List #408: Books I'm in the Middle of Right now

List #408: Books I'm in the Middle of Right now

1. Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan (because the resolutions require it)

2.Fables, Deluxe Edition, vol.2 , Willingham/Buckingham, et al.

3.Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins

4. Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky

5. A Theory of Fun for Game Design, Ralph Koster

6. Silas Marner, George Eliot

7. The Third Coast: Sailors, Strippers, Fisherman, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-The-Queen Monarchists of the Great Lakes, Ted McClelland

8. Dead to the World, Charlaine Harris

List #407: A few things I learned on the ski-trip this weekend

List #407: A few things I learned skiing this weekend

1. Skis are tiny now!

2. I still know how to do it.

3. I don't mind being the dork that skis in sweat-pants (I had pj pants underneath for 'layering'), but never jeans!

4. Approximately every other person there (Blue Knob, PA) was #7 for the steelers (and wearing jeans)

5. Ice and rain aren't the best conditions

6. Chairlifts are still scary (especially with small children)

7. Broken glass is the greater danger of walking barefoot through the snow

8. I ought to ski more often

9. Younger kids are hilarious.

10. Good gloves are key.

List #406: 3 Foods I'm Way More Into Than I Used To Be

List #406: 3 Foods I'm Way More Into Than I Used To Be

1. Cucumbers

2. Barley

3. Pumpkin

List #405: Skiing Memories

List #405: Skiing Memories (Because it's been 15 years)

1. Having a back table in the Moosehead Saloon

2. Free ski passes because Mom worked at Spirit Mt.

3. Storing my stuff in the ski shop

4. Jamming my thumb really bad on the death cookies.

5. Skiing 3 days a week sometimes in middle school.

6. Falling off a ski lift (it was at the beginning, and only like 5 feet off the ground).

7. Learning about the "no tucking" rules while on the bunny hill (after watching Pirmin Zurbriggin and Alberto Tomba in the 1988 olympics)

8. First kiss (on a ski-lift)

9. All of my awesome (Then, and now seemingly ridiculously-awesome) ski gear

10. All of my skiing friends.

List #404: Things I Have Lost

List #404: Things I Have Lost or have had stolen.

1. My Weather Report "Black Market" cd

2. Two fleeces last year

3. My tube of chapstick (that was in a fleece)

4. a Dukes of Hazzard car (down the vents in my own house)

5. The data on a broken disc of mp3s

6. Much of the data on a hard drive

7. The Bean and Tuna can strainer

8. My old glasses in the lake

9. A He-Man Kite (age ~4 or 5)

10. Some blue hair dye (stolen!)

11. A Watch (and the lock on the gym locker in HS)

12. My previous bass amp

13. Much of a short story I started writing in 5th grade (and didn't save on the computer)

14. The rest of my ideas for this list.

List #403: A few reasons I like February

List #403: A few reasons I like February

1. It starts off awesome

2. It's the only month with a variable number of days

3. Most of the time it's the only month evenly divisible into weeks.

4. It is in the Winter

5. NFL is over

6. African American History is interesting

7. George Washington is awesome

8. 1 Word: Punxsutawney

9. "Groundhog Day" is a great Bill Murray movie.

List #402: Rules for My (Second) Year in Lists

List #402: Rules for My (Second) Year in Lists

1. The goal is 1 list published per day, each day

2. This year's lists will sometimes be more interactive/participatory

3. It is acceptable to Revisit/Revise older lists, but not excessively (it gets harder and harder to remember what's already been done)

4. Guest Lists? Yes.

5. Retroactivity is allowed in rare cases

6. Lists are Hard, dude

7. Comments are encouraged even by lurkers and FB creepers

8. Everyone is Wrong. Always.

9. It's okay to be scared

10. Permission to Suck has been obtained. The Perfect is still the enemy of the good.