View From the Bushes

I donated platelets this morning so I'm running a little bit behind. I'm also running out of movies to watch while I'm down there, particularly since we started our Netflix subscription. As a result, I ended up watching "So I Married an Axe Murderer." It wasn't as good as I remember, possibly because all of the really good lines from the movie have been repeated so often that they've lost most, if not all of their impact. Fortunately I had the foresight to take a book with me, so between the two I was adequately occupied. The book was "Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America.

I was reading the part of the book about the Civil War and Reconstruction during the movie and I have to say that I have vastly more empathy for the Confederacy than I did before reading it. Which is not to say that I had none previously, just that I have much more now. If you have any Scots-Irish blood in your veins (like me), I would highly recommend the book. I do agree with some of the criticism I read that it's got something of a narrow focus and hits the same point too many times, but I still am enjoying the book immensely. Oh and I'm off on Monday, so I won't be blogging either.

Friday never comes soon enough
Ross