Or so the story goes. I believe that this must be a “real world” curse for those of us who may have had mundane and regular days. Inciting those days to become real things can be a blessing and a curse. Most of all though, its a blessing. Work has become doubly interesting and I found myself in the unusual position of being able to make a respectful demand of Visa. Its interesting, fun, and stressful. And I have not decided. In fact, I’ve decided not to decide. Is that being decisively indecisive or what?
I don’t know if I blogged this before, but I hit my weight goal. Its been a year. I started last May 20th or so I believe. I topped the scales then at 275 pounds of happy beer guzzling and burger swallowing me. But I had back aches, strained this and that. High blood pressure which was really bad. I’ll just say a word for going to see a Doctor if you are the usual American Male. Go. If you are over 40, Go. There are too many things which can happen. My friend DaveR; with every reason to live did not. Go seek out the physician and listen if she tells you that the time has come to look whatyou are inserting into thy stomach. Bad things cause bad things.
I’m probably doing about 1700 cals a day now but its not so much the cals but its what I eat. Only a little meat and not even every day. More salads and lots of fruit. Veggies once a day or so. Now I am at 181.5 and I feel pretty good. Definitely better than a year ago. I’ll just try to get my friend Ed to move forward. Ed you owe it to you, kids, wife, world.
The job thing has inserted stress; but one funny thing at Visa is the classic level of most people’s computing experience. People I talk with complain bitterly about Windows and its virii, malware, spyware, bad things. I tell them “why not try something else?” Get a Knoppix or a Live Ubuntu CD. But its too hard. Its easier to just be miserable. After all, Linux does not work on desktops or laptops and its only really meant for servers. The last time I booted a Windows desktop here was a Virtual One and since Amazon was kind enough to release the Linux MP3 client with easy dependencies to satisfy for the most part; iTunes and its silly “all or nothing” thing does not befuddle me any longer. Now I buy music, sync music with rsync. Yes… I don’t even use the original iPod firmware. Thanks to Rockbox. My iPod has signed its declaration of independence away from iTunes and Windows as well. But I am speaking to those that choose to be deaf. Its far easier to just bitterly complain than to try something else.
So, I’ll just go away into my corner with my Linux systems that don’t work.
