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Site Diary----June 19, 2003 Well, I decided something rash last night! I could never get this Station to Station review written. I stayed up pretty late and organized my CD's in order by artist name and decided that I wanted to briefly go back to being a "casual" music fan. I want to spend some time (and money) getting more albums (and spending more time with the albums I already have) before I go hogwild with them on this site. What I mean ... I barely have enough legitimate albums to start something like this. However, I still plan on updating this web site (hopefully) with news about my personal life as well as what I am listening to and what I think about it. When I do finally get this Web Site off the ground, then this diary would provide some good background for people to read (as if they're actually interested) into my personal tastes so they could possibly try to adjust it to their own. (For example, I'm not a big fan of heavy metal music ... so if there's a heavy metal album I give an 8.2, then that might be a 9.8 to a real heavy metal fan.) Last night, as I was organizing my CD's, I was listening to S.F. Sorrow by the Pretty Things, which apparently is the very first rock opera. (It beat out The Who's Tommy by a good year.) This album will take me quite awhile before I can even hope to understand it, but the music is pretty good, and there's even a riff on here that Andrew Lloyd Webber would seemingly lift for Jesus Christ Superstar. Of course, it could have been lifted by accident! It's quite interesting, nonetheless. After that, I was listening to Blondie, the debut album from the band of the same name. It definitely has some very good tracks on it. Nothing too terribly memorable, but the album is very very solid. I need to get more albums by both of these artists. I do have another Pretty Things album called Freeway Madness, which is an "okay" hard rock/glam exercise. I bought it because I was very surprised our local Best Buy had a Pretty Things album ... even though it's one of the least essential Pretty Things albums! Let's see... this morning I made myself an 80's David Bowie mix. (The 80's is a decade where Bowie wrote some of his best songs of his career, but on the albums, it's surrounded by a bunch of non-essential filler.) I had always promised myself I would make one of these, and I finally did it! What's even more amazing was that my CD burner actually behaved itself and didn't decide to quit in mid-burn. Hmmm... I had might as well give you the track listing for it. 1. Loving the Alien
Probably the biggest criticism I would have with this mix would be my addition of "Magic Dance" (from the Labyrinth Soundtrack) while completely omitting "Underground" and my addition of "Zeroes" (from Never Let Me Down) while omitting "Time Will Crawl," "Too Dizzy," "Day-In Day-Out," etc... Well to that, I say I think "Magic Dance" has got some great hooks in it and "Zeroes" is one of the most underrated tracks in one of Bowie's most underrated albums. My least favorite track of all of these is actually "Under Pressure" only because it's about 30% Bowie. This is really a Queen song that Bowie just happened to have been in the studio to help with. Though it's still an excellent song. I might go visit Best Buy before work starts and find something I might like. I am very disappointed to find out today that any Left Banke albums are completely out of print ... even Best Of compilations. I have downloaded two of their tracks, one being "Pretty Ballerina," which I'm now convinced is one of the finest songs ever written in rock & roll! There was a compilation album that had everything they ever recorded, but that's out of print now (or something) and the only copy of it for sale that I could find was going for $65!! Mmmmmm... I would pay $35 for it. Maybe. So, I'm on the lookout for THAT. I also need to buy a legitimate copy of Bowie's The Space Oddity. Yes... embarrasingly enough, I don't actually own that one, even though I reviewed it. Well, it's definitely worth buying, and it's one that I definitely need for my collection. I'm also going to get the entire Dylan discography (up to Blood on the Tracks for now) and I'll probably be working the hardest getting the rest of the Marc Bolan-T.Rex disography. (Albiet, I won't get any of those alternate albums!) For some reason, the only T.Rex album our local stores stock is Electric Warrior, even though they were a popular band. Right now, I only have three of their albums: Unicorn, Beard of Stars, and Electric Warrior. I must get more! I'm also planning to slowly purchase albums down the Small Faces-The Faces-Rod Stewart line. Mmmm... Might as well! Alright! 'Nuff of that rambling nonsense! I had my first semi-real day at work yesterday. And, would you believe it... I worked over 7 hours!!!!! Eeek! The food arrived last night, and they needed us to prepare them to be served! My job was to put sauce and potato salad into containers, and then I weighed out sliced meat and organized them in wax paper. Fun, fun, fun! I pretty much zoned out through the whole thing, but I was extremely exausted at the end. I got my uniforms today (and I'm not sure if their cost is going to be deducted out of our paychecks, but I assume they are). I was originally given a medium-sized shirt, and I told her that there was absolutely NO WAY I would fit into that. At the end of the day, I was too spaced out to remember to bring them with me. After getting gas (and feeling like I was going to pass out with all those fumes), I realized I had forgotten it, so I had to go back on that busy road and get it! However, my uniforms were gone! I told my boss where I left them, and she gave me other ones. Fortunately, these were extra larges. And, I was thinking I was going to have to buy a blue shirt at Walmart until she could reorder some uniforms that would FIT! I also got my schedule today. I'm working Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 5:00 - close, and Monday and Wednesday from 11:00-2:00. It's not quite the 30-35 hours I requested, but ... oh well. Those'll also be my hours when I go back to school. My dad was also nice enough to buy me some new headphones. My old headphones broke, and ... believe me ... it was a very sad affair. I had them for about three years and I was quite attached to them. I was still listening to show tunes back then! I was making a habit of going walking everyday and I would bring an album or a mix with me. I go walking on a bike path next to a highway, and those headphones were great for blocking out the sound. When they broke about two or three weeks ago, I was so stapped for cash, I wouldn't spend $30 to replace them. Instead I spent (wasted) $12 on a cheap pair that is not only painful to my ears, but I can't hear anything even if it's at full volume. What's more, I think it hurt my eardrums 'cause it was so loud! Well... now I have new headphones, but with my new job and all, I don't have much time to go walking. For the newspaper, I also have to work on a story about our university putting a quarantine on foreign students for SARS. I'm supposed to call one of the vice presidents. Crap! I'd better do that tomorrow! I'm wondering if he'd even talk to me about it. Well, I have more to say, but this journal entry is WAY TOO LONG, and I spent WAY TOO LONG writing it. So, farewell! --M.L. ----June 17, 2003 The Beatles: Rubber Soul (1965) Hi! How was your day? Mine?? It was busy and remarkably unproductive with regards to this site. Sure... I uploaded Rubber Soul finally, but that was written YESTERDAY. I can't seem to get this Station to Station review started. I have to go into work tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. to get trained, perhaps I'll get that review started before that. (The franchise trainer was supposed to come today, but that didn't happen.) All we did today was basically fill out paperwork. What kind of scares me about this new job is that I'm already pretty annoyed with some of my co-workers, but I'm not going to officially complain about anything until they actually do something major to annoy me. Like that one girl when I worked at Jason's Deli who used to take 3-hour smoke breaks, while I frantically tried to finish all that woik! (I don't even remember what her name was, anymore!) Actually, some people I once found annoying turned into good friends. So, who knows? Maybe they'll be mah drinkin' and poker buddies 10 years down the line. (One of my major character flaws is that I am never happy unless I have something to complain about. I usually spend most of my time internally complaining and blaming all of my misfortunes because I'm 60 or so pounds overweight ... so I always welcome new things to complain about.) I also discovered that I am getting caffiene headaches from drinking too much of it. Grrrr! There's something new to complain about! All the soft drinks worth drinking have bloody caffeine in it! Here's the worst bit of pessimistic rambling: I'M A JOURNALISM STUDENT!!!!!!!!! It sucks being a pessimist. ANYWAY! After I was through with that, I went to The Sunflower (the student newspaper at good ole Wichita State) and got my latest and greatest assignment. I'm doing an article about the university quarantining international students for SARS. I still say SARS was totally last year's disease and monkeypox is the "in" thing. But! These university officials haven't got it in their thick skulls that SARS simply doesn't have staying power! (Oh yes... I'm making jokes about deadly diseases ........ and I'm havin' the time of my life! I bet you 10 bucks I'm going to get one of these diseases now. Or something worse.) No real news about the Bowie concert yet, though I did discover that members of his fan club gets first dibs on the tickets. David Bowie's fan club is like no other fan club in that it is conducted completely over the Internet. ...But, you see, it costs MULA! (I believe it comes down to $5 a month.) I've been visiting that site off an on through the past months and DROOLING over it. (They have never-before-heard versions of his songs on there! bubububuububbubububuububub... Now that I know I can get first dibs on the tickets, SIGN ME UP! Of course... when I get the mula fer it. The dates in North America have not been posted yet. Now, I'm hoping they aren't posted until my first paycheck comes. 'Cause this afternoon, I discovered that I have about $11 in my checking account, and I wasn't sure if my cell phone bill was transferred yet. (That cell phone is a useless device! I wish I never got it! ... but that's another story altogether.) I did drive to my other bank and got $60 out of my savings account and brought it over to that bank to beefen it up a bit. (I knew I shouldn't have went on a shopping spree when I first got hired! Though, I did purchase some very interesting albums!) 'Nuff of this rambly nonsense. Good night! --M.L. ----June 16, 2003 Oops! I got a little bit busy today. I just finished my review on Rubber Soul, but I'm not going to post it today, because I want to edit it with fresh vision tomorrow. Perhaps, I'll review Station to Station later tonight. Hah! I didn't sleep in! Although, I didn't get to sleep until 1:00 last night and, right now, I'm utterly exhausted! I think I'm going to take a nap after this. Zzzzzzzzzzzz! And, I still have two newspaper articles to write for tomorrow. Yes! I did go on the trek to The Kansas Health Thing today to get the "Food Handler's Card." And we still had to sit through this absolutely TEDIOUS series of movies for two hours telling us to do very obvious things (like: wash your hands after handling raw meat, especially if you're about to make a customer a salad). Between films, I was put on the spot with a question that was entirely unexpected. (People were yelling out answers, but I was sitting in the front row to the very side looking very bored.) She asked me: "How do you keep foods in dry storage." A poorly worded question, if you ask me. I paused and was about to answer "You keep it happy" when the rest of the enthusiastic audience responded with the [in]correct answer. (She actually wanted: "You keep it 6 inches above the floor, ma'am.) She could have asked "How far off the ground do you keep..." But NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mmmm... it's probably a good thing that I was interrupted. I could have been kicked out with my smart alekness! I think a more effective, and cheaper, way of conducting these things is just to give us an index card to sign that reads: 1. I will wash my hands a lot.
There! It's as simple as 1-2-3! Now, why did you have to waste 2 hours of my life and a gallon of my gasoline to get there and back? CAUSE YER NAZIS! Arg! The Bowie tour has not been announced yet for North America! I am getting restless, 'cause I need to figure out where I'm going to go and purchase tickets for it THE VERY FIRST DAY I CAN! I've never actually been to a rock concert, and I really want to see this guy in person before he dies. (Or I die, 'cause Bowie looks invariably healthier than I do, even though he's 56 and I'm 20.) --M.L. ----June 15, 2003 Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin II (1969)
Well! I did manage to muster up a review of Elton John! (Thank goodness!) I decided that I wasn't going to listen to it a dozen more times (as background music) until these songs would begin to soak in. Instead, I gave the album credit for creating some utter beauty, but blamed it for not making most of them too memorable. Perhaps, one day, I'll revisit this album and decide to increase that category's score a half-point, but right now I just want to move on! That Led Zeppelin album I added today also provided some sort of a challenge to me. I think I might have unfairly criticized it for not having enough power-riffs, but I can just imagine the heated letters I'm going to receive calling me an idiot for demanding such things. I am listening to the third Led Zep album as we speak. This is the third time I've listened to it, and I think I'm going to score it higher than Led Zep II. Probably not Led Zep I, though. Oddly enough, there are VERY LITTLE hard rock songs on it! It's folky! I coitainly wasn't expecting THAT! At any rate, it'll be awhile until I review it, so I might actually find it entirely boring a few days down the line. Who knows? That's happened before. Okay... about Bob Dylan. Me not creating the page yet is a cross between laziness and stubborness. I don't want to load it, for some reason, until I review Another Side of Bob Dylan. I've also decided that his next two albums (Bringing it All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited) I'll purchase instead of reviewing my bootlegged copies of them. Unlike most music critics, I have no problem resorting to such music-stealing practices (and I'll defend it with all my might)! I am being almost neurotically careful in making sure I have the right tracks (I check the lengths of the tracks and I check the lyrics). Well, rest assured that the only bootlegged copies of album I have are the earliest Kinks, ABBA, and Rolling Stones albums, and -- pretty soon -- there will also be some bootlegged Billy Joel, Kiss, and other such piss-poor albums (Granted... I do own slightly under 1/3 of Billy's discography). Also, waaaaaay down the line, such albums as Paul McCartney's Red Rose Speedway is going for about $25 over the Internet. Many of George Harrison's albums are also out of print and are going for something like $40. Ay NO WAY! They would have to be CRAZY to think I'll buy THAT! If you think this makes me lose all credibility, then ... well ... I think ya ought to rethink it. There's nothing different between a bootlegged copy of an album and a regular, store bought copy, except the store-bought one has fancy words printed on the CD. The only reason I'm buying albums in the first place is because, well, I think it's important that I purchase quality albums for my personal collection! REAL music deserves my money! I listen to bad albums to REVIEW, not to OWN. (And ... usually, I download an album, decide that I really like it, and then purchase it. I also don't think this site should consist of only good albums, do you? I need to trash something now and again.) I also like reading the liner notes of music that interests me, and taping the artwork on my wall. (One day, I'll have a HUGE mural covering every square inch with my ... thinner ... CD booklets.) Well! I got that off my chest! (I was wondering if I was even going to mention it at all, but I decided that it was better 'fessing up than living a lie.) Okay! Well, tomorrow, I've got to go to this ABSOLUTELY STUPID Board of Health seminar to get a "Food Handler's Card." Back when I worked in the concession bar at the movie theater about 4 years ago, I had to get this card. (I don't know why we needed a "Food Handler's Card" ... none of the "food" they served was biodegradable.) And, 4 years later, it expired! Basically, this Food Handler's Card seminar takes place in this huge auditorium where a bunch of poor, young people are forced to watch this 2-hour, poorly-acted educational video in the same vein as those depicted in "The Simpsons." Except these ones are just BORING. Well, I'm going off to that at about 8:00 tomorrow morning, and I am definitely NOT looking forward to it. Tuesday at 10, I begin my new job, which'll help me pay for these missing, essential Dylan albums! What's more, this manager-lady seems to be extremely nice! (This is a brand spankin' new store ... it'll only be a matter of months before she begins to harden up, as most teenaged employees in this area of Kansas SUCK! ...or perhaps it'll just be a very pleasant experience!) More about the site: I am going to get this new domain ASAP, because I was just struck with images of me sitting at the computer, when I have 200 reviews posted on the site, having to re-convert all of the links! Doing it at 30-40 reviews would be much, much better. And, I also didn't want to submit the site to search engines until I was at my permanent home. I still haven't decided what to name the site. donignacio.com is free (to no surprise). Well, since donignacio has been my web-identity since the year 2000 (and I am known by that name at abctales.com, where I used to be quite an active member, and also by my one-time and/or current friends at epinions.com). So, I think I'll go along with that. The only reason I'm having some doubts about it is because NOBODY seems to know how to pronounce it correctly. It's pronounced: Don Ig-nas-eo ... not Don Ig-naysh-eo. (BLOODY ENGLISH LANGUAGE! DON'T THEY KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE A SPANISH WORD WHEN THEY SEE ONE!) I also once considered changing my name to Don Ignatious, so the naysh pronunciation would be correct ... but that would be like compromising everything I stand for! So... I'd say there's a 95 percent chance I'll go with www.donignacio.com, unless somebody swoops out from under me and beats me to it. (I don't know what SICK mind would do something like that.) I also feel prepared to write the reviews of The Velvet Underground (3rd Album, Rubber Soul, Station to Station, and Procol Harum's A Salty Dog very soon! Mmmm... it's not too surprising, though. I've been listening to the latter three albums for quite some time! Another Side shouldn't be too long away, either! Okay... I'm rambling. I should call it a night. Gots to get up EARLY tomorrow! --M.L. Oh! One more thing! I just learned that David Bowie's new album will be entitled Reality and is, allegedly, reactions on September 11. It was produced by Tony Visconti (thank goodness!) and David described it as being "thrusty." It will be released September 15, and I am counting down the days! ("Thrusty" would almost suggest this is a bit of a return to the old Ziggy days!) There will also be a tour! Here, though, I'm faced with a bit of a dilemma. I decided sometime last winter that the next time I can, I'll go to a Bowie concert. (Of course, he goes nowhere near Wichita, Kansas on his tours ... I would probably have to drive the 300-plus miles to Denver.) But, he is touring in North America in December and January, the same months when my parents are planning an extravagant cross-country trip to places such as Michigan, Charleston, and finally Disney World ... a (free) event I also certainly don't want to miss. Some might see this as a blessing (as we will be around big cities, and we could plan our trip to include the Bowie show), but my dad hates Bowie like POISON ... and my mom hates rock & roll music in general. Oh! What am I going to do! Though, I think I'll have to look at the touring schedule before I start panicking. Ideally, he should be in the Mid West in mid-to-late January. (Eh! I would miss school, but being able to see this guy in person is merely SECONDARY to learning all this crap I'm going to forget in three years!) ----June 14, 2003 Opppppppp! No site additions today, buddy boy! (Sorry!) But I am still working hard! I'm listening to Elton John for about the 15th time, and I still don't feel like I'm prepared to write a review on it. It's like this with ALL Elton John albums I have! It takes me FOREVER to get into them! Especially his Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album, which I've listened to, maybe, 29320 times and it was about the 19392th time when I finally grew enamored with it. Of course "Your Song" is instantly lovable, but it's the other stuff I feel edgy about. Well... I know my review on it is going to be very positive (as the music on it is quite luvly). I don't know ... perhaps I'm expecting to become an Elton John worshipper out of all this, but it ain't happenin! (I mean... I "worship" Procol Harum, ABBA, David Bowie, The Beatles, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones ... and all sorts of other guys. But Elton doesn't seem to be threatening such shenanigans!) Last night, I DID write a Led Zeppelin review, (and I do feel a little bit guilty for not being a BIG fan of it ... oh well.) Why do I feel guilty for not being a fan??? Well... I know that there are huge Led Zeppelin fans out there, and I know they're going to be pissed off because at least two Abba albums are scoring higher than any Led Zeppelin album will. Oh well! Come to think of it, those ABBA albums are not only more enjoyable (duh!), but they're more artistically pleasing! (I mean ... Led Zeppelin were pretentious, whereas ABBA was not.) I don't know. If this Web Site grows into something large, then I guess I'm predicting the FLACK I'm going to get! I've also made the goal to write 125 music reviews before the summer's out. To round it off, that means I'll need 150 reviews on this site by mid-August. And remember! We're going to leave on a vacation sometime in there. (And I also have my new job to attend to, which I start this Tuesday.) ----June 13, 2003 Reviews Added: Procol Harum: Shine On Brightly (1968)
Well... I WAS going to make that Bob Dylan page today (and I now have three Bob Dylan album reviews to display on it), but it's already 1:30 P.M., and I's got stuff to do today! (Mmmmmm... for some reason, I'm refraining from doing too much uploading-of-pages at night, even though that'll probably change once I start ma job. So... I uploaded the brand-spanking new Procol Harum and David Bowie reviews! For tomorrow, I will definitely do that Bob Dylan page (and, possibly, review his fourth album) ... I am also relistening to Led Zeppelin's second album for tomorrow, possibly. In the meantime, I have to go drive my rump-roast around Wichita, finding new restaurants and writing a blurb on each of them for the newspaper. It won't be too difficult, I reckon. Oh! I'm still screwing around with stuff at epinions. I'm not even hoping to get my intellectual property back from them, but I have been hassling them to mail me back all that text that was on my front page. I still haven't gotten any letters back from them. If I do, I'll definitely post it on here. Okay... I still plan on getting to that front page even though I haven't done anythin' to it yet. --M.L. ----June 12, 2003 Artist Pages Created: Elton John
Reviews Added: Elton John: Empty Sky (1969)
Well... the story on the Elton John page is true. For some reason, this server is REALLY blocked up. I don't know why ... I mean, we PAY for this digital cable stuff and, right now, the browser is slower than when we had dial-up. Gr! Man... everything just toodies me off! I also discovered that I'm also going to have to rewrite my Rolling Stones Now! review. AND, my Gary Glitter compilation album review! I remember, specifically, that last one being over 6 pages! GGGGGGGGGGGG! Hours upon hours of lost work because of those doodieheads. Alright! I am REALLY going to start working on a redesign of the front page. Right now, it's just some text and two links. A couple days ago, I finished a prototype of a site logo I might use. (It's kind of similar to the one I have up on my dead movie review site.) I still don't like it, but until I can come up with something better, that's gonna be IT.) Okay... After I make the Rolling Stones page and the Bob Dylan page, I'm going to stop making so many pages and build up the discography. For most of those bands, I have significantly enough of their albums to finish the important parts of each of their discography. So... talley ho! --M.L. ----June 11, 2003 Artist Page Created: Reviews Added: The Kinks: Kinks (1964)
Well, it's official. Because my newly-created "kernalklink" account has been erased yesterday in the same way my "donignacio" account was erased, it is clear that Epinions.com intentionally booted me off their web site. What gets me is that they didn't tell my exactly why they did it! And, they're still not giving me back the text on my front page (that I wanted to keep) ... and yesterday I also discovered that my Rumours by Fleetwood Mac review has been lost, too. I'm too depressed about it to find out what other reviews I'm going to have to completely rewrite. When will the craziness end? And, they owe me 91 freaking cents! If you are apart of Epinions.com, I urge you to take all your reviews and run! If they can do stuff like this to me without giving me any warning or explaination, then it becomes a question of: "Exactly what kind of web community is this?" Yesterday, I sent those jerks the following letter. Wallowing in my self-imposed cleverness, I decided to post it here: Okay................. Now you deleted my other account, where I told the
Awwwwwwwwwww! Is it because you can't take a wittle,
Yours gracefully, Michael Lawrence AKA donignacio, refugee ANYWAY... I am busily working on writing some new album reviews. I'm finding that I can't churn out these reviews with too much speed, or I'll end up making some bad judgement calls. Yesterday, I wrote another David Bowie review and a Kinks review (one was saved-over from satan/epinions.com). I posted them up today. Right now, I'm working on getting some Velvet Underground reviews up, and possibly Elton John's debut album for tomorrow. I start my new job next week, (it's definite that I'm getting this job, now). And, that would allow me to purchase some rarer albums over the Internet! Oh! I'll finally be able to finish these Procol Harum and T. Rex discographies! Yay! Also, I would like to mention the trouble I'm having with my ratings system. Yesterday and the day before, I decided that I should let the song score provide the basis of the overall album score. In some cases, the song score might have been a 6.0, but I put the album score as a 2.0. This, I decided, to do away with it. If the songs are good enough to score a 6.0, then the overall album and artist ratings ought to be around a 6.0. So, I changed the scores of these reviews-in-question, and I think that they're fairer now. Even though I was uncomfortable with giving Kinda Kinks a 7.1, and the song score surprised me with a 7.7 rating. Oh well! -M.L. ----June 9, 2003 Note -- Some of these were added before today. It's just now that I've finally got around to reporting them Arist Pages created: Procol Harum
Reviews Added: Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin (1968)
Well! Today's the day to start the site diary (...obviously, since this is the first entry.) I'm not exactly sure what is going to become of this diary (much less this Web Site). Well ... I doubt I'll remain on Geocities for too long, anyway. I'll probably get my own domain name within a month ... but what to call this site? Donignacio's Music Reviews seems like the obvious choice. (I have another Web Site called Don Ignacio's Movie Reviews that I've pretty much abandoned.) I wasn't actually planning on starting to build this Web Site for another year or so ... when I had more music reviews to post. (I actually have about 2 dozen or so other music reviews that I've written but not posted at this point.) However, the place where I was writing these reviews (Epinions.com) unexpectedly kicked me out! They didn't even allow me any time to prepare for it. Unfortunately, that means some of the album reviews I had written were lost. Most notably, I had to rewrite my reviews of A Hard Day's Night and Procol Harum. I liked it on Epinions.com, and I wasn't going to leave it until I hit 800 music reviews! But alas! I didn't even live past 50! So............. here I am. Out in the Internet wilderness, embarking on this historical quest. And, I don't know where it will end up. If I manage to keep any sort of devotion to the site, I hope to build something similar to what George Starostin's got. His music review Web Site is KICK-BUTT. Here's a link: George Starostin's Music Reviews Also, if you are reading this, I do hope you find time to read my reviews and then e-mail me some comments. REALLY! I'M BEGGING YOU! Nothing could be more encouraging. --M.L. Congratulations! You made it to THE END! There are no more diary entries! |