Archive for January, 2009

The Book Thief [Book Review]

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

The Book Thief – Markus Zuzak
I was recommended The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak by a member of LibraryThing as part of my 999 Challenge to read more Young Adult literature. If my teacher had assigned it in high school, I would have been unhappy. Clocking in at 550 pages, it might look like a [...]

All aTwitter Redux : 9 Months In

Monday, January 26th, 2009

It’s been almost 9 months since I started using Twitter and it’s kind of been a revelation. I was looking at my old post back when I first joined and laughed when I saw how skeptical that I was that I was going to find it at all useful. As it stands now, Twitter is [...]

On Quitting Smoking

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

I’ve been a smoker for a long time.  I think I was just around 16 when I started. Back then, it was rebellious and cool. The problem has been has become that it is no longer rebellious or cool, plus it is crazy unhealthy and my wife hates it. I don’t even enjoy it that [...]

Goals for 2009

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

So 2008 has come to an end and I am looking forward to 2009. Since I don’t like resolutions, I’ve decided to set goals instead. This has seemed to work out pretty well in the past so I will continue it this year. One thing that I didn’t like about last year’s goals was I [...]