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I followed d.s.hendler’s lead and did a Google Search: related:blahblahblog.com and wow … look at that. Lots of familiar people come up! J’s Junk, Publius, Nobody’s Bitch, Time for Your Meds, Snazzykat, Spitfire!, MizDos, A Fire Inside, Pie in the Sky, Greymatter (really, it says so.), Stefani Louise, Eclipsed, Ain’t Too Proud to Blog, Work in Progress, Silly Cow, The Ageless Project, Wil Wheaton, The Internet Remembrance Campaign, Banned Books Week, Flutter…Glub…Meow, Gingerblue (Bliss), and Therapy Theatre!

It also pointed out some new ones to me! Yeah! Brash & Sassy.net, Her Blog (ok, I have been there before, but it’s been a little while…), BitchBlog, Joy Unspeakable (another one I had been to before but not recently) and In a Mood. Wow, pretty cool!

Kymberlie & I went over to Costco at lunch, and they had the new Left Behind book, Desecration, for only $13.00! YEAH!!! They had a bunch of them too. I am so excited, I want to go home right now and start reading. Instead I have it here on my desk so I can think wistfully about curling up and reading it.

As I commented in my earlier post (in the comments) I respect the authors of these books for all of the research they put into them before they are written. Tim LaHaye (who had the idea of “fictionalizing an account of the Rapture and the Tribulation”) and Jerry Jenkins put a lot into these books before writing them (you can learn more over at LeftBehind.com.) I look at them as fiction though, for no man knows with certainty how the “end times” will be when they happen. Or when they will happen. But the books are very well written, not over the top in your face preaching like but rather a story that pulls you in. The characters are captivating. Yes, there are probably a lot of people that turn to them seeking answers and knowledge because reading the Bible can be confusing. (Sure you can read Revelations, but can you really understand it all? People spend years studying it and still don’t. I am not about to claim I do.) Hopefully the people that turn to the books seeking answers will learn from the very first book in the series that that’s not the right thing to do. The books do put a more current spin on the age old story of good versus evil. They are captivating books, and I am sure I will zip right through this one and then be ready for #10!

I love fonts. I really do. I want them all. It has been an addiction, seriously, since I was set up on Win95 and I discovered you could install fonts. Ohhhhh… I was in heaven. I sat there with a Corel set of disks and installed them all, so many that my machine choked on all the fonts. So if anyone can help feed my addiction, please, please … I want these fonts BAD: Frank Lloyd Wright – Eaglefeather, Frank Lloyd Wright – Exhibition, and Frank Lloyd Wright – Terracotta. Please? Anyone? I neeeeeeeeed them. Help.

Today is the day that book #9 in the “Left Behind” series hits the stores. Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne. I am so excited! I have been waiting forever for this book to come out. And, to add to my joy, Kymberlie is getting it for me as an early Christmas present! w00t! We are going shopping at lunchtime!

Now I could go into a whole long speech on the Tribulation, the “end times” and how September 11th through today has me more convinced then ever that that is where we are at. But I won’t. Because I just don’t have it in me at this moment, I wouldn’t do my “soap box rant” justice right now. For the moment I will just enjoy the fact that the next Left Behind book comes out today. Yeah!

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