progress

February 25th, 2010 2 comments »

Time for a pulse check. We’re about two months into the year, and I’ve had some goals to work on from the beginning of the year.

1) project365 — Well, I did pretty well for most of January, but as you can see I haven’t posted any photos for a while. I’ve actually taken several of the missing pictures, but haven’t uploaded them. I’ll give myself partial credit for effort ;-)

2) read 50 books — Two months in and I’ve finished two three books. On the plus side, I got into Lovecraft and have been working my way through several of his stories and novellas, throwing off my book count a bit. I’ll probably decide on a story-to-book exchange rate so that this reading can count toward my fifty books.

3) compete in a coding competition once a month — utter fail on this one: I haven’t participated in any yet.

4) join an OSS project — I’ve put some thought into this one. I’m going to try to do some Android development, so perhaps I can contribute to the Android project itself.

5) ensure that some of the books have value as Christian learning tools — like number four, this is more of an all-year goal, and not necessarily one that will have tangible value in February (which is good, because it doesn’t)

6) play guitar more often — this has been hit and miss, but I have been playing noticeably more than in previous years, which is a positive. If I’m up to it, need to practice a bit tonight…

So overall progress: worse than I’d hoped, but better than I expected. Here’s hoping you’ll see some more pictures up here soon, and I’ll make sure to let you know when I have any interesting patches to commit to something familiar :-)

project 365 — day twenty-six

January 26th, 2010 2 comments »

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project 365 — day twenty-five

January 25th, 2010 No comments »

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strange dream

January 25th, 2010 1 comment »

About a month ago, I woke up and remembered a dream I had (this is really rare — I remember maybe two or three dreams each year) and wrote it down. I just found the paper, so here you go — a glimpse into my unconscious mind.

I was driving cross-country to meet my long-distance girlfriend. I was driving our new Jeep. Then it turned out she was 15, and I was 19. Then, for some reason, I wasn’t able to get communion, so I and about 50 other people were stopped at a gas station where there was a priest handing out pieces of sticky buns for communion.

As I recall, the priest was also wearing a Neanderthal-style bufflo-skin robe or coat… any Daniels out there to tell me what this means?

project 365 — day twenty-four

January 25th, 2010 No comments »

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project 365 — days twelve through twenty-three

January 23rd, 2010 No comments »

I beg your forgiveness for this spate of updates — it has been a busy fortnight. Luckily for the both of us, I took all the photos and simply did not have time to upload them. Aren’t you relieved?

twelve

thirteen

fourteen

fifteen

sixteen

seventeen

eighteen

nineteen

twenty

twenty-one

twenty-two

twenty-three

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project 365 — day eleven

January 11th, 2010 No comments »

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project 365 — day ten

January 11th, 2010 No comments »

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Today’s haul from our trip to Daedalus.

project 365 — day nine

January 9th, 2010 1 comment »

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Ok, ok, I promise the hat won’t become a permanent fixture in my pictures. I’m sure the novelty will wear off at some point.

project 365 — day eight

January 9th, 2010 1 comment »

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So the photos I took yesterday didn’t give me much to choose from — here’s my lunch. A frozen Jamaican beef turnover for only a buck! What a steal!