A Year Of Eating Correctly (Sort Of)
Last year I posted my goal of forming a diet and nutrition plan based on Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle. I wish I read it years ago! It gave me a complete understanding of how to properly organize meals and eat correctly. I’ve followed it now for a bit over a year and I’ve never looked back. Sure, there have been plenty of days that saw the consumption of foods from the list of things you should never eat. However, even on those days I still followed most of my meals.
In: Goals, Health & Fitness, Uncategorized
Goals: A Year Later
Seeing how it has been nearly a year since my first goal was posted I thought it would be suitable to review my goals. I haven’t looked at this list in quite a while and the results are mixed.
Goal #1: Sell One Item A Day
This goal was short lived. I did manage to sell off a lot of my extra junk over the past year, but not one item a day. I probably have enough stuff to get rid of that I could continue this. Not a high priority, but something I could start doing again.
One Year Later … A New Hope
My first post was one year ago tomorrow, December 3, 2005. My last post was months ago. I haven’t had much of a will to update my blog in a while but that has changed. I’ve decided to start posting again. Along with that I’m going to be doing another face lift and software upgrades.
Waaaaaay too long without an update, so here’s one…
Wow! I can’t believe it has been over a month since my last update. I have a lot to write about.
Long Overdo Update
Wow, it has been a while since my last post. I’ve been busy with other things and haven’t had much to share. My investment tracking script hasn’t had much work done to it. I’m planning on putting more time in this week. I have some ideas for its use that I’m looking into.
Watch for some new pictures today or tomorrow. I went camping this past weekend and haev a few pics. It ended up raining so I didn’t get as many as I expected. I also have a few others of my car and some other misc stuff to add.
PHP Project Started
I spent some time this weekend getting my summer PHP project started. As mentioned earlier, it will be an investment tracking WordPress plugin. I’ve made a list of features that I want to include as follows:
Will Be Included
- Track multiple investment portfolios.
- Track using total value or a share based system (similar to a mutual fund), allowing total balance to be hidden.
- WP subpage with full graphing and statistical analysis.
- Sidebar tracking with quotes showing daily changes (similar style to Yahoo Finance).
- Plugin controls fully integrate into WP admin menus with easy to use interface.
Driving Days
I spent Monday and Tuesday at Watkins Glen International participating in a PCA driving school. For those who have never heard of such an event, a track driving school put you and your car on a real race track with an instructor. You learn better car control, smoothness, and confidence in yourself and car. There are also classroom sessions to teach strategy and theory. These events are open to anyone with a car that will pass tech.
Sleep in Review
I haven’t discussed polyphasic sleep for quite some time as I stopped it back in February. Since then I’ve followed a few different sleep patterns. While I was in school I followed a split 6 hour pattern, sleeping from 11PM to 2AM and then 3AM to 6AM. That worked fairly well but I frequently found myself quite tired if class was boring.
After school got out I returned to monophasic sleep. I don’t know if it’s because of my experimentation with polyphasic sleep, changes in my diet, or the exercise routine but now I sleep 6-7 hours a night. Before I tried polyphasic sleep I was out for 8 hours a night. If I wanted I could probably sleep that long again, but I’ve found that I function well on 6-7 hours.
You Can’t Win All The Time
Friday resulted in my first investment loss with options. One leg of my condor went against me on a news announcement with almost no chance of recovery. I ended up losing a bit more than my gains from last month.
The important thing about losses is to learn from them. The lesson here is to make sure you know the whole story about a stock before investing. I was unaware of the pending news release. Had I known about the situation I wouldn’t have opened the condor. In the future I will be more careful before opening a position.
Gallery Online
Looks like I posted too soon. I ended up having time to get the gallery integrated! Now you’ll see the link in the tabs above and the random image on the sidebar. It was quite simple. I just had to add the correct gallery theme and add a few lines of code to the header and sidebar.
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