Upy Datey
Well, it's been a while since I updated and even longer since I did an all points bulletin for non-flist peoples. So here goes.
My health. It's been non stop improvement. I've slowed down and cut back a bit because I've been extra busy being a nerd (more on that in a bit) and because the foods I limited myself to became a bit boring, so I've been splurging a bit more. Not excessively, but man it's nice to eat a burger once in a while and have some ice cream here and there. I do miss fudge, i've all but given that kind of sugary stuff up. Gave up caffeine, I really only drink water now. My weight is down to 208 which is pretty good, 57 pounds lost since I started.
At some point I did the math and realized that my target weight goal of 180 is 4 pounds away from losing 1/3 of my original body weight in fat. More if you consider that I'm building muscle as I go. So my new target weight is 175 and the goal is to lose more than 1/3 of my original body weight in fat. Pretty awesome I think. Long term goal. Something to achieve by the end of the year. I'm really close to 200 right now and will probably hit it in April sometime. I can't even remember the last time I weighed less than 200, probably when I was in high school. I'm very excited about that.
I can only imagine what my cholestoral, which was in a high medium level, and heart rate are like now. I can tell you my resting heart rate has gone WAAAY down, which I'm very pleased about. I've been eating a lot of fiber ever since I changed my diet, so I'm sure my cholesterol is in a good place too. Overall I have more energy, I feel beter, and I'm a hell of a lot happier. I never thought I'd say this, but a good diet and exercise makes me happy and glad to be alive!
My job. I've really embraced it and here's why. A friend of mine went through a terrible divorce, alcoholism, and self destructive behaviors. In fact he's still self destructing right now. I started to recognize some of those behaviors manifesting in myself so I pulled the fucking handbrake and threw my ass in reverse. I'm not going down like that. To make a long story short I was pissed off at my boss' boss. I excel in operations but suck at sales, and he said he won't promote me in operations career paths until I get better at sales. Initially, I was outraged. Get better at something I suck at so I can be promoted to something that doesn't involve sales? Why not promote me NOW and get me out of sales and put someone who IS good at sales in my old role???
Well, fuck that. I can be pissed off at it all I want, but being pissed off isn't going to change it or put me in a better position, so if I want to succeed in operations I have to own sales and I have to do it without compromising my integrity. If nothing else, if I try my hardest and do my best I will either succeed or fail, and if I fail, it should be enough to get me out of sales and into operations. I've tackled my job with renewed enthusiasm and vigor, because I am determined not to let that asshole break me. Not for him, but for me.
So far, I've been succeeding. I'm winning.
My personal time. I've been playing the hell out of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. This game is phenomenal. I don't know how I'm going to have time to play and review Destroy All Humans: Big Willy Unleashed for GameCola. I've been playing World of Warcraft on the weekends. I'm a level 33 Warlock. If anyone is on the Mug'Thol server, send me an email. We'll go questing some time. And I'm always looking for some level 70s who don't mind taking me through some instances! Hehehe. :D I'm slowing down on Brawl a bit, which is good because I will need time to play Mario Kart Wii when it comes out at the end of April. I'm please to note that at the moment the current price tag for Mario Kart is still $49.99, which is the standard price for a Wii title new release, and it's not jacked up because of that stupid ass wheel attachment. Fuck that, I'm not playing Mario Kart Wii with a goddamn wheel, I'm playing it with my GD gamecube controller, the way it SHOULD be.
Kotaku said it best. "This is a GameCube game, Nintendo. We all know it, we're all cool with it, you should be too!" Exactly. I'm looking forward to this just as much as Brawl. :D
I'm following a couple of shows now. The Riches on Tuesday nights, The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Monday nights (but the season is over now, I would catch up on it before season 2 starts!!!), and Lost on Thursday nights. If you don't watch Lost, it really is true what they say about this show, it's confusing as all hell and there are NEVER EVER any answers, just more fucking questions. Every time an episode ends I want to jump up and shout "WTF IS GOING ON!?!?" I'm still following a couple of comic books, although Atomic Robo ended just recently. Although they are working on new ones, it seems like it will be too long before the next ones come out.
Last Note. FUCKING DST. I don't know what is up with my computer, but the time has changed on it 4 times in the last month. I don't know about anyone else, BUT I WAS FINE WITH THE OLD DST. Who the fuck decided it needed to be fixed!?!?!? Really, I say fuck leap years and fuck DST, lets just have days that are 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds long. Convert to all digital clocks that do this automatically.
11:56:01 PM
11:56:02 PM
11:56:03 PM
11:56:04 PM
12:00:00 MIDNIGHT! DONE. No more leap years and just totally scrap DST.
Forget all this extraneous baloney. And that's just a solution to stay on this crippled system of time measurement. Since we know how to accurately measure a day, why not just make a new time scale? Like metric time. Like 1 Kilo Chrono is a year, and break everything down from there, right?
Oh, I suppose YOU would rather cure cancer or something, hippie.
Mmmm, tangenty!
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