So, I seem to slowly be becoming the Jarred of the Cholesterol community. people have been writing me to tell how they’ve been working out and been getting their cholesterol down. No pills, no special meds. Just better eating and exercise.
Way cool. My friends are all getting healthier 😀
Since this post is mature and meant for readers over 18 (and I mean physically, mentally, and socially) I’m putting in a cut here. People under 18 really should not read beyond this point and I will not consider my self liable if you forge ahead without a parent’s permission. I also ask that if you are under 18 that you really grant me the respect and not dive into this post. I like being able to post publicly. If I get flak I will have to lock down these posts.
I can tell already that it’s going to be a weird day. I’m not sure just why yet… But I know that I can. I just shifted my weight on the bus in a strange way to cross one leg so that I would have a platform to type on.
I am now about 30 hours from leaving for North Carolina. I will be seeing Ari (a good thing) and attending a week long seminar on programming in Cocoa from Aaron Hillegass (also a good thing) I promptly fly back for a busy weekend. So pretty much 10 days straight. Woo!
I have also now fixed IM to my cell phone. Funny, I’ve gone out of my way to be so unreachable by people and now it’s almost to the point that there are people 3000 miles away who should be able to reach me 24-7 with multimedia access if they want. (And in H.S. they said I was likely to be first in line for an implant 😉
My latest discovery is something that of course only my twisted mind would come up with. They say, that you can get a close estimate of the temperature in the evening by counting the number of times a cricket chirps over a certain period of time.
I’m making a similar equation counting the number of sockless/stockingless sandals/clogs/etc I see from the time I get on the bus at home to the time I get off the second bus in Santa Monica. There is an understandable correlation. And it gives me a reason to look. Yes, I guess I’m just broken.
Still need to remember to write my “fb” rant.
The position I’m in on the bus is wickedly uncomfortable as my butt and legs are sitting full forward on the seat with my right leg crossed over the left. The right knee is locked against the back of the seat in front of me. The laptop, however, is pointing to about 10:30 (sayeth the Joy, “No, on a real clock”) As a result my upper torso is twisted at about naval level to compensate. It’s putting an uncomfortable strain on the left side of my waist.
It’s also an odd day because I only got about 4 hrs of sleep but don’t feel tired at all. This statement will of course come back to haunt me by 1pm. I was up hooking up my printer and making tape labels for my increasingly unlabelled tape collection. I’m also the office “Buffy Pusher” and due to my recent move, I’m about 4 weeks behind in giving my addicts their fix.
I ask the woman on my right if she needs to get off shortly (the bus, people…keep the minds cleaner than mine, thank you).
(Pause to switch busses)
She was exitting the bus about a stop before me. She checked the time on her watch…it was something out of Benny Hill, she turned her wrist and dumped her tea on me. Fortunately the cup was mostly empty and no longer warm. (She must have thought it was empty)
Now I’m kind of zen about these things. I’m wearing a Pennsic t-shirt. Now a word about my tshirt collection. They come from 5 places
SCA 30%
Thelema 10%
Theatre 15%
Computers 40% (about 15% are white)
Connected to ex-gf’s 5%
What this translates to is that about 11% of my t-shirts are white with some design, the rest are black with some design. So back to the tea.
Except for a mildly squishy feeling on the right side of my waist…. the day is off and running. Since my cell is now set up for auto login to AIM when I turn it on in the morning, I’ve already been innondated in conversation 🙂 I don’t mind the morning convo…I just need a keyboard for my cell phone.
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I’m hoping to post more over the next few weeks. As I explained earlier in the week there have been some contributing factors that all added up to me not posting. That and being 2 weeks behind on LJ is daunting to say the least. I’m given the the impression the best way to deal is to just ignore and proceed.
Today I’ve had no less than 4 people in a period of an hour comment that I’ve not posted in a while.
To everyone who’s asked, i really want to say thank you. It really makes me know how much my friends care and worry when I vanish 🙂
Let me catch you up on what has been going on.
#1) The deadline
In the world of shrink wrap, commercial software we have this thing called deadlines. Deadlines have this nasty spawning process. To push off a deadline, you basically take the baby deadline and you hit it with a bat until it moves down the calendar. Now the little baby deadline you had doesn’t really like this and it gets all mean and lumpy from being hit by a bat. Also like any little creature of creation, it ages and grows in strength.
If you have to postpone it again, you need a bigger bat. And you have to hit it harder. And it gets meaner and nastier and (most importantly) bigger. Eventually, the deadline monster becomes something that does not move, does not give way and is only interested in hitting you back with a mighty steel girder. The only way to vanquish the deadline is to provide it all its requirements…and then it simply goes away. Much like a vampire in the Buffiverse.
So, as commented before, 5 day work weeks became 6 day work weeks. 8 hr days became 10, 12, and 16+ hour work days. Happily. Yesterday we shipped the master disc to the manufacturer. This is no longer a problem
#2) The laptop
I have a small problem with the web interface for LJ. Simply put…. I hate it. I like having a bigger text field that I can author in. Okay, I’m a little spoiled. On my laptop, I have two LJ clients written for Mac OSX. They are awesome. Unfortunately, 2 weeks ago, my laptop broke. See the other problem is that I really only have time to post on the way in from work or on the way home. Sometimes I get a motivation on the late nights when I can’t sleep…but other than that…. 🙁 So… no laptop, no convenient way of posting.
#3) Too much, Not enough
With the work load and moving and everything else mundane on my plate I haven’t had the energy to simply gather my thoughts. Also, there haven’t been a whole lot of thoughts to gather.
Well, Currently, I am fighting some congestion ooze. I am stuffed up all the way down to my toes. I hope to fight it off by tomorrow as I am off to the East Coast on Friday and would prefer not to be a slobbering mess for Ari. (Well, at least until…..
Ooh! Never you mind! 😉
