First time I have driven in weather conditions that were completely unnavigable for me ( Read more... )

2011 was a good year ( Read more... )

These are all the books I read in 2011, starting with my favorites from the year ( Read more... )

Meredith and I celebrated our second anniversary together with a trip out to Greenville, SC this weekend. We took Friday and Monday off work to make it an extended weekend and really enjoy it ( Read more... )

Lifestyle Fitness was bought out by Lifetime Fitness. Ironic. Fortunately the gym is staying open (hopefully unchanged) and my membership will go unchanged for at least a year, so that's fine ( Read more... )

I guess this was a weekend for my online accounts to upgrade their websites. Both Grooveshark and Chase have dramatically changed their layouts (and it was only last week that Gmail updated as well). I am annoyed with Chase's changes, I can't get to a detail listing of my recent purchases. The other sites are meh ( Read more... )

Taken two road trips to Missouri with Meredith and her family in the past couple weeks. On the second trip back we returned with her grandmother's cat, Tabby ( Read more... )

Went to see Abbie in the Lebanon musical play "Camelot", Friday night. The play wasn't bad, felt like there were some fictional inconsistencies with the Arthur legend (for instance, in the play, Morgan Le Faye was Mordred's aunt and not his mother and Merlin was seduced by Nimue instead of Vivian). Not sure if these came from certain variations of ( Read more... )

Almost every day at lunch Chad and I walk from Aprimo down to the Nora shopping area. Chad will typically get lunch and I may or may not run some errands while I'm down there. Typically these errands would be pick up/drop off books at the library, get something from Super Target, mail something at the post office ( Read more... )

My mind is heavily focused on writing right now, trying to spend some time every week writing something new, editing something I wrote a couple months ago, and getting something ready to send off to some literary fiction magazine, likely to be rejected by them six weeks later ( Read more... )