I borrowed this book from my friend at church on Sunday. It turns out that he had just barely received it back from another one of our friends who had just finished reading it. I guess none of that is really relevant, hahahaha. Anyway, I just started it on the train yesterday morning. Today, I’m only in chapter four and I’m totally hooked already. It isn’t particularly well written or anything, but it is super inspiring. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t have any plans to run an ultra marathon, any time soon. But, the way that the author writes about the way he relates to running, is very motivating. It makes me want to quit my job and just pull a Forest Gump, or something. If you are into running, I think that it is safe to say you would probably dig this book.

On a completely unrelated note, today is Tuesday. Normally I would have posted a JKE question today. Last night as I sat down to write one, I wasn’t really feeling, any of the questions that are currently sitting in the inbox right now. I didn’t feel like posting any recycled material either. So, actually I’m taking down the JKE blog. I mean, maybe I will start doing JKE again at some point in the future. But for a once a week post, I feel like it doesn’t really merit it’s own separate url and page design. Plus Reagan is always making fun of me for having too many blogs. So, it will be one less thing to catch heat about.

As threatened, the latest version of JKE is now up and running. It can be found here, or at www.jke.jakesnewblog.com. I haven’t been able to get the style sheet to work right in IE 7, but it works fine in IE 8, Mozilla and Chrome. I haven’t tested it in Safari. So if you are feeling up for some less-than-sophisticated reading, Check it.

On my very first blog, I had this thing that I did called Jake Knows Everything. It was kind of fun, and useful in keeping my creative juices flowing. The page pictured above is actually the 3rd generation. Here is the 2nd. For some reason, I can’t find the original. Anyway, I haven’t really kept it up, for about the last year. They are now full of cobwebs and broken links. I used to also publish a top 10 (and the older version).  I have had a few people ask me recently what ever happened JKE and Top 10, and so I thought, “why not bring them back?” In the coming weeks, I plan on building a new page that incorporates both JKE and Top 10, that will be syndicated onto this blog. I’ll start by posting some of the older JKE questions, working my way toward any new ones that I might receive. At worst, it will help me fill the hours. At best, someone will derive some entertainment from it.