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Original Safari Mileage
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New Safari Mileage
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Date
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05 Oct 09 160,310
28 Sep 09 160,013
21 Sep 09 159,721
15 Sep 09 159,477
08 Sep 09 159,028
03 Aug 09 158,020
06 Jul 09 157,072
01 Jun 09 156,246
04 May 09 155,096
06 Apr 09 153,990 
02 Mar 09 152,657
02 Feb 09 151,161
05 Jan 09 150,037

New Safari Mileage - Pre-2009
Date Odometer
Date
Odometer
01 Dec 08 149,052 05 Dec 06 114,497
03 Nov 08 147,778 06 Nov 06 113,570
06 Oct 08 146,559 02 Oct 06 112,224
04 Sep 08 145,089 05 Sep 06 109,727
04 Aug 08 144,011 07 Aug 06 108,209
07 Jul 08 142,798 05 Jul 06 106,569
02 Jun 08 141,490 05 Jun 06 105,394
05 May 08 140,323 01 May 06 103,620
02 Apr 08 138,737 03 Apr 06 102,519
03 Mar 08 137,534
06 Mar 06
101,270
04 Feb 08 135,842
06 Feb 06
99,541
02 Jan 08 134,658
03 Jan 06
97,980
03 Dec 07 131,406
05 Dec 05
96,877
05 Nov 07 130,302
07 Nov 05
95,905
01 Oct 07 127,903
03 Oct 05
94,201
06 Sep 07 126,715
06 Sep 05
90,495
06 Aug 07 125,012
01 Aug 05
88,163
02 Jul 07 123,710
05 Jul 05
86,938
04 Jun 07 121,857
06 Jun 05
85,619
07 May 07 120,777
02 May 05
84,187
02 Apr 07 119,375
04 Apr 05
82,917
05 Mar 07 118,257
07 Mar 05
81,822
05 Feb 07 116,710
07 Feb 05
80,115
02 Jan 07 115,345
03 Jan 05
78,591

 
New Safari Mileage - Pre-2005
Date
Odometer
Date
Odometer
06 Dec 04 77,368
02 Jan 03
36,762
01 Nov 04 76,003
02 Dec 02
35,128
04 Oct 04 74,626
04 Nov 02
33,351
07 Sep 04 73,191
07 Oct 02
31,550
02 Aug 04 70,801
03 Sep 02
28,689
06 Jul 04 69,575
05 Aug 02
26,565
03 Jun 04 68,562
02 Jul 02
23,888
04 May 04 67,095
03 Jun 02
22,033
05 Apr 04 65,291
07 May 02
20,761
01 Mar 04 63,433
01 Apr 02
19,096
02 Feb 04 61,693
04 Mar 02
17,911
05 Jan 04 60,445
04 Feb 02
16,246
01 Dec 03 58,382
02 Jan 02
14,705
03 Nov 03 57,016 03 Dec 01
13,531
06 Oct 03 54,722 05 Nov 01
12,329
02 Sep 03 51,236 01 Oct 01
10,616
04 Aug 03 48,955 10 Sep 01
9,648
07 Jul 03 47,928 06 Aug 01
7,479
02 Jun 03 46,208
02 Jul 01
5,792
05 May 03 44,935
04 Jun 01
3,399
08 Apr 03 43,126
07 May 01
1,985
03 Mar 03 40,594
02 Apr 01
365
03 Feb 03 38,795
30 Mar 01
87
  
Charlie's Recent Rated Reads
Rating is out of a possible five.
Fiction / Classic Literature
Non-Fiction
Title Author Rating
Inherit the Stars James P. Hogan
The Sword of the Lady S. M. Stirling
Orphans of theSky Robert Heinlein 4
Soldier, Ask Not Gordon R. Dickson 2.5
Rub up: Musings of a Navy Corpsman Mitchell J. Rycus 4
Harald David Friedman 2.5
The Shadow of Saganami David Weber 4
Confessions of a Crap Artist Philip K. Dick 4.5
Babel 17 Samuel R. Delaney 4
Starliner David Drake 3.5
Earthweb Mark Stiegler 3.5
Sunrise Alley Catheraine Asaro 3.5
An Acceptable Time Madeleine L'Engle 2.5
The Nonsense Books Edward Lear 4
Crown of Fire [3 of 3] Kathy Tyers 4.5
Fusion Fire [2 of 3] Kathy Tyers 4.5
The Infinite Sea [3 of 3] Jeffrey A. Carver 3.5
Firebird [1 of 3] Kathy Tyers 4.5
Strange Attractors [2 of 3] Jeffrey A. Carver 3
Crawling Between Heaven and Earth Sarah A. Hoyt 3.5
Neptune Crossing [1 of 3] Jeffrey A. Carver 3.5
Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler 5
The Outlaw of Torn Edgar Rice Burroughs 3.5
Lest Darkness Fall L. Sprague deCamp 4
Three Hearts and Three Lions Poul Anderson 4
The Golden Man Philip K. Dick 4.5
Storm Over Warlock Andre Norton 3.5
Black Seas of Infinity H.P. Lovecraft 4.5
In the Courts of the Crimson Kings S. M. Stirling 4
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 5
The Christmas Mystery Jostein Gaarder 4.5
The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster 3.5
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader C.S. Lewis 5
A Voyage to Arcturus David Lindsay 5
Freezing Point Karen Dionne 3.5
The Shadow of the Lion Lackey, Flint, & Freer 3.5
Collected Plays Charles Williams 4
First Lensman E.E. "Doc" Smith 3.5
The Well at the World's End William Morris 4
The Pilgrim's Regress C.S. Lewis 5
Triplanetary E.E. "Doc" Smith 3.5
A Plague of Demons Keith Laumer 3.5
War In Heaven Charles Williams 5
The Last Continent Terry Pratchett 4
The Unforsaken Hiero Sterling E. Lanier 3.5
Prince Caspian C.S. Lewis 5
Crown of Slaves David Weber & Eric Flint 4
Genellan: Planetfall Scott Gier 3
Emerald Sea John Ringo 3.5
Primary Inversion Catherine Asaro 3.5
The Light Fantastic Terry Pratchett 4
The Excalibur Alternative David Weber 3.5
Born to Run Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon 3.5
Fallen Angels Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, & Michael Flynn 4
Doc Sidhe Aaron Allston 3.5
A Logic Named Joe Murray Leinster 4
Fatal Revenant Stephen R. Donaldson 4.5
The Tyrant Eric Flint & David Drake 4
Cross the Stars David Drake 3.5
Future Imperfect Keith Laumer, Jr. 3.5
Beowulf: 
Dual Language Edition		 Howell D. Chickering, Jr. 5
The Course of Empire Eric Flint & K.D. Wentworth 3.5
The Sunrise Lands S.M. Stirling 4
The Far Side of the Stars David Drake 3.5
Nova Samuel R. Delaney 4
The Forlorn Dave Freer 3.5
Freehold Michael Z. Williamson 4
Wisdom of the Fox Harry Turtledove 3.5
Time Travelers Strictly Cash Spider Robinson 4
The Dance of Time [6 of 6]
(at last!)		 Eric Flint & David Drake 4.5
A Plague of Demons Keith Laumer 3.5
Bridge to Terebithia Katherine Paterson 5
Rollback Robert J. Sawyer 4
This Sceptered Isle Mercedes Lackey & Roberta Gellis 4
Changer of Worlds David Weber (& Eric Flint) 3.5
Night of Light Philip José Farmer 4
West of Honor Jerry Pournelle 3
Wizardry Compiled Rick Cook 3.5
Three Hearts and Three Lions Poul Anderson 4.5
The Multiplex Man James P. Hogan 3.5
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Philip K. Dick 4.5
Into the Looking Glass John Ringo 4
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 5
Great Kings' War Roland Green & John F. Carr 2.5
Sisters of Glass D.W. St. John 4.5
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Wizard's Bane Rick Cook 3.5
Sunset Alley Catherine Asaro 3.5
1812: The Rivers of War Eric Flint 4
Redliners David Drake 4.5
There Will Be Dragons John Ringo 4
That Hideous Strength C.S. Lewis 5
Sentry Peak Harry Turtledove 3.5
The Runes of Earth Stephen R. Donaldson 4
On The Road Jack Kerouac 4.5
Wolf Time Lars Walker 4
Michaelmas Algis Budrys 4
Black On Black K.D. Wentworth 3.5
Stars Over Stars K.D. Wentworth 3.5
The Two Faces of Tomorrow James P. Hogan 2.5
All Hallow's Eve Charles Williams 5
The Greater Trumps Charles Williams 5
The Sea Hag David Drake 3
The Honor of the Queen David Weber 3.5
Mort Terry Pratchett 3.5
On Basilisk Station David Weber 3.5
Mutineer's Moon David Weber 3.5
Crusade David Weber & Steve White 4
The Hub: Dangerious Territory James Schmitz 3
Boundary Eric Flint & Ryk Spoor 4
Berserker Throne Fred Saberhagen 3.5
Diamonds Are Forever Eric Flint & Ryk Spoor 3
The Lion of Farside John Dalmas 4
The Mountains of Mourning Lois McMaster Bujold 3.5
Doc Sidhe Aaron Allston 3.5
Beyond World's End Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill 3.5
The Warslayer Rosemary Edghill 3.5
Seas of Venus David Drake 3
Interstellar Patrol Christopher Anvil 3
Pandora's Legion Christopher Anvil 3.5
The Five People You Meet in Hell Rich Pablum 3
Resonance Chris Dolley 4
Werehunter Mercedes Lackey 3
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever James Tiptree, Jr. 3.5
Orlando Furioso Ariosto 5
Silverlock, incl the Silverlock Companion John Myers Myers 5
Pattern Recognition William Gibson 3.5
Prince Caspian [2 of 7] C.S. Lewis 5
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
[1 of 7]		 C.S. Lewis 5
Telzey and Trigger James Schmitz 3
A Torrent of Faces James Blish & Norman Knight 4
The Earthlords Gordon R. Dickson 4
Iceworld Hal Clement 4
Many Dimensions Charles Williams 5
Born to Run Mercedes Lackey + Larry Dixon 3
I Am Charlotte Jones Tom Wolf
Telzey Amberdon James Schmitz 3
The Dream Master
(I re-read this one)		 Roger Zelazny 4
Heroics for Beginners John Moore 3
The War God's Own David Weber 4
The Taking Dean Koontz 4
March to the Sea David Weber & John Ringo 4
Gust Front John Ringo 3.5
The Lighter Side Keith Laumer 3.5
Oath of Swords David Weber 3.5
Paying the Piper David Weber 3
Fire in the Mist Holly Lisle 3.5
Forward the Mage Eric Flint & Richard Roach 3
Digital Knight Ryk Spoor 3
Star Soldiers Andre Norton 3
Sympathy for the Devil Holly Lisle 3.5
Fiddler Fair Mercedes Lackey 3
Beyond Theodore Sturgeon 4.5
Fallen Angels Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, & Michael Flynn 3.5
Mission Compromised Oliver North 3.5
The Crystal City [6 of 6] Orson Scott Card 4
The Place of the Lion Charles Williams 5
Agent of Byzantium Harry Turtledove 4.5
March Upcountry David Weber & John Ringo 3.5
The Dreaming Earth John Brunner 4
The Stars My Destination Alfred Bester 4.5
A Hymn Before Battle John Ringo 3.5
Silverlock John Myers Myers 5
Planets of Adventure Murray Leinster 4
Time Traders Andre Norton 3.5
Med Ship Murray Leinster 4
The DaVinci Code Dan Brown 3
The Shadow of the Lion Lackey, Flint, & Freer 3.5
The Pilgrim's Progress - Part 2 John Bunyan 5
The Far Edge of Darkness Linda Evans 3.5
The Pilgrim's Progress - Part 1 John Bunyan 5
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Baron Munchausen 5
Odyssey Keith Laumer 4
The Sheep Look Up John Brunner 4
The Classic Phillip José Farmer [anthology] Phillip José Farmer 4
The Magic Labyrinth
[4 of 4]		 Phillip José Farmer 3.5
The Dark Design [3 of 4] Phillip José Farmer 4
The Fabulous Riverboat [2 of 4] Phillip José Farmer 4
To Your Scattered Bodies Go [1 of 4] Phillip José Farmer 4.5
Sleipnir Linda Evans 4
Title Author Rating
Glory Road Robert Heinlein 4
The End of All Songs
[3 of 3]		 Michael Moorcock 4.5
The Hollow Lands
[2 of 3]		 Michael Moorcock 4.5
An Alien Heat [1 of 3] Michael Moorcock 4.5
The Last Battle [7 of 7] C.S. Lewis 5
The Magician's Nephew [6 of 7] C.S. Lewis 5
The Horse and His Boy [5 of 7] C.S. Lewis 5
The Silver Chair [4 of 7] C.S. Lewis 5
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [3 of 7] C.S. Lewis 5
Prince Caspian [2 of 7] C.S. Lewis 5
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
[1 of 7]		 C.S. Lewis 5
The Sea Wolf Jack London 4.5
The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick 4
The Anarchistic Colossus A.E. Van Vogt 3
The Ballad of Beta-2 Samuel R. Delaney 4 
Chicken Poop for the Soul   3 
1633 Eric Flint & David Weber 3.5
Bytes Akimbo - Cybersleuth Charlie van Becelaere 5
Stories of India Rudyard Kipling 5
Heartfire [5 of 6] Orson Scott Card 4.5
Alvin Journeyman [4 of 6] Orson Scott Card 4.5
Prentice Alvin [3 of 6] Orson Scott Card 4.5
Red Prophet [2 of 6] Orson Scott Card 4.5
Seventh Son [1 of 6] Orson Scott Card 4
Return of the King [3 of 3] J.R.R. Tolkein 5
The Tide of Victory
[5 of 6]		 Eric Flint & David Drake 4.5
The Two Towers [2 of 3] J.R.R. Tolkein 5
Agent of Vega, and other stories James Schmidt 3
Old Nathan David Drake 3.5
Topper Thorne Smith 4.5
Starlight Hal Clement 3
Fortune's Stroke 
[4 of 6]		 Eric Flint & David Drake 4
Retief! Keith Laumer 4
The Philosophical Strangler Eric Flint 3
Destiny's Shield [3 of 6] Eric Flint & David Drake 4
In the Heart of Darkness [2 of 6] Eric Flint & David Drake 4
An Oblique Approach [1 of 6] Eric Flint & David Drake 4
Excalibur Sanders Anne Laubenthal 4
1632 Eric Flint 4
Fallen Angels Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, & Michael Flynn 3.5
Tales of Earthsea & the Other Wind Ursula K. LeGuin 3
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 3
GildenFire Stephen R. Donaldson 3.5
White Gold Wielder  [3 of 3] Stephen R. Donaldson 4.5
The One Tree  [2 of 3] Stephen R. Donaldson 4
The Wounded Land  [1 of 3] Stephen R. Donaldson 4.5
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard 3.5
The Power That Preserves [3 of 3] Stephen R. Donaldson 4.5
The Illearth War [2 of 3] Stephen R. Donaldson 4.5
Lord Foul's Bane [1 of 3] Stephen R. Donaldson 4
A Swiftly Tilting Planet Madeleine L'Engle 4
A Wind in the Door Madeleine L'Engle 4
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle 5
Eaters of the Dead Michael Chricton 4
Beyond Theodore Sturgeon 4
Neuromancer William Gibson 4
Rainbow Six Tom Clancy 4 
Dying Inside Robert Silverberg 5
The Best of John Sladek John Sladek 4
Lord of Light Roger Zelazny 4
Crown of Fire [3 of 3] Kathy Tyers 4.5
Fusion Fire [2 of 3] Kathy Tyers 4.5
Firebird[1 of 3] Kathy Tyers 4.5
Bored of the Rings the Harvard Lampoon 4
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkein 5
The Eleventh Commandment Jeffrey Archer 4
Beowulf: 
Dual Language Edition		 Howell D. Chickering, Jr. 4
John Carter of Mars 
[11 of 11]		 Edgar Rice Burroughs 2.5 / 3
Llana of Gathol
[10 of 11]		 Edgar Rice Burroughs 2.5
Synthetic Men of Mars 
[9 of 11]		 Edgar Rice Burroughs 4
Swords of Mars 
[8 of 11]		 Edgar Rice Burroughs 4
A Fighting Man of Mars 
[7 of 11]		 Edgar Rice Burroughs 4
The Master Mind of Mars 
[6 of 11]		 Edgar Rice Burroughs 4
The Chessmen of Mars 
[5 of 11]		 Edgar Rice Burroughs 4
Thuvia, Maid of Mars 
[4 of 11]		 Edgar Rice Burroughs 3
The Warlord of Mars 
[3 of 11]		 Edgar Rice Burroughs 4
The Gods of Mars 
[2 of 11]		 Edgar Rice Burroughs 4
A Princess of Mars 
[1 of 11]		 Edgar Rice Burroughs 4
That Hideous Strength [3 of 3] C.S. Lewis 5
Perelandra [2 of 3] C.S. Lewis 5
Out of the Silent Planet [1 of 3] C.S. Lewis 5
The Müller-Fokker Effect John Sladek 4
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 4
This Day All Gods Die [5 of 5] Stephen R. Donaldson 4
Chaos and Order 
[4 of 5]		 Stephen R. Donaldson 4
A Dark and Hungry God Arises [3 of 5] Stephen R. Donaldson 4
Forbidden Knowledge [2 of 5] Stephen R. Donaldson 4
The Real Story [1 of 5] Stephen R. Donaldson 4
Silverlock John Myers Myers 5
Tales of Nevèrÿon Samuel R. Delaney 0
Night of Light Philip José Farmer 4
A Case of Conscience [4of 4] James Blish 5
The Day After Judgment [3of 4] James Blish 5
Black Easter [2 of 4] James Blish 5
Doctor Mirabilis [1of 4] James Blish 5
A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller, Jr. 5
Title Author Rating
The Artist's Way
(re-reading it)		 Julie Cameron
Vikings - Fear and Faith Paul Cavill 4.5
The Strenuous Life Theodore Roosevelt 4
Musicophilia Oliver Sacks 0.5
On Wine Gerald Asher 4.5
The Great Beers of Belgium Michael Jackson (no, not that one) 4
Flat and Curved Space-Times George Ellis & Ruth Williams
Ted, White, and Blue Ted Nugent 5
John Wesley: The Great Methodist Sam Wellman 4
An Introduction to Old Norse E.V. Gordon 4
Renew My Heart John Wesley 5
The Book of Common Ignorance John Lloyd, + 3.5
The Year of Living Biblically A.J. Jacobs
The Viking World (I forget) 3.5
The Arthurian Companion Kay Parker 4
The Age of Chivalry National Geographic Books 4
Godless: the Church of Liberalism Ann Coulter 4.5
Free Culture Lawrence Lessig 4
Revising Fiction David Madden 3.5
Past Watchful Dragons Walter Hooper 4
The Unheavenly City -  Revisited Edward Banfield 5
The Road to Reality K.P. Yohannon 3
John Wesley's (edited) Journals (I forget)
How to Talk to a Liberal Ann Coulter 4
Breaking the DaVinci Code Darrell L. Bock, PhD 4
Systematic Theology - vol 1 The Living God Thomas Oden
The DaVinci Code Fact or Fiction? Hank Hanegraaff & Paul Maier 3.5
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time Marcus Borg 0.5
We Took To The Woods Louise Dickinson Rich 5
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
 Douglas R. Hofstadter 2.5
(man, I remembered this as being way better than this.)
The Artist's Way
(re-reading it)		 Julia Cameron 4.5
Worlds in Collision Immanuel Velikovsky 2.5
The Meaning of Relativity Albert Einstein 4
The Case for Christ - Student Edition Lee Strobel & Jane Vogel 5
A Day In Your Presence - Devotions from Francis of Assisi David Hazard 3.5
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton Edward Rice 4
The Artist's Way Julia Cameron 4
The Joyful Christian C.S. Lewis 5
The Study of Counterpoint Johan Joseph Fux 3.5
The Iron Sun Adrian Berry 4
You Set My Spirit Free - Devotions from John of the Cross David Hazard 4
Non Campus Mentis Prof. Anders Henriksson 4
Reasoning from the Scriptures with Jehovah's Witnesses Ron Rhodes 4
The Abolition of Man C.S. Lewis 5
On Wine Gerald Asher 4
Laws of Form G. Spencer-Brown 4.5
The Great Beers of Belgium Michael Jackson (no, not that one) 3.5
The John Wesley Reader Al Bryant 4
Talking With My Father: Jesus Teaches on Prayer Ray Stedman 5
Hearts Afire: Prayers of Susannah, John, and Charles Wesley Those Wesleys plus an editor 5
Prayer: Conversations with God Rosalind Rinker 4
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer C. S. Lewis 5
Jimmy the Bartender's Guide to Life James Kennedy 4
The Deceivers Josh McDowell + 4
Resurrection Hank Hanegraff 3
How the Irish Saved Civilization Thomas Cahill 4
Tolkien : a Look Behind the Lord of the Rings Lin Carter 3
Slouching Towards Gomorra Robert H. Bork 3
Rating is out of a possible five.

 
 
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