Worth Reading: Most certainly Yes.

Summary: Reacher has a list. A list that’s used to identify a suicide bomber, from someone who isn’t. He’s sitting on a train and he’s just checked off every item on the list as he’s watching a woman sitting in the same carriage. He decides to approach the woman and perhaps talk her down. However, as he does she blows the top of her head off with a revolver.

What happens next throws Reacher against some of the most fanatical people he’s ever seen.

If ever there was a person I want to model my life on its Jack Reacher.

I can’t put my finger on it but this novel is different to other Reacher books. It may not be all historically or factually correct, but it is a work of fiction and Lee Child has license to write the way he chooses.

It’s 5 stars from me, and 5 stars from me.

Tags: Lee Child

Today my Toyota Camry, which I bought new in 1998, hit the 400,000 kms mark on the odometer.

Thanks to regular servicing, it still runs beautifully.

I’ve been a Joni Mitchell fan for a long time and this is one of my more favorite songs from her. Made better now that she’s older, the song seems to have a better context.

Enjoy.





if you’re wondering.. this is her original version from the 1970.

Tags: joni mitchell

It’s been a while since I posted a SoTF so I thought, with this duo touring in Queensland at the moment, what better time to post one of my favourites..

Tags: simon and garfunkel

Keep track of what you owe, not who owes you.

Tags: farmerism

Worth Reading: Certainly yes. This is quite different to her Twilight series.

Summary: Wanderer has lived on many worlds, and lived many different lives. Now she is on Earth. She likes this life, all five senses are giving her an overload of information she’s never experienced before. Because of her travels she is strong, but is she strong enough this time?

Melanie is on the run. She saw it start and with her younger brother managed to scavenge and survive without being caught. She is constantly on the lookout, fighting, worried what will happen if she’s not around to protect the ones she loves. Melanie has not finished living one life when it is interrupted by an unwanted visitor. Now she must fight just to stay herself.

I found this story excellent and is such a contrast to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. Once again the lead character in the tale is female, but this time she is strong, whichever form she takes.

Tags: stephenie meyer

Worth Reading: If you’ve come this far you may as well finish the journey. However, I for one, found this installment of the series to be the worst.

Summary: Bella and Edward are reunited, or “united” at last. Their blissful honeymoon is followed by Bella becoming pregnant. With her pregnancy comes dreams, dreams that involve a threat to her and her new child.

Much to the distaste of the Cullen’s, with perhaps the only exception being Carlisle, they must work together, vampire and werewolf, to overcome a threat to both sides. The vampire family is faced with destruction, and by a twist of fate, the werewolves are face destruction through a twist of fate that cannot be denied.

I found the best part of this part of the story involved Jacob and the wolves, which falls in about the middle. The start and finish which primarily involved Bella and Edward, were difficult to get into, and I was left not wanting more at the end.

The Twilight series has played itself out with this final book.

Tags: stephenie meyer

Worth Reading: If you’ve come this far through the Twilight series then you’ll want to continue, if only to NOT leave a saga unfinished.

Summary: Edward is back with Bella, but there is trouble brewing. There have been unexplained deaths. Unexplained to everyone except the Cullens. They know what is behind it, but not who. This part of the Twilight series has the Werewolves and the Cullens at an uneasy truce to fight of a common foe.

Bella is once again surrounded by danger. Danger, because she is still mortal, much to Jacob and Edward’s delight. Danger, much to Victoria’s delight. A Danger that will have Jasper teaching the Cullen’s how to fight and kill their own kind in a battle for survival.

This saga is growing on me.

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Since when does the Queensland Government think they have the right to sell-off publicly owned assets and companies?

The “Government” is a caretaker for the people of Queensland. If they wish to sell off an asset that belongs to the people of Queensland, they need to ASK. Our tax dollars are used to pay for these assets so we own them, NOT the Government.

Fellow Queenslanders, were you ASKED if you wanted your assets to be sold? NO, you weren’t.

Go here and tell Ms Bligh what you think, she’s looking forward to hearing from you.

Don’t let the Government (ANY Government) ride rough-shod over your rights, or tell you what you need. They are there because the people of Queensland put them there to do our bidding... to work for us, therefore they need OUR direction or they’ll continue to run off the rails.

The people of Queensland run the state via the Government, not the other way round.

Wake up Queensland. We’re quickly become the DUMB state.

Keith Cunnington, my friend and colleague, passed away this morning.

Keith was a rough diamond with a soft heart, which shone through when he spoke of his son, his brother, and his friends. I was lucky to call Keith a friend, and honored that he called me one.

Keith rarely pulled his punches, always spoke his mind, told it as it was, and was never short of a wise-crack or joke - right to the end. He was always willing to help his friends and they were never far from his mind.

He was a lesson on life.

He was the Captain, and his friends and family will feel adrift as we come to terms with his passing.

He didn’t get to ride his new motorcycle and do the traveling he often spoke of, and was excited by. I know he was excited, because his enthusiasm was obvious as he quizzed me on my own travels, and whenever I mentioned some adventure or another.

So, Keith... See what I see, and let the road unwind before you. Feel the wind on your face and the sun at your back. Watch the green grasses turn parched and dry, only to be followed by swathes of desert wild-flowers. See the sky open up as you leave the rolling hills behind and head out onto the open plains. Enjoy the scents and smells of the wide open spaces. Chase the Sun west, and as you roll into Longreach, the Stockman’s Hall of Fame is on your left and the Qantas Museum is on your right. Your friends can’t come with you this time, but perhaps you’ll be riding along with us as we continue our journeys. Take notes, and tell me all about your travels the next time we meet.

Rest in peace Keith, you are, and will be, sorely missed.

..by the age of 50, you have the face you deserve.