number of there sosity spent most of there life just trying to get a marjorty in them selves and even if they got it there was no garinty that they would not lose it. They could be forced to sell it for economic reasons, or sued for it in courts. And they just accepted it, by in large. They thought it was the right way to do things that there civilization was better than any that had come before. Now given there was no homeless, and it looks like everyone had good medcale care. So it that way it was better. But to acepect being owned! It was a strange book. I am sure there is more to it than what I got from it. It is just that type of book.
After that I had a nice light read though a different time tripping book, Found. Hard to explain with out given some away. Some guys from the furtcher take kids from the past to there time to be adopted, turning them, the kids, into baby as they go back. One of there shipments gets lost in our time and can not be found for thirteen years. So those babys grow up knowing nothing tell one day things start coming out. It was defiantly writing for younger kids, and not as good as some of the writers other books. But I will be reading the next once it hits pb.
Up next is Gone., A book in which all adults vanish. It sounds like it will be good, and it is a new to me write. Anther plus. but I also get a kick out of the names. they are each first books of a set. Not that that matters.
Well I have blathered on long enough to have driven anyone insane. Not that it borths me. What was I. Oh thats right. Back to the point. Man I really should edit this more. There I go again.
It is decidedly time I say
Good Night and Good Dreams,

Oh Imagainray reader.
Now go take something for that headache. you need something if you read all this.

books and such randomness.

Updated the other site so thought I should this one as I had been neglecting it as well. Not that there is anything to say, but then that is what makes it fun. Random thoughts being easier to write. Not easier to read perhaps. But so what?
I have to say it is good that there is a spell check or it would be even hard to read. as I said in a comment I can not spell to save me. Then anther guy just had to point out the things I and spell check did not catch. Oh well that just proved my point. lol (should looking into copying smiles some day.) sorry. now back to what I was saying.
What was it? Oh yes.
Well Stirling proved to be as good as I hoped. Rudie is making his way east. they have managed by the end to get to Iowa where the part once again gets split. I like that as technology fails magic is becoming more real. Though I was shocked a bit when the virgin Mary appeared to the priest. The pagan gods and goddess I could understand. After they only appeared at the ceremonies, where proper rites had been made. Or aspect on the battle filled where called, though that is more position then a true vision. And a lot would in other places be called battle fever. Though to quote a char from the book. "Just because you can explain it does not mean it is not magic."
In fairness the priest had been fasting for three days, or so we are told, then hikes up a snow covered mountain to pray. So I guess that ceremony was done there to. It is just more surprising as it is a fermiler tradition. And that we had not seen it getting so personal before. but then with the mains being Wiccan, the other is not seen as much. Anyway I am impatiently waiting for the next to hit pb.So I can see how they get out of jam and meet back up this time. I think it is one of the six or so that will come out in May. So many books and no time.
The one now started looks to be good but it is taking time to get going. likely do to the fact that I keep doing other things. It is takes some adjusting to accept that people take it for granted that others can and do own shares of them. That others can control them by have a Moriarty of there stock. Strange, but then most books I read are. Some just further out there than others. the thing is you are just plunged in with no explanation. but that is how it should be as there is no one in the story yet who needs an explanation so such would be out of place.
ok well that was that. likely I will never think to say more about the book.
well I am running out of time, as the kids will be wanting this computer in a bit and there are other things half done. Oh theses games, how they eat time, but how fun it is to see a city and army take shape as you create.
Oh right I should say something about witting. Well I am not writing every day, but on days when I do I come out around 600 a day so I think it will work out ok. only I need to do more if I am going to get any editing, beyond basic spelling, done by May. Witch I kind of am hoping to.
Ok that said.
GOOD NIGHT IMAGINARY, and not so imaginary, READER. hope you survived should you have tried to read this.

Last of '09

Just thought i would do one last post this year. Not there is anything to say, but then there never is. life is life. there is nothing outstanding to report, but nothing devastating either. So all is well, or at lest more well than wrong. I had hoped to have Dragon's Heir (how dose one underline? titles should be. but as I do not know how stupid italics will have to do.) done to night, but that is not to be. So Stirling must wait anther day to be opened. So many books calling and so little time.
And as I have signed up for write year I have even less time. there is just to much to do. I need to get on the ball and figure out how to fit it in. but in an odd way I need more to do before I am motivated enough to do that. I might be crazy for signing up like I did, but I think the goal I chose is reasonable enough. After all I did 60k + for nano, and that was just one month. So I should be able to hit 100k in 12. Right?
True I have a bad habit of only writing that one month. But before I signed up for nano I had not written 50k. In fact at that point very little was making it out of my head. This will give a chance for more of the stories to breath a bit. So in that since it is a good thing.
But where will I find the time? between the games I have going and the e-pets I tend I am on the computer to much as it is. The logical thing would be to give some of it up. But I can't. I just have to see things though. I tried this November. But it didn't work. I gave up one game, just to start in a different world. However I can tend the pets and one e-mail act. in 30 minuets then write for the next hour or two. That will still leave me time to read before dinner. then tend the others at night, before bed. Witch is what I should do anyway. granted it makes it riskier. but then there are a lot that only get on every other day, so once a day isn't so bad. and if so then perhaps I would be best in anther realm of that game I am not that suited for wars. Yes that is vague, but it must be. there is privacy issues with those thoughts. Yes it is only a game, but still. It is.
Man I am crazy. But at lest it is fun.
that said I think it is time I say good night. This is to fun. Just writing what ever I think.
Lord I wounder if anyone ever tryes to read this.
That said good night and good dreams.
Talk to you next year.
Dear imaginary reader.
RMZ. (AKA BLP)