War of the Worlds - the New Millenium

Here I am already into the second day of my MLOA and some of you out there thought I wouldn't last this long without getting bored! Actually it seems an awful lot like retirement without the 'honey-do' list. I find that I still get very tired at certain times of the day but now I don't have to find an open conference room to try and take a nap, instead I just go to my bedroom - that is one big difference. 

I finished reading the "War of the Worlds New Millenium" that I checked out of the library on Saturday and it has been quite a long time since I read anything that fast. It was interesting to me simply because it was an updated version of my favorite story set in this decade so the author had to make it more believable in the age of the Internet and CNN. The past week's swine flu media blitz made it very timely to think about how in the age of 24/7 news channels competing for ratings would make the story of an invasion from outer space an overwhelming event. The new version had problems in the storyline but overall I think I would have rather seen Spielberg film it instead of the version he made a few years ago.