I like wine, but....

I can never imagine having enough money to be able to say that I can bring myself to pay in the $100,000 range for a bottle of wine. Granted, I don't have a lot of money, but I felt guilty once for paying $100 for a bottle.

This book gives a peek into a world that I can never imagine. A world where people think nothing of dropping thousands for a bottle that they believe to belong to Thomas Jefferson. Key word, believe. I read the book in a weekend without wanting to read anything else about it. After reading, I read that movie rights have been bought and have seen the pictures of the players involved. They were almost as imagined. I can almost see Tom Hanks playing an investigator in the movie version, finding out the truth.

This book also educated me about wine as well.

Reading is Fundamental

I was in Hastings a few days ago looking for a Hard copy of a book that I purchased on my Amazon Kindle. Funny enough with this situation it is a diet book and I wanted to look at it on my Kindle before committing. Also, when I try a diet, I am always making copies out of the book to take everywhere with me anyway (grocery store, etc).

After looking at it, I decided I wanted the hard copy of the Ultimate Tea Diet. When I went to Hastings I couldn't find it and needed some help. We were looking for the book, and I told the guy, "this book seems to be eluding me today." He said "Wow, you must be a reader all right." I was dumbfounded. Is that really that big of a word?

Since using my Kindle I have been using better vocabulary. I can't always spell it, but I am working on that too. At work in the past, I would use "big" words and would be made fun of by fellow workers, "Hey lets get out the dictionary around her." In order to try to fit in, I just stopped using large words. Since some of it is coming back (if you don't use it, you lose it), I'm not going to be goaded into dropping it. They'll just have to crack open a dictionary.

Now if I'm speaking around some other people I know, I still don't sound very intelligent because they are writers, English majors, etc. I'm just a little Math major. But hey, at least I'm trying man!!

Got One Book Down Today with My Kindle

Thanks to My Beloved Kindle (love it, love it, love it), I am reading voraciously. It just seems like I am able to read easier because I can read anywhere, anytime, etc. Plus, my books are cheaper and I get them immediately. My books are not cumbersome and heavy. If I get tired of one book, I switch to a different book. Then when I am done with a book, I can save it to an SD card and save it that way. If I am reading a book and don't understand a word, I scroll to the word and hit look up and it looks it up (cool). I can highlight passages, bookmark, etc. I just plain love it. Oh did I already say that. :-)

So today, I finished off, "The Reader." It's pretty short. It has a lot of disturbing subjects in it, the Holocost, statutory rape of boy (he may be 15, but she was 38), and the after affects of that relationship on a boy. A lot people would say, "That's every boy's fantasy to have a relationship with an older woman when he is under 18", but I beg to differ and it will ultimately be a disaster and this book shows how in part III a little. Now that I am done reading the book, a lot of the it can be taken as allegory, for Nazis and the German people and their seduction by the Nazis and the after effects. That's a little deep for me, but I can see some of that when I think hard enough (some smoke comes out the ears, but I can do it)

As I read the book, I thought about two people I knew in high school. Unfortunately I am horrible with names, but one was a German exchange student who was in my math class and the other was my German teacher/math teacher one year in high school.

The German exchange student was amazed about the things she was learning about World War II history because she said that it was not taught at all in her country which I found shocking. This was in 1988. She said that World War II is just completely glossed over and not talked about in school. Now, remember this is before reunification started in 1989, so I don't know if that changed now.

The other was my German Teacher. He didn't mind talking about the war, but he wanted to talk about how the American's bombed his home town when he was a baby and that we committed war crimes and should have been brought to Nuremburg (sp) too. Now this is German class. I remember his yelling, "We didn't have any factories near my home town!" and one of my class mates yelled back, "How do you know if you were a baby?" As we all know, you can't believe everything that you are told from the authorities. This guy was just full of anger too, because I believe he got in trouble for hitting a student in math class. He said that is how things are done in Germany, but he was still reprimanded.

Snow (Ice) Day!

Well, No Work for me today. 'Round these parts, nobody knows how to drive with ice on the road, especially since we do not salt the roads. It is also illegal to have chains on your tires. Granted, this doesn't happen very much, so we usually just start late, but it is so bad today that they just shut down my workplace and said don't even come in. So I got a sort of Snow Day. If it was a real Snow Day, I'd go play in it, but I don't intend to play in ice.

My car doesn't drive well on ice (Camaro Z-28). One year I didn't get the word in time of a shut down and tried to drive in it. Not good.

Plan for today--Stay warm and read. Howwahh

"Let's Don't Worry"

A viral Video that I really enjoyed from the award winning documentary, ""Playing For Change: Peace Through Music". There is also a website for this:
playingforchange.com

Barack, Inc.

I just finished an awesome book, Barack, Inc by Barry Libert and Rick Faulk. It goes over President Obama campaign and looks at it from a business perspective. The book points out how in the 21st century, Candidate Obama was doing everything right to make it to the White House and if he had been in a fortune 500 Business, they definitely wouldn't be needing a bailout right now.

Since I have recently come off of being in a position of authority, I can understand these kind of books a lot better and certainly enjoy them. My boyfriend has his own business and I have read quite a few things in this book that can be essential to help him that he can use.

So if you interested in business, read this book which emphasizes three things that Candidate Obama did to become President Obama:

• Be Cool.

• Be Social.

• Be the Change.

The authors also have a website.

http://barackinc.com/

So be cool.

Hooray