The Major

Category: Blatherings

  • Tired

    Hot damn I am tired.  I had a nice deep sleep during my lunch break nap, and now I am fighting sleep at my desk, half hallucinating.

    Oy.  Yo quiero mi snugglebutt 😀

  • GG Park

    Alyssa and I made it out to Golden Gate Park today.  Emergency room visit aside, we had a great time.  It feels damn good to have a sunburn.

  • Schedule for an Awesome Tomorrow

    1am-10am work

    10:30am – 2:30pm EFF

    3pm – 5pm sleep

    5pm – 7:30pm sports bar for game 6 of Wizards/Cavs

    8pm – ? Civ4 or RoN

  • How to Quit Things, and How to Start Things

    I’ve been wanting to write this one for a few weeks. I was kind of reminded to write it after reading Greg’s site, where he talks about quitting smoking.

    I’ve found that I start things and end things very differently. The only way I can stop doing something is cold turkey. If I try to stop doing something gradually, then I will always be able to find an excuse for myself that I can keep doing it more and more. And I think the only way I can start doing something is slowly. If it too quickly changes my normal day-to-day life, I think it will stress me out.

    Let’s take for example two closely related things: dieting and exercising. I’ve recently started doing both. This is definitely the most successful I have ever been in dieting, I think. And I owe that to the fact that I don’t let myself have a “break,” and eat junk food once in a while. I haven’t had any desserts or large amounts of cheese, red meat, et cetera, for several weeks. And the urge sure is there. Out drinking with William last night, I had a huge craving for a slice from Golden Boy pizza, which has become to be a bit of a tradition for us. If I had the “once-in-a-while” mentality, I could have easily told myself, “Hey, you had a crap time in NJ. You deserve a slice of pizza!” And then it would have been all downhill from there.

    Now as far as starting exercising, I’m having to take it slow. I think in the past when I tried to start exercising, I over-did it. It would end up screwing up other things in my life because of the extra time it took that I wasn’t used to yet. So this time, even though my exercise schedule hasn’t been perfect, I think it is working better because I am being reasonable to start. But at the same time, doing it this way has the same danger as above…where I can start making excuses. But that is just something I’ll have to work at.

    But so far it is all coming together pretty well. I lost about a pound a day for the first 10 days, which was actually frighteningly fast, but the past few days has seen me stay even, probably due to the interruption of my NJ trip. Hopefully I will continue to make weight loss a priority and actually get it done. Really, I am just looking to lose another 15 pounds or so, and I will be where I want to be. So if I just work my ass off for a couple of months at this goal, I’ll reach it. Easier said than done.

  • Been Meaning to do That

    Finally got around to touching the Pacific Ocean yesterday.

  • More Food

    Wow…I sure am funungry. Someone want to drive to San Rafael and bring me a cheeseburger? What, 4:30am too early for you? I’ll remember this insult!

  • Virtual Cheese

    Share with me a piece of virtual cheese.

    Ah, one of my favorites – Asiago. They stopped selling it at my local grocery store of choice, so I guess it will be an extra luxury for me now since I will have to trek to the cheese store for it.

    Anyway, we are celebrating because I just got past a major “roadblock” in a project at work. There is still a lot of work to do on this project, but the rest is just mindless. Now all I have to do is hit a few keys, read a book for a minute, and repeat a few hundred times. This is definitely better than banging my head against the beast that is Novell.

  • Best Broken Program Ever

    My IM client, gaim, recently stopped working. I tried a couple of things to fix it, but for about a week I hadn’t gotten around to really trying hard to fix it. And then I realized how nice it was to not be online all the time. People don’t get the impression that they can bug you about whatever they want, whenever they want. And I don’t feel obligated to sit down for 5 more minutes when I was just about to go do something else, just because someone IMed me.

    And then there is the whole concept that people know when you are and aren’t at the computer. I didn’t like that from a privacy standpoint. So I turned off “idle reporting” so people couldn’t tell if and for how long I had been idle.

    But when I did this, if I ever forgot to put up an away message, which sometimes happened, I would get a couple people accusing me of ignoring them. That irked me.

    So I won’t fix my IM client. I am just going to use Meebo whenever I want to chat. And I will sign off when I don’t feel like it anymore.

  • Iraq War Deaths Animation

    This flash animation just brought out a lot of emotions. Sadness and anger.

  • Answering the Phone

    In any job that I’ve had where I have to answer the phone with a customer on the other end, my “line” goes through my head when I hear the phone ring. Right now my line is, “GuardianEdge support, this is Stuart.” But every once in a while I hear myself thinking, “George’s Restaurant”. I really hope I don’t say that one day when I pick up.