One Week
A little experiment over the next week to see how much difference a week can make in how you feel with lifestyle changes. Over the next week I will be;
- Going to bed before midnight every night.
- Up by 7:30am everyday
- Three good meals a day (two of them high in grain)
- No soft drinks.
- Gym everyday or walking around the city. (alternate upper and lower body)
- Sunlight everyday (hanging outside at lunch or after work)
- 8 glasses of water a day.
Update on how much difference is made in one week.
Riding the Subway
On the subway this past Saturday, a couple of guys boarded the train and started to give the usual routine of;
"Excuse me ladies and gentlemen..."
This happens any weekend on the trains in NYC. half of the time they are legit charities. The one's that seem to leave me feeling really sour are the one's selling bags of M&M candy for a dollar. These guys seem to get really hostile if you don't want to contribute and get in your face a bit more than necessary. I would hope some are legit but I wouldn't be surprised if none were.
A good tip I would think to tell if they have some legitimacy is if they name the school they are raising money for, sometimes there is another guy with them in a supervising capacity. Maybe a coach or a sponsor.
Some advice on detecting charity scams.
Anyway, back to the guys who got on the subway; one of them is giving their speech on how they are raising money for the basketball team. "Or whatever sports is needed, we are raising money for them". Then the guy repeats himself a few times and his story changes from helping school teams to helping a guy earn an honest dollar (with seeming undertone of "be lucky I ain't mugging you"). One guy buys a bag of M&M's on the car. This pisses off announcer guy and he starts to tell the whole car off in a third person way, telling his friend what "ate up shit these people are" while the other guy is laughing but telling him to tone it down a bit.
On the same ride home, two women have their kids with them: oldest no more than ten, youngest no more than three. One woman is telling the story of what just happened on the previous subway car ride where a guy asked her to move over on the subway and she got back in his face with a few choice words. She repeated the story at least five times (no kidding) with the kids just soaking the ignorance right in. unfazed by what seemed to be a routine occurrence for mom.
I really do like New York, but sometimes, the subway can just depress the hell out of you.
Four things
Normally, I resist doing these, but out of lack of anything better to post;
Four jobs I've had:
1. Pizza Cook
2. Aircraft Armament Systems Specialist USAF (bomb loader)
3. Prepress Technician
4. Designer
Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Iron Giant
3. The Atomic Bomb Movie
4. Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring
Four places I've lived:
1. Decatur, AL
2. Oklahoma City, OK
3. Sydney, Australia
4. New York, NY
Four TV Shows I Love:
1. Family guy
2. Boston Legal
3. Battlestar Galactica
4. Angel
Four places I've vacationed:
1. Bangkok, Thailand
2. Paris, France
3. Ayer's Rock, Australia
4. Aspen, Colorado
Four of my favorite dishes:
1. Spaghetti
2. Hot Dogs
3. Ramen Noodles
4. Pepper Steak and Lo Mein
Four sites I visit daily:
1. flickr.com
2. airbagindustries.com
3. thismight.be/offensive
4. wonkette.com
Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Australia
2. Hawaii
3. On a spaceship
4. On Television
The worst day of the year
According to a U.K. psychologist, January 24th is statistically the most depressing day of the year.
The formula was devised to help a travel company "analyze when people book holidays and holiday trends," said Alex Kennedy, spokesperson for Porter Novelli, a London-based PR agency. It seems that people are most likely to buy a ticket to paradise when they feel like hell.
Again, I refer you to the bunny for help.
The Reference Links
Here's something I meant to put up again awhile back, the reference links is a repository for various links of news, interest, and often used websites. At some point I mean to work this into the front page with the blog so that both are easily seen in place. Till then, you can find them over here.
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I want young men and young women who are not alive today... to know and see that these new privileges and opportunities did not come without somebody suffering and sacrificing for them."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Boston Legal
Boston Legal is a really good show, for the first time in years I can laugh *with* ABC and not just at them. The writing is well done and I am a big fan of the puffy versions of James Spader and William Shatner. Plus it's a great repository for all the old has been actors (Candice Bergen) who still have something to offer to comedy.
Watching the show tonight "The Cancer Man Can" with guest has-been star Michael J Fox, William Shatner's character Danny Crane was given a mobile phone by the woman he schtoop'd in the coat closet at at an award banquet. When he opened the flip phone up it made the same noise as the original communicator devices on the original Star Trek series. Hi-Larious.
google interactive metro
I keep meaning to put this somewhere handy and keep loosing it. So for now I am keeping it here: Interactive Transit Map at brail.org.
The Year in Cities 2005
Following the herd of blogging monkeys, here is my 2005 list of cities:
New York City*
London, UK*
Chichester, UK*
Oklahoma City, OK*
Raton, NM
Childress, TX
Dallas, TX
Chicago, Ill
Crested Butte, CO*
Aspen, CO
Milan, Italy
Bratislava, Slovakia
Budapest, Hungary
Prague, Czek Republic
Los Angeles, CA
Melbourne, Australia
Cities marked with an * were visited multiple times on non-consecutive days. Somehow it seemed like I traveled more than this, at least I did travel more in 2004 I know. I need to go out and see more in 2006.
Sking Hurts
The trip to Crested Butte was a lot of fun. I had been there almost every year of my life in the summer but this was my first trip to ski. I was going to write something long and detailed about it all, but all I really wanted to moan about was landing chest first going down the hill really fast on a blue course and knocking the wind out of me. Ow.
Skiing hurts.
Crested Butte, Colorado
Off for a few days of Skiing in the Colorado rockies.
Update: picts posted over at flickr.
