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Yeah I got nothing.

1. After three days of real exercise, my body is telling me that today is a day to rest. I did walk for several hours around the mall, but walking is only considered 'exercise' by old people, and I scoff at the notion that it counts.
2. I made a blueberry/cherry smoothie, so that is going to have to count as my fruit today. We were out of everything else.
3. No coke today, probably too much coffee though.
4. Check
5. Check
6. Check

Was supposed to brainstorm with Tyler today about some stuff, but I haven't seen him on. That is probably for the best though, as I haven't been able to focus on much today. Getting my hour in on a 'project' was kind of a stretch... I installed and configured a new window manager (the awesome window manager), and messed around with scheme. I think the new window manager will be pretty sweet once I get used to the key bindings.

Burritos!

Looking forward to tasty burritos here in a bit. The obligatory:

1. Switched to weights to give my legs a rest.
2. Rocked an orange.
3. Not craving too badly today.
4. Check
5. Check
6. Aquí está.

Alright smoothie time. Dead tired once again, so yet another post mercifully devoid of content.

Dia Dos

Nothing much in the way of exciting stuff to report, just checking in on the goals.

1. I jogged 1.65 miles and did 10 laps in the pool.
2. I had an apple with my breakfast.
3. Day 2 without coke was better than Day 1.
4. Did a couple problems on Project Euler.
5. Check
6. Check.

I am deadly tired, since I woke up at 1:30 today. Kathy needs to get home so we can eat dinner and I can hit the hay.

Primer Dia

First day was a success.

1. I jogged 1.35 miles and did 10 laps in the pool.
2. I had an apple with my breakfast.
3. Nothing but water, coffee, and milk were imbibed.
4. Added some functionality to our item tracker.
5. Imported new cards and got pagination working on search results.
6. Here is my blog post.

^{(You can put your mouse over each to see the goal this addresses.)}

The Face Of The Earth

... I fell off it.

This summer I have slipped into an odd sleeping schedule (complete lack thereof) and time has definitely flown. It's hard to believe that we are almost to August. It's even harder to believe because I don't feel like I've accomplished a lot.

I've done some work on a new interface to the Magic site, and will hopefully get something out there on that front soon. I'm about halfway through SICP, which has been just as mind-expanding the second time as the first. I've also been dabbling the last couple days in creating my own web framework.

The standard response when someone creates their own framework is "there is no way you can do it better than the thousands of people working on existing mainstream frameworks." Yes, there is no way I have time to make a polished framework with all the features of those frameworks, so this argument is true on the surface. But frankly nothing out there is as simple as what I want, and I'm not setting out to make the greatest thing ever, I just want something that works for me.

Besides, it's fun.

But, in order to make better use of the five months of freedom that remain, I'd like to lay out some goals. They are all baby steps for now, with hopeful modifications later on.

1. Exercise every day when I get up.
2. Eat at least one piece of fruit a day.
3. Stop drinking coke.
4. Devote at least one hour a day to coding.
5. Devote at least one hour a day to a project.
6. Blog once a day, and mention progress on these goals.

You might look at #4 and think "You can't even work one hour a day?!" ... but that isn't the issue. When I get to working on something I can get lost for hours at a time. The problem is that I often go two to three days without getting anything done, which definitely needs to stop. Also notice that coding does not necessarily mean accomplishing anything on one of my projects, so those are separate. I might accomplish my coding goal through SICP or Project Euler, but I should definitely make progress on some projects too.

Also, on a less daily front, I think I want to feel out and possibly apply to grad school. So that will be my long term personal development project.

Now one caveat. My 'days' are not standard days, so for the purpose of this, 'every day' is every time I'm awake for an extended period. 'Today,' for instance, started at 10pm Saturday night and is going to end at about 4pm.