After 10 years of college I’m finally deciding to study. I almost always spend a few hours at the end of each night reading in bed before trying to get to sleep – mostly because I never fall alseep fast, and I hate laying there doing nothing and waiting. If I don’t read, I usually end up getting back up and staying up to late after getting involved in various projects. It’s always been science fiction that I read, because that’s what I like. But, I added a Physics book to the mix and spend every other night or so reading a few pages from that instead, and really thinking about it rather than just reading-to-memorize like I and so many others learn to do in college.

Why? Well, sure, I’m a geek. But that wasn’t the actual motivating factor. The problem is that at the age of 32 I’m tired of feeling like I’ve wasted so much time in my life – there’s so many things I want to do, and wish I’d already done or at least gotten started on. I would like to know a lot more about physics, astronomy, math and computer science than I do, so I figure I should stop whining and start learning.

The other reason was that I’ve been keeping my science fiction books as I buy them, instead of selling them back to buy toilet paper as was the cycle in college. I’ve got a lot of books. When I look at the shelves and see how much I’ve read over the years, even just the last few years, I think about how many text books I could have gone through instead. How much I could have learned. That was the main motivation. The straw that broke the camel’s back and all four of it’s legs.

I’d write about my second run-in with Michigan’s “Driver Responsibility Fee” bullshit but don’t want to ruin an okay evening by letting myself think about it right now. Stay tuned…