Monthly Archives: June 2011

Sabbatical Week 1 Retrospective and Week 2 Planning

Last week was the first planned week of my work­ing sab­bat­i­cal. The fol­low­ing items were on the weekly sprint list: BrettBim.com in a show­able state (DONE) Blog post per day — 5 total (3 com­pleted) One story in rough draft (30% done) I spent 3 solid days on the first item plus a lit­tle bit of the …

June 20, 2011 – 9:48 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Abyss Diving | Comments (3)

Book Review — Roads by Larry McMurtry

I picked Roads — Dri­ving America’s Great High­ways up on a lark at the Wylie library on Tues­day and fin­ished it Wednes­day. Larry McMurtry is an excel­lent author and that trans­fers well from his more famil­iar fic­tion to this semi-travel book on dri­ving the major roads of the United States. He starts off the book …

June 17, 2011 – 12:14 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Book Review | Tagged | Comments (0)

The Working Sabbatical

Well, it must be offi­cial, I’ve told my par­ents. I’m effec­tively on a sab­bat­i­cal, the nature of which hasn’t com­pletely been defined but the pur­pose of which is to find some­thing I can wake up every sin­gle morn­ing and not hate. Per­haps the bar is set too low. Actu­ally, the pur­pose is to expand my …

June 14, 2011 – 1:21 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in The Great Sabbatical | Comments (4)