I went ahead and decided to get some new speakers for my car.

The entire series of upgrades that I wanted to purchase would have been far too expensive, so I figured I’d start with the speakers since it was audio quality that was my biggest primary concern (any kind of Bass coming out of the back speakers was causing horrible amounts of distortion/shaking….it sounded like the speakers were blown to me). I figured I could get the new head next, then later on upgrade to the satellite package.

And…

No change.

Music still sounds like crap coming out of the back speakers.

Yeah.

I should know better than to spend money. I always feel like I’ve ended up wasting it.

So…why am I angry about the fact that I put on a pound this week?

It’s a valid question.  One would assume that I really wouldn’t be surprised by a weight gain.  Generally speaking we know when we’re going to gain/lose weight and honestly shoulnd’t be surprised when we see ugly numbers on the scale.

But that’s the whole point.  I’ve been really good recently.  My muscles are sore from the exercise I’ve been doing.  I’ve been journaling everything.  With the exception of the Super Bowl party at Rafe and Kim’s (which all was healthy food, even if there was a whole bunch of it) it was a textbook weight watchers week.

Yet I had a gain.

Is it likely that it’s muscle again?  Yes, it is.  Are there things I could have done differently/better?  Yes, there are.

Does any of this make me less pissed about the gain?

No, it does not.

The most I can do at this point is keeping doing what I’ve been doing and hope for better results next week.  I’d be lying through my teeth if I said I was anything other than frustrated, though.

In other news….

I may start having to come into the office much more regularly.  As a result of that, I’m thinking of taking the balance of the money I made last weekend doing a side job (the bulk went towards repaying a debt) and getting a new stereo for the car.  The current one doesn’t have a working LCD and the speakers are blown to hell.  If I’m going to spend a lot of time in the car, I need to have some good tunes.  I’m seriously contemplating an XM enabled radio so I can get some talk radio that isn’t Rush Limbaugh or any of clones.

Thinking a lot about school recently, and the need to get back into it and work towards my B.A.  I’ve pretty much made up my mind on getting a “General Business” degree from USF.  I could do so from any number of schools, most of them online, but I like the thought of going local to be honest.  Unfortunately, because my A.A. is just a “liberal arts” degree I’m going to have to take some more classes before I can apply to the college.  All told, it looks like I’m going to have to take NINE more classes before I can apply to the school.

Sigh.

Should have made up my mind sooner.  Not that it really matters.  I can still get the classes done at SPC even though I already have a degree.

My current plan is to take 3 classes a term for the next three terms (starting in the Summer) and apply for the Fall 2008 term at USF.  From there, another 60-66 hours of classes.

Whee!

With fun names like “Financial Accounting” and “Principles of Macroeconomics.”

You don’t get much more fun than that, gang.

52 pounds in 52 Weeks
Week 6 Goal : -6 pounds
Week 6 Total : -2.8 pounds
Difference : -3.2 pounds

To say I’m discouraged right now is an understatement.

Angry is more the term, really.

About all I wanna say.

“Just go out and bang some dude” is one of the phrases that you will never hear a psychiatrist say. Other such phrases include “I think heroin is doing you a lot of good,” and “jesus, no WONDER your Mother never loved you.”

– Questionable Content Number 809 : Devil’ Advocate, J. Jacques

I could write a whole big post about how certain people I know need to get a whole shitload of counsellings with a side helping of electro-shock therapy, but I really don’t have the energy for it right.

Boo for weekends being eaten by work.

Yay for extra money!

Gotta do what ya gotta do to pay the bills ya know. Alex is going to need new equipment for baseball this season as well, which should eat up a good chunk of what I’m making.

Easy come, easy go.

Super bowl tonight at Rafe and Kim’s is looking less likely, again due to the fact that I’ve got more coding to do and am facing a huge pile of ugly laundry. More’s the pity. On the plus side, that should help to keep me from eating a whole crapload of bad food.

And on that note, the download I was waiting on is done. Back to work.

52 pounds in 52 Weeks
Week 5 Goal : -5 pounds
Week 5 Total : -3.8 pounds
Difference : -1.2 pounds

A bit behind after this week, but on the whole I still think I’m making forward progress.  Still working out, but could be doing a better job on the food front.

Here we are, fist of the month.  Montly batch processing is going on now, after a very long two hour meeting at corporate HQ this morning.  Big stuff coming down the pipe, that is probably going to become the bulk of my professional life until August.  My boss, in talking to me about this, related a story of a similar change that happened at his former employer.  “We stayed up for three days straight,” he said.  “We had food ordered in and just got it all done.  It was fun.”

“I do not think that word means what you think it means,” I replied.

I hope nothing as drastic as that happens, but you never know.  Fortunately, it is not likely to interfere with my Dragon*Con plans.  Earlier this morning it looked like it was going to, as this project will end around Labor Day weekend.  Fortunately, though, we’re shooting to have our part finished a month prior to that and should have no major tasks to accomplish from that point on. 

Thanks to 

maladr1n

and the manager of the box office at TBPAC we got out tickets exchanged for the Tuesday night showing of Spamalot.  We were in seats with a “partially obstructed” view, but we were very close to the stage and really only missed out on seeing one or two things in the production.  I thought it was excellent.  Krys is a little less flowing with the praise, but I think overall she enjoyed it.  I was especially impressed with the woman playing The Lady of the Lake, and actually felt that vocally she was better than the woman from the original cast recording.

Other than that, though, it’s been a pretty crappy week – and I’m feeling it today.  My mood is matching the weather outside, which is particularly nasty at the moment.  I’d be looking forward to a relaxing weekend, but I promised the person I occasionally contract for on the side that I’d get some work done for her this weekend, so I’ll probably be feet first into that on Saturday morning and spend most of my day doing it. 

Bleah.

I really need to get more sleep before I come into the office.  Being worn out definitely doesn’t help my mood.

Oh well, two hours to go here.  Got a few things to wrap up on the batch job, then I need to get some work done on another project.  Have fun out there, gang.

Kids make my head explode.

Seriously.

Tonight = Spamalot

So we didn’t make it to the show on time. I put in a call to maladr1n to see if there was any way the Center could help us maybe see another show, and we decided to go out to dinner instead. Despite the bummer aspects of the day, we had a delightful meal together and went to goof off at some bookstores and blow gift certificates.

When I got home, I had an email comment waiting from D – he thinks he might be able to get us into one of the non-sold out shows (as apparently there are several).

It’s nice to have friends with connections – especially friends that rock as much as D.

So I got to spend a nice night out with K. and we still might get to see Spamalot.

Not too shabby there, my friends.