Scaling Back

I think that my reading list has actually been too intense for my schedule lately.  I guess I can't really say this for sure since I've made a fair amount of progress with the novels I've been reading.  Yet, I can't help wonder why I've stopped reading the other stuff on my list.  I didn't mean to do this, but I just sort of stopped anyway.  I think that's how you know that you haven't been planning things well, you just sort of can't do it.  I probably could if I had some sort of reason for finishing things, but that's only going to lead me to starting something else.  Therefor, the problem has to have something to do with my lack of time.  I'm definately enjoying my plan/reading habits.  I'll have to give it some more thought as to what I could do differently.

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"Samuel wheeled on him and his eyes were filled with tears. 'Don't think it will ever die,'  he cried.  'Don't expect it.  Are you better than other men?  I tell you it won't ever die until you do.'  He stood panting for a moment and then he climbed into the rig and whipped Doxology and he drove away, his shoulders hunched, without saying good-bye"

John Steinbeck, East of Eden - pg. 270

Daily Routine

I have a group of favorite radio stations (because grouping my favorites makes the whole system more usable) that is just foreign music.  Since this is internet radio, there are stations that play some non-English songs, or stations in other countries that play music with English words.  But this is more like, top-40 type of music.  What's most popular in the country at the moment.  Since I've actually heard of famous musicians that I like doing this sort of thing, it seemed like it was worth a shot.  Luckily for me, I seem to have found a clever little loophole.  I don't really need to focus on the lyrics since I can't understand them anyway.  This pretty much just lets me focus on the actual instruments and how the vocals match up with that.  Sadly, I'll probably have to listen to the lyrics at some point, when I'm ready.