November 28
so we slacked on getting the family pic together, until the last minute… so my dad took this one…
and I took this one w/ the hand held out…
the second one will be comming to family mailboxes everywhere.
so we slacked on getting the family pic together, until the last minute… so my dad took this one…
and I took this one w/ the hand held out…
the second one will be comming to family mailboxes everywhere.
it rides like a dream and so far has cost me a cool $9.00. 28×14. No brakes. 24″ wheels.
well. I really want to do the escape from fort delaware triathlon next year but it’s $110. that’s ridiculous.
I’m already registered for columbia. I kinda want to plan my race calendar for next year (keeping in mind that the lion’s share of july should be spent in franc climbing rocks and watching someone other than lance with the tour).
I’ve been checking the race calendars for next year and I am constantly torn between things that seem cool and things that are convenient. The only one that I am committed to next year is the columbia, I’m thinking about signing up for the richmond sprint distance x-terra (get my feet wet with that before I sign up for the olympic one). I will probably have a second single speed built up in case anyone (hint hint mike) is into doing that one with me. but past that, I’m really not sure.
I don’t know if I want to repeat Naylor’s Beach. I figure I’ll plan to do Dewey again just to see if I can do it even SLOWER this year.
but for anyone who is interested(MIKE), here is a list of races that I’m thinking about doing next year (all pulled from www.trifind.com)
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found this on bikeforums.net
Bubbles and his bike.
so I might have a solution to one of my development problems from the past couple weeks. The solution came in part through discussions w/ a coworker about the idea of solving problems by questions the reason for the problem. He was talking about how in school they would offten have to discuss a “case study”, he’d slack and then all of a sudden have to discuss the case study on the fly. He would instead of talking about the problem in the case study he’d trun it around and question why it was even a problem….
for example “company A, is having distribution issues effecting its sales”, he would do no preperation and turn around and be like “well why is company A distributing its not their business” Thus is the problem is false, its not a problem. So trun this around to anything, “I get fat when I eat too much.” Instead of solving the problem you could ask “well is it really a problem that your getting fat”. “The tv is boken”, “well you shouldnt be watching it anyways”… etc etc.
so in my case, by looking at a problem that way “I cant get the automatic login to work over and over again”, I got “well is that a problem, just login in once you idiot”. If you have no problem, the problem is solved.. um .. sort of
so ive always kind of prided myself on my lack of work love. Now dont get me wrong, I always take pride in what I do durring the work hours, if i didnt that would be pretty sad to live half of my daily life wasting away. I do my work, and feel I do it well, but always try to keep in my head, that its just work. As my dad always said “if it was fun, they wouldnt call it work”, so I would tell myself at the end of the day, “its done”. When I was teaching this was much more hard for me, because the job entails a higher level of “stakes”, but otherwise for my work life… yah I tried to leave it at the door. The past couple days / weeks, I have had a problem doing this. I would leave work and dwell on problems I couldnt/will never be able to solve, and it effected me and the family.
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so since I started my new job I have essentially been working on developing 1 product. This is a big switch from my last job, where I was essentially more of a web handy man. Now im more of an in house carpenter, only instead of something reliable like wood and nails, im using .net and coldfusion. This week the product went live. I should feel some serious accomplishment, this thing is pretty slick and involved me doing / learning how to do the following.
all in all its a pretty slick little app, that I would post a link to if it werent for my fear of googeling coworkers/bosses and the such.
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I didn’t realize that Gregory Nava is making a movie, Bordertown, about the Ciudad Juarez murders. (I’ve been reading up on killings; in May 2003 the Mexican attorney general’s office tried to convince the world that over 300 women had been killed as part of an organ trafficking scheme. It’s hard to find words for how sickening the topic is.) I guess I should be glad that a major US film is going to address the murders; maybe it will raise attention where all of Amnesty International’s attempts have failed, and maybe it will place pressure on Vincente Fox to decide that the killings merit more attention. Maybe it will call attention to the U.S. owned maquiladoras whose labor policies make their female employees easy prey.
But then again, maybe I’m expecting too much from a film starring Jennifer Lopez.
Admittedly, I found out about the flying spaghetti monster pretty late in the game, but He came to me via a post on the knittyboard, in all His pastafarian wonder.
so yesterday I had a couple quality software development moments. Moment 1) boss says to me, “mike we made our first sale on the product your developing”, me “I guess I need to finish it then huh?” …. Moment 2) After having gone in circles with a part of the application for more than a month now, after doing a demo / brain storm with possible users, were back to what I had purposed we do a month ago. Later that afternoon I went for a walk and happened to run into one of my co-workers, to whom I vented my “it just doesn’t matter” attitude to. After a couple minutes he asked me how my commute had been going , why don’t you just kick a man while he’s down. so I respond, “some days its just irritating, others its soul sucking”. Pushed further he asks about possible road rage issues and the possibility for classical music helping, at which point I both come to the realization and speak it aloud “its not so much anger I feel, I don’t tend to get very angry often, but its the prolonged time for extensional angst that kills me”
One of the things thats helping me forget such thoughts on occasion is cherokee’s suggestion last week that for our 30th we go travel somewhere far, while holden is still young and we dont feel horribly guilty yet for leaving him at home w/ the grandparents. So come the first weekend in February were going to disappear to Paris for 4 days. The land where existential thought is a career and where the riots are there to prove it.
so to remind me that although I have fun in the future, for today where stuck here, I read allot of kottke.org and his recent adventures in asia. So think up pics you all want to see from paris?