Thanks to everyone for the nice comments regarding my reaching the Writer 4 rank; I really appreciate it.  Hopefully it won't take me 15 months to get to the next level. (Maybe we ought to have Writer 5 ranks to make the climb up a bit more tolerable?)

It's warm and muggy in Miami right now, but that's going to change starting tonight; there's a cold front coming and it will be 49 degrees tomorrow morning!

 In case some of you haven't been to my reviewsnthoughts blog, here's a sample of today's entry:

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.... - Charles Dickens 

 

In August of 2009 I will observe - with mixed feelings - the 10th anniversary of my "becoming connected" to the Internet and the beginning of a long chain of friendships and other relationships that shaped my life during the past decade.

I say "with mixed feelings" because, as with any endeavor where socializing and even romantic atteaction are involved, my online existence has had its share of good times as well as incredibly bad times.    

From my reviewsnthoughts blog:

 Tale of Two Bizarre Moms

 

On the West Coast we have Nadya Suleman, the 33-year-old single mom who, in addition to already having six children, recently gave birth to octuplets at the Kaiser Permamente Hospital  in Bellflower, Calfornia,. Meanwhile, in an Orlando jail cell another mom, Casey Anthony, sat alone, thinking who-knows-what even as her murdered daughter, Caylee Marie was given a public funeral.

A sneak peek at my Orble blog:

In my forty-plus years on this big, blue marble, I've lived through what the old Chinese curse calls "interesting times."


These days, sadly, i'm kept awake not by the spectre of an Al Qaeda attack on our country or whether an armed robber willl break into my house. Those fears do lurk somewhere in my mind, of course, but I don't think about them on a conscious level.

I am still trying to find the right blog venue that works - in all senses of the word - for me....so I am trying this other one out, as well.

 If anyone is interested in checking that one out, please go to

http://www.orble.com/random-thoughts-from-a-cluttered-mind/

Again, please leave me some feedback...on the comments section if at all possible at Orble, but if not, here will suffice.   Thanks!

Want to see what else I write about, other than reviews?  I've got a new, non-Viewpoints blog up now. Please check it out at: http://reviewsnthoughts.today.com/

Please visit and let me know what you think! Leave comments! Tell your friends!

Happy New Year to one and all!

Merry Christmas (a couple of days early) and a Happy Hannukah to everyone...reviewers, readers, and friends!

I wrote and submitted my first computer review ever, so I hope I didn't botch it. 

Remember Pearl Harbor...Sunday, December 7, 1941....a date which will live in infamy....

Lest we forget

Happy Thanksgiving, one and all!

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Well, today the long Presidential campaign finally, finally comes to an end.  I already voted, via absentee ballot, for Barack Obama, so my part in it was done weeks ago.  One way or another, whether my candidate wins or not, history will be made tonight - we'll either have our first black President or, failing that, our first female Vice President.  (I'm not sure, but if McCain wins, I think we'll have our first Vietnam War vet President.)

One of the not-so-good things about blogging, whether here or on MySpace, is that sometimes other writing gigs (especially those that pay) take precedence over creating entries in a Web log or "daily journal" such as this one.  I know it's been three weeks to the day since I last blogged here, but between my paying gigs and writing reviews/discussion board entries here, I haven't had much free time to update.

One of the other-than-review things I've been working on has been to cover the 2008 election from a Florida perspective at Associated Content, a totally kick-butt (can I say that here?) website for freelance writers that pays for content.  It is free to join, and if you have a PayPal account they pay - most of the time - upfront for articles they either ask for (Call for Content) or you submit on your own.   (Note to self: Maybe this can be a good site to review!)

I mention this because one of the things that's kept me pretty busy this week has been the Call for Content thing; I've actually gotten e-mail requests for articles about early voting and other aspects of the election so far, and being a freelancer who needs the dough, I've done them all.

If anyone is interested in reading my non-review musings, please check out my articles; here's the URL to one of them:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1160439/florida_early_voter_rush_is_on.html?cat=9

Okay, since my last post:

 I bought a new TV for my mom

Had a falling out with an online friend and still can't figure out why

Written various reviews and then self-promoted them on Facebook