Here it is, August, and I haven't posted a single entry to this blog.

This summer has flown by. The kids are starting school on Monday and it seems like they just got out. We went to NYC back in July, and I did write a bit about that trip, but since then it seems like it's just been lots of work and very little play.

Okay, there was SOME play - we did go to the Wisconsin Dells for a long weekend at the end of July. We stayed at one of their big water park hotels (the Great Wolf Lodge) which was well worth the extra money it costs to stay there. The rooms weren't bad, but our kids got a bunch of use out of the indoor water parks (and a little out of the outdoor one, though it was actually sorta cold that weekend in Wisconsin).

The rest of the Dells is a tourist trap - boat rides and Duck rides, haunted houses, amusement parks, mini golf places, a couple of those "pan for gemstones in a stream" type places, go carts and more water parks, and restaurants. And motels. Old motels, one after another on their "strip". They are all doing good business on weekends, though they mostly sported the lit "Vacancy" signs on Sunday night (we checked out Monday morning).

But we had fun there.

I have not had much luck with my reading. I started a book by William Gibson called Spook Country and another by a guy named Marc Vun Kannon called Unbinding The Stone, which is a fantasy of the type I usually don't read. (I bought it because I met the author at the Printer's Row Book Fair back in June.) I'm sorta remembering why I don't read this type of fantasy much. It's interesting, well written and well plotted, but the ideas and story just don't grab me that much. And I have also been reading Jim Cramer's book on real world investing (can't recall the exact title). That one is one that is easily put down but I am finding his take on the market and on speculating on stocks very interesting.

I need to go back to a tried and true author next.

Anyway, I hope my readers have had a good summer, and I will perhaps try to make more entries in the near future...