Stuff and things

My anger has passed, I never stay angry very long anyway. So I figured I better return this blog to some good spirited topics, since the last two I posted were not very positive.

It still amuses me how the simple things often turn out to be the best, let me explain. I have been musing about a coffee maker for months, since before Christmas. There was this fancy, super-duper double coffee machine that did espresso and coffee that was pretty pricey. Anyway I was looking at it again one day, weighing the options in my head weather to fork over the cash or not. Out of the corner of my
eye, I saw a lone french press coffee maker. I grabbed that little beauty right up. It was cheap and I make tea, coffee and Yerba Mate in it almost every day. Sure glad I didn't buy that big coffee maker!

Have you seen or heard about that show on Fox called "The Legend of the Seeker?" Well don't bother, the show sucks anyway. But I was intrigued enough to buy the first book that the show was based off of. The book is entitled "The Wizard's First Rule" by Terry Goodkind and is the first of 11 books in the series "Sword of Truth." I am almost done with the first installment, and I already bought the second.

Goodkind was not all that original in the grand scheme, its boy meets world and finds out he has powers and he is the only one that can stop the bad guy. Also there is a small cameo of a Smeagol-Gollum rip off, complete with broken English and need to steal what belongs to Richard, the lead.

But the book does have a refreshing, yet twisted take on the villain. Goodkind actually goes into detail about all the bad stuff he does. The villain, named Darken Rahl, enjoys killing people and torturing them. Rahl even practices a rare form of divination that uses the entrails of living humans to find answers. Yeah, Rahl is a sick puppy. But it adds some weight to the story, makes it suspenseful. Because you know if Richard get caught by Rahl, he won't die for a very long time.