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Odd Girl Out by Timothy Zahn

This series started with Night Train to Rigel and I've enjoyed all of the entries so far. This one started with our hero, Frank Compton, being greeted in his own apartment by a girl aiming one of his own guns at him. She wants his help but she's going about it all wrong. He's tired from a long journey and just wants to sleep. He throws her out and is awakened four hours later by the police because she's been killed with his gun. When he's bailed out, he's back in the race against the group mind known as the Modhri along with his sometime partner McMicking and Frank's gal pal Bayta. It's a long rail trip against the bad guys and it ends up pretty obvious that there's another book on the way.

Six Geese A-Slaying by Donna Andrews

Oh, how I love Donna Andrews mysteries. This one came at the right time and hit just the right note with me. A Holiday Parade - PC - no Christmas Parade, this Parade will include the Twelve Days of Christmas, A Christmas Carol, elephants for the Dwali aspect and camels for the Three Wise men. Meg Langslow has agreed to organize the annual parade to help her husband. His chairman of his college tenure committee was the person asking and Meg couldn't say no. The parade starts at her home and goes to the campus where Santa will distribute gifts to the children. Trouble is, Santa is killed and it looks as if one of the Six Geese was the one who did the deed. Meg has to save the parade, protect the children, find a new Santa and find the killer - all of this with a major snow storm and power outage.

Some geeky things

I have several sites that I visit periodically and today I discovered that one of them had a link to this site: http://crazeegeekchick.com/blog/25-must-have-thumb-drive-apps-for-geeks/ Who'd have thought that I'd ever find this interesting? Then I found this site mentioned at the above site: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/9771/ - a watch that doubles as a thumb drive! How James Bond is that?
The more I wander around the web the more amazed I become.

A Question of Death by Kerry Greenwood

I hope Kerry Greenwood just keeps writing and writing. I love both of her mystery series and when I've finished reading one of them, I want to listen to the cd. These are the best way to be calm on my drive to and from work. The readers are fantastic. Just the right voices for each character.
Phryne Fisher is a very hip, independent 1920s woman. She grew up poor, her father inherited a British title and money so that Phyrne attended good schools. She was an ambulance driver for the French forces during the Great War and traveled to Australia to investigate a young woman's husband for a friend of her father's, liked it there and stayed. She wrangled a very lovely Hispano-Suiza from the mechanic who had restored it - money does talk. She's adopted two daughters, has a cook and a butler, adopted a stray kitten and a stray dog.
This book is short stories which I generally don't care for but I loved these. They were just the right length for my time inhaling on my nebulizer.
More Kerry, please.

Thing 23

It's hard to believe that I've made it through this process and lived to tell about it! More than that - I enjoyed several of the exercises. The Generator was fun but I don't know that there is any serious application for this for me. Thanks to Jason Kaspar, I was already using Delicious but I've found more items to add to it. I think the Google Docs is a great, free tool and it could be very useful for the public. Wish I'd know about it when people wanted Word before we added Office to all of our computers.
I was pretty adament in my thinking that I did not want a blog because I didn't want that much about me floating out there in the ether. Silly me, I enjoy my blog. I can add my pictures - thanks to Flickr, add my book reviews and keep up with the world.
As to my lifelong learning - I really am interested in the podcasts and the Youtube videos. I've investigated nearly all of the fellow Geeks blogs and am amazed by what everyone has accomplished. Jason is so erudite, Mary takes fantastic pictures, Mikki is very computer knowledgeable, April - both of them - love their gardens and books, Lori's boys keep her going, Manya and Amy are old pros at this and I wish I could identify several of the others. I faced this assignment with dread and left very happy with what I've learned and accomplished.