New diet, new office

After delaying for a while, I finally got a full check up to see how I was doing physically.  I knew I was overweight, but was having lots of other little issues.  Turns out all the little issues are related to the weight.  So the Dr’s have me on a very strict diet for a while.  It’s interesting, lots of vitamins, to make sure I stay healthy while reducing my caloric intake.  Its a lot like Atkins Diet, where it’s pretty much all protein, but I get a little more choice in the veggies I get to eat.

Part of the diet is taking phentermine for dealing with the hunger pangs.  It certainly does that.   I ate the equivalent of 2 chicken breasts all yesterday and got hungry just once.  As a side effect though, I don’t sleep as well, and … well it makes me feel funny.  Ultra focused in a way, that’s not necessarily a bad thing though lol.

I spent most of the past week down with a cold, which didn’t help anything.  I felt weak and couldn’t do anything, and just wanted to stay in bed.  My head was congested and I was constantly sniffling.  By yesterday I was mostly over it and spent the day finishing some re-arranging started on Fri.  That was due to Maggie’s new bed coming in and so we had to make space for it.  Nothing sucks like moving with a cold.  Even though itwas just between two rooms it was pretty rough.

So through diets and colds, I have a new office in Maggie’s old room.  It’s a nice bigger space and I have more windows!  We’re not 100% done with the moving, I still have some things to move out of her room and she’s still got stuff in here.  I put out a call on facebook for people to suggest new posters for my walls.  I’m happy with the layout for the most part, but with a little more moving that can be fixed.

Tags: diet, moving

no PHP_AUTH_USER, well crap!

Just a little programming problem I’m dealing with at work. It involves statefulness in the HTTP server and trying to script it in PHP. Sucks. but fixable.

I was kinda down yesterday afternoon, I needed a little down time and didn’t get it. To many people just hanging out around the house. I’m reserving Thursday night as a family night. Just us, hanging out watching TV or whatever. I’m looking forward to it.

I started reading St. Augustine’s Confessions last night. I had tried to get into it before and I remember now why I had stopped. He writes (or at least the translation from Latin) in big flowery sentences that are never complete sentences but long series’ of rhetorical questions or even statements. It seems very stream-of-concisousness and it loses me at times, but or the most part I am getting it. It is better than my usual brain-candy (Conan, Sci-Fi, or Fantasy books) and I’m enjoying the challenge.

So took a break to do a little work. I haven’t done many renderings recently, mainly haven’t had the time, between tutoring, guitar, warcraft, and around the house chores, I’ve had no time. It’s kinda sucked. It really sucks when I can’t even get to my own desk because of it all. I’m tired of moving crap and eager for it all to be done!

Speaking of moving Helen & I helped Shawn with more moving on Sat. It was a lot of work and a lot of fun at the same time. We were cutting up and just having a good time while lugging tons of furniture (ok not tons, but a good amount) down stairs and into and out of cars trucks and vehicles. It was fun but on Sunday we were both too exhausted to really do anything more. I tried more household re-arranging but I was too low on energy to do much.

Tags: books, computers, moving, programming, reading, relax

Long ago… or something like that.

Had a great evening with mom and dad last night. We roasted hot dogs and relaxed by the firepit. Pooks and I are getting annoyed with moving stuff. It’s just gotten disheartening recently.

I got a call from an old friend from G’ville on Thursday too. It was good to talk with her. Hopefully she’ll be able to make it up to the house warming in Feb. I miss a lot of my Gainesville friends. Of course not getting involved around here like I did down there hasn’t helped. It makes me thing of how really long it’s been since I’ve talked with any of them. I do keep tabs on things, Earl’s leaving the church, Bob died, IHN keeps helping families. I may miss the superbowl party for the homeless this year. Makes me kinda melancholy. I know though that a lot of the people and things I knew from there are gone. The memories are of happy times long ago. I’ve moved, but not necessarily moved on.

It’s late and I don’t want to sleep. I’m rapidly succumbing to the sandman though.

Tags: blah, family, gainesville, moving

Bringing Down the BanHammer!

Bringing Down the BanHammer!

Did some early morning maintenance on the dreamlibrary.org site. Various spammers were posting adds for stupid stuff in one of the forums. Even though it was the “OffTopic” forum, they still aren’t allowed. So I’d grab the IP add it to the banned list and then delete the post. It’s comforting to know that at least the spammers know where the site is. I tell myself it’s a sign of getting famous.

I’m about half way done with packing. I finished most of the living room last night. Hopefully I can get the computer room and bedroom done today. I am still trying to keep things somewhat oragnized so that’s helping.

It’s been a stressful week for me and pooks too. She’s having problems and having to move doesn’t make it any easier.

I did get to do some online shopping last night, that was kinda cool. I actually like shopping for Christmas presents. I’m done with Pooks (I think) so i still need something for Maggie & the rest of the family. It’s a little too close to try to mail-order things, so I think I’m stuck with going to the store. Super Target here I come!! (and World Market, walmart, books-a-million, bed bath & beyond infinity (My God, It’s full of Towels!) But I’m saving that fun for next week.

Tags: ban hammer, christmas, moving, packing, shopping

Stress leading up to moving…. and potentially something better.

Moving sucks, two tons of crap and not enough dumpsters.

lol.

I’m getting some packing done but I feel like it’s going too slowly. I need to make a goodwill run and give a bunch of stuff to them. I’ve still got a lot of crap in the computer room to both junk and pack. I can’t tell if I have more stuff than when I moved back to Jax or less. I know I filled a 17′ truck moving up here, but not I’m wondering what it was full of… I think I’ve been a little good at throwning stuff away this time and not holding on to so many things.

The good part is that I’m throwing off some barnacles that weigh me down. I’m moving to a new house with a woman I love and a daughter that’s adorable. I will be able to refresh myself with new things. I won’t be stuck trying to keep up the old things. This is the stuff I love, new possibilities and potentials and everything both scary and wonderful that comes with it.

Pooks is going through some stuff now and it’s hard to advise her. It deals with old friends and that always makes it harder.

We all had a stressful day yesterday, so before bed we got together and had a family prayer time. It felt good to just sit together and let out our worries and frustrations and then to remember the things we were thankful for.

I’ve been stuck w/o my linux box and everything is getting packed away so I haven’t had a lot of time to do things computer wise. I do think I want to setup the prime number database again. It’s the kind of cool project I enjoy doing that makes no good sense.

Tags: linux, moving, prayer, stress