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Wow, there are times that I amaze myself. 2 blog posts in 1 week.

See, I’ve been trying to put some focus on other things besides computer and internet related stuff. I have’t even been putting a lot of focus on work. Lately, it has been all about getting out there and enjoying myself.

Hence the camping and the nature stuff. At the very least, I can say that I tried it.

However, that isn’t quite the whole picture and while I can’t exactly paint the whole story in this blog I will try to show as much as I can.

Rediscovering old loves like swimming has been important. I recently discovered the community pool that is 5 minutes away from the house. So every morning I’ve been swimming. At first, it was embarassing as I quickly discovered that older people are way more fit than I am. At this point, I’ve do around 15 laps in my 30 minutes while everyone around me seems to be doing 30+. *sigh*

Tennis season is back! That means a few very specific things in the new season: new rackets (apparently I am getting out hit by 16 year old kids now), new outfit (any excuse really) and more focused core strength training (which I hate). Am trying to get myself registered into tennis bc again, join a tennis club, and maybe play a few tournaments (time permitting).

A blog redesign. Yes I know that I’ve been saying this for a while now but it’s coming. At least the PSD is getting started already, but I told myself that I’d incorporate some flash component into my redesign so I’ve been trying to learn Flex. Brett help!

As you can see, there are a lot of little things going on but I think I figured out the main issue with the lack of posts on this blog. (1) Relying on twitter too much; so I turned off the weekly updates. (2) Too much self-censoring, which was fine when I got a tonne of traffic but not so much; so no more censoring and more spelling and grammar errors.

So let’s see how these life and management changes make a difference.

8:38 am 0 Comments

The Dreaded Camping Post

Last weekend, I went camping. I hate camping. Camping involves doing things in the dirt. I’m not a big fan of dirt. It also involves nature which loosely involves pollen, pollen and Ritchie don’t mix. However, there were a few things and people that made my camping experience less painful.

1. Queen sized inflatable bed with auto pump. Yes, I know it’s cheating but let me tell you how awesome having an actual bed was. My back never slept on the ground. Ground = hard, hard and sleeping don’t mix.
2. The food was good. Apparently camping is a good excuse to eat a tonne of meat over the fire. Combined with cheap beer and wine and mix in some smores (it was my very first time making smores). Smores are awesome, especially when you have really good chocolate to go with it.
3. Jaime, yes. I am thanking my buddy Jaime in this blog. Why? well he practically did all of the work. Not that he minded, he’s the camping type complete with retractable blade but let’s not get his head any bigger. I am only going camping if Jaime goes and agrees to do all of my work.
4. Steve Jobs for the perfect IPhone OS 3 timing. Let me explain. As you would probably expect that there is no wifi access in camping. The new IPhone OS allows you to  connect to the internet via your phone’s data plan provided that you have a cell signal (and we did).

So that is it. Pictures haven’t been posted yet and apparently there is video of me being awkward with different nature things.

9:59 am 1 Comment

Weekly twitter updates (cause it’s a good excuse to get some content up)

• will out nerd all the other camp sites in this campground. #
• you will never guess where and how I’m updating this from… #
• nothing makes an instructor more proud than watching his students succeed. #
• Guess who’s screwing Rogers by tethering their iPhone via 3G! heheh Just in time for camping phew #
• To do list is 95% complete, but I did start it at 5:30 because the pollen-based sneezing woke me up THAT violently. #
• Balance between 10 different email addresses is hard, what to use when and what makes sense to use where. ugh! brain exploding! #

1:55 pm 0 Comments

Weekly twitter updates (cause it’s a good excuse to get some content up)

• Sunday mornings are my favorite time of day. #
• this is soooo not worth the headache #
• *frustrated* REALLY frustrated! ugh, annoyed and ready to stab people #
• “evaluating” Final Fantasy 4 for the DS. Whoohoo, I know what is going to keep Ritchie occupied during an upcoming camping trip! #
• Heading out to work, getting my iced coffee, writing stuff, attending meetings, teaching and then dinner with friends. phew! am tired now! #
• ick, still feeling yucky today #

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Weekly twitter updates (cause it’s a good excuse to get some content up)

• Rediscovering ATP tennis. Who are all these kids?! Where’s Steffi Graf and Martina Hingis?! #
• Wow! RT @ShaynaSkim: A guy single-handedly starts a dance party! MUST WATCH http://bit.ly/wh4cA #
• so mr project manager. tell me how to compress a 4 week design task into 2. while coming with high accuracy?! #
• happy that I snuck in the workout time. now off to a meeting filled day. #
• Is anyone out there in the “real world” still “integrating” things with frames?! jeebus noooooooo! #

1:55 pm 0 Comments