Flashback

Remember when...
Security meant having someone who could set a rule on a firewall
The security officer was the guy at the desk in the lobby
Browsing was something you did at the mall
Podcasting was throwing peas into the wind
Intrusion prevention was locking your front door
Identity theft was handing in someone else's homework

Those days are gone.

(John Stewart)

Maarburg
Current meatspace coordinates:
N21 18'43.98' W158 01'06.29
Elevation: 12ft
(accurate to within 11ft)

Step off of the wrong path.

Today, October 30th 2007, I will begin a path that I've traveled before. This path is scorned by some and praised by others, and yet others have no opinion. Low Carbohydrate (LC).
If you are among the doubters, you may find your self rethinking your position. On the thin side, this means reduction or removal of unbalanced carbohydrates from the diet. Sugar, and the lie of "fortified" cereal products are gone. People of time past treated cereal foods as starvation food, and yet in the modern American diet, it's King. You can see how this is wrong, can you not?
LC, to me, means a focus on eating an adequate amount of protein and the majority of the remaining food to come from fruits and veggies.

Goal. Drop 40lbs of fat in 13 weeks.
Now, before you get all huffy about that not being healthy... please not that I will be only loosing 13lbs from where I was 12 weeks ago.
In fact, I managed to put on over 18 lbs in 34 days. That is insane.
If I told you I was going to drop 18 lbs in 34 days, you would tell me it's unhealthy. I'm actually expecting to catch some flack from the amount of fat I will be dropping.
Here's the catch. I will not be starving myself. Quite the opposite; I plan on exceeding the RDA on every level.
Today I exceeded the RDA for EVERYTHING by a minimum of 17%.

So, game on.
Daily progress report.


Maarburg
Current meatspace coordinates:
N21 18'43.98' W158 01'06.29
Elevation: 32ft
(accurate to within 144ft)

Thought of the day.

Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment.
Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is more readily seen. - Leonardo DaVinci

Maarburg
Current meatspace coordinates:
N21 18'43.98' W158 01'06.29
Elevation: 12ft
(accurate to within 11ft)

12 and 12

I've decided, that as a result of the emerging global economy, and the shrinking word base, that I need to learn some key phrases in many languages.

So, I propose to you.. my friends, family, and strangers:
What Phrases (looking for 12 total), and
What Languages (again, looking for 12 total):

Maarburg
Current meatspace coordinates:
N21 21' 18.7 W157' 51.5
Elevation: 340ft
(accurate to within 17ft)

When independent thought fails.. .. steal.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. -Joseph Conrad

How are you going to respond when the Clock-Radio of Challenge emits the Irritating Buzz of Opportunity? Are you going to roll over and hit the Snooze Button of Complacency? Or are you going to wake up and, after performing the Bodily Functions of Preparedness, boldly grasp the Toothbrush of Tomorrow? Dave Barry

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. Fritz Perls

I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend.

I'm tired of being worried every day. Seems there's detour signs keeping good things away. JUKE BOY BONNER I'm Getting Tired

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. -Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

It's not denial. I'm just very selective about what I accept as reality. -- Calvin

Large doses of coffee can be lethal. Ten grams, or 100 cups over 4 hours, can kill the average human. [hmm.. there goes my idea of filling the hot tub with coffee.]

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.-- Bertrand Russell

Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim - Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you. (Ovid)

Some things...arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever. --Gail Godwin

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. -Maya Angelou

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things, which escape those who dream only by night.Edgar Allan Poe

WARNING! Never attempt to directly fax anyone an image of your naked buttocks. Always photocopy your buttocks and fax the photocopy.
Maarburg
Current meatspace coordinates:
N21 18'43.98' W158 01'06.29
Elevation: 12ft
(accurate to within 11ft)

Needing of some jovality...

And I found the following:

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070907

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050330

Maarburg
Current meatspace coordinates:
N21 18'43.98' W158 01'06.29
Elevation: 12ft
(accurate to within 110ft)

Pet Peeve #7

How fsking hard can it be?
Kindergarten, IIRC.. That's when I learned the concept.

Inside the lines.

And don't go making excuses that because you have a SUV that you should have a little leeway.
If you can't drive it... DON'T DRIVE IT!

I'm going to put a razor in my trunk (because I can't get IN to my car) just for you. Chances are, I'll be nice and only fix that nasty little SUV problem you have via two tires. Chance, being a fickle mistress might cause me to, after I've crawled into my car from the opposite side, reverse my car out and fix the remaining two tires. Do you feel lucky?

In retrospect.. I was in a rent-a-car.. why did I try to limit the contact of my door edge and your pretty little, I can pee farther than you, statement? I should have...made a little more room. I'm sure your door panel would have given a few inches with the proper coaxing.

Maarburg
Current meatspace coordinates:
N21 18'43.98' W158 01'06.29
Elevation: 12ft
(accurate to within 11ft)

PolyPhasic?

Hey wasn't there a bunch of stuff here about me trying some crazy ass Polyphasic Sleep thing?


Yup..

Moved it to it's own blog.
Not Enough Time

Maarburg
Current meatspace coordinates:
N21 18'43.98' W158 01'06.29
Elevation: 12ft
(accurate to within 11ft)

Name that song...

This thing is slowly taking me apart.
Grey would be the color, if I had a heart.
Come on and tell me.
And I'm starting to scare myself.


Maarburg the Mad
Current meatspace coordinates:
N21 18'43.99' W158 01'06.31
Elevation: 32ft
(accurate to within 71ft)

Naptime.

Today was a rather interesting day, like an anti-day from my life.
I woke up later than I had wanted, but I'm on holiday, so it's no big deal.
I hopped on the computer and checked work e-mail, just to see how badly I'm going to have to make it up to Kel. Worked on a few things for awhile.

Then I took a very nice nap, with the vague notion that I will go for a ride later, but, y'know.. that will happen when it happens. The notion of taking a nap, with out setting a timer, and just really relaxing, seemed so foreign. So alien.
I actually had to overcome anxiety about not being anxious. Got in a good meditation and calmed down.

Gotta do that more often!


Great fsking nap.


Maarburg
Meatspace coordinates:
Latitude: N 39.91
Longitude: W 105.09
Elevation 5480ft

TIL 7711

Today I learned:
Seeing a movie, for free, 5am (soul adjusted time) is cool and difficult at the same time. Who catnaps during Harry Potter 5? Me apparently.

There are some really, really big big shops in CO.

Kathleen came out of her crate and was ready in less then 15 minutes. Amazing. PKQ (whom I had just met and is exactly as I expected) was still having issues putting her bike together. Hope I didn't rub any salt into a wound.

There is no fsking air in CO. Someone took it, and the locals are all to hypoxic to notice.

We are all damaged. Though, apparently we are all damaged in entirely unique ways.

I have a new friend, Tiff, a little crazy (a good thing in my Friend Ranking System) and a hell of a lot of fun to be around. (Caveat: Tiff, is technically, not a new friend. Though this was the first F2F) If you judge yourself by the quality of your friends, my net worth went up a lot today.

10 hours of sleep after 30 hours of being awake (and only sleeping 3 hours the night previous) will mess you up.

Maarburg
Meatspace coordinates:
Latitude: N 39.91
Longitude: W 105.09
Elevation 5480ft
(accurate to within 110ft)

TIL 7707

Today I learned:
Sometimes.. it's not as bad as you think it is.
and
If you're not paranoid.. you're not paying attention.
and
Don't ever ever say the words (in any variation) "Things couldn't get worse."
All that does is prove to the universe that you have a limited imagination and have no concept of pain and suffering.

I bought two new CD's today.. Marylin Manon - Lest We Forget and Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists

To my suprise, both CD's have covers that I'd never heard and thouroughly enjoy.
MM covering Soft Cell's Tainted Love and Dis covering Genesis' Land of Confusion.

Both very very nice.
And I hate Covers.


Maarburg
Current meatspace coordinates:
N21 18'43.98' W158 01'06.29
Elevation: 12ft
(accurate to within 11ft)

FMH

Hold on a fragging minute!

Aren't we supposed to be living for something.
Aiming.. achieving.. striving to succeed?

Why am I spending every ounce of energy to live through everything.
My daily goal is to survive to the next day.
WTFC...

Lame.

Maarburg
Current meatspace coordinates:
N21 18'43.98' W158 01'06.29
Elevation: 12ft
(accurate to within 11ft)

TIL 7626

Today I learned:
1. I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. -Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952
2. Apparently.. telling a major vendor "Bite Me" will only get you a scalding looks and thump upside the head. I'm taking that to mean I'm still on the bosses good side.
3. Some will. Some wont. So what.
4. You are all alone, right here, right now, totally seperate and totaly connected to everything.
5. I really do like coffee.

Maarburg
Current meatspace coordinates:
N21 18'43.98' W158 01'06.29
Elevation: 72ft
(accurate to within 11ft)

7625 TIL

Today I Learned:
#Life is more like TV that I thought.
#Never hit 'reply all' to the VP of Sales and a key vendor with the text 'Bite Me'
#It's never as bad as you think. It's much worse.

Maarburg
Current meatspace coordinates:
N21 18'43.98' W158 01'06.29
Elevation: 52ft
(accurate to within 11ft)