Bryce Moore's Blog, page 318

Way Too Busy Wednesdays

It's Wednesday again, and I'm swamped. So in honor of yesterday's election, I just wanted to link to an election-inspired poster we can all agree with. See you all tomorrow!

iPad Review

I wrote the review for my library blog and thought you all would be interested in reading it, as well. Enjoy!

As some of you know, I purchased an iPad about a month ago. This was by no means an easy purchase for me. The things aren't cheap, after all ($499 for the base model), and I don't exactly have money growing on trees out back. However, I really really really wanted one, and I was able to scrounge up enough to cover the cost. Even then, I debated in Best Buy for quite some time. Was I bu...

Bonfire

Since all the house work we did on the garage last fall, we've had four separate piles of scrap wood littering our lawn. Not little piles, either. They seemed to grow over time, as we piled fallen branches and added other pieces of scrap here and there. I kept putting off the fire, worried it was going to be too long and take too much time.

It took a while, certainly, but only five hours of hard work. Friday I headed to the fire department and picked up a permit, and then when I got home, I li...

Book Review: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Let me start by saying I'm a sucker for Salem. Any book that has the witch trials as a part of it is going to earn an extra bit in my rating, just because it's something I'm interested in. (Just as any book that is primarily a romance will score lower for me--I don't like the genre.) Why do I like Salem? A part of it has to do with the fact that I'm related to a witch. Or an accused witch, at least. Giles Corey refu...

Giving Buffy a Second Try

Denisa and I started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer last night. We'd tried this before, but didn't get past the first four episodes or so. It just wasn't enough to hold our attention, and we gave it up. However, enough people who I know and respect swear by this show, and I'd heard since that it improves in later seasons--that it took some time for the show to really get its feet under it. I can appreciate that, so this time we skipped season one and went right on to season two. Got throug...

Back on the Wagon

That's right. I'm dieting again. I'd sworn not to go over 200 again, and what did I do? I went on vacation and ate like John Candy. Amish country, Hershey's Chocolate World, the Biergarten at Epcot, the other countries at Epcot, the Crystal Palace at Magic Kingdom, Wendy's, McDonald's, wedding food, Vince's pizza, Friendly's, bakeries and more: for two weeks, I was an eating machine. I was Land Shark, eating everything in sight. I think I had a piece of salad in there somewhere, but for the m...

I've Started a Library Blog

It's official, folks. The new blog has begun. In between catching up on (most) emails and hauling chairs around the library today (20 new chairs arrived sort of unexpectedly, and it took a while to get them all sorted out, since the chairs they were replacing were going elsewhere in the building, and those chairs in turn were also going other places), I wrote the first post today, detailing what the blog is and what it will cover. For those of you interested, head on over to Browsing Room to ...

The End of Lost

Six years after it began, the end of Lost finally rolled around. I watched it down in Orlando, after having gone to Cocoa Beach during the day. (I thought that a fitting way to celebrate the end of the beach-centered show.) What did I think about it?

I loved it. I honestly don't believe they could have done a better job with the ending. It answered many questions, leaving others open to interpretation--just as a show like Lost should have done. (There are people still whining about not getting...

Thoughts on a Quaker Wedding

I don't typically do weddings. I can count on one hand the number of weddings I've been to. Receptions . . . a few more. But weddings and I don't usually get together. A lot of this isn't due to a particular dislike of weddings on my part. I have nothing against them, but people seem to tend to get married when I'm out of the country. Three sibling weddings happened when I was either in Jerusalem or Germany. Another friend got married when I was in Slovakia. Other times, people get married in...

Vacation

Sorry I've been out of touch for the last while. I'm off in Florida, and I don't exactly have a ton of time to post. All is well, though. Just want to really take a vacation from everything this time--I'm not even writing. I needed the break. All work and no play makes Bryce go something something. Toodleoo!

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