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Fitness: After an alright session with my trainer on Monday and my hardcore cardio routine yesterday, I’m down to an all-time low of 196.4 pounds. It’s possible that I could make 195 before the end of the week, but I’ll likely need to make some extra effort to get there. Mouse: I’m not so sure that steroid shot was a great idea, as his appetite seems to have shot up dramatically. He’s been underfoot a lot where food prep is concerned, but he can’t eat much of anything besides his wet food. He’s still alert and affectionate, so the food thing is something that will have to be worked through. He’s also decided to join me on my lap this morning while I type, which is great. He did the same yesterday while I was working on the revamp of the [Philistine on the Sidewalk] site, so I love that I can get some snuggles and get some work done at the same time. On to streamlining! |
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As you may have noticed over the past few months, I’ve been starting up projects like wildfire. Now that I have these projects somewhat off the ground, it’s time to focus on honing them and building them up more, so I can make them even better/get better results. Music I talked about this one in Monday’s blog, but I’m going to do my best to stick with [Philistine on the Sidewalk] as the primary project I work on this year. I still have a chiptune to finalize for the “A Chip off the Shizz Block, Volume Two” compilation I’m putting out through [Concatenation Records] in a few months and I’ve got a few albums to mix that aren’t PotS-related (though one will have a track from the project). That said, I won’t be starting any new albums through any of my other projects until 2011 unless things go really well with the project through the spring and summer. If they do, I may undertake a video game cover album for my [Amaranthine Skies] project in the fall that I was going to do last year at that time. I’ll worry more about that when the time draws closer. Things are panning out a lot differently than I thought they would at the end of last year, but that’s usually the case as time transpires and musical pursuits evolve. Fitness Thankfully, there’s not a lot left to do in this arena outside of some slight tweaking and continued work. Once April comes, I’m going to alternate my Thursdays between my [endurance routine] and some form of weightlifting routine – either [working with pyramid sets] in some form or my old hybrid martial arts and weights routine. It’ll likely be the latter, as I’m going back to weight routines on Mondays when my personal training sessions come to an end. I’ve considered continuing, but I’m trying to save some serious money (which I’ll talk about later and on Friday) and I’m sure with the diligence I’ve been putting in that I can get to the “finish line” without any more help. The trainer’s got four more weeks to win me over, but he’s giving me homework and boy howdy, I’ve got enough of that already. Gaming I don’t know if gaming is technically a project, but I need to get games played and reviewed if I’m going to further develop my [Nintendo-A-GoGo] site. The thing is that I’m currently enjoying gaming on the Xbox 360 and reviewing games for the current systems isn’t really what the site is about. The original plan for the site when I started it in 2000 was to have an Nintendo-themed site with occasional Super Nintendo reviews and reviews for games that are sequels to NES and SNES games. The only 360 game that I have that fits the bill is “Star Ocean: The Last Hope”, as the first one was on the Super Famicom and I reviewed the 2nd one for the original incarnation of the site. As it is, I’ll be expanding into Sega Genesis and older portable territory, especially since Game Boy Advance has “River City Ransom EX”. I still want to focus on NES and SNES titles, but I need to find the time to do so. I redid my schedule recently, which has retro gaming scheduled for Wednesday nights and Sundays, and current gaming for Saturdays. I’m going to stick with that for the time being and see how well that works. Beer As I enjoy beer on the weekends, it makes sense that I should read about it on the weekends as well! With Mouse falling ill, I’ve started laying in bed with him for extended periods of time on the weekends, which is the perfect opportunity to catch up on some reading. I’m still working on my Bruce Lee book, but as soon as I finish it, I’m going to start reading my guide to home brewing and take notes on what I need to do to make some awesome brews. Webpages While I’m happy with the layout of most of my websites, the Philistine on the Sidewalk one needs some fine tuning to fit more in line with the ideas I’ve been having concerning the project. I spent yesterday morning scouring other sites I visit for inspiration and started some preliminary work, though it may be a while before I finish up. I’m looking at Tuesday mornings and the weekend to work on the site, so I’ll hopefully have a new version of the site functional sometime in early April. I still have some work to do on the Concatenation Records site that I’ve been putting off for ages and I need to clean up/create sites for my other projects as well, but first things first. Cleaning up the Philistine on the Sidewalk site is my priority right now, so I’m going to do that and then move on to everything else. Finances I’ve been doing some serious financial planning over the past couple of weeks, and I’ve found the stock market to be the only worthwhile arena to accrue any interest these days. Banks are a place to store money, but any interest that is generated on one of their savings accounts is rather negligible. My interest was piqued when I stumbled across a blog on dividends. I read it, something fired in my brain (likely a memory back to my time in the Academy of Finance), and then I started doing some serious research. I’m running out of time today, but I can follow up with my findings on Friday’s blog. Conclusion Now that I’ve got most of my projects more streamlined, any stress I did have about getting things done is dissipating, and I have a feeling I’m going to be getting a lot more done in these areas in the coming months. Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on March 24th, 2010. |
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