document.write('<div class="sidebar-module linkbox-module" id="linkbox-module-astros_links_and_other_items_of_interest">');
document.write('<h5>Astros Links and Other Items of Interest<\/h5>');
document.write('<ul><\/ul>');
document.write('<\/div><div class="sidebar-module linkbox-module" id="linkbox-module-books_alltime_favorites_and_currently_by_the_bed">');
document.write('<h5>Books: All-Time Favorites and Currently by the Bed<\/h5>');
document.write('<ul>');
document.write('<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385721676">Oryx and Crake<\/a><br />');
document.write('An all-time favorite. Also currently by the bed, as I\'m planning to read it again soon.<\/li>');
document.write('<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1931520151">Magic for Beginners<\/a><br />');
document.write('Currently reading this along with Underworld. In this book is like my third or fourth favorite short story of all time, "Stone Animals." I highly recommend it.<\/li>');
document.write('<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0684848155">Underworld<\/a><br />');
document.write('The Prologue to this book is one of the most evocative baseball scenes I\'ve ever read (about the 1951 playoff game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants). I finished the prologue and immediately wanted to read it again.<\/li>');
document.write('<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1573225797">Civilwarland in Bad Decline<\/a><br />');
document.write('All time favorite book of short stories. And he\'s one of my professors. How lucky am I??<\/li>');
document.write('<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0684803356">For Whom the Bell Tolls<\/a><br />');
document.write('An all-time favorite. Read it.<\/li>');
document.write('<\/ul>');
document.write('<\/div><div class="sidebar-module linkbox-module" id="linkbox-module-visitor_counter">');
document.write('<h5>Visitor Counter<\/h5>');
document.write('<ul>');
document.write('<li>Visitors Since April 17, 2006<br />');
document.write('<!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">');
document.write('var sc_project=1483054; ');
document.write('var sc_invisible=0; ');
document.write('var sc_partition=13; ');
document.write('var sc_security="bd78c4f8"; ');
document.write('<\/script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"><\/script><noscript><a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img  src="http://c14.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=1483054&amp;java=0&amp;security=bd78c4f8&amp;invisible=0" alt="web site hit counter" border="0"><\/a> <\/noscript>');
document.write('<!-- End of StatCounter Code --><\/li>');
document.write('<\/ul>');
document.write('<\/div>');