This was the next-to-last book in the Sookie Stackhouse series. It was not well-reviewed on Amazon, so I was a little apprehensive to read it. The book was ok, but I will agree with the reviewers on one point–not much happened in the story. It was full of filler. Sure, one major point was made, but it was a pretty weak storyline at that. Also, there wasn’t much dialog going on from the other characters–it seemed like the whole story was dominated by Sookie. Sure, she is the main character, but she’s not the only character…
the grey
This was a movie about a bunch of Alaskan oil workers whose plane crashes in the middle of nowhere and the survivors are left to deal with a pack of wolves that is tracking them. For what it was, it was pretty good. But, I thought the movie would have been more effective had they used the wolves as more of a psychological element rather than how they did because the wolves were very fake-looking and, due to this, it took away from the story.
real steel
This was not exactly my kind of movie, but for what it was, it was good. It had some nice special effects. Not much of a plot, really. Jake enjoyed it, so that’s all that matters.
gone fishin’
The three of us took a quick fishing trip to Yellow Creek State Park on Saturday morning. It was a nice day for fishing. Unfortunately we didn’t catch anything–the fish were not biting. This was the only other time I went fishing other than our vacation. I was hoping to get out more, but it seems like we’re always busy doing something. Jake and Brian at least got out one other time (at the beginning of September with my Dad).
Seeing that we’re planning on vacationing at the same place next year, I’ll be getting my fishing license again in 2013.
new germany festival
I’ve been thinking about doing some craft shows for Everyone Drinks. This would be down the road because I don’t have enough inventory to do one at this time. So, I mentioned to my mom that I’m going to be checking out some craft shows over the next year in order to find out which ones would be good to attend and she suggested that we go to the New Germany Festival of Arts & Crafts. We did just that over the weekend.
Some things to note…there were a lot of people there, but I didn’t see a lot of people actually making purchases. There were some crafters there with exceptional work; quite a number with good work; and more than a few with shoddy work. The stuff I sell is definitely unique–there were a couple of related items for sale, but no one strictly selling booze-related items.
This was a two day festival, so I don’t know that I want to jump into something like that for my first show (and it’s not cheap to attend, either). I would prefer to try a one-day event and see how that goes. There will be plenty of other shows to check out in 2013.