2007goals

Checking in on my resolutions from 2007

January 1, 2008

As I thought about the things I wanted to do in 2008, I decided to go back to my post from last year regarding what I wanted to get done in 2007 and see how I did. I’m first going to go through what I wanted to do and designate each as either: nailed it, [...]

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26.2 miles? No problem….

June 19, 2007

I actually don’t have much to add about the Need for Speed race aside that it was awesome fun. Getting up at 4:15 isn’t sweet, but hanging out with a group of old and new friends was definitely great times. Here Alex hands off the rfid “baton” bracelet to me. I love how serious he [...]

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Settings

April 25, 2007

Alex bought me a sweet new camera for my birthday, so I spent a good part of Friday walking around our neighborhood enjoying the beautiful weather and grabbing some photos while trying to learn how to properly use the camera and settings. I am sad to admit I learned very little in my required photography [...]

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Need for Speed

April 5, 2007

Team Kane Street and friends just signed up for the Need for Speed relay race up at Bear Mountain in June. It is a 50 mile race with 9 legs. We were supposed to run a 10 mile race in Philly in May, but thanks to some last minute family obligations, we had to cancel [...]

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Jenny and the Jaws of Life

February 3, 2007

I wrapped up Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories by Jincy Willett this past week—just in the nick of time to start my next book without being behind schedule in 24 in 12. I had this book on my Amazon wishlist for quite some time now. It would always pop up as a [...]

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Bringing Down the House

January 21, 2007

I finished the first of my “24 in 12″ books last week. My kick off book was Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich, a story about a team of card counters from MIT who trade in their lives as engineering and math [...]

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Learn to sew resolution = check!

January 14, 2007

Yesterday I headed out to Long Island bright and early for a sewing date with my friend Lindsey. Lindsey is a home ec. type teacher and knows how to make lots of fun things like quilts and bags. Since I had gotten a sewing machine for Christmas and had yet to take it out of [...]

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Resolutions for 2007

January 2, 2007

Hello everyone and happy 2007 to you! I hope you had a great 2006. I know I did. However, I have been giving 2007 some thought and I have some resolutions and projects I plan to work on for the upcoming year. Read two books each month While I have heard of people reading a [...]

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Looking forward: Goals for 2007

January 1, 2007

As 2006 comes to an end, I just wanted to take a moment to outline some personal goals for this upcoming year: Take one a day Take a picture a day and post it up on this site. Presumably I will learn something from this and hopefully become a better photographer along the way. It’ll [...]

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