April 12, 2005

So much to talk about today!  Yesterday I was pretty upset about the 
book I was reading.  I finally finished "A Knight among Knaves."  I had 
talked about this trilogy before and I beleive I said it was awesome.  
Now I'm not so sure.  About 50 pages from the end, I began to worry 
about how the author planned on tying up approximatle 10 loose ends that 
remained floating around.  Well, it was easy.  He finished off about 2, 
no more.  The main character, of course, also made about the worst 
decision ever at the end.  The main character was an elf that was raised 
in our world (the "sunlit" world).  He had a chance to go back to the 
"otherworld," aka faery, where he was a prince.  Now the main character 
was homeless in the sunlit world, and, for some reason, he was 
enfatuated with some damn street girl named Spillway Sue, who had tried 
to kill him earlier.  But in the otherworld, he would be a prince, and 
his lifelong companion, a beautiful sprite named Faye, was totally in 
love with him.  It was even mentioned that she was sad without ho,im, 
but that whole storyline was abandoned about halfway through the book.  
I was furious becuase the whole idea of Faye was pretty cool.   The main 
character just brushed her aside, like she was nothing, though.  I guess 
that must be a difference between myself and other guys.  I would have 
chosen Faye.  So, all in all, I'm very disappointed with the conclusion 
of the series.  I've only given an example of one loose end here, but 
there were many, so many.

Yesterday, I also saw that MG Rover, the English car company, went into 
severe bankruptcy.  I had no idea that the little company had been doing 
so poorly.  Apparently they we doing extremely poorly.  It'll be sad to 
see one of the final independent automakers disappear.  I can't really 
think of many more, but I suppose that a few of the euro companies might 
still be considered independents.  We lost our last one, American 
Motors, in the mid-80s.  Regardless of what cars they made, it's sad to 
see them go.  Living in Cleveland, I've had the pleasure of going to 
Toledo once or twice, and I still get sad when, on the highway, we pass 
the giant, old Overland plant, where Jeep used to do all its 
manufacturing.  DiamlerChrysler is in the process of tearing down the 
Overland plant, which is actually pretty sad.

Anyway, that seems like enough for now.  Adios!

Jeff
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