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Library Jim

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About Me

Occupation: Reference Librarian One of my favorite quotes: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be” - Albert Einstein

My Interests

Celtic Christianity; reading; fencing; pets; SCA.

I'd like to meet:

Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night; Loreena McKennitt; Queen Elizabeth; Pope Benedict. Already met: John Michael Talbot; Michael Card; John and Michael McGlynn and members of Anúna! Yay! (But I wish I could have spent more time WITH them!)

Music:

Artists: Blackmore's Night; Anúna; Enya; Loreena McKennitt; Moya Brennan; Iona; Secret Garden; Mediaeval Baebes; Delerium. Style: Celtic Music (Modern and ancient); English Folk Music; Choral church music; alternative instrumental. I play guitar, lap dulcimer, and bodhran with great deal of fun if not talent.

Movies:

Clue; Murder by death; a Shot in the Dark; Highlander 1, 3 & 4; McLintock; Star Wars saga; Paint your wagon; Blade trilogy; Pirates of the Caribbean; Support your local Sheriff/Gunfighter; Canadian Bacon (I know! I apologize! but this was before Michael Moore went crazy!)

Television:

Stargate SG-1; Highlander re-runs; Alias; CSI (original, not the spin-offs); Criminal Minds; Gilmore Girls (ok, I admit it!); Smallville.

Books:

The Bible; "cozy" mysteries; Celtic Christianity (historical and modern application); sci-fi (Anne McCaffrey; Madeline L'Engle).

Heroes:

St. Francis of Assisi; St. Patrick; anyone who can play the guitar better than I can!

My Blog

Brussels bans bagpipes!

IS war with Scotland far behind?   Pipe down! Brussels slaps a noise order on heart of Scotland Jason Allardyce Sunday Times, UK - April 20, 2008   THEIR high-pitched skirl has put fear int...
Posted by Library Jim on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:52:00 PST

lights ON for ’Earth Hour’

Some idiot organization has declared tonight (Saturday) to be "Earth Hour", and has asked that to show our concern for humans causing ’Climate Change’ (I notice they don’t say "Globa...
Posted by Library Jim on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:15:00 PST

Panama City FL Scot Games

Well, got back from the PC games yesterday, and the only words to describe the even were --- freezing cold but fun!one complaint: the stages were too close together so there was a lot of bleed-over in...
Posted by Library Jim on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:57:00 PST

Global Cooling part 2

Cool News About Global WarmingBy Bill SteigerwaldFrontPageMagazine.com | 3/3/2008You've no doubt seen the stories about strange snowfalls in Saudi Arabia. A brutal winter in China. The heaviest snow ...
Posted by Library Jim on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:57:00 PST

New threat Global COOLING???

Call Al Gore, he needs to return the Nobel Prize! Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warmingOver the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. C...
Posted by Library Jim on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:27:00 PST

Weekend Camping Trip

wow! Went with my son's Boy Scout troop (troop 10) to St. Augustine's "Anastasia Island State Park", Friday arrived, Sunday left.   Beautiful place.  I thought I was up to the 5 mile hi...
Posted by Library Jim on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:32:00 PST

w00t!

    My daughter is home from college for Christmas break!   Yahoo!     ...
Posted by Library Jim on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:51:00 PST

Phil Keaggy in concert!

Well, it was great. I thought I would miss the concert since it was scheduled to begin at 6:30, and it takes me until then to get half-way there from work. But his plane was late, so the concert start...
Posted by Library Jim on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:49:00 PST

I missed Talk like a pirate day.

I can't believe it! After months of planning, on Wednesday I woke up with the stomach flu!  I even started driving to work thinking 'well, it'll get better', but I didn't even get out of the neig...
Posted by Library Jim on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:27:00 PST

work, college, and jury duty ALL this week

Wow, this week is proving to be challenging.  At first, I was planning on taking my daughter to move into her dorm on Thursday.  So I arranged for the day off, switched shifts so the nights ...
Posted by Library Jim on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:09:00 PST