Mental Notes & Random Musings

There is generally nobody alive right now that doesn’t remember the United States at war with some country or another. I would be lying if I said I remember anything firsthand about the Vietnam War (or was that a conflict) because when the last American troops were removed, I had only just turned three, and Communists rolled over the rest of the country in 1975. I was only five, and fortunately blissfully ignorant to it all. I was nine years old when Iran was overthrown by Islamic Theocracy and remember the hostages being taken from the American embassy. It became part of my late elementary school social studies classes, and we weren’t across the Rubicon of the Educational Theocracy taking full control of the school system. Carter looked foolish the entire time, even to a nine and ten-year-old.  Looking back on this with adult eyes it is amazing that a child in Portsmouth New Hampshire (the foremost beachhead of far-left idiocy for the entire state of New Hampshire now a days) coul...

Well, here I am being all Disney and stuff as I force people to read three different blog entries just to understand the entire story. Wait until you find out at the end of this one, I will be wrapping it up in yet another. Well, it’s my blog and my existence and I will chase both of my readers away my way. Well as I had rambled on about in the pre-modern section of the how Jeremy looks at the great reading he has done, the next part of course should be the mid-life portion, or as I called it in the last part, the in between. This is after all part of the grand scheme that I existed.  Mid-Life: The novels and series I enjoyed as they came out during my teens and twenties. This includes David Eddings, Raymond Feist, Robert Jordan, CS Friedman and Terry Goodkind.  Pawn of Prophecy: This was a book I got at the library in 83 or 84. I was relating to Garian reasonably early into the book. To be a member of Gen X was to believe that you were always the last to know anything. The Be...