Glacial Cereal
I don’t know what to make of a situation where I pour milk into my bowl of cereal and find that the milk is a white frozen slush.
I’ve never had to wait for my milk to melt. This is a new one.
Didn’t Forget
I’ve got an interesting idea for a post, just never got to it tonight. In keeping with my “post a day” routine, I wanted to make sure to get something up here tonight. I’ll have my planned post up in the morning. Shit it’s late.
Peace
Gettin’ There
Alright so I did my 7th workout of the last 8 days. Other than feeling pretty sore in the legs, I’m overall stoked with myself. As long as I make sure to get to the gym at the right times (the Pacific Beach 24 Hour Fitness is a Bro Fest, dudes with their hair done wearing nice clothes and shit) it’s an awesome experience. Yesterday I even pulled off an hour and forty five minute workout!
Right now I’m just trying to get my whole body back into workout mode, trying to get over that initial soreness shock that comes with not working out consistently for a long time. Probably in another week or so, I’m hoping to either find a good workout plan to follow or just design my own (designing my own would simply take longer, so I’m still up in the air about it). Since I’ll probably design the workout plan in a spreadsheet, I’ll be sure to upload it here for anyone who might want to follow along.
Other than that, I’m just trying to get my life back on track in regards to productivity. I have a bunch of projects I want to do personally as well as professionally so I need to step my game up and make things happen. As I go through that, I’ll probably be writing some posts about how I’m overcoming certain addictive qualities I have with using the Internet.
Also, I’ve adopted a little system that Jerry Seinfeld apparently uses to stay consistent with a long running project. He simply has a big calendar on the wall in his workspace that he puts large red X’s on each day he does what he’s supposed to do. As the “chain” grows, he becomes more and more reluctant to break it. Simple, but it seems pretty cool. I’m going to test it out with this blog. I printed out a simple month of May calendar using Microsoft Word and I’m going to put an X over each day I write a blog post. I’m obviously getting a late start as it’s already the 10th, but hey, it’s something.
1 day down!
Peace
Calluses
Our bodies have a great way of reminding us of whether we’ve been working out frequently enough or not. Back a few years ago, I would work out 6 days a week and developed thick calluses on my hands where my fingers reached my palm as well as right below my thumb. The knurled grips of the weight bars beat up my hands enough to the point where weight lifting gloves were unnecessary.
After finishing my 2nd workout this week yesterday, I sat in the car on the way home wondering why my hands ached so much. I looked down at my left palm and saw bright red marks under each finger. Running my right fingers over the marks, I could feel smooth skin below.
Nothing rough at all. No thick skin to protect my hands from the weights.
It’ll be a good day when those calluses are back.
No More Promises I Guess
Well, I’ve learned that the difference between saying you will do something and actually doing it can sometimes be pretty devastating. So rather than promise to write here more often and promise to do anything else anymore, I’m just going to actually do the things instead.
Letting my actions speak for themselves I guess.
I went to the gym yesterday, it was nice to go again. I’ll be going today when I get home from school, two days in a row! haha.
Til then…
Stumblicious
I have gotten pretty bad to keeping this blog updated, so you could imagine my surprise when I checked my Analytics statistics today and saw this:
Google didn't add the "Holy Shit!"...
That traffic has inspired me to try and keep this blog updated more. Granted, I got 800 or so visitors from Stumbleupon because of a picture of a toaster oven, never the less, it was inspiring.
April is going to be a big month…
New Years Resolutions are Terrible
Well I sure haven’t been able to stick to what I said I was going to do this year very well so far. I’m kind of in survivial mode for income so it’s limiting my ability to explore different projects and keep this blog updated, but at the same time, I could be putting out more. School takes up a good portion of my time now which is tough because it just adds one more thing to my juggling routine.
But at the same time, I should be able to handle everything. I have to, really. I have my main project going, somewhat slowly, but going. I have another idea for a project that I can guarantee would make me enough money to live on. I just need to build it. And I’m getting close to experimenting with building and selling some niche blogs soon, as I have started reading about how that works and I have all of the skills necessary to make those things very easily.
Those niche blogs might be able to help me close the gaps on my income stream so that I can slowly start focussing more on what is going to really set me free financially. That’s really what I want in life right now, and not in a shallow way whatsoever. I look at making a good amount of money through something I have built as truly a mark of success.
I want to build products for the internet. I have the ideas, I just need to implement them. I have started implementing them, so now I just need to finish them. Keeping a balance between making enough money to survive and also working on other projects to hopefully make a comfortable living in the future is quite the experience.
So all of that being said, I’m going to do my best to write on here as much as possible. I know, I have already said that once this year. Hopefully I can stick to that statement this time.
Peace
That Which Defines A Generation
I have Mr. New President streaming live on Hulu right now as I write this, and he just said that we are witnessing events that define a generation.
Perfect words to describe what Americans realize during the succession of every President. As we transition over to a new leader, those in my generation at my age are watching someone take over the reigns of a country that we are soon going to try and lead ourselves.
Mr Obama is leading my generation as of today.
Hopefully he can lead this country to a point where we will all be able to witness the next generation watch their President take over.
Goin’ Big In ‘09
I finally started working on mockups for the first product of my soon to be company. So stoked about it. I haven’t gotten past the Photoshop stage yet, but I’m nearly half way done mocking up all of the user interface screens so once those are done, I’ll move on to slicing those up, coding them, and then plugging them into the application I’m going to start programming.
I’m not going to get too detailed as to what the application is until it launches, but I will say that it has to do with fitness and it’s going to be a really simple and easy to use tool while still being pretty powerful behind the scenes.
I’m really excited to be able to use a lot of what I have studied over the last few years to put together a functional product for the web. I’m tackling all things technical while my business partner will take care of the marketing and sales sides of things. Hopefully we can reach a point where this can become our full time job, as we have another product we want to build which is really unique and has the potential to change its market in a big way.
I’m hoping to write about a lot of the things I learn along the way. Whether it’s how to fix things, or how to plan out things, or some sort of programming trick I learn along the way, I’ll put up some posts about them so someone out there might be able to take something away from it.
I’m also starting school (5 classes) this Friday which is probably going to steal a lot of time away from me as I will have a pretty big reading load to take care of every week. I’m hoping to adopt a 6 hour a night sleep schedule so I’m probably just going to end up addicted to caffeine and kind of crazy so it should be entertaining at least.
Time for some Ramen and some more work.
D
I Really Need To Get A Good Digital Camera
So here I am, cruising around on my bike through Mission Bay along the boardwalk this last weekend, when I realize that I’m surrounded by a ton of people staring at both horizons. I wasn’t really paying too much attention until it got to the point where I was swerving from potential accident to potential accident attempting to remain as out of it as possible.
But then I looked up to my right and was staring down the face of the biggest moon I had ever seen, in broad daylight, with the sun setting behind me, and I had to stop.
I felt like it was my duty to take some pictures of what I was staring at. Yet all I had was my Palm Treo cell phone. Great phone, awful camera.
Regardless, I grabbed it and pulled my bike over to the side and pointed my phone at the moon and then realized in my viewfinder was what seemed like a professional photographer with a lens on his camera that looked like a damn cannon barrel.
So to avoid the irony of taking a shitty picture of something with someone taking a much better version of the same picture in my own shot, I moved a few feet over and continued taking some pictures.
And these are what came out. To be fair, a few of these are from the next day when there was another crazy sunset at the beach, but still, all of these are from a 24 hour span of time, taken within 10 blocks of what I have called home for the last year and a half. Pretty great.
Days like this really make you slow your life down and enjoy yourself. I definitely took an extra long bike ride that day.
Also, if you click on any of those images, they’ll pop up into a lightbox over the page, which is pretty sweet. Except for the fact that they’re a mile wide. Oh well.
Peace.
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