I am but a few mere days away from paying off a credit card that I have had a balance on for a little bit and, needless to say, I’m pretty excited about it. The first reason is that my good friends at Capital One decided to pop my rate up about 10% over the [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Having A “Screw You” Plan
Feb 28
Fight the Fear
Feb 27
I like to be fairly regimented with the training schedule I keep and do my best not to skip days because of some lousy excuse I came up with on the fly. Missed sessions (I try never to call it “work outs” because that tends to sound more random and unplanned) have a cumulative effect [...]
Last night was the third game of the basketball league I just got involved in after not playing at all for several years. While I have been in some of the best shape of my life of late… well… let’s just say my hoop skills are not what they once were. I mean, not even [...]
A few years ago, a colleague at my previous job turned to me one day and said the following: “You know something? You’re probably the nicest person I’ve ever met.” Truth be told, it’s possibly one of the best compliments I ever gotten and could ever really get… you know, besides those compliments I give [...]
My daily commute to work is always a bit of an interesting experience and often a lesson in human behavior, as I’m sure it is for just about anyone who needs to take to the highways to reach their place of employment. There is one spot in particular that tends to draw the greatest opportunity [...]
With each passing year, I gain a greater appreciation for education, learning, reading and all of the food for the mind that is available in the world. I often say that if I hit Powerball tomorrow, I would definitely like to go back and get another degree in something for the pure pleasure of learning [...]
As the nice little Catholic boy that I am, the fact that Lent begins on Wednesday has been on my mind. Lest anyone rolling across this post is not entirely clear on what Lent is all about, it’s essentially the 40 days that lead up to Easter. It kicks off with Ash Wednesday and although [...]
Brutal Efficiency
Feb 13
I posted the other day about in my “One Thing At A Time” post about how I like to thinking of my strength and conditioning training as I view a lot of things in life: it’s always better strip things down to their essentials because they simply do not need to be so damn complicated. [...]
You Are What You Think
Feb 13
Like most people who get together with school friends they don’t get the chance to see often enough, I often like to ask “Hey, who else have you kept in touch with? How are they doing?” I was catching up in just such a fashion not too long ago with a very good friend from [...]
Finding Closure… Strangely
Feb 12
It’s easy to stand here in 2010 and be completely amazed at the world around us. We are simply awash in a staggering amount of technological progress that takes our big beautiful world and makes it feel incredibly small. Blogs (like this amazing one that you simply cannot get enough of… right? RIGHT?!?!?!?), Twitter, Facebook [...]
