With us 2/11/07 - 3/5/09This is for my Buddy Aikman. Although a real pain in the ass when we first got him, he turned into my buddy. We'll miss you buddy. You can rest in peace now.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Our Dogs - Bye Buddy, We'll Miss you
With us 2/11/07 - 3/5/09This is for my Buddy Aikman. Although a real pain in the ass when we first got him, he turned into my buddy. We'll miss you buddy. You can rest in peace now.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
The 306 Greatest Books #82 - Our Town
Note - This review was originally published on my other site "The Geology P.A.G.E." but due to the content I have moved it here and backdated the post.
The next up on my reading of the 306 greatest books is Our Town by Thorton Wilder. This book can be found on the Sybervision Book List.
While reading Our Town, I found that the play makes a whole lot more sense if you read the preface in addition to reading/watching it. From the outside, the play appears to be about a normal American family, but if you read the preface you would know that there is more than that. The family is meant to be timeless, which is a thing that was not known around Wilder's time. All the concurrent plays were grounded in specific eras, whereas Wilder removed all props and set pieces to give the play a timeless quality. Our Town is about any town in America, and about any family. And although it still feels a little dated, it actually has remained quite timeless. The plot was fairly simple and easy to follow; about a family growing up, loving, and dying, in a small American town. However, upon finishing the play I had this feeling that I was missing something. I'm still not quite sure what that was, but I did enjoy it.
The next up on my reading of the 306 greatest books is Our Town by Thorton Wilder. This book can be found on the Sybervision Book List.
While reading Our Town, I found that the play makes a whole lot more sense if you read the preface in addition to reading/watching it. From the outside, the play appears to be about a normal American family, but if you read the preface you would know that there is more than that. The family is meant to be timeless, which is a thing that was not known around Wilder's time. All the concurrent plays were grounded in specific eras, whereas Wilder removed all props and set pieces to give the play a timeless quality. Our Town is about any town in America, and about any family. And although it still feels a little dated, it actually has remained quite timeless. The plot was fairly simple and easy to follow; about a family growing up, loving, and dying, in a small American town. However, upon finishing the play I had this feeling that I was missing something. I'm still not quite sure what that was, but I did enjoy it.
Monday, March 2, 2009
The 306 Greatest Books #81 - Peer Gynt
Note - This review was originally published on my other site "The Geology P.A.G.E." but due to the content I have moved it here and backdated the post.
The next up on my reading of the 306 greatest books is Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen. This book can be found on the Sybervision Book List.
Peer Gynt is a play about a boy/man who started out running away from his troubles and inventing imaginary worlds from which to escape into. Although this was not the greatest of plays I have ever read, nor would I even include it on this list, I did not feel it was terrible at least. The moral of the story took a little bit of time to manifest itself but it eventually came. The pacing of the story was also all over the place. At times the story felt rushed, while at other points it dragged on. All if this could be attributed to the translation I read. I noticed that the translator tried too hard to modernize the story, making the text feel severely out of place at times. Overall, I would say that it was not bad but definitely not great.
The next up on my reading of the 306 greatest books is Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen. This book can be found on the Sybervision Book List.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
2009 Personal Goals - March Update
Note - This was originally published on my other site "The Geology P.A.G.E." but due to the content I have moved it here and backdated the post.
It has been 2 months since I set my goals (only one since I posted them online) and here is an update. You can see the goals in the left hand column.
1. Finish the first draft of my fiction novel. Nothing more completed
2. Drop my weight to 167lbs. I weighed myself this morning and I am at 175.2
3. Pay off all my credit cards. One of the 5 cards is payed off and about to be closed.
Other achievements of note are that I finished building the main parts of the bar and started to stain it. All I have left to add are the shelves and the trim once it has been stained and finished.
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It has been 2 months since I set my goals (only one since I posted them online) and here is an update. You can see the goals in the left hand column.
1. Finish the first draft of my fiction novel. Nothing more completed
2. Drop my weight to 167lbs. I weighed myself this morning and I am at 175.2
3. Pay off all my credit cards. One of the 5 cards is payed off and about to be closed.
Other achievements of note are that I finished building the main parts of the bar and started to stain it. All I have left to add are the shelves and the trim once it has been stained and finished.
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