Anyway, here are the happenings:

• I'm heading to Louisville this week to visit my buddy Jay.
• I will be starting the new job on May 11th, my birthday.
• It's spring here and I'm getting restless. I need to force myself to get out more.
• Finished reading Sideways today and it was great.

As you can guess I'm excited. It'll be interesting to work on a product that I use every day. I'm not sure of the exact date that I'll be transitioning but that's not much of a concern. I'm just excited about working on something new.

One thing that I've yet to get used to is the ability to buy a book where ever I am. I'm used to thinking I have to pre purchase and lug around with me what I want to read. Now, where ever I am, I can purchase the book and have it almost instantly. It's crazy, really.

I'm currently reading The Picture of Dorian Gray. It and other classics are free (e.g. Treasure Island, The Three Musketeers, Frankenstein, etc.). Other devices have the same as these are public domain but regardless I love this feature. I'm a fan of the classics.

Anyway, it's a wonderful thing. It has allowed me to read again and has coaxed me into reading more. I thought this would be a much more difficult task than it ended up being.

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I've managed to pull a lot of my older posts into the site. I hopefully didn't lose anything in the process.

It's been interesting flipping back through my years of posts. It's still hard to read anything I posted about Buck but they help me remember. A goal of mine is to type up my Labyrinthitis history and provide specific information on my status as it seems like an important thing to document. Previously this information has only been available in scattered videos and posts.

Saturday night I read a chapter in a book I'm trying to read, it's slow going. I then watched Eagle Eye in HD. About half way through I knew I was going to be hurting afterwards. When I woke up Sunday my eyes were killing me. I laid down all Sunday and watched/listened to TV to rest my eyes. If the eye patch experiment would have worked this would have been the time I would have used it. I normally just end up holding one eye shut. I might use tape next time.

This morning I had to be at work at 5:30am for a product launch. It was rough. I was in a cramped room with about 50 other people. I was afraid I was going to fall when walking to my seat and panicked a little. I came home around noon and slept all afternoon. I think I'm handicapped.

I'd forgotten how nice it was to read a book and get lost in some unplanned unexpected thought. For the last year and half I've had to think and plan about every minute to make sure that whatever I'm doing won't negatively impact my ability to do my job or perform some other activity like going to the grocery store. I've been able to get out of my head briefly while watching a movie but even then I have to make sure to look away when something visually stimulating could come next. But if I can get back to reading maybe I can get out of my head for a while. At this point that's all I want, to get out of this head.

There are some things happening that I'm looking forward to. I'll let everyone know if or when that happens. I'm not even sure if anyone checks this thing anymore...

For some reason tonight I got the urge to write again. I also want to read again. I haven't been able to read much this last year and a half. The print in most books is too hard on my eyes. It's either too small or the contrast is too drastic. A coworker recommended the Kindle in that I should be able to control the font size and contrast but still have the book feel. I'm thinking about it but it's such a large purchase I need to make sure that I'll actually use it. A couple of coworkers have them so maybe I'll be able to take one for a test drive. I've listened to a few audio books but the selection is still limited. It's also hard to flip back and forth with audio when with a book you can actually flip.

Final one. Sorry about the shakiness.