Bike odometer:Â 2472
Van odometer: 152961
Weight lost (in pounds):Â 0
Aches & pains: left shin (bumped into a fire pit)
Current reading: The Book of Totally Useless Information by Don Voorhees, My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Recent listening: Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, In Rainbows by Radiohead, News from Lake Wobegon, Science Friday, Fresh Air
Recent viewing: Countdown, My Life on the D List, How I Met Your Mother, WALL•E
Recent playing: Chain Factor, Rock Band (Wii)
Recently accomplished:Â cat boxes, bought clothes for business trip, paid bills, packed for two day business trip, haircut, bought new shoes for first time in 10 years, pulled dandelions
Imperative To Do: Sell G4, get rid of junk (couch, vacuum cleaner, mower), buy trailer for van, activate new Tivo, oil change for van, weeds, clean garage, mow lawn, moss, new muxtape, upload pictures
What I got for Christmas
- Gift card for Tower Records turned into greatest hits CDs:
- The Carter Family
- Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
- Michael Martin Murphy
- Box of Botticelli Masterpiece chocolates
- Crooked Fingers CD
- Half.com gift certificate turned into CDs
- Imagine by John Lennon
- Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to Johnny Cash
- Rid of Me by P.J. Harvey
- House of Large Sizes
- Half.com gift certificate turned into CDs and books:
- Especially for You by The Smithereens
- Fight Songs by Old 97’s
- Still Feel Gone by Uncle Tupelo
- No Prima Donna: A Tribute to Van Morrison
- Postville by Stephen G. Bloom
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
- Flavius Josephus by Josephus
- The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
- The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
- Update 1/3: I almost forgot that my lovely wife bought matching gear hoodies for me just before Christmas.