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I’ve been working hard on certain areas of my life and the time has come to take a step back and assess how I need to shift my focus. Music I’ve always been overambitious with my music and I don’t see this stopping in the near future. I’ve recorded 12 songs for my Philistine on the Sidewalk project this year. I’ve laid the groundwork for a seven song EP that I hope to start recording the bass for this weekend. I’ve started working on a massive two song EP on my laptop to and from work as well as another track for this month’s Dwelling of Duels competition. There’s a song in progress for another online compilation, and there are also plans in the works to do a remix album of the originals that I’ve done and put up on the site. Not only have I been doing a lot of work on the musical side of things, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I want to have the project set up on the artistic and organizational side. I’ve been debating whether or not to do something like Nine Inch Nails’ Halo system, but it’d probably be redundant since I’m going to release everything on Concatenation Records and they’d be in chronological order anyway – they just wouldn’t be consecutive. As you can see, I likely need to put more focus on music if I want to get all of this done in a timely manner. Considering this is already my first priority, I’m not sure how I can increase it any more, but I’ll try. Fitness Now that personal training is over and done with, my fitness is completely under my control and completely on auto-pilot. I lifted on Monday, I did cardio yesterday, I’m lifting on Thursday, and I’m doing martial arts training here at home on Saturday. I’m still honing my routine a bit, as I know that doing anything with the lower body on Monday makes Tuesday’s cardio routine suffer, but I hit my lowest weight of 192.0 this morning, which is a pound lower than my previous lowest weight. I need to keep up with the routine I’m doing, fine tune it as I go and watch the results unfold. Gaming Gaming in my life is non-existent unless I’m working on something for the Nintendo-A-GoGo site. I have been working on a feature lately, so at least I’ve been getting a little bit in, but I’d like to get back on my Xbox 360 again. I haven’t played it since the weekend before Mouse was put to sleep. My weekends have been way too busy to find the time, and I don’t see that changing any time soon. I don’t have the ability to put down everything and enjoy myself any more for whatever reason. I think I need to figure out how to do that again. Beer I drink it on the weekends and it’s as tasty as ever! I still haven’t had time to read the micro brewing book and I don’t know when I will. Finances After reading all I could find on dividends, I’ve been settling into things some and getting my portfolio built and cleaned up. I’m at the point where I can look over a few things, figure out which stocks I’m going to allocate my funds to on Saturday mornings and let things take their course. Having another thing that’s almost on auto-pilot is nice. Cats Ever since Mouse’s health started declining in early March, I’ve been spending a lot more time petting, holding, and playing with my cats. Also, since getting Barclay a couple weeks ago and having him as a perpetual roommate, it’s been a lot easier to get distracted from the task at hand and start paying attention to him. I guess any time that I haven’t been devoting to gaming is time I’ve been devoting to spending with Barclay and Bootsie, and it’s been as enjoyable and stress-relieving as gaming, if not more so. In fact, I’ve got Barclay chilling in my lap right now while I’m typing this and it’s great because Mouse would do the same thing in his waning days. I love this little guy so much, even if he is a pain in the butt sometimes when he’s wound up. Did I Shift Anything? Well, I’m turning up the focus on music and cats, turning down the focus on fitness and finances, and trying to find more time to game and read about beer. Other than that, it’s pretty much status quo. I must say that the status quo is getting mildly soul-sucking at this point, but that’s another topic for another time. Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on May 5th, 2010. |
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