The Importance of Having Goals

This morning I remembered something from when I first entered college. It was one of those inspirational speaker people talking about how important it was to have a vision for yourself; to have goals.

Looking back I wonder if I would be farther along if I would have had a better vision. Due to this I have decided to make a list of goals to accomplish before the end of the year. Here they are:

• Learn how to speak French.
• Be making more money by (a) Finding a new job (b) Getting a raise at my current job
• Finish the painting I started in the basement
• Be maintaining a regular exercise routine
• Have a working model of my 'Web site' idea

Blocking Perverted People's Pictures

Ok, so I use FireFox as my Web browser. I installed a plug-in for it called adBlock. I have found this extrememly useful when browsing myspace.com. You come across these people that have the need to show themselves naked or nearly naked to millions of people. Sometimes this is ok, depending, but not really. Most of the time it is annoying, especially when I want to check something on myspace from work.

With adBlock you can right-click on an image and select 'AdBlock Image'. Then you'll never have to see that image again.

Figuring it all out

Well I've been spending a good bit of time during the week alone. It has it's benefits. I'm still reading the Cryptonomicon. Good book. Reading is something that's peaceful, productive, and enjoyed by one's self. It's a bit slow paced for me and a find myself fitting a chapter in here and there in between being online and smoking cigarettes on the porch while taking to my neighbor.

I seriously think I am becoming an online addict. Not sure what to do about it. I spend way too much time in cyberspace. Some of it is productive while some of it is just wanking. I want to be more productive though.

Oh, and too much TV makes people dumb. Can I get an Amen!

Argh, blarg, zarf!

Can't sleep. Feel asleep at like 7 and woke up at 9:30. Shit. Now it's Monday and I don't see myself falling asleep too soon. Looks like another week of an f'd up schedule.

Well, watched the Life Aquatic. Was a pretty good movie. I don't want to sound sappy. I hate that, but I wished I would have had some company. Sitting around watching a movie on Sunday evening by oneself is o.k. I suppose. However, I miss the days when I'd spend the whole weekend with someone.

I want to stay motivated. Staying constructive has always gotten me through whatever I needed to get through at the time. I do feel like I am making some headway in life, but I still have a long way to go.

Saturday was fun. Made a new friend. That's constructive, right?

Liberate this will to release us all

We live in a society that too often beleives that being socially abnormal is some type of sickness. That if your ideas some how fall outside of what everyone else believes, well then, you must be mental.

We also live in a society whose most renound weekly magazine (Time) named Hitler man of the year in 1938.

We also live in a society where at the same time Hitler was gasing jews by the millions we were driving ice picks into people's brains and calling psychosugery.

I think people are usually followers of whatever they want to believe and rarely question or consider the possibility that they may be wrong. Too often in this life I find my self frustrated by how ignorant the 'educated' seem to me. People are so unconscious. I am so unconscious.

Am I jaded? How do you balance the need to progress yourself with the need to view what's around you truly? Then in turn make positive steps in your own life to propagate to the rest of the world.

Maybe the answer is simple . . .

Go, go, go!

Lots of stuff going on at work. I like my job. One problem is I am really underpaid.

I've been working on some Web stuff at home too. Learning PEAR, specifically to use the Amazon.com developer's services. I hope to use this knowledge to somehow create a revenue generating Web site. The new purchase of a car has killed my disposable income.

I'm still addicted to myspace.com.

Gas prices are getting ugly, especially since my car uses premium fuel. I guess I should quit driving like a jerk and lay off the accelerator a little bit. I am going to make an effort to change my drivig habits to conserve gasoline.

Zormoot is moving in soon.

I need to get home after work and clean up, my house is getting to be a mess.

Check out the background to the header

Ok so recently I redesigned this page slightly. You'll notice that there are photos in the background of the header of this site. This background really isn't a background but more like a layer. You can actually click on the photo and it will take you to my flickr.com account where I have posted the photo. Another neat thing about this feature is that it automatically updates whenever I posted a new photo to flickr.com.

It's based on a technology called RSS which sends information from flickr.com to a little program I wrote on another Web server. Then I suck it on here via JavaScript.

Remembering things
Can not see the way clearly
I should best forget

Vacation

So right now as I write, I am on vacation. Haven't gone anywhere. Anywhere of note that is. Tomorrow I go to Hershey Park. That should count for something I suppose. I am not terribly excited.

Nick and I went out to Klinger's in Hanover last night. We ran into some folks we knew and shot the shit for awhile. Nothing was overly interesting.

Today I think I may restart reading Cryptonomicon. Perhaps I'll go to the Sparky & Clark's with WiFi, take my laptop, read, IM, and just chill out. It would be an experiment in behavior since I've never done such a thing.

Shameless self-promotion

I'm poor. Buy something.

Ok, so you're poor too. Well, at least comment on some of my pictures.