aka Change Is Hard
I turned 50 almost a month ago. It really wasn't that big of a deal. I had a nice party with lots of friends and booze and enjoyed myself. Of course, that party happened 3 days before I hit the big 5-0, but still had a good time.
But turning 50 also brings up new concerns. I've been at the job I'm not fond of for over 10 years now. It's evident that I will celebrate 11 years in this comfortably unhappy place of employment. Unless I want to change. Which I do. I don't enjoy bitching about this place. It's fodder for the bar and former co-workers. It drains my emotions and time and distracts me from making a change.
Which is what the goal of writing all of this is supposed to do... incite change. Change is hard. Changes are difficult. They need to happen, but the comfortable state is settling for the easy way.
There are plans in the works for change. Perhaps a move to California. At the very least, deciding what best to do for income. Because when I look towards 11 years and turning 51 in 11 months, I want to look back and see a change. Not just another similar entry taking about change.
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February 8, 2012
New Year's Catch Up
To the hundreds of readers I have on this blog, I thought I would post an update since my last post, which was three days before Christmas 2011.
My concerns over Christmas turned out to not be concerns after all. Amazing what growing a set of balls and standing one's ground on their feeling and emotions will do. Christmas day was drama free and I had a nice day with my family.
As for 2012 so far, it's going. I went to CES in Las Vegas and had a great week filled with seeing gadgets and winning gadgets. My wife even had some of her own winning at the slot machines.
I've been pushing myself to get the gym more often. It's a basic gym that costs less than $11 a month and it's close to home. A good feeling that I know is helping me feel better.
Proposition 8 was ruled unconstitutional this week in the state of California. I posted over on my main blog about what this has done for the state since it passed. What gets me is the amount of money and time that is put into this by people this does not affect, yet their impact on the lives of others they don't give two shits about is the end result of denying them the right to marry. Equally puzzling is the Mormon church, who up until 1890, supported a marriage that wasn't "only between a man and a woman." Now they are against any "non-traditional" form of marriage - except of course after they die and can practice polygamy without that pesky government getting involved with their "godly laws." A bit hypocritical, if you ask me.
Last October, I had a physical where the doctor told me my blood sugar was a bit high. He put me on these pills called metFormin, which are used to help control the amount of insulin that my body produces. I need to go get my blood checked again soon to see if they made a difference.
After nine years with the same car, I traded it in for a brand new 2012 Nissan Sentra SR Special Edition. It's my first new car in over 25 years and it feels fucking fantastic (to borrow a line from Lily Allen' "The Fear"). Of course, I enjoyed no car payment (not counting the repair bills I put on my Midas card) for 4 years.
And that's a wrap. Let's see if I can come back here at least once a month with some more words of wisdom (not related to the religion I no longer believe in).
My concerns over Christmas turned out to not be concerns after all. Amazing what growing a set of balls and standing one's ground on their feeling and emotions will do. Christmas day was drama free and I had a nice day with my family.
As for 2012 so far, it's going. I went to CES in Las Vegas and had a great week filled with seeing gadgets and winning gadgets. My wife even had some of her own winning at the slot machines.
I've been pushing myself to get the gym more often. It's a basic gym that costs less than $11 a month and it's close to home. A good feeling that I know is helping me feel better.
Proposition 8 was ruled unconstitutional this week in the state of California. I posted over on my main blog about what this has done for the state since it passed. What gets me is the amount of money and time that is put into this by people this does not affect, yet their impact on the lives of others they don't give two shits about is the end result of denying them the right to marry. Equally puzzling is the Mormon church, who up until 1890, supported a marriage that wasn't "only between a man and a woman." Now they are against any "non-traditional" form of marriage - except of course after they die and can practice polygamy without that pesky government getting involved with their "godly laws." A bit hypocritical, if you ask me.
Last October, I had a physical where the doctor told me my blood sugar was a bit high. He put me on these pills called metFormin, which are used to help control the amount of insulin that my body produces. I need to go get my blood checked again soon to see if they made a difference.
After nine years with the same car, I traded it in for a brand new 2012 Nissan Sentra SR Special Edition. It's my first new car in over 25 years and it feels fucking fantastic (to borrow a line from Lily Allen' "The Fear"). Of course, I enjoyed no car payment (not counting the repair bills I put on my Midas card) for 4 years.
And that's a wrap. Let's see if I can come back here at least once a month with some more words of wisdom (not related to the religion I no longer believe in).
November 17, 2011
Procrastination
One of the main reasons that allow me to go months without posting here is the fact that I've always treated this blog as a secret blog, even though it contains my full name and is not private.
Surely there has been enough that's happened with my life in the exactly four months it's been since I last posted here.
- Of my 4 active blogs, the other blog that's been ignored is Scooter Sunday. Not on purpose, mind you, but just naturally inactive due to the lack of editing of Scooter Sunday episodes.
- The other 2 blogs that are active - Chillywilly.org and Banal Leakage - have remained at their normal pace of postings, with a few days in between posting being part of that normal pace.
- I should also mention another blog I update, where my alias is a LEGO minifig stormtrooper named Cooper... Cooper Trooper. It gets updates less frequently than I plan to.
- I've traveled a lot. Seattle, northern Oregon and Vancouver, WA at the end of July. Vancouver, WA again two weeks later, Irvine, CA a week later for my 30th high school reunion. And Las Vegas and LEGOLand at the end of October. All trips were good, with the exception of my spouse giving her driving instructions, which bothers me on many levels.
- I've been writing fiction, but not without procrastinating a lot. I start a good story, then get busy with something else, come back to it and get it mostly finished. Then wait till the day or two before it's due and scrambling to make final edits.
- Speaking of writing, I joined up to NaNoWriMo to give me some incentive to finish my novel I started in September 2000. I'm still at chapter 3, with chapters 4-30 still in my head.
- As for my day job, the frustrations I deal with there still have not pushed me to a level of wanting to go somewhere else. Perhaps I'm more at ease to let things be, given I have flex time and vacation days still left to burn for 2011. Plus, it's not as stressful as it normally is.
- Daily exercise eludes me most days, with the treadmill now tucked into the corner of the downstairs family room. My wife put it there... honest.. I'm not just dumping on her (only her driving instructions deserve the harsh retort I give her). I just might have to join a gym again to give me some motivation.
Which leads me into the very reason I put things off a lot. It's a matter of managing both my time and my many distractions. When that day finally arrives, except some miraculous results posted to my other blogs. And a nice mention here, of course.
Wish me luck.
Surely there has been enough that's happened with my life in the exactly four months it's been since I last posted here.
- Of my 4 active blogs, the other blog that's been ignored is Scooter Sunday. Not on purpose, mind you, but just naturally inactive due to the lack of editing of Scooter Sunday episodes.
- The other 2 blogs that are active - Chillywilly.org and Banal Leakage - have remained at their normal pace of postings, with a few days in between posting being part of that normal pace.
- I should also mention another blog I update, where my alias is a LEGO minifig stormtrooper named Cooper... Cooper Trooper. It gets updates less frequently than I plan to.
- I've traveled a lot. Seattle, northern Oregon and Vancouver, WA at the end of July. Vancouver, WA again two weeks later, Irvine, CA a week later for my 30th high school reunion. And Las Vegas and LEGOLand at the end of October. All trips were good, with the exception of my spouse giving her driving instructions, which bothers me on many levels.
- I've been writing fiction, but not without procrastinating a lot. I start a good story, then get busy with something else, come back to it and get it mostly finished. Then wait till the day or two before it's due and scrambling to make final edits.
- Speaking of writing, I joined up to NaNoWriMo to give me some incentive to finish my novel I started in September 2000. I'm still at chapter 3, with chapters 4-30 still in my head.
- As for my day job, the frustrations I deal with there still have not pushed me to a level of wanting to go somewhere else. Perhaps I'm more at ease to let things be, given I have flex time and vacation days still left to burn for 2011. Plus, it's not as stressful as it normally is.
- Daily exercise eludes me most days, with the treadmill now tucked into the corner of the downstairs family room. My wife put it there... honest.. I'm not just dumping on her (only her driving instructions deserve the harsh retort I give her). I just might have to join a gym again to give me some motivation.
Which leads me into the very reason I put things off a lot. It's a matter of managing both my time and my many distractions. When that day finally arrives, except some miraculous results posted to my other blogs. And a nice mention here, of course.
Wish me luck.
February 17, 2011
Liberal Ruse
So I learned this week that the whole "birther" movement was created by liberals in order to mask and distract from the real issue, which is that President Obama is not, nor has he been, eligible to be president.
I guess that's right. I mean, why else would reasonable liberals be fighting the conservative movement to keep things like a woman's right to choice, lower taxes and a cleaner environment? They had to elect an ineligible leader to make it all happen. A conspiracy in the making since August 1961.
Never mind that valid copies of the birth certificate have been produced. Disregard the fact that there have been others that have run for president that were not born on actual US soil (McCain is the most recent I can think of, born in Panama) who were never questioned about the authenticity of their birth certificate.
It seems us liberals are just making up shit as we go along, blaming it all on the conservatives and making us out to be the good guys. It looks like the gig is up. We've been found out.
So I guess when I run for office, I need to make sure I don't reveal that I was born in the back of a VW bus on the outer parts of Jakarta. I just need to make sure I keep that faked birth certificate that shows I was born in California ready to unleash on the interwebs.
I guess that's right. I mean, why else would reasonable liberals be fighting the conservative movement to keep things like a woman's right to choice, lower taxes and a cleaner environment? They had to elect an ineligible leader to make it all happen. A conspiracy in the making since August 1961.
Never mind that valid copies of the birth certificate have been produced. Disregard the fact that there have been others that have run for president that were not born on actual US soil (McCain is the most recent I can think of, born in Panama) who were never questioned about the authenticity of their birth certificate.
It seems us liberals are just making up shit as we go along, blaming it all on the conservatives and making us out to be the good guys. It looks like the gig is up. We've been found out.
So I guess when I run for office, I need to make sure I don't reveal that I was born in the back of a VW bus on the outer parts of Jakarta. I just need to make sure I keep that faked birth certificate that shows I was born in California ready to unleash on the interwebs.
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