reading books

I am notorious among a few of my friends for not watching very many movies or reading books for pleasure. I am sure I could rack my brain for a few hours and come up with a perfectly plausible explanation for it, but it generally comes down to a short attention span. I never have been much of one for passive media, so sitting in a theater or through a 90 minute movie is tough.

I was listening to Dave Ramsey this afternoon and he fielded a call I’ve heard him take several times in the past–”Should I quite my job (or sell my house, or cash in my savings, or sell my kid, etc.) to go back to school and get a master’s degree?”  I think this is a pretty tough question to deal with.  On one hand, there’s a ton of knowledge to be gained

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I have to admit that a part of me wants it to rain this weekend. I just got some new beach reading books, and I want to finish my old ones before we go beaching.

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SVD has made a great find.

I don’t really enjoy the beach for the water, the sand, or the sun. I love going to the beach because it’s relaxing, pressure free, and I can read a lot.

I was late in coming to the anti-global warming cause.

We're in trouble now.

Chief Executive Howard Schultz told the company's annual meeting there was no "silver bullet" for fixing Starbucks, whose stock has dropped 40 percent over the last 12 months.

It has been Flu Central here at the Osenga house this week. I got off the bus Monday afternoon and, apart from a half day singing bgv’s for the incredible Jon Troast (whose record I played guitar on this past Friday), and a day mixing an EP for a Birmingham artist named Natalie Moon, I’ve been at home trying to be a good dad to some sick girls.