Read a couple of good books. Bryson's Lost Continent is about Bill's travels through America as he tried to find the perfect small town. He gets close but never finds his 'Amalgam'. Along the way he mostly finds cheesy tourist traps and sites and sounds that remind him of trips with his father as a boy. Lost Continent wasn't as engaging as A Walk in the Woods. In the latter his sarcasm is often very funny. In the former, it often comes off as whining.

Last weekend I read the War of Art by Steven Pressfield. It is a short and lively book that's hard to put down. It's a series of short, insightful tidbits--almost a meditation--on why we don't do the things we are "supposed" to do. Resistance is the thing that keeps us from being true to ourselves. The book explains sources of Resistance and offers a firm foot applied to your backside to get you moving. There are a couple of times Steven gets a little too metaphysical but I still enjoyed it.

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D-Link how I took you for granted! Your blazingly fast wireless connection was assumed to be what everyone else on the block was getting, but no! I threw you away like an old acoustic modem in favor of my Centrino processor. What was I thinking? Centrino can't hold a candle to you, D-Link! What a fool I was. You had a special way of talking to my D-Link base station--it said so right on the box but would I listen? No. Listen, D-Link, I was a complete ass. Would you consider gracing my new laptop with your presence? I shall warm up a PCMCIA slot just like you like it. Say you'll take me back! Please?! I spit on Centrino!

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