Run to the Water

Fifty people are standing on the beach. One of them pulls out a gun and says "I will shoot the last one that gets in the water."

There are two people left on the beach, one of them is running to the water, the other one is you.

What would you do?


Frustrated with my iRoomba lately.  I think it needs a new battery,  I hope it works.

Five Hundred, Five and One

Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it,
Five in the middle is seen;
First of all figures, the first of all letters,
Take up their stations between.
Join all together, and then you will bring
Before you the name of an eminent king

Safe and Secure

As a whole I am both safe and secure,
Behead me, and I become a place of meeting.
Behead me again and I am the partner of ready.
Restore me and I become the domain of beasts.

 What am I?




I do like to watch Biggest Lose but I've never tried their cookbooks. Have you?

Work Smarter, Not Harder

What work is it that the faster you work,
the longer it is before your done
and the slower you work the sooner your finished?



Just started The Secret of Zoom. Good starting chapter and the girl is a funny observer.

Feeling Cold?

What traps warmth, sprays forth ice and water and slips through your fingers with ease?


Got George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle on sale, but have never watched the show.

Long or Short, Round or Square

I can be long, or I can be short.
I can be grown, and I can be bought.
I can be painted, or left bare.
I can be round, or square.

What am I?

Still reading How Firm a Foundation (Safehold) by David Weber, how about you?

Bent or Broken

What can be made, bent, broken, changed and followed but not twisted?


 Book I'm reading right now: The Secret of Platform 13