A few weeks ago I posted about the $65,000 worth of debt that was on my credit report and did not belong to me.  Well I can now report that it is almost 100% resolved.

I had to wait on hold for a while with Experian, but once I was able to speak with a real human, the process was relatively quick and painelss.

22 “potentailly negative” items of credit were removed from my credit report.  Hallelujah.

And last weekend I was able to buy a 2004 Mitsubishi Lancer.  She’s a sturdy little car with good gas mileage.  And blog readers will probably be seeing more of her soon…in the form of traffic blogs and photos.

And just hours after purchasing the car, I already had my Obama 2008 magnet on the rear.

[midday]

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[books]

I just finished Don DeLillo’s End Zone. [Amazon]  I think that this book may be made into a movie very soon…starring Josh Hartnet, if rumors are to be belived.

This was an early book for DeLillo, and you can kind of feel that he is still finding the voice that was clearly defined in White Noise.  The story is about a college football player that is experiencing his school’s first intergrated season.

The narrator is unusually obsessed with nuclear warfare, and as a reader you may think that DeLillo wanted to compare football to warfare.  But then you read these lines:

Warfare is warfare.

And

It’s only a game, but it’s the only game.

And you aren’t sure if you’re reading too deeply into it.  Either way, this was a decent read with some pretty good prose that makes the simple story about a sport an enjoyable read.

What I’m Reading Next: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

I’ve got a case of the Mondays.  This prickly spillage didn’t help at all.

[midday]

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As always, here’s a picture of a kid using the naughty finger to help you get through your Monday.  Can you spot the birds in this photo?

This is a challenge. I challenge you to make next week a good one. Try to focus on these words this week:

[midday]

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My favorite puppet and my favorite Radiohead song.

I’m kind of embarassed to post this update…but on Wednesday I said that I’d keep you in the loop.

I’ve been tracking the number of mg of caffeine I’ve been drinking over the past few days and the numbers are pretty high.  Really high, actually.  On Wednesday when I started the numbers were SO high that I actually cut back a bit on Thursday just because I knew that this graph would look bad.

I’ve only got 2 real days of data (it’s only 11am on the third day).  So here’s my numbers:

Ugh.  Anyone else tracking?

[books]

I finished reading White Oleander by Janet Fitch almost a week ago, but forgot to blog it.

This was a book that I had started and put down a few times, but this time I actually made my way through it.  I don’t think I would have normally picked this book up…but my sister recommended it. And it pains me to say this, but Oprah’s picks tend to be pretty good books.

The only complaint I have about this book is that the beginning is told from a 12-year-old’s perspective, yet written with an adult voice.  I don’t know what I expected, but there was a strange disconnect between narrator and the actions.

This book is about Astrid – a young girl whose poet/murderer mother is serving a life-sentence in prison.  Astrid is tossed from foster home to foster home trying to figure out who she is, who her mother is, and fighting to survive and stick up for herself.

It’s a depressing look at the foster care system, but overall an uplifting book about the strength of a young woman that experienced a difficult childhood.

What I’m Reading Now: End Zone by Don DeLillo