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So here I am, a year older, a little wiser, and just as awesome as always.  Read a few things here and there on various blogs that have got me thinking about how time, whether you decide to keep up or not, will continue regardless.  One of my best friends recently made a comment about how I am never satisfied with anything.  I thought, damn this guys known me for close to 20 years but he doesn’t really know me at all.   There’s a difference between satisfaction and challenge.  Challenging oneself to be the best self they can be is an entirely different thing from being satisfied with the present moment.  They absolutely do not have to be mutually exclusive.

In time, things will change.  They always do, because time keeps on moving.  If you stop, time doesn’t wait up.  If you are satisfied with everything that is, by all means stop and enjoy it all.  You should appreciate everything you have.  You might find, however, that the things you used to enjoy might not quite do it for you anymore.  Where it can get destructive, is when to keep that high of satisfaction you must get the next thing, and then the next, and then the next.  I wouldn’t call that true satisfaction.  I`ll call it societal brainwashing 101.

Right now, I am not where I thought I would be at this age.  I am comfortable, for sure, and to me that is not something I wish to be for too long.  But that isn’t dissatisfaction, not at all.  That’s just me, demanding more from myself.  Nobody puts this pressure on themselves except for themselves.  Its time to put things in motion to start the next phase of my life, because if you wait, you regret.  But time keeps ticking, ticking, ticking away.  I don’t care if I am here for 1 more day or 100 years if the time I am spending here is being wasted.  Wasted on pettiness, on greed, on vanity.  Wasted on other people’s expectations, wasted on waiting for others to make the decisions.  Its gross.  It makes me feel sick just thinking about it.  So, I say, stop wasting.  Stop wasting time, stop being wasteful to the environment, to your health. Demand more not from others, but from yourself.

I told my manager over lunch to beat me with a bat if I am still here in 1 year.  Who says that to their manager, especially right before their performance review?  Perhaps an idiotic move to your career, for sure, but honest nonetheless.  That’s why I applaud Miss California, who lost Miss America the other day because of her stance on gay marriage.  She was honest on her opinion (which I don`t agree with for the record) and because of that lost and was called mean things by not very compassionate people.  Hats off to Miss California for speaking her truth.  In the long run, honesty wins.  It just does.  Dishonesty for betterment of self is lacking in integrity and homey don`t play that.

I am moving along, because guess what?  Each year I get older, I get wiser.  I challenge myself, I explore and discover.  Nothing can be taken from that, only added.  Long after your looks have faded, or whatever else you think you have going for you, what will you have left? All that remains is your spirit, your consciousness, and time can`t touch that.

I was just messing around with my twitter tools plugin.  It hasn’t updated my twitter updates for the last couple of weeks since I switched hostign providers so I was wondering if it was broken.  Looks like everything is ok.  Last time I was messing around with the blog apparently a few people who subscribe to my friendfeed or twitter account got spammed gloriously with all of my test posts.  I tried to delete them right away but it was too late, they were already out there in the cloud!  This dang interweb, its just way too fast for an old timer like me, lol.  I have noticed a reduction in my facebook friends as well.  I am probably going to guess they do not like the way my friendfeed has the ability to completely dominate their home page when I go on a crazy sharing spree.  Lol, oh well.  Be safe, my good fellows, I bid you farewell.

My parents gave me their 37 inch lcd TV on the weekend.  So its sitting in my place taking up massive amounts of space.  I was messing around with it and have it acting as a second monitor to my computer.  It works beautifully with Windows Media Center.  Today, I’ve been using remote desktop on it to remote into the office.  For some reason, the mouse wasn’t working.  I couldn’t figure it out and it was driving me crazy.  Turns out I was using the mouse to my laptop, which was off, and not the mouse to my computer.  FAIL.  My brother got me these sweet wireless headphones that I absolutely love.  I used them last night listening to some music while making dinner, to lying on my bed listening to some paraliminals, whereas before I had to drag my bed over to my computer because my wired headphones weren’t long enough.  Awesome!  And now, I am complete.  Good day.

Happy Good Friday! Long weekends are always nice. I think I might pop back to Niagara for a few days, say hello to a few special people and then hop along on my merry way since I had such a lovely time last weekend. I’ve been sick these past couple of days. I even took Tuesday and Wednesday off because it hurt to talk. I’m starting to feel a tad better and I am hoping that by tomorrow I’ll be good to go.

I booked my vacation off for the end of this month. Its a much needed break to just STOP everything I am doing and do something else for a week. I’ll be heading to San Francisco with two of my best buddies from back in my engineering days, when I was a young pup eager to take on the world. By the way, for anybody living in Toronto flying anywhere in the United States, let me give you some advice. Fly out of Buffalo. Cheapest flight from Toronto to San Fran was $450. From Buffalo, only $219. Yes you read that right, less than half. Its crazy!!

Lately I’ve been going way too overdrive. I’ve been all give give give energy without replenishing any energy back and that is really not something to be sustained for long periods of time. Perhaps my body getting sick is trying to tell me something. That’s why the end of the month will be the start of a new beginning. First, I’m going to knock the GMAT out of the way. Its been nagging me for farrr too long. I’m ready. I’ve been putting in my time, and I will be peaking soon. Once that is out of the way, off I go to San Francisco. Simultaneously, as I’ve been planning my San Fran trip, I have also been planning a trip to Peru. It looks like we have dates set for mid August. I’ll be doing mostly outdoorsy stuff, like going on a 4 day hike on the Inca trail into the ancient city of Machu Picchu, as well as visiting some mountains and rain forests and the like. That trip will be mostly with my friends from Ottawa.

Once I return from my trip from San Fran, I plan to do a lot of reading.  I have so many books collecting dust on my book shelf and that is so unfortunate.  I also plan on starting P90X as soon as I get back and will continue to do it for the full 90 days.  Maybe I’ll tweet about my experiences with it.  This summer I also plan on doing some fun side projects that I am looking forward to learning and grinding through.  Mostly web related, mostly for fun.

Other news:  I switched hosting providers.  I’m with a better, more reputable, faster provider now so that is pretty awesome.  Also, I broke my phone.  I was trying to hack it with Android but failed miserably.  After I restored my phone back to Windows Mobile, it has a really rough time connecting to the network.  Lol whoops, my bad.  So I’m stuck with a tough choice right now.  Do I want to get a new phone, in which case I would probably want the Iphone or an Android phone (on my maybe list of things to do would be to develop a mobile app) or do I ax the phone altogether as part of my lifestyle experiments?  Its a tough choice, but if I was a betting man I would say I would get a phone.

Finally, I likely won’t be updating any more frequently this month then I have been.  Its just a crazy month, but an important one so I still need to keep my priorities aligned and stay focused.