I caught Pete Hamill on Real Time with Bill Mahr last night. Pete Hamill’s book, Forever is on my short list of all-time favorite books. If you’ve never read it before, it is amazing, and I highly recommend it. On the show they mentioned Hamill’s new novel, North River, which I have just picked up…
My general rule for bailing out of a book is if I don’t make much progress after 2-3 days. It usually means I’ve lost interest, because when I am interested in a book, I make time for it. Because I’m biased against Reagan, I gave him a week, but while I made it more than…
Trouble focusing on tasks today for some reason. I’m getting things done but not as much as I hoped. Maybe part of it is the bright blue sky I can see just out my office windows. The weather cooled off a bit today. It’s in the 70s and absolutely beautiful out. Had Chinese food for…
Long day with lots of meetings today. As far as the cold goes, I’m feeling better but still not 100%. I can tell because I ate very little today and my head is still stuffed. Hopefully that will be gone tomorrow. Nothing but junk in the mail. I spent an hour or so after I…
Despite sleeping in until nearly 2 PM yesterday, I was back in bed around 7 PM, and read for an hour or so before turning out the lights and going to sleep. I actually slept well, except around midnight, when I woke up coughing and with a dry throat and tossed and turning for half…
I’m feeling better, but still not 100%. I had the worst ear pain of my life in the decent into BWI this morning, to the point that I literally thought blood was going to ooze from my ears. It passed and hasn’t returned. When I got home, I took some NyQuil and got into bed…
[Written on 9/4/2007] I was up at about 7 AM. I had started The Reagan Diaries on the plane yesterday and continued reading it this morning until Dan and Megan were up. I figured that I’m so biased against Reagan as a president that I needed to read something that might alter my opinion of…
Went out for drinks with Kelly after work, which was a lot of fun, so I just got home a little while ago and I now have to wait for the laundry to run so that I have clothes to take with me to Morro Bay tomorrow. I’m getting up at 4 AM so it’s…
Fairly busy day at work today and I even managed to knock some things off my next actions lists, so I feel slightly accomplished. I feel even more accomplished on the writing front. I just finished another 700 words of “If By Reason of Strength…” (bringing the total to 1,200 words) and it still feels…
It’s not happening as quickly as I anticipated. I have yet to get back into a regular routine. I’ve been to the gym once since getting back from vacation a month ago and although I really want to get back into my routine, it’s hard to get up at 4:20 every morning. I’m gradually psyching…
I meant to be up at 7:30 but I didn’t get up until 8:30, thanks to a case of insomnia last night that kept me from falling asleep until sometime after 3 AM. Nevertheless, I got up and started right in on some chores, vacuuming, sweeping, running some laundry, cleaning the bathroom, usual stuff for…