Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule is an article by Paul Graham that should be required reading in every management course that’s ever taken by anyone. And If they have to read it several times, so be it. Understanding the difference between what I do, and what a “Manager” does, and what I need and what a “Manager” needs is critical to getting the best performance out of me and people like me.
The Magical 50
I’ve been thinking all day about what else to say along with the following:
Today is the day I officially hit 50 pounds of weight loss.
The number is amazing to me, in that it’s hard to believe I was actually carrying that much extra weight. Almost as much as my seven year old son. What’s also amazing is that it took less than half a year to lose it.
Still, ten more pounds to go, but damn I’ve come a long way. What’s really cool is that Wendy’s lost nearly as much, and she wasn’t close to where I was at. She’s already hit the “healthy” weight range. I’m just trying to catch up.
What’s up!
Wow, a month’s gone by already. I’ve been head down in work this past month, trying to catch a project up that I got behind on, and I have to say, that really sucks. Mostly caught up now, I think, but there’s still lots of work to do. Go buy 10000 copies of Derelict so I don’t have to do this kind of thing anymore.
On the fitness front, I hit 175 a couple of days ago. Things have started to slow down a bit, which is OK and annoying at the same time, but as of today, there’s only two weeks left of Power 90 Masters, and then it’s picture time. Following that is a week or two of light exercise, just to recover some mojo, and then full on into P90X. I can’t wait.
I’m slowly making progress on Infinite Suns, too. I’m hoping to have it out, by the end of the year, but that’s totally dependent upon the amount of time I get to work on it. I spent a few hours working up a new schedule (yes, a weekly schedule) for my projects in an effort to ensure that I give them all what they deserve, and going forward (after this last push on the money project) I should be able to get thirty to thirty-five hours a week on it, as long as I’m diligent about following the schedule. Yes, you’re right. It’ll probably last all of a week, but I have to try.
Yeah, nothing groundbreaking or newsworthy here, just an update so you know I’m still alive and working.
I’m A Raging Psycho
So I was reading this thread and ran across a statement that really annoyed me, and I responded to it, perhaps harshly (I don’t know yet, but I suspect). It’s the second time in as many days where someone said something regarding fitness and eating right that just set me off, and I realize I’ve really become militant with regard to peoples attitudes about the subject. The casual things people say that reinforce our societies death spiral into mass obesity. The offhand spewing of defeatist hearsay far and wide. People will say anything, it seems, to justified their continued apathy and lethargy toward the subject of eating right and getting fit.
I guess there’s truth to the idea that no one hates ciggarette smoke more than an ex smoker, as it certainly applies to me here. I was one of those people who denied my problem, ignored it, excused my way out of fixing it. Boy do I wish I hadn’t done that. I could have saved myself YEARS of discontent by taking care of the problem long ago.
It’s never too late, however, to get started. Start listening to the things you say, and the comments of others. Pay attention and try to weed out the comments and thoughts that lead to inactivity. The battle against overconsumption begins with you and your thoughts and the words that come out of your mouth. If you’re looking at yourself in the mirror, what are you seeing? Are you seeing someone who needs exercise? Are you seeing someone who needs to trim their calorie intake by a bit? If you’re seeing that, just do it. Don’t tell yourself you can’t. Don’t tell yourself it’s too hard, or impossible. Tell yourself, tell the world, “I can, and it’s not impossible, and dammit, I’m going to do it.”
Too preachy? Probably. But I’ve made this change myself, and it’s not nearly as hard as it looked when I was seated on the couch with the bag of fried potatoes in my hand.
The Music Is Back
That didn’t take too long, did it? If you were visiting while I was playing around, you might have seen a couple different players, one which ran in a bar across the bottom that I liked, except for the fact I couldn’t change it’s appearance to match the theme.
Hello world!
Ah Yeah – new blog software here, too! Unfortunately, lost the comments, but what the hell, there weren’t that many anyway. I’ll get the music back up here, too, in a bit. I gotta do real work now, though.