Manhattan on days like today is pretty amusing - there's hardly anyone around. The subway was maybe 1/3 full - there were empty seats most of the week. Most days, it's jammed full of people.

I did the walk to work in a really good time this morning. My goal time set a long time ago was 10 minutes per 10 blocks and doing it in 36 minutes (It's right at 2 miles overall). Today, I did it in 30 minutes. I think the p90 weights is making me faster, which is pretty cool.

I took a nap yesterday afternoon, so I ended up not sleeping until late. I was up for 4 hours early christmas morning (from midnight-4am) working on an issue from being on call. So, I'm tired today and pretty sore and not motivated to do squat. I'm considering making today my rest day and not doing p90 tonight, but I'll see how I feel tonight.

For Christmas, my mother got me this book called 'Dewey', which is about a cat in a library in Iowa. It's apparently based on a real story. It's an okay read, but I find the author's writing style kind of annoying. I'm not one to pick up on sub-themes in books, but this one has them. They are:

1) Small-town Iowa is the best place to live ever and is the most beautiful place on the planet.
2) The authors life was hard. Very hard. Extremely difficult.
3) Dewey was the most perfectest animal ever.

I'm over-stating things a bit, and it's still a reasonable read, but I could do without some of that.

I'm nearing the end of the second book of the 'His Dark Materials' audiobooks. It's really good, but has some annoying traits as well. Essentially, part of the idea behind these books is to counter the Christian themes of the Chronicles of Narnia series. He does a pretty good job of doing so, but every so often there's these really annoying anti-Christian rants in the story. I'm not exactly pro-Christian - but it's sort of like using 'you're fat' as an insult to an overweight person - 'I know this. And?'

I think I'm going to do the subscription to Audible once I finish the last book. There's a few books there I want to listen to, and one that Sarah recommended that they have. It's more than I'd like to spend, though.