Minecraft and more...

I've been watching The West Wing. I think it's because of a subconscious desire for that. A presidential candidate of intelligence, wit, and moral substance. It doesn't seem like too much to ask... is it?

I left Facebook because of this, but can I just say one thing.  I want karma to be particularly cruel, not fatal, just damned hard.

Ok, I'm done with that. I'm not really but for here and now...

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Anyway, while I was watching one of my all-time favorite shows, my geeky son begged me to come upstairs and 'see something'. 

He made a really cool world in Minecraft and he needed me to see it.  It really was quite spectacular as far as Minecraft goes.  Labs for crafting and a quite extensive mining operation to get all his materials, both facilities powered by lava. Two beautiful villages just so the villagers can grow all the food he needs and a spectacular house.  The house included stairs covered in plants that upgrade your health and give you invincibility. He's been working on this for 4 days.

Wouldn't it be great if it were all that easy? 

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I'm pretty sure I've blogged about this before, but... I miss book stores! I miss the smell and touching all the books and judging them by their cover.  Picking up an interesting looking cover and reading the flyleaf to see if the story sounds as good as the picture hints.

I miss sitting on the floor among the shelves and just reading snippets of everything in reach. I miss, making a stack of potential purchases and carrying them around with me until the stack is too large and I have to either whittle it down (So I can choose other likely candidates) or go buy them. 

I miss bringing that stack home and adding it to the dwindling stack on the nightstand.  

When you search for a title on Amazon you are first sent to the kindle listing, then the audio, and last the hardcover.  I friggin hate Kindle books.  Searching through one to find what someone said about something is harder than just sticking a finger in your spot and rifling through the rest of the pages. It's not user friendly and you can't dog-ear pages of special significance.

Bring back bookstores and real books!

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First fall picture, apparently fall begins on the south side of trees.