Crud. I’ve gotten lazy.

I was doing so well: getting up early, meditating 3-4 times a week, reading my daily Bible readings and devotionals, playing guitar, exercising 4-5 times a week, and daily prayers. 

And then I started sliding.  It always starts so innocuously.  For me it was easy; I hit the snooze button.  That started me getting up later and skipping meditation.  Then sleeping a little later and running late, so I started skipping the Bible readings and daily devotionals.  The pattern continued and instead of praying I checked my blackberry for work messages.  Lack of focus on my “program” allowed me to start skipping exercise.  As focus continued to slide, I stopped practicing the guitar. 

And here I sit, a huge slug.

I think I am going to slug-out until the new year.  I am taking vacation the last week of the year, so I think I’m just going to relax until then. 

I ran the update (1.5) on my Nook the other day.  I was encouraged when I read what was in the update so I had been very eager to install it.  I waited one day after it was released to see what other users experienced.  With no major complaining and screaming, I proceeded to update it.

On the upside, the page turning was quicker and the “shelves” was nice if unnessecary (in my opinion.)  But the big feature I was really looking forward to, bookmark syching, was woefully underpowered.  It works well enough on app devices (iPad and iPod) but the Nook itself was clunky (at best.)  The most cumbersome aspect was having to turn on the “Auto save page on bn.com” feature for each book.  (This is found by opening the book on the Nook and scrolling down on the touch screen to “preferences” and the last option on that page is “Auto save page on bn.com”)

I was hoping for a smoother, more automatic way of implementing this feature.  Perhaps in a future release they will work to make it that way.