Dick Wolf | Brome Hill

Don’t get me wrong: I really like my new job at MCSA.

But I’ve had a great morning of:

Lounging around in an old pair of pajama pants and slippers and an even older bathrobe.
Drinking LOTS of coffee.
Listening to really good music like this.
Blogging some myself, but reading other blogs such as anafternoonwith.com, which I really like even though I have very little in common with any of the people profiled.
Reading The Interceptor, the new debut novel by Dick Wolf, creator of the Law & Order TV series.

It’s 12 degrees outside as we creep towards noon here in Muscatine. I think a walk is on my agenda and then more music and reading.

A really great New Year would be the one in which I figure out how to convince someone to pay me an obscene amount of money to do these things every day.

A guy can dream, I guess.

Not a lot of time today, but I wanted to post something here, so here goes …

Two things I heard Wednesday on NPR have stuck with me. I heard them while driving home from my mom’s after Christmas.

The first was a segment on “Talk of the Nation” with Ken Rudin, NPR’s Political Junkie blogger. In the segment, Rudin faced off in a trivia battle with Gabe Fleisher, a fifth-grader from St. Louis who puts together an email political newsletter everyday before school. He has 375 subscribers. And he is clearly a bright kid.

The second was an interview with Dick Wolf on “All Things Considered.” Wolf, who is better known as the creator of the long-running TV show, “Law & Order,” has written “The Intercept,” his debut novel.

Given that I loved “Law & Order” and I am also a fan of this genre of fiction, I am anxious to read the book.

That’s going to be it from me today. Make it a good one.

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