Are you ready?

Tomorrow is the big day. Yes Christmas isn't for two days but tomorrow is Christmas Eve and its a Saturday. The celebrations start tomorrow and then a little more Sunday. Of course the old time Christmas and Saturnella (the original Roman party) lasted 12 days so like everything else we have taken something great and shortened and cheapened it to almost nothing like it was before.

Winter Solstice

For those of you who were too busy sleeping you just missed the Winter Solstice. This is of course the longest night of the year. From now on the nights will get shorter and the days longer.

Of course for those of us in the Wiccan community it is the Winter Festival time. The day which marks the half way point or the Lord's time. Fall is over and Winter is about to begin. Brace yourselves.

Getting close now

We are almost at Christmas. Personally I can't wait for it to be over. I go back to work in January and have my birthday and anniversary at the Fire Department and of course a new year to look forward to everything.

Christmas is nice but the pressure to get gifts and have big parties and the non-stop media focus on the holiday just burns me out long before it ever arrives.

Had your flu shot lately?

Been posting in a forum about how deadly flu is. Seems most people do not realize that the CDC lists flu as the #7 killer of Americans. Time to get out there and get yourself shot.

Book Review I

Finished reading a book about zombies last night. I know big surprise there. This one is one of those short story collections called Zombiesque containing 16 stories by different authors edited by Stephen L. Antczak, James C. Bassett and Martin H. Goldberg.

The fun part of this book is that all the main characters are Zombies. Now if you only know Zombies from George Romero (all Hail) and The Walking Dead and Return of the Living Dead you will find some of those Zombies here BUT remember people there are alot of Zombies out there and this book gives many a fine example of thinking Zombies like a Vodun Zombie, a Detective Zombie, a meatpacking Zombie a serial killer Zombie and some others.

I do not like to give an overall rating to a short story collection but here goes. On the 1 to 10 scale this one gets a 6. Some stories bored me and other were just a little too weird and one I did not even finish but the good ones brought it back up. So read this one and if a story doesn't grab you skip to the next one. You will find something you like.

Thought of the Day

The Christmas season is upon us once again. This is the time of merriment and joy and especially gift giving. Because without gift giving apparently the economy will get worse than it already is. So give people give or the Zombie Apocalypse will start.

New month and doing well writing at least at hour a day sometimes more. Need to work on work.