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I read it because it was there. My father left it lying around, and I had a couple hours to kill.

This would be a two thumbs down book if it was 600 pages. The ending-payoff is totally unsatisfying. However the book telegraphs that early, and it’s short. As such, the pathway to the end was worth itself.

Imagine you’re taking a road trip to someplace that looks good in the ad. But ten minutes into a two hour drive, your passenger looks the destination up and says it may be closed. You drive anyway, and the drive is pleasant: good conversation, nice sights, low traffic. You arrive at your destination to discover it’s been torn down and is now an empty lot.

So you drive back.

But it’s another pleasant drive back.

That’s The Colorado Kid. I enjoyed the drive.

I’m going to use that in a sentence. IDK how, and frankly, the prospect fleys me.

The US needs a shipping service that is reliable. They don’t need to be the cheapest or the fastest, but if they give a delivery date, they need to hit that date.

Fedex and the Post Office just can’t hit deadlines, even deadlines of their own choosing.

Maybe UPS is better.

I hate leaving fiction unfinished. It eats at me.

So the law of gravity isn’t a thing. Gravity works, and a human description of gravity exists. Humans made the description up. But humans didn’t make up gravity. Newton didn’t make it, nor did Aristotle, Galileo, or anyone else who studied it. Gravity is a phenomenon in and of itself.

Are there laws of human nature, human behavior, and human interaction? Are people as invariably subject to phenomena as mass attraction?

I lean toward yes.

Finally getting to see the family again. Following all the guidance and regulations took a while. Ah, it’s so nice to visit the family, sleep in the old house, and be around people.

I’ll take the win.

I think I saw a moose in the woods. It was about the right size. It was late and I was driving, with no place to stop, as something scuttled past on big, hairy legs.

Could have been an alien or a monster, but I think it was a moose.

Google’s Android may be the strongest argument yet for getting an iPhone.

This was one of my first attempts at horror.

People say, “I know it like the back of my own hands” to indicate mastery of something.

You ever try to draw the back of your own hands? That expression does not imply mastery.