Monday is wash day around here and Anne gets all pent up frustrated with our laundry. We have the luxury of having our own washer and dryer right in our apartment. She began at about 2pm and as I said got frustrated with our laundry and we got into a fight. I left out of here feeling all pent up about it and left in anger. It was stupid.

I got into the pharmacy feeling better and got myself a bottle of diet Coke and a 6/49 draw for Wednesday’s $32M. This one customer ahead of me rang through a bunch of tickets with what looked like 5 rows of numbers. She won absolutely nothing and paid for the same. And here I am buying my 1 ticket paying $2 and the pop for $4! LoL Big spender Jim. That’d be ironic if we repeat this on Thursday and she gets nothing and I punch in the numbers for $32M. The machine makes a little, Wu who chant for a winner.

I got up stairs just as the afternoon staff were leaving. The bottles and cans situation was in short supply as 2 of my biggest pop drinkers weren’t available for today. I got a modest supply.

The shift went well. I ended up with $75 and a card for $25 and I think I had $190 by break. I called up Anne after I got the remaining empties and everything is more or less forgiven form our fight earlier. I had a decent 2^nd half getting a lot of sales and another card. That was 2 for $50 and more empties I snuck out while the managers were away. One of the more relatively new guys, Patrick (nice enough fellow) got 5 cards for about $600. Amazing. I don’t know how he does it but however he does, management should use that as a Template and bottle it for the rest of us. He must be doing something right.

I was happy to get out of there with $595 and 2 cards and I walked with Peter to Corona. His train came buy and I got a chance to read more of “In Conquest born” and even more on the way home. I barely got inside just as when Monday night Raw was on. Seth Green was the guest announcer. I have no idea who this guy was but it was a really good show. Anne went to Superstore across the street and I gave her some cash to buy me a bag of chips. Anne made us some piazza which was really nice. On a scale from 1-10 I’d rate this evenings Raw as an 8. It was a great show.

Over there at SF Signal the staff are reviewing “The Science Fiction handbook” by Keith Booker. This looks like a great book and something sadly missing in the genre. This puts all the genres of science fiction together in one place. Want to know what “Steampunk” is? There’s a listing for it. Now I don’t have this book myself but I’m thinking of getting it this summer.

After Raw I read more out of “In Conquest born” and discovered there is a glossary of terms at the end and I had only a few short pages remaining. So I concluded “In Conquest born” an hour ago. Here’s the “review.”

Synopsis: Classic Space opera about 2 races struggling for dominance over the other Braxi and Azea. The Azea (she’s a telepath) while the Braxi is a high noble general both fighting a perpetual war with personal agendas.

Pros: Wonderful writing and challenging.

Cons: I found it difficult to engage in Zatar. Azea was a little more accessible.

Bottom line: Excellent space opera on a broad canvas. It’s slightly a little over the top but it delivers even though its hard core space opera. I enjoyed this book and there was enough drama to keep me turning pages. Within the first couple of pages the reader could easily see the depth and thought the author put into this book. I’m looking forward to the sequel “The Wilding” which I just started reading.

My rating: 3/5 e. Jim’s