... Yeah, too quiet.

It makes me think the demon/alien/chainsaw wielding maniac is right around the corner, waiting to eat my brain/eat my brain/chainsaw my brain.

Julie

People reading books usually are quiet. I suggest a recorded book... and turn it up to 11.

--Bob

Last night my brother-in-law was commenting on how people like to say things like "at least he died doing something he loved" when someone gets killed in a skydiving accident or something like that.

He asked my wife what she really loved doing. Reading, she said.

If you died while reading a great book, would you be consoled by the thought that at least you died doing something you loved?

I'd be ticked off that I didn't get to finish the great book.

-Andy

I recall reading an E.E.Doc Smith book so bad that I wished I would to die.

Grad school is kicking my a$$. I input here when I can.

So what do we think the xmas bonus will consist of this year?

Good point. And she's into mysteries which falls right in with trying to figure out where all of those charges came from.

~*~Danielle~*~

Oh, yeah. Never go anywhere without a few good books. You never know when you might need one: long lines to a checkout counter; waiting rooms; while trapped in a remote cabin during a snow storm; being kidnapped by aliens. (A good argument for Books-on-Tape, as that probe up your nose makes reading difficult. So take along a few electronic books. And extra batteries, because you just never know whether the ones on Alpha Betelgeuse 3 will fit.)

As for dying in the middle of reading a good book: nope. I would like to die in a car crash while en route to an IRS audit, after running over a bus load of politicians.

Fortunately, my parents brought me the next book I was planning to read the next day.

Unfortunately, I couldn't really concentrate on it for several days. I just couldn't read in the hospital. And, to make it worse, daytime TV sucks!

Mark