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Novels/Novellas - 13 ↑
Short Stories - 0 ↓
Manga/Graphic Novels - 0 -
Comics - 1 -
Average Rating - 3.32 ↑
Pages - 2667 ↑
Words - 934K ↑
The Bad:
Grunge - 2stars of REALLY bad theology
The Hero and the Crown - 2stars of teen girl cringiness
The Good:
The Doorbell Rang - 4stars of Nero Wolfe, fightin' da mahn!
Drumindor - 4stars of returning to a beloved franchise
Movie:
Apocalypse, the second in the Resident Evil movie franchise, was fun. I like these movies :-)
Miscellaneous Posts:
- Sun Lamp Review
- Land Tax - MTG 4E
- Daylight Saving: The Vanishing Hour
- Leviathan - MTG 4E
- Imperatoris Chronicorum I
- Ley Druid - MTG 4E
- [Art] Maiden of Spring 2026
- Library of Leng - MTG 4E
- Who Bookstooge Is, According to AI
- Lifeforce - MTG 4E
Personal:
We have a saying here in New England: "In Like a Lion, Out like a Lamb". This is in reference to March's weather. You can also reverse it. So if March starts off, say, by dumping almost 2feet of snow on you and then continues to snow every week, well, that's coming in like a lion. It means we're supposed to get gradually better and ease into April with warmer temps and smaller amounts of moisture. Ha! Ha I say. March came roaring in like a lion and dragged our carcass all over the place the entire month and then we got ticks from that lion when he left. Boooooo!
Work has changed a bit. We had one of the crew chiefs (we have 3 crews, each consisting of 2 men) leave end of February, beginning of March and one of the other instrument operators (not a crew chief) left last Friday. So we are down to 2 crews, just as the spring is coming and our busy season is starting to ramp up. Not that we haven't been busy before, mind you. There is a lot of work and we don't have the manpower to handle it. I'm glad I don't have to deal with that problem in the office.
The medication that Mrs B has been taking for close to 15 years now for her crohns disease is no longer effective so her GI dr (gastroenterologist) is trying to switch her to something else. We'll see how that shakes out with insurance. It'll be the same battle as her old medication but on a new hill, sigh. I'm also dealing with my own insulin changes but without the help of a Endocrinologist, just my family practice doctor. It is just going from name brand to generic, so it's more about the doctors office filling out the prescription correctly so the insurance accepts it. Let me digress for a second...
(Health Insurance is the worst thing to happen to our medical system here in the US, ever. There have been times that I have wanted to off every single Health Insurance CEO and their entire board of directors. They will burn for their crimes in the afterlife, for sure!)
Mrs B and I were introduced to the card game Munchkins last year and for Christmas we got 7 of the expansions to the game. We've been playing a game a couple of times a month and it's been fun. It is a simple game but with just enough complexity to keep me interested while not being so complex that Mrs B throws up her hands in despair (like Magic the Gathering). I like it enough that I'm even considering getting the Munchkins: Warhammer 40,000 version :-D That would all depend on whether Mrs B will play that or not.
Finally, since I changed the boring "My Week" posts to the sizzling and exciting "Imperatoris Chronicorum", I decided to latinize these Monthly Roundup & Rambling posts as well, because nothing says sizzling and exciting like a re-branding of the same exact product ;-)
Ave, Caesar Bookstooge, morituri te salutant!
Cover Love:
Nothing was good enough to take the effort to put a full size picture in my dropbox account, create and edit the dropbox link so that WP will accept it and then put it here. Sometimes it is worth it and sometimes not. This was a "Not" month.
Plans for Next Month:
RE: Extinction will be reviewed next week.
Magic cards every Monday! Whooowheee ;-)
Exactly the same as this month. I'm still fighting the (losing) battle to keep Wednesdays free but I'm not giving in completely.
FREEEEEEEDOM!!! (to not blog if I don't want to)
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