Happenings

July 4th :: Monday, July 7th 2008
We had a good weekend in san fran for the 4th. check out the pics, not to exciting

mandy

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What a night! :: Tuesday, July 1st 2008
I just cooked enough meals for the next twenty days. It only took me 1 and a half hours too! Granted it was only 8 seperate cuisines, but it will make for 20 meals. It was fun. Nothing got burned either:) Just wanted to let you know I am now putting vegas pics up. Troy is at a movie with co-workers

mandy

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Why I can't see the sun :: Monday, June 30th 2008
Here is a link to see the current wildfires over the north half of California. It's using daily updated NASA satellite photos.

Flash Earth

Troy

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Quick Notes :: Thursday, June 19th 2008

My Ten-Year Reunion is finally scheduled... and I can't make it
Heading to Vegas today, have to work from the hotel room tomorrow
Don Quixote, good book... ridiculously long :)... only 875 more pages to go
Coffee tastes awesome

Troy

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A Farewell to Arms :: Monday, June 16th 2008
So, I decided since I read a lot... I might as well write about them. Don't think for a second that these will be good, well thought out reviews though :).

Yesterday night I finished "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway.

Quick Overview

This is a love story of an American Lieutenant ambulance driver in the Italian army and a British nurse who he meets in a small village in Europe.

My Thoughts

All in all, this was a good book. Worthwhile read for everyone over 15 years old. It was a quick and easy read, being only about 250 pages and an intriguing subject matter (WWI).

Parts were exciting (for example: the Italian retreat and the main characters necessary defection from the army). While other parts were hard to read (for example: the dialogue between the Catherine, the nurse, and Frederic, the Lieutenant, could get a bit annoying... it was constant teenagers in love talk).

The secondary characters, in my opinion, could have been developed a bit more... I really liked the priest and Rinaldi and would have liked to have seen more of them.

The ending (I won't give it away) was one of those "punchy ones" (think any novel by Steinbeck) where the reader is supposed to be shook up a bit in the emotion department. But, I personally saw it coming and wasn't affected at all. Steinbeck was a master at this (everyone HAS to read "Of Mice and Men". It's only 110 pages, you have no excuse). Maybe I'm being too hard on the ending... it was late when I finally finished it.

All in all: 7.5 / 10.

Troy

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