*stolen from a facebook bumper sticker… kinda*
Dear 4:29 AM,
We’ve got to stop meeting this way.
I’d much rather sleep with you.
Love,
Jon
ok, what else, what else
I’ve found a renewed interest in the dune series after that HORRIBLE second book. I’m now reading the prequels starting with House Atreides, which is turning out to be quite the layer upon layer of twists. Two more prequels and then it’s on to the third book, “Children of Dune”. Hopefully the series will come back alive again, because i can’t stress enough how BORING the second book was.
After finishing the Dune series i have two more high-priority series I have started but not yet finished:
Books left in the Dune Series:
Books Left in the Prequel Series:
- Dune: House Harkonnen (2000)
- Dune: House Corrino (2001)
Left in the Original Series
Legends of Dune:
- Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (2002)
- Dune: The Machine Crusade (2003)
- Dune: The Battle of Corrin (2004)
Continuation of the Original Series:
- Hunters of Dune (2006)
- Sandworms of Dune (2007)
The Sword of Truth
5 books left:
and
Otherland
3 books left
Now if I can get all of this reading done this summer, i will be very proud of myself. I don’t even want to think about how many thousand pages that is… but they are all good stories… so … we’ll see!
I now have a job in Frankenmuth, at the leather shop. I’ve met some of the people that work there and think that this will be both fun and financially helpful.
The weekend was great. I got some good volunteer service in (amazing how strenuous physical work in the morning can make you feel like you’ve really accomplished something), played a bunch of Magic: The Gathering with Carter and Colton, read almost a whole book, played some PSP, watched the stars, listened to the rain, watched the stillness of the lake, and successfully kicked some ass (with carter as my partner, of course) at euchre (those old fellas can just be too cocky, it cost them the game.. and their pride).
Vassar City Band has started back up and I’d like to extend an invitiation to anyone interested in playing in a summer band that has graduated high school. The music we play is mostly above what the group is actually capapble of, but we have a lot of fun and play some challenging and exciting scores (Procession of the Nobles, The Cage (circus march), James Bond Themes, Mama Mia, some Ticheli stuff …..) so if anyone is interested come on over friday night from 7pm-9pm at to the Vassar 6th grade band room. Instruments that they are in need of are trumpet, clarinet, trumpet, saxophone, trumpet, bassoon, trumpet, percussion, and trumpet but if you play something else you are just as welcome.
I’ve been playing a lot of piano lately and am starting to gain back some of what i lost in the years since i was totally serious about piano. I played through most of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody #2 (made famous by the cartoon “Rhapsody Rabbit”) as well as the piano reduction of the Last Five Years. I’ll be pulling out some more music tomorrow, including some saxophone accompaniment parts like Bozza’s Aria, and well, i’ll look and see what else i might be able to actually play. I would really love the piano reduction of Wicked if anyone has it!
I’m going to the chairopractor tomorrow, and that should be AWESOME!!
