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and so ends a fairly uneventful weekend. We watched a couple movies, had some migas, did some shopping and I got in at least one workout. I also ate way too much. This week will be focused on eating out as little as possible. We overdid it a bit over the past couple of days. Being payday weekend I finally caught up on a couple of the workout related upgrades I've been wanting to do. Some of those

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ok. Movie 6 down, now on to 7-9. Movie 7: Sunshine CleaningHonestly, I'm not sure what to say about this. I sort of enjoyed it, but it's a relatively depressing dramedy about a family coping with past losses and trying to figure out a way to grow in the future. I was much more impressed with Amy Adams in this than I was with her performance in Julie & Julia. The movie also doesn't paint

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hey everyone, back to busyness the past couple of days. After a slow December it's seemed as if everyone's come out of the woodwork this month. Figured I should try and catch up with the past weeks worth of movies so that I don't fall any further behind than I already am. This week I'm going to try and catch up with The Road. I've heard plenty of mixed reactions about the film over the past

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Today's run wasn't the most exciting workout in the world. I crawled out of the office after I finished up with the design work I was doing and made it to the gym around 6. Had to come back into the apartment before I actually left the complex because I'd forgotten my shoes that had the Nike+ sensor in them. Tomorrow I'll do some lifting at the gym but tonight I really just wanted to get on the

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I was sitting at lunch this afternoon thinking about the project I was working on this morning. There wasn't anything particularly interesting or abnormal about the project (it's just a series of design options for a sales conference a good friend hired me to create) but the circumstances. For the first time in a while, I hit the zone. At least, I've always called it the zone. As soon as I

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Sorry for not posting yesterday. I meant to and then time got away from me. Using some Christmas money while I was running errands yesterday, I picked up a Nike+. I haven't had an iPod in a while. I have a 30gigabyte iPod Video somewhere in the apartment but at one point it got fried in a faulty car charger and while it powered up it wouldn't hold a charge. Not a great characteristic in an iPod.

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no movie watching this evening. I worked throughout the day on a couple of projects that HAD TO BE FINISHED (gotta love those days) and around 8:00 forced myself to head to the gym. I always find it incredibly odd to get out of the gym with a second wind. I went in tired and ready to sleep and came out ready to take on the world (or more realistically to come home, see Angela asleep and proceed

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Ang and finally saw Up In The Air tonight. I'll keep this short since it's edging closer and closer to 1am and I really need to get to bed but I promised myself that I would try and write up everything this year the same night I see it. I think that's the only way I can keep up to date and keep everything straight in my head.I've liked both of Jason Reitman's last two endeavors but haven't LOVED

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I got a lot done today and hardly got anything done at all. One of those days, really. Sometimes I'm thankful when I can just finish up one or two things. My list of projects this week is fairly long. A video project that carried over from last week, designs for a friend and his game store in Colorado that I haven't been able to devote enough attention to, the normal projects for my church client

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movies seen in 2010: 4Today I sat down and put together a set of randomized pairings for all of our Netflix instant queue. We're adding things to it on a regular basis, but I realized that there are just way too many things currently on the list that don't get watched because we never seem to be in the mood for them. So, in order to try and check a few of them off I decided to pair them up and

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Films Seen in 2010: 3I started writing this after we watched our first film tonight and realized, after we started watching the second film that I would need to start over and reinstitute something this blog used to do before it went on hiatus... “Oddcoupling”.Oddcoupling is a fun game. Basically, you take a long list of movies that you haven’t watched, throw the names on pieces of paper and then

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apologies in advance. This is a bit stream of consciousness. Ang and I ran over to the discount theater to see Where the Wild Things Are this afternoon. I know it's something we should have seen earlier this fall but often, for whatever reason, if I don't see something right away it ends up either not being watched in the theater or we catch up with it at the discount theater. Sometimes, if the

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Movies watched: 0Food consumed: couple pieces of leftover christmas chocolateCurrent weight: 263 Current state of mind: for the moment it's pretty clearSettling in to a new year has always been sort of cathartic. While I don't necessarily believe change will happen, it's nice to think that it COULD happen. 2009, while not the greatest year I've ever lived turned out to be pretty darn good. We

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anyway, that's what's on my mind. I know things will be fineanalytically, but there's still a question emotionally whether they'llcontinue to be. I guess that's the dilemma of a freelancer. It'severyone's dilemma, really, full time jobs aren't necessarily a 'surething' either, but your much closer to the razors edge when you'retrying to get your own shop off the ground.gonna go try and sleep

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figured i'd post instead. Just finished paying my taxes for the year.I know it's something that needs to be done, and i believe in the factthat you need to pay them honorably and on time, but i'm just reallystressed out tonight because paying them drained our tax fund and ouremergency fund and now i'm feeling like i'm in a precarious position.thankfully, i have money that should be coming in soon

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I did some digging yesterday and got up and running with a SkypeInnumber. Surprisingly the quality is pretty good and you can't beat theprice. I really wanted a way to keep my Colorado Springs number forthe people I do business with there and also have a number in Austin.I think I've got that part figured out.We got another batch of boxes unpacked yesterday night and Angela madeher marinara and

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.we continued to unpack. Life here in Austin has been pretty good sofar, but it's not hard for things to be good when you're not really upto anything except getting settled. I've continue to send out lettersof inquiry and I've gotten some positive response. Friday I have ameeting with a firm that I've been talking to off and on. I hope thatwill translate into something. Sunday I have a meeting

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Who knows why I end up having these long hiatuses. They're never particularly intentional. I end up getting busy and the next thing I know it's been two months since I've posted a blog. Truthfully though, the last time I stopped blogging I HAD gotten busy and ended up neglecting a promise. I kind of ended up hiding. Now, a year later (has it been a year? no, it's only been nine months) I'm back.

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OK, so I've been mildy curious about this movie since reading articles about over the summer. Then, I got more interested when photos of Robert Downey Jr in the new film came out,now we have a trailer... and if Night at the Museum (which I didn't TOTALLY hate) was worthwhile at all, it got Steve Coogan in another Ben Stiller movie, so there's your other bright shining moment for the day.Addendum:

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I'm just sitting down in my office after taping the last Tuesday morning men's course I have to do (no more 4:30am days for a while!).Finished reading a book yesterday called My First Movie: Take Two: Ten Celebrated Directors Talk About Their First Film. I had started reading the first volume a few months ago and have slowly been doling each chapter out one part at a time, but since Take Two was

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I'm working late tonight and day job stuff. We've got a website that's supposed to be 'ready to launch' tomorrow and I'm half heartedly working. It's hard for me to focus on day job stuff at night anyways, but my m ind keeps wandering back to 1) an e-conversation I've been involved in and 2) the discovery by my tongue earlier tonight of a hole in one of my molars. UGH. I HATE DENTAL WORK. A

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I love Michel Gondry. I really enjoyed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and I thought that The Science of Sleep was ALMOST a masterpiece... so I've been anxiously awaiting his new film, Be Kind Rewind. In the movie, Jack Black somehow becomes magnetized and erases all of the videos at the video store he works at. He and Mos Def proceed to recreate the movies one by one in a process Gondre

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Thanks to Lisa for mentioning that I redesigned her blog. If you're interested in your own redesign work you can reach me here. I'm working on getting a new portfolio site up, but if you'd like to see my portfolio, it's here. Now to get to work on, amid other things, contest winner Nicole's site. I'd really like to have things finished for her before it becomes 'Five' and Counting. Sorry for the

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man, it's been quite a while since I've had one of those nights where I work until some ungodly hour, go take a nap for a couple of hours while my computer processes and then get up and work some more... only to take another nap after the project is finished.Back in the late nineties or early oughts (heh. now that I'm thirty I can talk about the 'good ol' days') I tried to start a business with a

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... as I struggle back from not really having any real excuse for why I haven't blogged besides being busy. I turned thirty a little over a week ago. I thought it was going to be lousy back a couple of years ago when I first started rolling the concept around in my head but it's actually been alright. What's bugged me though is how easy it is to slip into old patterns. How easy it is to start

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I have a couple of design articles that I really want to write butdidn't get around to starting this afternoon. My current frustrationthough is just that some of my equipment at work has gone on the fritzjust before our evening service. Basically, I can't control mycameras. The frustrating thing is that:A) There's nothing I can do about it tonightB) It's going to jack with my day tomorrow and our

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Hey everyone, sorry for the delay. After a lot of deliberation, I'm pleased to announce that Nicole at As Many As We're Given is the winner. Nicole wrote a really great entry and my friend Lisa and I really fell in love with her blog. She's been contacted and we'll be getting started on her new design really quickly. Stay tuned to watch as we work on her design makeover.Thanks everyone!And

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I had a good conversation with the client about some of the printouts I made the other day. We're going to move ahead with a couple of the ideas I had. I'll walk through the design process once I make some progress. Heading off to grab some pizza with my lovely wife... more later.

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Hey everyone, entries are now closed. I'll announce the winner here in the next day or so. Lisa and I have been looking through the entries and there are some really great candidates. Remember, if you didn't win you can still get 25% off any custom work done. For information about hiring me, send an e-mail here.  Thanks to everyone who entered! - BrianHey all, just an update. I'll pick the

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Defamer called this "The Only Rambo Review You Need to See"... I don't know that I agree with that, but if I ever write a review like this? Shoot me. Don't even ask any questions... just blast me a new one. 

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A mini design class with Brian Originally uploaded by bthemnAll of these printouts are references for the blog redesign i'm working on at the moment. I'm curious to see just how far i can push blogger. The reference sites my client gave me were a little confusing... Mostly because a) it doesn't seem like there's a huge common thread, butb) they're not AMAZING designs and i want to create

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Gotta love those 4:30 am days. I actually got to bed before 10 last night and spent some time reading. Hopefully I'll be able to do the same thing tonight. Thank you, Angela, for getting me to get out of the house and work out this afternoon. I feel much better now that I'm back from my jog than I did on my way TO the jog. 50 minutes on the treadmill, 3.58 miles, 645.2 calories... not really all

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01-09-08_1410.jpg Originally uploaded by bthemnThis was on the street out in front of my office a couple of weeks ago. My friend Dave and I were mesmerized by the conversion and just stood gaping at it for a couple of minutes. Don't lie... you want one of your very own, don't you?

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01-19-08_1438.jpg Originally uploaded by bthemnShot this at the wal mart a couple of weeks ago. I mean, i'm all into marketing, even a bit of a wonk, but did the world need american idol ice cream? I mean, c'mon... "one split wonder"!?

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Augh! My eyes... Originally uploaded by bthemnThe return of random meeting photos... Mostly because i wanted to document my coworker's scarred memory of me prepping out for a very short moment. It's too hot in the office for a sweater today so i figured i could at least be humorous with it

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I was putzing around Designers Who Blog and noticed a link to a site by a designer named Brian Hock, aside from having a great first name, the Designers Who Blog link mentioned that he was a triathlete as well. My curiosity piqued, I noticed this video down at the bottom of his page. Man, I kind of get jazzed again thinking about doing another one... and what the narrator says about 'bragging for

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I finally figured out how to squash the little header bug I ran into this morning that was putting text into the header in IE. I had set the header text size to 0px. That worked in Safari and Firefox but didn't work in IE. Thanks to this page, I was able to figure out a work around that let me delete the actual text instead of just setting it to 0px. Now, everything's fixed. Interested in having

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It's, of course, Murphy's Law that says that the morning after I upgrade my blog, the server the images is on migrates over to a new server. Blah. Hopefully my images will be back today. Otherwise, and this is probably the better solution, I'll move them over to Blogger when I get home.

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There are lots of thoughts bouncing through my noggin this morning. Thoughts about other peoples posts, and thoughts about the upcoming goals I've mentioned. I've also been thinking about how awful I've been at getting to bed early on Saturday nights lately. I KNOW that I have to be up at 6:30, but for some reason at Midnight I'm still typing away at the computer, trying to finish my 'design

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Today's lesson is all about this site. I've been meaning to get around to redesigning the site for probably a year now... that's when I had the inspiration for what I wanted to do. Things come up, projects supercede other projects and time goes by without the original project even started. In this months grand scheme of 'cleaning up' I decided it was time to finally try and change the blog.My

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I've been meaning to update my blog template for what seems like months, or maybe even the last year. Today, with Ang out running errands, I decided it was time. I'll write up a design class with Brian tomorrow, but I wanted to post a celebratory post tonight. Now, the next step will be to update my design blog. That can wait a little while though. Let me know what you think.

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Ang and i hit the theater Thursday night to see U23D on the Imax. I've ben curiously watching the newest generation of 3D movies to come out in recent years... the advances of polarized 3D versus the traditional red/blue separation method and I've really been enthralled by people using 3D as more of a story telling method than a showy special effect. When I heard that U2 planned to release a 3D

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I was actually able to get up this morning and go do some lifting and jogging. I forget how wonderful it feels to get a workout in first thing. It wasn't the best jog I've had recently, but some of that had to do with time constraints. I think I'll need to start working on being asleep by ten so that I can get up at 6 to get my workout in. Reading an old issue of Mens Health while laying on my

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Thanks to Mr Martin Luther King I had the day off today. It's weird working for an organization that follows the schedule of a school district. I never used to get Marty Day off.  Anyway, with the day off, my friend and coworker Hartley mentioned that she was working on this redesign of a Colorado Springs baby and maternity clothier. The site the store owner has now was designed for free and they

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It felt really good to be easing back into food today. Last night was a little rough. I had a salad to break the fast, but I'm guessing i ate too much of it. It sat in my gut and I had a hard time falling asleep because of it. This morning I woke up and didn't eat anything for a little while... after about an hour, I toasted one piece of toast, nuked an egg in a ramikin (a neat trick I learned

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It's over. It ended at around 6:40 tonight. Now the next step begins. With some food in me, tomorrow the running begins. Time to dive back into the season and wrestle it back from last years mediocrity. Time to start to evaluate where I've been these past few weeks and where I'm going. I hope I haven't disappointed too many people. More later.

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this has been the toughest afternoon so far. a gnawing in my gutkicked in this afternoon. it's not that i'm ravenously hungry, butit's made me feel pretty nasty. . . enough so that i'm wonderingwhether i should continue. is it hunger? is it my body telling me thati'm done? is it god telling me that i need to stop as some sort oflesson in humility? i'm praying for that answer. i was thinking

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The situation with my friend has been rectified. I've actually been putting on weight the past couple of days. I've been intentionally increasing my water intake (with a little bit of lemon juice and lime juice) because my skin was getting to be way too dry. I'm not sure how much I'll continue to go up, but being properly hydrated is really my only concern right now. I feel like I need to confess

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I had a little bit of a falling out yesterday with the friend mentioned in my last post. I probably shouldn't have told him that "I was hungry" was a (and I'm not defending this) "F'ing Lame Excuse" (only I didn't say it quite politely). He hung up on me, I called Ang, Ang called him and when I got home, I was on the hotseat from Angela. I haven't talked to this friend yet, but he did IM me last

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I'm a little annoyed this morning. Forgetting to log out of my instant messenger client at work, I came in this morning to find an IM from one of the other guys doing the fast. Apparently he's decided to drop out, which leaves one of us out of the small group left (I think there are two others still going in other parts of the larger group).I guess I'm annoyed mostly because 'he got hungry'... he

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So two days ago we had three weeks left, now today we have three weeks done. I've felt really good the last couple of days, surprisingly. I don't think that I ever expected it to be this way. That's not to say that I'd like to do this forever, but it's really not as bad as I thought it would be. I'm almost finished with Messy Spirituality. I'd say that I expect to be done tonight, but I have a

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the past few weeks have been surprisingly freelance free (I imagine it's mostly because of the Christmas season). Two of my clients had projects this week so I've gone back to being a slave to the machine. That's a good thing though because I need to catch up on my taxes and after that we need to throw the money at getting out of debt. Man, adulthood is so exciting. heh.  Anyway, in lieu of an

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Yesterday it was making note of three weeks left. Today, let's consider the fact that I'm halfway there. Thank heaven. Although we'll see whether it's easier to count down than count up. February 4 is day 40. I turn 30 the 7th. I didn't get a chance to jog yesterday, couldn't find the access card. I had freelance to work on anyway. More freelance is coming in today, it's going to be a busy

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Three weeks left. That's kind of heartening. Three more Mondays. Three more Tuesdays. Put in that perspective, I think this is going to get easier. It hasn't been extraordinarily hard, but getting closer to the half way point, I think it will be much easier as I start counting down.I know I've talked about the spiritual struggles with this, and I still struggle with that, but at this point I have

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Today's weight? 230Miles walked last night: 2.31Calories Expended: 396.4Average Heartrate: 163Time: 35 minutesWater consumed last night: half gallonI can't think of many more numbers to throw out there. I feel pretty good this morning. A little tired, but that's mostly because we had friends over. We watched The Lookout and The Usual Suspects last night. Surprisingly Nate and Angela had never

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Angela and her friend headed off to the hot tub so I'm going to steal a few minutes and write about what I'd like to accomplish fitness wise this year.  Last year, my cycling was almost non-existent. I rode one century, not even making it the whole way (here's the elevation profile if you're curious) This ride SERIOUSLY kicked my ass. Basically, heading out of Buena Vista at 8,000 ft, you climb

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Sorry I didn't blog yesterday, got caught up with life. The cars brake lights went out for some reason (mind you, every other light works in back, including the brake light on the hatch) but after replacing the brake lights, they still didn't work. That means money on auto repair which is always depressing. Ang and I also spent a lot of time cleaning. She did a masterful job on the kitchen and

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I feel good this morning. I'm quite happy that last nights stress passed over. Getting through the day today should be easy, then I'll have the weekend and that's surprisingly easy and we'll be at seventeen days. I know I can do that. More later.

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crisis averted. I had a nice glass of pineapple juice and quite a bit of water. heh. I tipped well, mostly because I felt a little guilty. My friend Dave mentioned something that he's been experiencing during his fast though. He feels like God has really been impressing on him to put 'Him First'. So as he was feeling a little guilty as well on his way over, he came back to this thought about God

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have to head to Real Men Of Genius in a few minutes. For some reason I've really been struggling with continuing tonight. I'm not sure where it's coming from. I'm not particularly hungry. I think part of it is that the group meets at Applebee's. Ugh. I mean, the two guys in my small group are on the fast too, so maybe it won't be so bad, but the cravings right now are pretty strong. Is that a

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January 8 - Our Pilot Our GuideThe following passage is taken from a seminary commencement addressChrist is our employer as surely as the general contractor is the carpenter's employer, only the chances are that this side of Paradise we will never see his face except mirrored darkly in dreams and shadows, if we're lucky, and in each other's faces. He is our general, but the chances are that this

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The other day I was digging through the archives with a coworker, trying to finda picture from my Ironman race. As we were digging, I found an entry I wrote that surprised me. When I started talking about doing this fast, I mentioned wanting to put things on the shelf. Apparently, five years ago, I was still talking about packing things up and putting things on the shelf.Reading closer, those

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I've developed a new exercise, maybe even a new sport. It's called 'Foot Shoveling'. With the way our buildings are set up, the staff is spread all over the place. My department seems to have taken that to a new level. The building we're in used to be part of a car dealership. There were two rooms set up for the sales guys to hang out in while they were waiting for people to come on the lot.

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Have to head to work in a minute admist the snow, blah. 234 this morning. The Message seemed to help yesterday. It's kind of interesting reading the Bible in a different way. I kind of liked this passage I really enjoyed reading Ecclesiastes yesterday. I also started reading 1 John. Anyway, better go brush off the car. blah. I'm glad we have very few snow days here each year. more later.

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Good morning, everyone!(picturing myself as some 'sound of music'-esque teacher happily waking up/engaging my underlings)234 this morning. I meant to blog last night after I got an e-mail comment that I really want to respond to here on the blog, but I got tired and went to bed early after doing some reading. Just know, concerned reader, that your comment will be written about and that I do take

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After a pretty restful day watching movies yesterday (we did a marathon at the discount theater, seeing Across the Universe, Dan In Real Life, Bella and Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium), it's off to another Sunday morning at work. 236 this morning. This morning's passage from My Utmost talked about giving the Blessing God has given you whenever he blesses you. I hope that I do that with the design

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still 237... which is fine.I'm still confused about this whole thing. I mean, I'm not tempted to stop it because I'm hungry (surprisingly, I'm not), but I still just struggle with whether this is getting me anywhere spiritually. I guess I still just feel numb, like the little communications line between me and God has a big crimp in it and I can't figure out where it is. I feel though that I told

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I was going to post this last night. This is what was on my iPod as I walked back to the apartment from the workout room. It's a song that I stumbled on via my friend Jeff Holland. He had had a link to Andrew Osenga's  page a few months ago where I stumbled on this album. It's from a six song acoustic EP created with ideas from his fans... a scrap of lyric, a song title, etc... anyway, the last

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ok. this is the third attempt I've made at writing this. I've been trying to figure out how to post audio files from box.net. Previewing it, it looks like it's working now. huzzah.As I was driving to work this morning to put out a little fire, I was listening to a Dave Ramsey Show podcast I started yesterday and didn't finish. He came back from a break with a quote of the day from Stephen King.

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today was kind of a hard day... not because I was hungry or anything like that. It was just the dawning realization as I was driving home with Angela that I've still got almost 5 weeks to go. Thinking about five weeks just kind of got me depressed. Got home and spent some time fixing the stat tracker on the blog and forced myself to go walk. Who am I kidding? I can't walk. I admit it. It's hard

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I noticed that XXXChurch put up the entire Starving Jesus documentary online. If you'd like to watch the video I talked about the other day, there it is below...

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have to head to work in a second. 238 this morning. headache seems to be gone, could just be morning, could be more blood sugar. We'll see what happens today. I'm back to thinking the body fat calculator is jacked. After the 30.6 reading yesterday, we were back to 31.3 today. I'm guessing that it has to do with some level of hydration... but who knows. 

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just got back from my walk. I wasn't perfect about keeping to a walk, but I did much better than I did the last time. 35 minutes, 2.44 miles, 399 calories. I will incorporate some walking that's not on the treadmill so that I can try and focus on prayer and meditation, but that wasn't tonight. I had a slight headache this afternoon. It's hard to tell if it's still there. Had a little grape juice

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I need to add Charles to my blogroll, but I wanted to point you to his Man Word Blog. Charles, in addition to being a pretty great boss writes three insightful little devotions each week at his blog. I'd encourage you to follow along with them and maybe post some comments. I'm not sure what kind of readership he has, but it's not as many as he deserves.I'd also like to mention that my friend Nate

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It's lunch time and I haven't accomplished as much as I'd like to, but I figure that I should post instead of trying to dive back into work.Yesterday night after getting done with a movie Ang and I were watching, I got up and walked towards our dining room. Ang asked where I was going and I didn't say anything at first. I mostly just stared at the object of my desire...A NERDS GUMBALLyes, it came

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Has it been a week already? I guess it has... tomorrow I'll be 20% done. Weight this morning, still 239. There was an interesting number on the body fat portion of the scale though, 30.6. So, taking yesterdays number as an anomaly, the previous days number was 31. I think a change of .4% is pretty realistic. We'll continue to track numbers and see what happens. Not much hunger this morning. Feel

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I've had temptations to eat over these first few days, but being at a party yesterday night was one of the tougher things I've done. I really wanted to reach in and grab a potato chip or make a chili dog. Instead, I was sipping on my vitamin water and then regular water refills. My legs are a LITTLE sore from yesterday, but nothing so great that I shouldn't be able to WALK on the treadmill today.

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I have a bad habit of overdoing things. I went for my half hour walk on the treadmill, but that turned into 45 minutes. 3.11 miles, 1% grade, 511 calories. I hope I don't feel too bad tomorrow. 

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I'm going to go do my walk in a few minutes, but I wanted to post a link to this sermon I just listened to. One of the reasons I'm doing this fast is because of Craig Gross. I don't know Craig Gross, I've never even MET Craig Gross (I've been in proximity to him), but Craig makes his presence known pretty visibly through his organization XXX Church.  I don't know where I was first introduced to

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The rest of yesterday went fairly well, although I didn't manage to squeeze in my walk. I developed a scratchy throat mid-afternoon and after getting home from the library and work, read a while before heading to bed early.Slept from around 10pm to just before 8 this morning when Ang had to get up and go to work.Weight this morning? 240. I realized the body fat scale we use still had my

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Starting weight 241. Feel pretty good this morning. Have to head to work in a minute. Had some intestinal distress start yesterday. It's still there this morning. Hopefully it will go away. Legs feel good after walking two miles each of the past two days. Feel like that might be something I might be able to continue. Got my first bouts of stand up wooziness yesterday in the hot tub and this

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I've spent a good chunk of the day thinking about what I want to get out of this. What EXACTLY I'm trying to find. I've also been thinking about how when a friend of mine had done a few days in the past, he hadn't been able to focus on the spiritual side as much as he feels he should have. I just hope that I can focus on the spiritual as much as I should. I picked up an audiobook on prayer from

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Morning weight 242.I'm surprised that I've been sleeping as well as I have. Yesterday I was able to sleep in until almost 10:00 and this morning I was up at 9. Hunger seems to be ok this morning, nothing raging. I haven't had my juice and multivitamin yet.Laundry is the main thing on the agenda today, along with errands to the bank and library. I'll squeeze my walk in sometime between the two.We

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It's not so much that I'm hungry as that I miss food. My stomach is definitely empty, but I'm not going through the "must eat right this instant" sensations. No, I've been thinking about the Christmas candy around the apartment, and the heat and texture of things like hamburgers. This afternoon I went for a couple mile walk on the treadmill. 2.03 miles over 35 minutes, nothing strenuous. But it

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starting weight. 244. (which I know is all water)I'm kind of surprised that I haven't been more hungry. I guess the weaning the past week or so has helped. No caffeine withdrawal headaches yet. I think the caffeine reduction I've tried to do over the past year has helped. Picked up a bunch of different juices on the way home from work last night... along with some vegetable and chicken broth. I

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Comm left a comment asking about what i was consuming on this fast. I'm not doing a forty day water fast. There will be plenty of juices and a daily multi-vitamin. This morning I had about 8oz of orange juice with my multi-vitamin. When I got to work I had a Glaceau Vitaminwater XXX flavor (acai-blueberry-pomegranate with triple antioxidants). For lunch today I'm sipping on grape juice and water.

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In my lead up to this 40 day fast (something I've never done before, believe me), I've been weaning myself off of food. Over the past few days I've been down to one meal and some little snacks. I think the thing that surprised me the most was that it was harder for me to sleep on an empty stomach. I'm not sure why. I really hope that that goes away as my digestive system begins to shut down. I'm

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So, Angela and I agreed that my fast is starting today. I've been weaning myself off food the past few days and while I thought yesterday was the start day, I was stymied by the bag of movie theater popcorn sitting in the car. It's so good! So, knowing that we've agreed today is the day, all of the candy and miscellaneous holiday foods will be bagged up and put away when we get home. So far, my

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 08-06-06_2005.jpg, originally uploaded by bthemn. Ah the joys of a new camera phone. The return of the bored self portrait

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hey all. I know I've been derelict in my duties. Life happened, I can't make any excuses other than that. For what it's worth, I haven't even been on my bike in a couple of weeks. It's been a pretty miserable cycling season. Tomorrow, I head off to Cornerstone to do my yearly duty running the festival coverage website. Check it out next week if you get the chance. Anyway, I can't promise I'm

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I'm still alive. Buried, but alive. Catching up though, it's just hard getting used to this new workflow. It's not like the work I'm doing is hard, it's really not. But, with the performance of machines and other types of things, it just seems like things take more time than they should. It doesn't help that I don't have a good/bad switch. I wish I could just do crappy substandard work that

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ah, it's longer, but I can definitely say that it's nicer riding to work in the morning now. The trail I take down is the same trail I use to take up but it's much different terrain on the way up. Heading up towards Monument, CO you basically enter a big giant field. Everything seems to stop because there really isn't anything around. Even if you're moving quickly you feel like you're not moving

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.. and as I dig through the shelves, it seems that they're already filled. I'm not sure how that's going to facilitate bringing my design magazines in. Oh well, I'll figure it out. In the meantime, everything feels a bit overwhelming, but what're you going to do. I think everything's overwhelming at first. I'm not getting any of that "Oh Lord, how am I going to do any of this!" kind of vibe yet,

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I wanted to post it here, lest I forget it.The majority of men meet w/failure because of their lack ofpersistance in creating new plans to take the place of those plansthat fail.I guess that's not a bad word for the day as I clean out my office ofthe five years worth of detritus. Tomorrow, a new plan, and if thisone doesn't work, a new plan after that.I'm done clearing out, but I'm just waiting

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the work week there is considered to be 35 hours. Obviously there are ups and downs (which you could probably guess if you were to look at a church calendar... Christmas and Easter? big times, start of the school year and youth programs? big times. But, at the same time, Brian my boss flat out told me, "If you're done with what you need to do, you go home. There's no reason to have to hang around

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 well, today I'm being laid off by the non-profit side of the company I've been working for the past five years. (and contractually for longer than that) There's no more money, and the side company we started to leap to when the money ran out didn't ramp up in time. It'll still continue to ramp up and I'll stay on contractually on the  for profit side (Red Penguin), but it's kind of the end of

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this morning while I was driving back from my weekly breakfast, I tooka side route that I drive every once in a while that takes me up andaround the foothills on the north side of the city. I've driven itquite a few times, but I've never ridden it and every so often I thinkabout riding it.While thinking about riding it, I came upon an interesting idea. Tothe best of my knowledge Mr. Bolder in

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not all that much actually, just work and more work. sorry for the lack of posting. Last monday the cycling season started with an absolutely gorgeous day. the president of the bike club exclaimed that even though dinner rides didn't start for another month, it was definitely too nice not to have a dinner ride. Angela and I rushed across town to get there in time and showed up what we thought

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1. To father; sire.2. To cause to exist or occur; produce: Violence begets more violenceE.J., the pastor at the Refuse has been talking about beget quite abit lately... the cause and effects of situations. The type of thingthat, when you're in a reflective mood, makes you stop, pause, andponder. Sometimes the reflective mood in my head comes fromdepression, though mostly that's just moroseness.

Flabbyironmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03244861137526314434noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640245.post-1138171171537823592006-01-24T23:39:00.000-07:002006-01-24T23:39:31.610-07:00

I've never actually gotten up out of bed to blog about something thatwas racing through my head. But I was thinking about something myfriend and pastor E.J. said at church tonight. We've been working ourway through the day of pentecost, but at the end of the sermon, E.J.went off on a tangent about the way we mistranslate the word amen. (wehad been talking about the imperfect and perfect in Greek

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