Yeah, there’s a song by that title. I still love that song by Barenaked Ladies. Too bad it has absolutely nothing to do with the post itself. (Or does it? Release the metahounds!)
Alloted time for the post: 2 hours, from pre-post to post-post. There’s a POST related joke here somewhere, but I’m going to refrain from going into it.
What the heck happened to my gym?
Well… I started the exercise regimen again. Finally. Being tired of my fat self and completely ignoring the ever so slight (no, I’m kidding, it still hurts quite a bit, but much less than before) ankle pains, I started back on the ellipticals. Monday and Wednesday were good times.
But when I drove by on Friday, the windows were all papered up, and a sign was posted on the door saying it was closed. I thought nothing too much of it, thinking maybe it was closed down for maintenance (although the place has “24″ in its name, suggesting that it doesn’t close). So, instead, I ended up running towards Derek’s apartment and jogging while walking the dog.
In trying to get their number, I tried accessing their site, which was and is still down. Working my Google magic got me to this point: Local Yahoo! as well as Yelp seems to tell similar stories of this closure.
Without warning, the place closed down. If memory serves me right, I paid $75 for a full year in advance. Eh. Half a year for $75 is still pretty good. The problem is now… I have to figure out where to go for the lifting and the running.
I guess it’s back to WIMPE for $26/month.
Rejiggering the setup
- Selling
- TV: Hopefully can get rid of it before I move in a month.
- Rock Band: Currently, I’m fearing the reaper very very much. I cannot beat this tier 8 song on Expert drums. Come on… But after I beat this, as well as the song pack that’s coming out this week, I should be saying farewell
- 20″ iMac: Need more POWER. I blame Windows games.
- Buying/Bought
- 24″ LCD: I’ve always loved my 17″ KDS monitor. Looks like another one’s coming this week.
- EyeTV: This is how I’m playing the Wii without a TV. I hope to have a review of it soon.
- 24″ iMac? Or… should I make do with the MacBook Pro?
Call it Lair 2.5. At least with this out of the way, I can get to getting some work done. Or obsess over the next possible way to make my stuff more efficient… It’s a never-ending game I like to play. Moving on.
HanMeta Projects
No matter how cliché it sounds, things are coming together. Heck, I finally touched some xhtml/css tonight. Of course, I’m still not as good with svn as I would like to be, but git’s the future, isn’t it? Heh.
See? I know (working knowledge, not mastery) of what I want to learn and to accomplish. It’s just the fact that I have to follow through and do it. I need to stop being lazy.
But then I start wondering, why am I not passionate about doing it? If it really meant that much to me, I should quit my job and go after that said passion. What stands between me and that goal?
Well, for one thing, just because something is risky doesn’t mean it’s worth that risk. This is why the word “start-up” has come and gone in my book. StatusFix had the makings of a “start-up”. I really could have gone from one VC to the next, trying to secure funding for the team of five that I had forged. But I didn’t: It didn’t work out, and I just let it pewter out. That passion turned into anger and bitterness. And that passion turned into lessons. (Said lessons need to be meticulously thought out and… written in a book or something.)
Building up the confidence to say “this first time is going to suck, really (truthfully, not in the bullcrap JK way of always being self-deprecating) and it can only get better from here” is incredibly frustrating. It’s been hard. It’s going to continue to be hard. Especially trying to keep my biz hat and my dev hat on at different points in the product cycle is tiring and vexing. And for some reason, I like doing this. What’s wrong with me…?
I saw this series of videos on YouTube with Ira Glass of “This American Life” on National Public Radio Here’s Part #3. Watch the rest; it’s good.
While the lessons and advice shared in these videos applies indirectly for projammin’ and project development, it applies directly in some ways because of this desire to start up a screencast for Web Applications. You’ll see it if it ever happens.
Eh?
I guess this is my second weekly personal update. We’ll see if it carries over to next week.
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