My eyes

I am having laser eye surgery today.  I'm excited about the outcome, but still nervous.  Mostly, I'm nervous about the time it will take to have fully functional eyesight again.  This is a busy week because it's budget season at work.  On the other hand, a lot of people have much more serious problems, so I shouldn't complain.  I know things will work out.

Quotes

• The choices you make dictate the life you live - Renaissance Man
• If the game of life ended today, would you be a winner?
• Preparation is confidence.  Everything else is beyond your control
• Between stimulus and response, there is a space.  In that space is our freedom and power to choose a response. - Viktor Frankl
• You can't always get what you want.  But if you try sometime, you just may find, you get what you need. - The Rolling Stones

2011 and the rest of my life.

My goal for 2011 is to determine how I want to live, where I want to go, and what I am going to do to get there.

Confusion

So, five months ago I received an Amazon Kindle for father's day.  I thought I would jump right into it, but I still have the urge to go to the library and take our more books.  I'm not sure why or even if this is about the Kindle itself.  Is it the feel of the book in my hands?  Is it the ability to get the book for free, and just take it back if I don't like it?  The selection is bigger than the free books on Kindle.  Or is the bigger issue that I'm confused about my life in general with my upcoming retirement and my excessive worrying about the future that I cannot control?  I guess when I start writing the answers instead of the questions, I'll know.

I'm not interested in this years World Series

I haven't been interested in the 2010 World Series and I've been wondering why.  After tossing it around in my head there are two reasons.
1. I was born and raised in Philadelphia and am still a Phillies fan.  The Giants beat the Phillies in the NLCS.
2. It's difficult to get attached to a team, because the players change every year.  The Giants picked up Cody Ross, Juan Uribe, Aubrey Huff, Pat Burrell among others at the beginning of the season or during the season.  Not that the Phillies are innocent of this, but Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, Shane Victorino and Jayson Werth have been with the team for several years.  The roles are reversed for the pitching staffs.  The Giants pitchers are home grown while the Phillies have acquired Roy Halladay and Roy Oswalt this season.

Reading

I love to read.  Fiction, Self-Help, Biography, Religious.  It's an eclectic reading list.  When I read the self-help books they all seem to say the same thing and I find myself comparing them to the 7 habits of highly effective people, and the 4 Agreements.  I'm thinking maybe I should stop reading those books and just do what they say.

Who are you?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?