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Smokin' secession
- Date
- 1/02/2009 12:31:00 PM [permalink]
- Author
- yahooza
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- A Raptr co-worker and I are beginning our "Biggest Loser Smoker" challenge next Monday.
Here's how the competition goes:- There's a central pot o' gold.
- Everyone starts contributing to the pot on day one, starting at $7, decrementing each day. At the end of 7 days, contributions are nil.
- If a participant falls off the wagon, he pays $5 to the pot and resets to the $7 contribution, decrementing $1 each day as before.
- Winner takes all at the end (whenever that may be)
Labels: 2009, raptr, resolutions
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Looking back, resolutions and all that malarcky
- Date
- 12/31/2008 06:12:00 PM [permalink]
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- yahooza
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- 2008 has been a darlin' year. As I continue the journey to middle age, the number of look-back regrets has dropped to zero. That's a good thing, as it's a personal barometer of success—less failures.
The best time is the eight weeks time-off in the early spring. I flew to Chicago for a week, relying on m' legs, friends' generosity and public transportation, including the train and BART to and from the airport. Kind of a hassle, yet really fun. I'm planning to do the same in spring 2009, after all that snow melts.
In the same period, I exercised daily—shooting hoops and swimming—and letting go a little of the Silicon Valley Developer Bee madness; it's a bipolar thing: I love the excitement of new technologies, but I hate it for consuming / absorbing a lot of everything else.
This year, I completed six months of independent consulting (actually four: see aforementioned time-off above), before joining Raptr in July. Contracting was fun, but not my cup of tea. The jobs are transient and the benefits are lacking—almost ten whole months w/o health insurance, can you believe it?
Another '08 mark of success has to be m' relationship w/ mom. We didn't fight as much nor did we engage in an epic battle. It has taken five years of progressive patience and understanding and it's a whole better =)
This year also marked a big milestone in m' arch-nemesis, the Big Bad Mortgage Monster, as I've broken the $300k barrier (owing less than that). Since winter 2004, I've cut ~23% of mortgage debt. Yes, I vehemently hate owing money and paying interest.
So let's press onwards towards 2009! Resolutions begin!- Quit smoking. Like many years before, it hasn't gone well
- Get me a woman. Right now, if it happens, it will.
- Exercise more and not just on the weekends. Growing old means one's health needs a bit more TLC.
- Lower the mortgage loan by $25k
- Cut down on fast food indulgences to twice a month. Man, I love buffalo wings, french fries and Popeye's fried chicken.
Also, I'm gonna hit Comic-Con in San Diego and thinking about taking a legitimate vacation to a resort w/ white sandy beaches and pina coladas .... these are worth mentioning but not within the context of a resolution list =)
So, cheers to a new year, to our new President Barack Obama and to mankind for not (yet) bringing the apocalypse! 2009: bring it on!Labels: 2008, life, resolutions
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Resolute
- Date
- 1/01/2007 06:43:00 PM [permalink]
- Author
- yahooza
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- Another new year. 2006 had been a great year for me. My thirties have been delightful, a complete 180 from my twenties which totally sucked. Highlights for this past year:
- Yahoo! Answers GA (general audience) release
- Winning the Y! Superstar award (team award)
- Y! Better Bookmarks Beta launch
- Travels to Seattle and Chicago for Jean and Brenda's weddings respectively.
- Knocking off over $10K off my principal
- Holding up another year with my mother
- The perennial action items: exercise regularly and lose 7-10 pounds. Quit smoking, though I succeeded three times in '06 =)
- Deemphasize the need to work and pursue less techie interests. Hopefully, I'll get back into the dating groove; it's been far too long.
More importantly, I need to get back to life: socializing, dating, hitting the 'round-the-corner dive for a pint of Guinness, etc. Less and less weekend hackin' and reading fewer tech books. There's a lot more interesting aspects of life that I've been putting aside. Time to set myself straight.
So, let the new year bring it! Ha. =PLabels: life, resolutions, wallypunsapy
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