by Jim Stitzel | Dec 12, 2007 | General
I finished up listening to 7th Son this morning on my way to work, and it was a little like what I imagine it must feel like to come down off a high. Three novels’ worth of hard-hitting, gut-wrenching action ends with a bittersweet goodbye to our heroes and a...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 10, 2007 | General
Well, that went well. I took my GREs again this past Saturday, since my previous set of scores had exceeded their shelf-life by about a year. It took me about three hours to complete the exam, which is actually about an hour longer than I expected it to take (of...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 6, 2007 | General
Well, I suppose winter is finally here, even though the actual equinox doesn’t occur for a couple of weeks yet. We had our first snowfall yesterday, accumulating somewhere between 3 and 4 inches, and the temps last night dropped down to a frigid zero degrees. On...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 5, 2007 | General
Ok, no offense, folks, but don’t believe everything you’re forwarded. There are a LOT of urban legends floating around the Internet. Most of them have been there in some form or another for 20 or 30 years. Pranksters just take old hoaxes, mix them up a...
by Jim Stitzel | Nov 27, 2007 | General
I’m really enjoying getting caught up on J.C. Hutchins’ 7th Son podcast novel trilogy. I’m about a third of the way through listening to his second book now and really loving every minute of the show. For those of you who aren’t familiar with...
by Jim Stitzel | Nov 21, 2007 | General
My commute to and from work every day runs somewhere between 25 and 45 minutes one way, depending on traffic, weather, and trains. The thing I’m loving about that now is that I’m able to listen to audiobooks while I drive. I now have this marvelous 160GB...
