101 in 1001-- Item # 26-- Do 250 mini courses

Why I Chose This: I enjoy learning about new things and find myself using google quite a bit. I also listen to lots of interesting podcasts: histrotical, how-to, sports, scientific, religious, etc. I figured I woud try to learn 250 new things...

What I Did: I purposefully looked up, listened to or read about 250 intersting subjects from the history of American Thanksgiving to how a light bulb works to how they landed on the moon. It was an interesting course of study I got to learn about things that interested me and once I figured that I had "had enough of this" I stopped and checked the box.

Go Navy Beat Army !

I'm a NaNoWriMo Winner for 2008

I just won my third National Novel Writing Month. This years novel, East Bend of the River. was completed two days early at 11:28 PST. Wahoo.

My Top 15 Podcasts

You can get interesting information and opinions through websites on the Internet. Thanks again Al Gore. In addition to websites and you-tube videos there is the radio version of the Internet called "Pod casts". They can be listened to from your desktop computer or downloaded to mp3 players like i-pods or Zunes. You can find interesting pod casts on the i-tunes site or another place called Podcast Alley. I'm a big listener to pod casts. Some come out daily, some weekly and others on very irregular schedules.

Here's my personal top fifteen in no particular order:

1- Skeptoid

2- The Enlightened Spartan

3- The Detroit Tigers Podcast

4- Through the Bible

5- 60 Second Science

6- Common Sense

7- Hardcore History

8- Bolt Talk

9- In the Word

10- Motivation to Move

11- Escape Pod

12- Backstory

13- One Minute How-to

14- Astronomy 161

15- Writing Excuses

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad

Happy 51st Anniversary mom and dad.

Wow... your marriage shows a level of love, honor and commitment that is unheard of in today's society; where five years together is considered by many a major achievment. You've been through the good times and the bad and your relationship has only grown stronger. Hope you have a great day!

We love you mom and dad!

Happy 20th Birthday Erin

Wasn't it only twenty years ago ??? Where does the time fly?

Wicked Clown Prison

Well, we all had fun- even the little kids.