I actually began recording this in the middle of January, because I thought it would be interesting to compile statistics on a year of my life.  I’d been planning to add more categories as I went along, but nothing of interest came to mind.

Books read

  1. The Assault on Reason – Al Gore
  2. Neuromancer – William Gibson (reread)
  3. Mona Lisa Overdrive – William Gibson
  4. The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security – Kevin Mitnick and William Simon
  5. The Mother Tongue – Bill Bryson
  6. Roughing It – Mark Twain
  7. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon – Stephen King (audiobook)
  8. Timequake – Kurt Vonnegut
  9. Slapstick – Kurt Vonnegut
  10. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (audiobook, reread)
  11. Naked – David Sedaris
  12. The Gunslinger – Stephen King
  13. The Drawing of the Three – Stephen King
  14. The Waste Lands – Stephen King
  15. Wizard and Glass – Stephen King
  16. Wolves of the Calla – Stephen King
  17. Song of Susannah – Stephen King
  18. The Dark Tower – Stephen King
  19. Faces of the Visitors – Kevin Randle and Russ Estes
  20. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (and Other Clinical Tales) – Oliver Sacks
  21. Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the ’80’s – Hunter S. Thompson
  22. Diary: A Novel – Chuck Palahniuk
  23. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet – Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon
  24. It’s a Magical World – Bill Watterson (reread)
  25. ReVisions – Edited by Julie E. Czerneda & Isaac Szpindel
  26. Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Paid

  • To beggars: $71
  • In parking fines: $230
  • To political campaigns: $75 ($25 to Kucinich for President, $50 to Cindy Sheehan for US Congress)

Miles

  • Run on a treadmill:32
  • Run outside:25 (approximate)
  • Flown: 7,264 (Madison -> Chicago O’Hare -> LAX -> San Diego -> Denver -> Madison)
  • Driven in my new car since August: 4,911