Mercury in Retrograde

Mercury In Retrograde is an astrology term. Astrologist say that it means Mercury is standing still or moving backwards and everything in your life slows down.

Mercury is the god of communications and travel. They say it is not a good idea to sign contracts or order electronic things during this period of time. Travel can be troubling when Mercury is in Retrograde. Just ask the thousands of people stranded in Europe this past week. I have no idea if there is any hard data on this but I do know for a fact that when Mercury is in Retrograde I have had lots of things get lost, mixed up, and crap happen that will drive you up the wall.

This particular Mercury in Retrograde started April 17th and continues through May 11th. So far my computer has picked up a virus which I lost all sorts of data and programs and have had a number of things fouled up because of mis-comnunication. Probably this is not the best time to be trying to communicate to you the problems of communicating during Mercury in Retrograde but so far nothing else has gone right this week so what the hell.

On a happier note, here are a couple of more books I would like to recommend. First a non-fiction book I found to be excellent reading is "Imperial Life In The Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Rajiv was a journalist embedded in Iraq who shares his experience living in the Green Zone during the early days of the war.

And a novel that I found to be one of the best books I've read in years called "The Art Of Racing In The Rain by Garth Stein.
I hope you will check out both of these and enjoy them as much as I did.
Stay tuned for future adventures.

Good Reads

After much thought and consideration for the last 24 hours, I have come up with the first book I am going to recommend. It is entitled Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen.This book is set in the Depression era and is a great story about a traveling circus. At first this didn't seem like the type of story I would have been interested in but I found it to be captivating from the beginning.

Looking back over my reading history, I was surprised at the variety books that I have consumed lately. I hope you will try some of these and get as much enjoyment out of them as I have. I will have more good reads forth coming. Stay tuned for future adventures.