Not really but I thought that was a clever title. I went home for Christmas and it was cold in MN/ND. It served as a good reminder that the weather I was leaving in Seattle was certainly winter but the Midwest, where I'm from, gets a hell of a lot colder and a hell of a lot more snow. I'll take my 45 and cloudy and gladly complain about the inch of snow or temps approaching freezing. Such is my burden. I went up to Bellingham WA to spend New Years with my cousin and her finance at their new house. New house like they had only moved in 24-48 hours earlier and it was still be explored. Good times were had by all - happy 2009 to me. I think my goal is too buy snowboard equipment, take a few days off, and learn what the heck I'm doing.
In other news I'm a frequent flyer now on Northwest Airlines. I guess if you're going to fly on a crappy airline a lot you might as well do it with the occasional upgrade to first class or extra leg room. I got some free booze on my redeye home and enough space I didn't bump it to person next to me, which is nice.
I'm adding a new feature onto the blog as well called the reading to do list. Every so often I read fast enough and/or post infrequently enough that I'll read a book before I get to update the sidebar. I'm not sure how this is going to work because I'm kind of always changing the list around depending on my mood and because I usually have 10 books I'm waiting to read at any given time. I liked The Tipping Point and I'm Blink going to read next. The reason for the new addition is I read Apollo 13 in the space between posts. I don't know why I hadn't already read the Gladwell books since I loved Freakonomics so much.
That's enough about books. There probably should be lots more stuff to post about but my motivation seems to be waning, similar to the Minnesota Vikings. They are the ultimate tease - just good enough to get your hopes up but crappy enough to lose when it counts. I'm glad I had low expectations for them this season but it appears Brad Childress might keep his job. Blah.
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