Dmitri's Bucket of Projects

A couple of quick things of note: I saw this cool article on yahoo this morning which inspired today's post. I also just finished a great book called Stiff by Mary Roach. I'd heard about the book a long time ago and had pretty much forgotten about it until I saw it in the store before Christmas. I figured I'd wait until after Christmas as my mother and sister always get me good books for the holiday. Good as in critically well recieved, not always good as I enjoy them. The only thing I've asked from their books is they can't be Oprah books, and they can't have every male character being a contemptable twirp. So this year my mother got me Stiff and The Plague by Albert Camus. When I opened Stiff , she said that she'd heard it was really fascinating. I chuckled and, knowingly, asked "From who?" She couldn't remember. I decided not to remind her. I enjoyed the book quite a bit though it doesn't have a very steady pace. I found the first half of the book much more interesting than the later. Lastly: Burning Crusade is finally out. I pray I can get some more of my friends back into it. I miss playing and talking to them.

Yup, and it's not a knitting project. It's the purchase of place. Yeah, a mortgage. I've been working on this for some years now. I didn't think it would happen this soon when I started. I had always thought I'd wait until I was with married until I bought a place. Then a little over a year ago I came to the epiphany that I really can't wait for my life to get to a place to do things. Especally when I have no real control over it getting to that place. So last year on my birthday, I took the day off, wandered to Barnes and Noble and picked up a few books, most notably Home Buying For Dummies. I can not understate the value of that book. It reads incredibly easily to read, and just great for info. If you buy one book on it, buy that one. Of course I'm saying this before I've gone through the process. I'll review it again when I'm done. More progress to come.