Hour 24

Yes this post is a little late, but once I got to 6 (and took the dogs for a walk and food) I was ready for bed. The last two hours I read 35 pages. Not enough to finish my book, but I'm pretty close. That gave me a grand total of 592 pages over 24 hours of awake time, way too much junk food, all of a 2L (1/2 gallon for my Non-Canadian friends) bottle of coke (except 1 glass I'm saving for Nascar), and one Amp that pushed me over the top. Oddly here I am up at noon (my sweet wife made it up before me, but she did go to bed a little earlier) and my dogs who slept most of yesterday are passed out as if they've been up for days.

Hour 22

Okay, so I needed to go from coke to amp to stay awake. Luckily I've never really had a big problem falling asleep when I let myself, caffiene or not. On the other hand staying awake, much harder. Managed to knock off another 53 pages in two hours, if I keep up that pace I'll be about 2 hours short of finishing this book. Sigh, all the wasted time eating and taking dogs outside :) Well if I want to come close I best be getting back to it.

Hour 20

4 to go. In the last 2 hours I've managed 47 pages. My book is still pretty good, but I'm flagging a bit. I caffienated myself with a glass of coke, but I still think I'll been in for tough sledding before the getting to the end.

Pet Love Mini-Challenge

My two dogs both love to sit in my lap and cuddle while I try to read. Cooper, our Bichon-Shih tzu, curls up in a tight, but fairly unobtrusive way in my lap and with the exception of wanting to be pet so I have to read one handed. Not really a help or a hinderance. On the other hand, Sadie, our Pug, takes up as much room as she possible can. She lays accross one arm and expects pets from the other arm. And at 30-35 pounds she's not always the most comfortable. That said, my wife gets it much worse as they sit on her at the same time and quite often lick her, especially her hands as she tries to read.

Hour 18

Seems I'm getting to the blog less and less. Since hour 15 I've read 65 pages.  Got a little slowed down and frustrated when I wrote my last post as I don't seem to be able to comment on my own posts write now.  My apologies to anyway leaving comments, I'll respond once I get that figured out.

Hour 9

Hour 9 and my speed is improving a bit 30 pages, but also had a late lunch in there. Cheese bun and cookie to refuel on :). Some how it feels both like it's been a long haul and no time at all has past.

Hour 5

I was reading tweets for a bit longer this hour so only 17 pages in 30 minutes. Sweet wife is back up and we've relocated to the den. Dogs are still sleeping, the pug has turned my wife into a bed. Well time to get back to it.

Hour 4

Now that's better, 32 pages in 45 minutes. My sweet wife needed a bit of a nap so it was a quiet hour. In fact it was enough to make a guy sleepy with her and our two dogs asleep. Of course I'm getting closer to the end of the book. Not positive who the killer is yet, but things are becoming clearer.

Hour 2

Hour 2 complete and I picked up the pace a little bit. 22 pages in 40 minutes, still I'd like to improve on that. Technology is fighting me a bit as I tried to get a picture for a mini-challenge, but of course the phone battery is dead. Still I shall prevail, or at least continue to have fun.

Hour 1 in the books

One our down, after finally getting blog up and running I managed 15 pages in the 1/2 hour I read. I know I can do a bit better than that even if I am tired. I am currently about 1/2 way through The Leper's Return by Michael Jecks. A good read to be sure, but my real motivation is to get to my next book, the R.A. Salvatore that has been sitting on my shelf for way too long. Well ack to it. I'll aim for 45 minutes instead of 30 this hour.

October 2011 Readathon Begins

Hour 1, after some initial issues (like forgetting my blog password) I am up and running. I'm only 20 minutes late in starting to read so I'll keep this short.

1)Where are you reading from today? I'm reading from home (in particular the couch in my den to start)

2)Three random facts about me… I like to write, By day I'm a mild mannered accountant, I like comics, X-men specifically (I'll let you guess what genre I'm writing from those clues)

3)How many books do you have in your TBR pile for the next 24 hours? 3 to start, I guess, though there's always more on the shelf if I need them.

4)Do you have any goals for the read-a-thon (i.e. number of books, number of pages, number of hours, or number of comments on blogs)? Aside from lasting all 24 hours not really

5)If you’re a veteran read-a-thoner, any advice for people doing this for the first time? Other than change positions, nope, but that could be more of a me thing.