Thomas Erickson

Bell Bottom Blues by Eric Clapton, June 17, 2013

Powerful song. Great lyrics especially about "if I had to die to die in your arms".Clapton one of the great guitar players and singers. A class act. Plan to buy mote Eric Clapton songs on Amazon as money permits.Liked it so much joined Eric Clapton fan club on line.

Super fast Solid state external hard drive, March 30, 2013

My Western Digital 3 T bit external tower hard drive crapped out in 2 weeks. I was told to buy a top of the line LaCie Porsche P9223 Slim SSD. Its supposed to be built for speed up to 11X faster and super reliable.

Comes with 2 year warranty. Warrenty registration online, fast and super painless.
Supposed to be super reliable because its solid state, uses the USB port to computer and does not need external from the wall power.Its sleek and non bulky.
Problem its only a limited 120GB. My tower was 3 T bit. Huge storage difference.
I'm using Carbonite mirror back up as I lost a very expensive Astronomy program. Carbonite and the SS Lacie are doing great do backing… Read more

Covered alot of attemps and successes climbing the north face of the Eiger, March 27, 2013

I like adventure, survival stories.

Heinrich Harrier, one of four men, who were the first to climb the famous, extremely difficult and many times lethal north face of the famous Eiger mountain 13041 ft to summit. There are many mountains much higher and much more difficult to climb ( ex. K2, Everest, Annapurna and more) but the very difficult north face had stopped climbers for years. The book is called The White Spider because part of the north face climb is over an extremely difficult and dangerous section called the Spider. Here is snow and ice climbing with falling rocks that kill men, and avalanches that swept men away to their deaths. Also we see the difficult Transverse of… Read more