'Salem's Lot

Written in a similar style to The Stand, but not as good. It was a story about a young man moving to a small town to write a book for about 3/4 of its length. The last quarter was a non-scary but oddly religious and violent vampire story. After this book, The Gunslinger and Cell, I'm losing faith in Mr. King.

Learning

In line at Safeway last night I had a break through. Some old lady interrupted Tracy's and my conversation to tell us about how she had deleted files from her computer. I think we were talking about cell phones and she assumed it was a natural segway. I had opened my mouth to ask her from what program she had deleted the files, and if she had tried a system restore or checked in her recycle bin yet.
And I stopped.
If I let her know I knew anything about computers chances were we would not make it back in time for House ( we just love that show). I had a sudden flash of us in her nick-knack crammed house trying to recover lost vacation photos of Branson Missouri. It would smell, and their would be cat hair. Instead I replied "o thats too bad, computers are just tempermental mysteries aren't they?" and I busied myself with my wallet as not to make eye contact.

first day

Haiku:

Where do the nodes creep
to planes and servers unknown
please don't die out there