Another random observations post

August 9, 2007 01:37 AM

Hmm. It's been a week since I posted. I don't think there's really been anything warranting a full post, but there have been a couple of interesting events of note. (Or at least good enough for another semi-random-observations post.)

Thanks to Nathan and Crystal getting a trailer (mainly for his motorcycle), I now have a big screen downstairs. I've been talking about getting once since I made some extra money doing contracting work earlier this year, but haven't really had the means to get it from Walmart to the house. w00t.

Speaking of contracting work, I've gotten some more recently. I forgot that last time I got involved with a big on-the-side project like this, two things happen: one, the project hangs over your head every free hour of your day, and two, change requests come in faster than you feel up to digging into them.

I was going to post a nice long stereotypical "Top X ways to accomplish Y" blog post yesterday about the weight I'd lost since April, thanks to the plan and just a general change in diet and exercise. Then someone brought in donuts at the office and I ate three or four today. So I'm a big hypocrite. Ah, the hubris of blogging.

I decided to block digg.com, fark.com, and slashdot.org from my computer here at the house. I find that I'll often spend hours bouncing back and forth between those (and other similar sites) after work. In theory I'm trying to unwind by doing something that doesn't feel like work (depending on my mood, video games and programming projects can feel like work--but that's a whole other subject). However, I'm starting to think this sort of ADDish internet browsing, rather than being a mindless activity to help me unwind, is a major part of the problem.

I started working on an online version of The Plan, when I realized it might not be a bad idea for a web application. So that'll probably be along in a couple of weeks.