At 0500…
Mainly because anybody with any sense is still in bed…
Grumble…
But there IS a bright side, I’m not dealing with Honolulu traffic!
Hope y’all are having a good Friday… Only three more days of this…
That is how long it took to change America forever…
Take a moment to pause and reflect on today’s 14th remembrance of 9/11. I would urge you in your own way and own time this Friday, to remember those that gave the ultimate sacrifice that day and for those that have given their all over these past 14 years in ensuring our freedoms and liberties have been maintained. Remember as well those brave men and women that continue to serve today in harm’s way to ensure that the ongoing conflicts remain an “away game” for the United States and allows each of us to enjoy our daily lifestyle in our own way.
We were challenged but not broken that fateful day, which changed the way we live and think forever. Each of us can recall exactly where we were when we learned of the horrific terrorist attacks occurring at the Twin Towers in NY, Pentagon, and an open field in Pennsylvania. We shall never forget September 11th, 2001 nor the 2977 victims of that tragic day. Take the time, right now, to recall where you were and your own personal reaction.
Remember and never forget.
The timeline…
* 0846ET. American Flight #11 impacts the World Trade Center North Tower, New York City
* 0903ET. United Flight #175 impacts the World Trade Center South Tower, New York City
* 0937ET. American Flight #77 impacts the Pentagon, Arlington, VA
* 1003ET. United Flight #93 crashes in a field in Stonycreek Township, PA
77 minutes…
I have a rule on any trip, I have to get one ‘good’ meal per trip…
Last night was it…
Nie little sirloin, with the trimmings and a salad…
The rest of the week? I’m looking at this…
Getting up at 0200 to go to work means there isn’t a lot open, other than bars…
Hope y’alls working hours are a bit better! 🙂
Sunday night went to Biba’s for a quick dinner. It was crowded and I’d just been seated when I saw and older couple come in, I went and told the waitress I’d give up my table for them. Instead they ended up joining me. He’s 92, she’s 90, they’re from central Washington.
As we’re chatting, comes out he’s a retired Army type. And fought at Salerno and Monte Cassino as part of the 36th Infantry Division! The stories he told had me picking up my jaw on a regular basis… Fighting Panzers on the plains at Salerno, then the 88s going to Monte Cassino. He said the thing he hated most was the 88s… Apparently they were the ‘most feared’ single gun.
Especially when they WALKED and fought from hilltop to hilltop down to Monastery Hill. He said they couldn’t dig foxholes, it was too cold and rocky, and they were exposed to fire from surrounding high points the entire time.
He said the ravines had mines, booby-traps, and ‘other’ crap in them, so they were out. And to add insult to injury, he said he’d never been so cold and wet in his life.
I ‘think’ he said he’d gotten a ‘few’ purple hearts out of that campaign, and he went on to serve in Korea, and retired after one tour in Vietnam…
His wife was a ‘Rosie’, and worked at Boeing on the B-17s. Her most salient comment was “Somebody had to do it. And we were ‘somebody’.” Quite the couple, and still pretty spry for their ages.
Actually probably in better shape than I am right now… Sigh…
Busy… Light posting and commenting through next week.
Ass deep and the alligators are winning…
Go read the folks on the sidebar please!
Thanks to those who bought books this weekend, total sales were a little over 150 books!!! Yea!!!
Fun reads!!!
A curated list of authors selected works and put them on sale, just for readers like you. If you’ve been waiting for the next fun read, or for a reason to Read Indie, this is that time. All the books are priced between $2.99 and $0.99, affordable ways to explore new worlds.
You will find this a list spanning genres from Fantasy and Science Fiction to Thrillers and Romance. Something for every reader in your life, if you are looking for back-to-school gifts.
Enjoy!
By Peter Grant
Sale Price: $0.99
Blurb:
By facing down Lotus Tong thugs, Steve Maxwell earns an opportunity to escape orbit and become a spacer apprentice on a merchant spaceship. Sure, he needs to prove himself to an older, tight-knit crew, but how bad can it be if he keeps his head down and the decks clean?
The interstellar trade routes are anything but trouble-free, with local wars and plagues of pirates. Also, the jade in his luggage is hotter than a neutron star. Steve’s left a world of troubles behind, only to find a galaxy of them ahead…
The Long Way Home (Sequoyah book 1)
Promo price: $.99
Blurb:
Moire Cameron ran to protect her secrets — ran to the heart of an interstellar alien war. Her fellow mercenaries care only about her fighting skills, not where — or when — she got them. You’d think that would be good enough…
But a false name and fake ID can’t conceal her dangerous lack of contemporary knowledge, and they won’t help fulfill her last order, given by a dying man eighty years ago. To do that she must find a reason to live again. A cause worth fighting for, comrades to trust, and a ship to sail the stars.
Amazon Author Page
Vengeance from Ashes
By Sam Schall
Price: 99 cents for the Labor Day Weekend, down from $2.99
Blurb:
First, they took away her command. Then they took away her freedom. But they couldn’t take away her duty and honor. Now they want her back.
Captain Ashlyn Shaw has survived two years in a brutal military prison. Now those who betrayed her are offering the chance for freedom. All she has to do is trust them not to betray her and her people again. If she can do that, and if she can survive the war that looms on the horizon, she can reclaim her life and get the vengeance she’s dreamed of for so long.
But only if she can forget the betrayal and do her duty.
By JL Curtis
Sale price $2.99
Blurb:
When Texas Deputy Sheriff John Cronin thwarts the Cartel’s plan to get paid to smuggle Muslims across the border, he becomes the target of the Cartel once again. One try fails, but the cartel isn’t about to give up. With his granddaughter, Jesse, still recovering from her last run-in with the Cartel and now far away with her Marine husband on a military base, Cronin only has to worry about the innocents around him.
One way or another, this old school law man plans to end this cat and mouse game for good. But, this time, the Cartel is playing for keeps; ending this war might just cost the old man his life.
Either way Cronin plans to go out on his feet, fighting tooth and nail.
Price: I’ll set it at $2.99 for the promo.
Blurb:
War!
A series of diplomatic crises precipitate a limited nuclear war on Earth. Missile defenses block access to space. Nothing goes up and nothing comes down.
The people of the various space stations, the moon base, and a space colony whose construction had just begun must find a way to survive until the war is over.
The ultimate survival test.
Amazon Author page
Pam Uphoff’s Wine of the Gods Universe
99 cent Labor Day Sale!
Genetic engineering enabled psychic abilities in the test children. And the ability to control the machinery to open portals between parallel Earths. But prejudice turned into exile across the dimensions, and the escape of the most powerfully “magical” to a world of their own.
It all starts with the stand-alone Outcasts and Gods and continues with twenty (so far) loosely connected stories in the same Multiverse.
By Pam Uphoff
99 cent Labor Day Sale!
The AI war was deadly—and invisible. Until two teenagers found themselves in the middle of it.
By Anita Young
Price: $2.99
Blurb:
Thanks to the curse of foresight, Dr. Kayara Ingham has had a vision of her husband’s death. While she desperately tries to avert the grim future, she meets a mysterious Osiris Corporation man who gives her an impossible ultimatum. When Kay is forced to choose, she learns that Osiris Corporation is not what it seems. The company is made up of a people that call themselves the Architects of Lore and, like many powerful organisations, their reach is extensive—one might say inescapable.
By James Young
Price: $2.99
Blurb:
August 1942. Adolf Hitler is dead, Great Britain is surrendering, and the Royal Family is fleeing to Canada. In this critically acclaimed alternative history novel, James Young details a World War II that is far different and much worse than the terrible conflict we all know. Follow the Cobb family as they, and the nation they love, are confronted with horrible events while being swept away by war’s chaos. If you are a fan of historical fiction, or just like a good yarn with mortal heroes, Acts of War is for you.
Price: $0.99
Blurb:
Lom is a bounty hunter, paid to bring magical creatures of all descriptions back Underhill, to prevent war with humans should they discover the strangers amongst them. Bella is about to find out she’s a real life fairy princess, but all she wants to do is live peacefully in Alaska, where the biggest problems are hungry grizzly bears. He has to bring her in. It’s nothing personal, it’s his job…
By Lilania Begley
Price: $0.99
Blurb:
Wounded veteran Dev Macquire needs some farm help until he recovers. When his father, Gray, brings home a new hand, he’s dismayed to meet Irina. How can a woman do the rough, heavy work they need? As she works her way into their life, and into his heart, he’s faced with a new dilemma. Can he persuade her to stay, and to accept a new role in his life?
Price: $2.99
Blurb:
Caught violating Earth’s Zero Tolerance for Violence laws, Peter Novilio is sentenced to a one-way trip to Hell, Earth’s prison planet in the Zeta Tucanae system. Hell is forever: Two centuries earlier its ecosphere had been infected with microscopic nanomachines that destroy electrical conductors, condemning its inmates to a neo-Victorian steam-and-gaslight society without computers, spaceflight, or any hope of escape.
By Dan Hoyt
Price: $3.99 (dropping to $2.99 some time this weekend, so check the price when buying.)
Blurb:
Welcome to New Rome!
The far-flung heirs of the empire have been called home to the capital of worlds. In these mean streets, no wife is above suspicion, and no man above assassination. With the Emperor poisoned and prince Oswald in jail, Ninth Euclid, a mathematically gifted secretary from a rural backwater, must solve the knottiest problem of all: How will he keep his liege lord safe from daggers in the back and politically scheming trollops in the night?
By: Sarah A. Hoyt
Price: $2.99
Blurb:
A collection of short stories by Award Winning Author Sarah A. Hoyt. From dark worlds ruled by vampires, to magical high schools, to future worlds where super-men have as many problems as mere mortals, this collection shows humans embattled, imperiled, in trouble, but never giving up. Angel in Flight is set in Sarah Hoyt’s popular Darkship series.
The collection contains the stories: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
First Blood, Created He Them, A Grain Of Salt, Shepherds and Wolves,
Blood Ransom,The Price Of Gold,Around the Bend,An Answer From The North,
Heart’s Fire,Whom The Gods Love,Angel In Flight,Dragons as well as an introduction by fantasy writer Cedar Sanderson.
Since it’s Labor Day weekend, I figure this is as good a time as any to put the books on sale. I’m doing this as a thank you to the readers who’ve promoted my books to their friends and family.
The books will remain on sale through Monday for your enjoyment, and this post will also stay up through Monday.
I’d like to ask if you’ve read any of my books and haven’t put a review up, I would appreciate it if you would do so. HONEST reviews please. Reviews help other readers to wade through the literally hundreds of thousands of choices out there.
I’d appreciate it and you can select the picture above to go directly to the book(s) you’ve read.
Thank you all for reading, and hopefully enjoying them!!!
This is NOT what I wanted to face after being up 16 hours…
Knobs, two shower heads, and not a hint of what to turn or how to get what to work…
Pull, push, turn (in which direction for what)… Sigh…
Finally got the ‘thing’ to work, and got on the right shower head. I’m too damn old to play guessing games at that time of night…
And for the ladies, SHOES… Saw this display of different high-heeled shoes.
The interesting part is, these are miniatures!!! Apparently these give you the choices, and you pick the style, then they go get the size(s) you want to try…
I know this is a holiday weekend, so I hope each and everyone has a great weekend with family!
Well, after the C&C post on Monday, guess who’s back…
162 of them… sigh…
I off working for a couple of weeks, beer fridge is full, watch out for the cat across the hall. Dog food in the LARGE storage box in the pantry.
Light posting and commenting. Y’all go check the folks on the sidebar.
Kilted to Kick Cancer
Prostate Cancer Facts:
- About 233,000 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in 2015.
- Nearly 30,000 men will die of prostate cancer in 2015.
- About 1 man in 7 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime.
- More than 2.5 million men in the United States who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point are still alive today.
- Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, behind only lung cancer.
- About 1 man in 36 will die of prostate cancer.
Testicular Cancer Facts:
- It most often affects men between ages 20 and 39.
- It affects 8,000 men a year, and kills 390 of them.
- It is the most common form of cancer in men ages 15-34.
- 95% of cases can be cured if detected early.
Due to my being out of the country for a couple of weeks, I’m not competing this year, so if you were going to donate to me, I’d ask you to donate to Team Dragon. Us old Navy farts have to stick together… Donate HERE.