Final count: 53
Favorite books of the year: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan;
Detroit: An American Autopsy, Charlie LeDuff; Waiting to be Heard, Amanda Knox;
Detroit City Is the Place to Be, Mark Binelli; The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson;
Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City, Gordon Young; Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner City Funeral Home, Sheri Booker and Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, Candice Millard
Least favorite book: The Painted Girls, Cathy Marie Buchanan
Between Here and April, Deborah Copaken Kogan
Bleed for Me, Michael Robotham
The Making of a Royal Romance, Katie Nicholl
Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II, Philip Eade
The Black Box, Michael Connelly
The Painted Girls, Cathy Marie Buchanan
The Drowning House, Elizabeth Black
Killing Kennedy, Bill O'Reilly
Argo, Antonio Mendez & Matt Baglio
Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the '60s and Beyond, Jane Maas
Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder, Jay Margolis
Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last, Mike Campbell
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, Stephen Rebello
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan
Detroit: An American Autopsy, Charlie LeDuff
Top of the Morning, Brian Stelter
A Private Disgrace: Lizze Borden by Daylight, Victoria Lincoln
Iron War: Dave Scott, Mark Allen and the Greatest Race Ever Run, Matt Fitzgerald
Waiting to be Heard, Amanda Knox
Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace, Scott Thorson & Alex Thorleifson
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder, Charles Graeber
The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story, Lily Koppel
The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America, Christian Wolmar
Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall, Will Ellsworth-Jones
Detroit City Is the Place to Be, Mark Binelli
Wreck of the Wabash, Laurie C. Dickens
Hidden History of Detroit, Amy Elliott Bragg
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Kate: The Biography, Marcia Moody
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, Piper Kerman
Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City, Gordon Young
This Town, Mark Leibovich
City of Scoundrels, Gary Krist
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America, Sam Roberts
The Princess Diana Conspiracy, Alan Power
The Shadow King; The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy, Jo Marchant
Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Laura Hillenbrand
Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear, Stephen Manes
Reclaiming Parkland, Jame DiEugenio
Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels, Jill Jonnes
JFK Has Been Shot, Charles A. Crenshaw, M.D
Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha, Lesley Downer
Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service, James McCommons
End of Days: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, James Swanson
The Men Who Loved Trains, Rush Loving
With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of J.D. Tippit, Dale K. Myers
JFK: The Smoking Gun, Colin McLaren
Egyptomania, Bob Brier
Into the Blast: The True Story of D.B. Cooper, Skipp Porteous & Robert Blevins
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner City Funeral Home, Sheri Booker
Mop Men: Inside the World of Crime Scene Cleaners, Alan Emmins
Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training,Tom Jokinen
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, Candice Millard
Monday, January 06, 2014
Friday, January 03, 2014
Movies watched in 2013 - final count
Final count: 25
Favorite movies: The Great Gatsby, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Parkland
Favorite documentary: First Position and Exit Through the Gift Shop
Least favorite movie: I liked all of the movies/documentaries I watched this year. Not a bad one in the bunch.
Trouble with the Curve (2012)
Favorite movies: The Great Gatsby, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Parkland
Favorite documentary: First Position and Exit Through the Gift Shop
Least favorite movie: I liked all of the movies/documentaries I watched this year. Not a bad one in the bunch.
First Position (2011)
MST3K: The Wild Rebels (1990)
Margot (2005)
My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Parkland (2013)
Running on the Sun (2000)
Soul Surfer (2011)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
The Long Green Line (2008)
The Perfect Family (2011)
The Runner: David Horton's 2700 Mile Run (2006)
The Yellow Handkerchief (2008)
Thursday, January 02, 2014
Miles run in 2013 - final count
Another good year of running. My mileage count isn't as high as last year or 2011. I still ran high mileage, but I rarely reached running 20 miles a day. My highest mileage daily was anywhere from 14-17 miles.
Besides not running 20 miles a day, I had issues with another treadmill. The year old treadmill I was running on, a piece of the frame broke. We had a technician come and look at our treadmill. He said that the frame couldn't be fixed. So that meant we needed a new treadmill. The year old treadmill only was a year old and we still had a multi-year warranty on it, so the company replaced it for free. It was the same treadmill, it was just updated. It took about six weeks for the whole process. So in that time, I ran outside. I ran on a track, walking path, empty fairgrounds and the city streets. Of course the time that I was without a treadmill, it was a very hot and humid summer.
Other issues that occurred during the year were a few injuries. I strained my right hamstring twice and mildly strained my left hamstring. After straining my right hamstring pretty bad, I went to the doctor. She gave me stretches to do. If the stretches didn't work, she was going to put me in physical therapy. Thankfully, it never got that far. The stretches, icing and therapy patches worked.
So I think 2013 has been a successful year. It is the third year I have run over 5000 miles. Hope 2014 will be just as great.
Total miles run for the year:
2013: 5079
2012: 5213.3
2011: 5745
2010: 2764.9
2009: 1257.9
2008: 960.2
2007: 573.7
2006: 470
2005: 350.8
2004: 318.6
Besides not running 20 miles a day, I had issues with another treadmill. The year old treadmill I was running on, a piece of the frame broke. We had a technician come and look at our treadmill. He said that the frame couldn't be fixed. So that meant we needed a new treadmill. The year old treadmill only was a year old and we still had a multi-year warranty on it, so the company replaced it for free. It was the same treadmill, it was just updated. It took about six weeks for the whole process. So in that time, I ran outside. I ran on a track, walking path, empty fairgrounds and the city streets. Of course the time that I was without a treadmill, it was a very hot and humid summer.
Other issues that occurred during the year were a few injuries. I strained my right hamstring twice and mildly strained my left hamstring. After straining my right hamstring pretty bad, I went to the doctor. She gave me stretches to do. If the stretches didn't work, she was going to put me in physical therapy. Thankfully, it never got that far. The stretches, icing and therapy patches worked.
So I think 2013 has been a successful year. It is the third year I have run over 5000 miles. Hope 2014 will be just as great.
Total miles run for the year:
2013: 5079
2012: 5213.3
2011: 5745
2010: 2764.9
2009: 1257.9
2008: 960.2
2007: 573.7
2006: 470
2005: 350.8
2004: 318.6
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
Happy New Year
New is the year;
New are the hopes;
New is the resolution;
New are the spirits;
And new are my warm wishes for you.
Have a promising and filling New Year!
Happy New Year
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