By the numbers 2013 (or a year of logs)

• 78 books read or 27,495 pages
• 112 movies watched
• 114 rounds of disc golf at 13 different courses
• October 9th, first (and only) ace unwitnessed, except by walkers
• 1 round of disc golf random draw doubles (pay-in)
• 17 meals of pizza
• 2 races of the 5k distance and 1 race of about 2.5 miles thanks to me turning around early
• 10 job applications
• 2 job interviews (for the same job)
• 1 move across the country
• 2 road trips- aforementioned move and the Pacific Coast
• 2 foreign countries visited (Mexico and Canada)
• 1 wedding attended
• 1 Ultimate tournament played (Lungbuster in Breckenridge)
• 1 broken sesamoid which led to 1 missed half-marathon and several missed Ultimate games (including a summer championship)
• A record of 22-14-1 in the board game of Carcassonne (Not including 1 game which was declared ineligible for harmonious relationship reasons)

Happy New Year!

2013 books

Working part-time, living near the library, time for a few books...

1. Talking to Girls about Duran Duran
2. The Forgotten
3. Is Everyone Hanging Out without Me?
4. Lord Vishnu's Love Handles: A spy novel
5. 11/22/63
6. The Age of Miracles
7. Bike Snob
8. One thousand beards
9. The Art of Fielding
10. Who will run the Frog Hospital?
11. Casual Vacancy
12. Calico Joe
13. Doomsday Book
14. Farm City: The education of an Urban Farmer
15. Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
16. Seraphina
17. To Sell is Human
18. Room
19. Flight Behavior
20. The Fault in Our Starts
21. Weird Things Customers say in bookstores
22. Atlas Shrugged
23. Looking for Calvin and Hobbes
24. The Nightmare
25. Arcadia
26. Dare Me
27. Divergent
28. Love's Winning Plays
29. To Kill a Mockingbird (re-read)
30. And the Mountains Echoed
31. The Racketeer
32. Beer Blast
33. Candy Freak
34. Let's Pretend This Never Happened
35. Running the Rift
36. Six Years
37. What Would Google Do?
38. Time and Again
39. Duel in the Sun
40. In the City of Bikes
41. Unbroken
42. Steve Jobs
43. More Baths, Less Talking
44. Heads in Beds
45. Ten Little Indians
46. The Bartender's Tale
47. The Burgess Boys
48. Decisive
49. The Best a Man can get
50. What Happened to Sophie Wilder
51. Hairstyles of the Damned
52. Wild
53. Fire Witness
54. The Husbands of Wives Club
55. The Dinner
56. Stay Close
57. Half asleep in Frog Pajamas
58. The Gospel According to Larry
59. Good to Great
60. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
61. The Uncoupling
62. The Interestings
63. Eleanor & Park
64. Fangirl
65. The Hit
66. Thinking Fast and Slow
67. Open
68. Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore
69. The Just Right Home
70. Abstinence Teacher
71. Hour Game
72. The Reason I Jump
73. Lady Oracle
74. Bringing up Bebe
75. The Money Code
76. I Love You Miss Huddleston
77. The House on Mango Street
78. The Zero Game
79.

2013 Movies

There has never been a year like this before. I thought I watched a lot of movies last year, but this was the year when I had a heap of spare time, lived close to the library, and had no commute. The movies came fast and furious (though not 2Fast2Furious. Ah, movie jokes.) Only four were in theaters (no wonder it now costs nine dollars+ for a ticket), and three others were in outdoor venues. Twenty-two were my second (or more) viewings.

Without further ado,

1. Liberal Arts
2. Looper
3. Back to the Future (re-watch)
4. Premium Rush
5. Because I Said So
6. Back to the Future II (re-watch)
7. Source Code (re-watch)
8. Kansas City Bomber
9. Kissing Jessica Stein (re-watch)
10. To Rome with Love
11. The Watch
12. Trouble with the Curve
13. The Campaign
14. Bonsai
15. Magic Mike
16. Here Comes the Boom
17.  The Words
18. True Grit
19. Whip it (re-watch)
20. When in Rome
21. Rock of Ages
22. Stay Cool
23. Here's the Kicker
24. One for the Money
25. Lincoln
26. Adventureland (re-watch)
27. Taken 2
28. Atlas Shrugged Part II
29. The Great Gatsby (theater)
30. Anna Karenina
31. Humble Pie
32. Safety Not Guaranteed (re-watch)
33. This is 40
34. War Horse
35. Bernie
36. Toast
37. Bend it like Beckham (re-watch)
38. Grease (sing-along)
39. A little help
40. Silver Linings Playbook
41. Take Me Home
42. Playing for Keeps
43. Atlas Shrugged Part I
44. Unstoppable
45. Post Grad
46. Brave
47. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
48. Argo
49. The Intouchables
50. Robot & Frank
51.  The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
52. The Bourne Legacy
53. New Year's Eve
54. The Mighty Macs
55. Hyde Park on Hudson
56. Ted
57. Hunger Games (re-watch)
58. Now You See it (theater)
59. Moonrise Kingdom
60. Pitch Perfect
61. Broken City
62. The Odd Life of Timothy Green
63. Sneakers (re-watch)
64. Man on a Ledge
65. Identity Thief
66. The Guilt Trip
67. Maverick (in the square)
68. Exporting Raymond
69. Spiderman (in the square)
70. The Cup
71. Jack Reacher
72. The Goonies (re-watch)
73. Flypaper
74. Admissions
75. Flight
76. For a Good Time Call
77. The Red Wagon
78. The Oranges
79. The Sitter
80. The Sessions
81. Cloud Atlas
82. Star Trek: Into Darkness
83. 42
84. Oblivion
85. Interviews with Terrible Men (half-watched, half-ignored)
86. Lifeguard
87. Sex and the City 2
88. Country Strong
89. Sleepwalk with me
90. Your sister's sister
91. This is the end
92. Inception (re-watch)
93. Couples Retreat
94. Super
95. Hitchcock
96. Warren Miller's Ticket to Ride
97. Decoy Bride
98. Batman: The Dark Knight Rises (re-watch)
99. We're the Millers
100. Reality of Love
101. The Grifters
102. The Best and the Brightest
103. MIB3
104. Love Actually (per tradition)
105. Paychcck
106. Hunger Games 2 (theater)
107. Damsels in Distress
108. Gangster Squad
109. Sliding Doors (re-watch)
110. It's a wonderful life (re-watch)
111. Save the Date
112. Home Alone (re-watch)

It's a wonderful life?

It's a wonderful life is a Christmas tradition that just snuck up on me. It's always on network tv right around Christmas and by now I've seen it so many times that I don't think anybody has to watch the whole thing. I can't say when I last watched it from start to finish. I thought last year, but C doubts it. I seem to recall a couple Christmas Eve's curled up on the couch with the faux-fire going and George Bailey trying to get it all figured out. I think I tuned out before I finished those up. I might not have watched It's a wonderful life all the way through since I watched it on KSHB TV-41. That's been a while.

Why tonight? The presents are packed around the tree. I've been here all day, all week, all month, trying to get it figured out. I don't have George's worries, but there's a heaviness, a sense that I need to get out in the world. All that called to me, so I watched. The broadcast was packed with commercials which is pretty funny when I think about it. Aren't commercials pushing Potter's vision?

I sat through it all and it got to me. There was George at 27 being offered a job by Potter. I could see the dollar signs in his eyes before his principles seized him again and he walked out. There was George with a family and the stress of losing all that money. I felt for the guy. I related in a way I've never really related before. Life is piling up moment after moment and plans get moved and forgotten.

So when George had his epiphany, I teared up. I wasn't ready to let go and cry, but I wasn't too far from it. The people matter and it's time to be with the people.

2014 is coming. There's things to be thankful for and things to be done.

It's a wonderful life.

Positive Vibes shooting from my fingertips

Winter league Ultimate started last night. The performance of my creaky body and a brand new drafted together team have taken a back seat to another thought.

There are many things that I miss about coaching at CUA, but one more than I realized. I knew I missed the people, and the Ultimate, but until last night I hadn't realized how much I missed the positive vibes. During the school year, I was twice weekly psyching myself up to be a positive force. Most of the time, that was not a daunting task. Watching and helping people learn Ultimate is a joyous activity, but it still required that I be present and aware.

When I'm playing, I want to be positive, but I get wrapped up in my self. Coaching, I was wrapped up in everybody else. It turns out that was glorious. I was focused on the good. Oh, sure I was sometimes focused on the drops and the distractions and all the rest, but my mind was churning and I was searching for the things I could compliment and cheer for.

How great is that? Two or even three times a week, I was finding things to cheer for. 

I need to do more of that. It might cheer me up.