I was with you all the way until "no more reading while eating." OMG, how do you stand it? I'm like, gimme the fucking cereal box!!!

The pzizz link is interesting. I don't think I could sleep with sounds on, but I'm intrigued.

And my only personal development projects at the moment are to get back to the gym three times a week (2x is no problem, but 3x always seems to be impossible for some reason), and to grow my own vegetables.