Life

Better Living Through Statistics

It’s a pretty well established fact that I lose weight when I follow through on my goal to keep track of everything I eat. That fact has been firmly tested by the fact that I have lost weight while keeping in that habit, and have gained it back when I’m not paying attention to what [...]


Essential Inventory

As part of my new compulsive need to organize my apartment, I’ve decided I need to make a list of all the essential things I need to keep for cooking and/or entertaining. Since I’m almost done with the bar (yes it’s taken me over two years now), I started a list of what I want [...]


Schedules

I’ve decided that in order to get anything done, I need to get a tad bit more organized. To that end, I created a daily task list to complete, along with a set of deadlines for articles and blog posts. I don’t think I’ll put the schedule itself up here, that way when I fail [...]


2000-2009: First Decade of the “New” Millenium

That’s right, I graduated from high school in 2000. It doesn’t seem like a lot of time when I look at the number of years, but when I think about everything that happened in these last ten years, it feels like a long time. I spent much of the decade at university, first at RIT [...]


2010: The Year I Kick Some Ass

I’m making bold predictions for this year. I don’t think I’ll be actually kicking some ass, since that’s never really been an issue in my adult life.  No, what I’m referring to is the fact that I think I’ve come up with actual achievable goals for the year. These goals aren’t just really easy to [...]


2009: A Year In Review

Last year was a pretty mediocre year event-wise, and a really poor year as far as personal goals went. From 2007 into most of 2008, I was doing really well as far as exercise and eating right.  However, at the end of 2008 I started to fall into bad habits, and 2009 was just bad.  [...]


Identity

I’m still trying to take better care and control of my Internet identity.  I started this week by finally creating an avatar that I like, based off of a photo I took.  It’s up on my Flickr page. I also turned my Flickr Photostream back on in the sidebar on this page, since I’m trying [...]


Excuses

As with every post here lately, this one will just be a bunch of excuses.  The reality of my situation right now is that my day job has been so hard on me lately that the times I do have free at home are just spent recuperating – especially on the weekend.  I have been [...]


House

No, it’s not about the TV show (but I do think it’s a good show, I love Hugh Laurie).  I’ve been thinking about what will happen if my brother moves out.  You see, he still doesn’t have a job after graduating from college, and with the state of the world, he may have to move [...]


My Annual Cold

This past week has been horrible for me.  I missed three days of work because of a massive cold that knocked me right out, and I’m still recovering.  I mostly played World of Warcraft the whole time because that was the only thing I could do that didn’t require me to move much.  This year [...]