What you did today.

[Woldan]

Today I conquered ''mount skyward'', it consists of 25 kilometers of slopes of varying steepness that lead to the mother of all inclines, its five kilometers long and so steep my bicycles front wheel gets air each strong pedal stroke. Of course I got a painful butt/lower back cramp which is typical for this cycling route.

Anyway, the decline is just as steep, and today I got massive tailwind, I think I broke my speed record, unfortunately I didn't have the odometer installed but it felt like well beyond 100 kmh, maybe 115.

It was fun, but I feel like I have burned an astonishing amount of calories, I'm completely depleted.


 

[Malcador]

Nice relaxing day of doing nothing. Well, other than housework. Is a festival tonight in the city, but it's mainly "art" and the audience is a bunch of hipsters, drunks and stoners which dampens my curiosity.

[Sarex]

Going from doing nothing all week to working full time sure makes those weekends short. I suspect that when I start working for real (finish training) they are going to be even shorter.

[Walsingham]

Scouring the house today. I am certain that it should be impossible to remove four carloads of stuff and still have crap everywhere.

[ManifestedISO]

Aww jeez, Vettel to Ferrari, Alonso to McLaren, no more di Montezemolo ... I don't know whether to fold the colors for good or imitate a classic Latin temperament meltdown. Maybe put on some dark Enzo glasses and imperiously berate anyone within reach as though they and their children are solely responsible for this catastrophe. 

 

Really doesn't matter, though, in the wake of Bianchi's head injury, christ I hope the guy recovers. Get well, Jules. 

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Today I jogged about three miles and am now going to eat some fajitas and drink tequila.

[BruceVC]

There is a real opportunity to sell this software product I support to a large government institution so I'm working from home today and preparing the SOW (statement of work) and technical questionnaire.

 

There is real money to be made from dealing with government, its just much more complicated than the private sector

[Walsingham]

There is a real opportunity to sell this software product I support to a large government institution so I'm working from home today and preparing the SOW (statement of work) and technical questionnaire.

 

There is real money to be made from dealing with government, its just much more complicated than the private sector

*scratching noise of note taking*

 

So that's a large value tender, connected to your IP address today...

[Nepenthe]

Interesting day in court. No matter how you prepare for all the eventualities, either the process or the end result is always something you didn't expect.

[Malcador]

Amused coworkers by following up with "Are you finished?" after a client went on an angry rant, not even all that on topic. Ah, Mondays.

[Nepenthe]

Failed to get a job in Helsinki I assumed I would get - didn't even get interviewed, in the end.

 

Now proceeding to get sadly drunk via "Original Long Drink" aka grapefruit soda and gin aka gay beer.

[Rosbjerg]

Failed to get a job in Helsinki I assumed I would get - didn't even get interviewed, in the end.

 

Now proceeding to get sadly drunk via "Original Long Drink" aka grapefruit soda and gin aka gay beer.

 

Sorry to hear that man, hope you get a better one then.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Failed to get a job in Helsinki I assumed I would get - didn't even get interviewed, in the end.

 

Now proceeding to get sadly drunk via "Original Long Drink" aka grapefruit soda and gin aka gay beer.

Are you still in Finnish Innsmouth(Finnsmouth?)? If so,they may suspect you are a fishman.

[Walsingham]

 

Failed to get a job in Helsinki I assumed I would get - didn't even get interviewed, in the end.

 

Now proceeding to get sadly drunk via "Original Long Drink" aka grapefruit soda and gin aka gay beer.

Are you still in Finnish Innsmouth(Finnsmouth?)? If so,they may suspect you are a fishman.

 

[Cantousent]

Today I determined that I've walked over 1,000 miles since Feb. According to MapMyWalk, 700 since June 27. For a walk to count it must:

 

Be at least 1 mile

Be calculable and confirmable

Be for purpose of exercise. Waling to and from the grocery counts. Walking at the car show doesn't.

[Walsingham]

Today I have been mostly whingeing about how ****ing cold it's become. Seriously. The thermometer just dropped by two thirds.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Today I have been mostly whingeing about how ****ing cold it's become. Seriously. The thermometer just dropped by two thirds.

Put on a jacket or light yourself on fire.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

I've had a long day and will now play New Vegas with my high-tech juggernaut in Razorback power armor.

[Tigranes]

Amsterdam Oct.13-Dec.15, with London, Lisbon, Brussels, Weimar, Budapest, and possibly couple other places inbetween. 

 

Don't look at me, it's for research. 

[ManifestedISO]

I always knew I had supra-human olfactory sensitivity, but now that the menthol smoke has cleared, I can literally smell the sesame seeds being sprinkled on the beef broccoli at the Chinese restaurant across the street behind the mall two blocks down from the gas station. Quitting smoking beats the pants off of being born again by jesus. 

[Leferd]

I always knew I had supra-human olfactory sensitivity, but now that the menthol smoke has cleared, I can literally smell the sesame seeds being sprinkled on the beef broccoli at the Chinese restaurant across the street behind the mall two blocks down from the gas station. Quitting smoking beats the pants off of being born again by jesus.

 

Wait, my local Chinese restaurant doesn't put sesame seeds on my broccoli beef!

[Nepenthe]

 

Failed to get a job in Helsinki I assumed I would get - didn't even get interviewed, in the end.

 

Now proceeding to get sadly drunk via "Original Long Drink" aka grapefruit soda and gin aka gay beer.

Are you still in Finnish Innsmouth(Finnsmouth?)? If so,they may suspect you are a fishman.

 

 

Innsmouth was just a one-week thing, they ran out of lawyers for the case and had to import. I've tried to think of a suitable comparison for this place, but really can't. Some administrative center in rural ~Minnesota with a bunch of zombies on the streets? The horror here is less one of ancient decay and more of present-day desperation and hopelessness. Living Dead, I guess?

 

Also at work, slightly hung over.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

 

 

 

Failed to get a job in Helsinki I assumed I would get - didn't even get interviewed, in the end.

 

Now proceeding to get sadly drunk via "Original Long Drink" aka grapefruit soda and gin aka gay beer.

Are you still in Finnish Innsmouth(Finnsmouth?)? If so,they may suspect you are a fishman.

Innsmouth was just a one-week thing, they ran out of lawyers for the case and had to import. I've tried to think of a suitable comparison for this place, but really can't. Some administrative center in rural ~Minnesota with a bunch of zombies on the streets? The horror here is less one of ancient decay and more of present-day desperation and hopelessness. Living Dead, I guess?

 

Also at work, slightly hung over.

If I may take a stab at a comparison...

 

Day in and day out you go to work, going nowhere but feeling yourself slowly deteriorating into the carcass that will be there when you die. You find yourself constantly telling yourself you'll get your **** together, lose some weight, or any other wishful thinking that you never actually do. You focus on some decisions you made, thinking that if you had made a different choice you wouldn't be in this ****. You feel yourself becoming increasingly bitter, till all joy is drained from you and you're a hollow shell of a man. In the end you finally wear down to the point where you no longer care and eat lead.

 

In short, it's the bad office job expanded into a town.

Edited October 7, 2014 by KaineParker

[Nepenthe]

 

 

 

Failed to get a job in Helsinki I assumed I would get - didn't even get interviewed, in the end.

 

Now proceeding to get sadly drunk via "Original Long Drink" aka grapefruit soda and gin aka gay beer.

Are you still in Finnish Innsmouth(Finnsmouth?)? If so,they may suspect you are a fishman.

Innsmouth was just a one-week thing, they ran out of lawyers for the case and had to import. I've tried to think of a suitable comparison for this place, but really can't. Some administrative center in rural ~Minnesota with a bunch of zombies on the streets? The horror here is less one of ancient decay and more of present-day desperation and hopelessness. Living Dead, I guess?

 

Also at work, slightly hung over.

If I may take a stab at a comparison...

 

Day in and day out you go to work, going nowhere but feeling yourself slowly deteriorating into the carcass that will be there when you die. You find yourself constantly telling yourself you'll get your **** together, lose some weight, or any other wishful thinking that you never actually do. You focus on some decisions you made, thinking that if you had made a different choice you wouldn't be in this ****. You feel yourself becoming increasingly bitter, till all joy is drained from you and you're a hollow shell of a man. In the end you finally wear down to the point where you no longer care and eat lead.

 

In short, it's the bad office job expanded into a town.

 

 

The paragraph in the middle described my day-to.day existence. The town is less about that, few people here have work of any kind and the ones that do, it's not in an office.

[BruceVC]

 

 

 

Failed to get a job in Helsinki I assumed I would get - didn't even get interviewed, in the end.

 

Now proceeding to get sadly drunk via "Original Long Drink" aka grapefruit soda and gin aka gay beer.

Are you still in Finnish Innsmouth(Finnsmouth?)? If so,they may suspect you are a fishman.

Innsmouth was just a one-week thing, they ran out of lawyers for the case and had to import. I've tried to think of a suitable comparison for this place, but really can't. Some administrative center in rural ~Minnesota with a bunch of zombies on the streets? The horror here is less one of ancient decay and more of present-day desperation and hopelessness. Living Dead, I guess?

 

Also at work, slightly hung over.

If I may take a stab at a comparison...

 

Day in and day out you go to work, going nowhere but feeling yourself slowly deteriorating into the carcass that will be there when you die. You find yourself constantly telling yourself you'll get your **** together, lose some weight, or any other wishful thinking that you never actually do. You focus on some decisions you made, thinking that if you had made a different choice you wouldn't be in this ****. You feel yourself becoming increasingly bitter, till all joy is drained from you and you're a hollow shell of a man. In the end you finally wear down to the point where you no longer care and eat lead.

 

In short, it's the bad office job expanded into a town.

 

 

Funny enough it is easy to fall into that mind set and view of your life if you let it. So you need to start somewhere around constructive changes and more importantly you need to rigidly stick to any improvements you decide on

 

I would say the first change to make is around health and exercise. Once a person starts feeling better about themselves physically the other things, like a bad job, become easier to manage. But you need to follow any exercise program properly and try not to deviate from it, that's always  a good way to implement life changes