http://dankinia.com Just a place for my ramblings Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:02:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en have been a bit tough. Between stuff going on at home, and a bit of drama at work things have been a bit stressful. I am hoping that things will be better going forward. http://dankinia.com/archives/337 So on NYE I stopped at a Verizon Wireless store and upgraded from my Palm Centro to a Motorola Droid. I am so thrilled. I really liked the Palm, but with no platform updates recently, and the fact that the newest Palm Pre and iphone are not going ... http://dankinia.com/archives/334 Well the new year has started and while 2009 was a good year, I hope 2010 is better. I really need to either get better at updating this thing, or decide to do something else with this domain and web space. Maybe that will be my New Years Resolution. ... http://dankinia.com/archives/332 Time has flown by. I took a month off from fitness walking as a reward/recovery after the half. We resumed our walks this past Friday. It felt pretty good to be putting in that effort again. We did 3 miles and will continue to build distance ... http://dankinia.com/archives/328 So as I mentioned before a friend of mine and I decided to train and walk a half marathon. The one we picked was called the ET Half Marathon in Rachel NV. It took place along the Extraterrestrial Highway outside of Area 51. The actual finish line ... http://dankinia.com/archives/323 I leave for Vegas tomorrow so I can walk in a 13.1 mile event this weekend. When I decided to do this last April, August seemed so far away. Then it sort of creeped up on me. I am really excited and just a bit nervous. Since ... http://dankinia.com/archives/321 It has been a couple of weeks since I posted so once again I am doing a rather long update. I did take the test for the promotion. I wasn't really nervous about taking it, but I wasn't totally confident either. It was a 3 hour long test and ... http://dankinia.com/archives/319 So on Tuesday I had an interview for a possible promotion. I think it went really well. I had good stories for their questions, and I got a really good feeling about how things went. On Wednesday I proceeded to roll my ankle in the parking lot at work ... http://dankinia.com/archives/317 So I bought an ebook reader. I decided on the Kindle2 from Amazon. It arrived today. This is really cool and I could get in to a lot of trouble with it. lol. I put a couple of books on it already, and I ... http://dankinia.com/archives/315 I am thinking of getting an Kindle or e-Reader. It would be an expensive purchase at first, but the books would be cheaper then what I currently spend, it would take up less room in my bags when I travel, and it would save me from impulse purchases at ... http://dankinia.com/archives/313