it has been a while since i wrote. between work, traveling home, and my personal life i have been pretty busy. lets see … where do i begin. last weekend i drove home and saw the family again. we all went out on friday night for pj’s birthday. it was a lot of fun, there was no dancing or anything but it was still great. just handing out, talking about anything and everything, and getting drunk. i really need to get drunk less when i go home. maybe try a sober weekend … anyhow … it was cool … the next day my brother and i babysitted for my cousins child, alexia. i had never actually met her and she is 4. the family on that side has not been very close in quite a few years. anyhow, we had a great time that day playing with her. had not hung out with kids in a while and it was refreshing. she is a really bright little girl, one of the brightest 4 year olds i ever met thats for sure. anyhow, the next day we all went to see the x-men, i went swimming, and then i drove home. nothing to exciting happened but it was relaxing and fun.


work is going pretty well. i now have a project that i am over looking. my friend adam who was heading up the project we were working on moved over to our integration consulting group so i am heading up the project now. basically, i am the only one working on it but it is a very high profile project that i enjoy. so long as i have some creative freedom and get to develop some code i am happy.


divine interventures finally ipo’d. it took them forever and a day to do it. after tons of bad press, scathing reviews, and 6 delays they are now a public company. the espp program i was involved in turned out to be not that great, at least for the next 180 days anyhow. after that we can buy and sell fast withing much of a waiting period. but given that the stock is not performing very well i am not all that concerned about it. for now i will look at the shares as a mid term investment, not long term, but more then one day.


my workouts are going pretty good. i will know more for sure when i weight myself this friday. i feel that i am making progress, and the tape measure shows that i am still losing inches. i am doing weights 3 days a week and cardio 4-5 days a week. pretty much the program has been integrated into my life, it pretty seamless now, and has become a part of my daily ritual. i was concerned that i had reached a plateau but i am past that now. i think it was more of a mental plateau, i was still losing, but just not as fast as i wanted to. after listening again to the body for life cd i realized that it was all in my head and all i needed to do was refocus and get back into the program. lately i have been trying harder and harder to develop the mind muscle link so that i can feel the muscles during the concentric and eccentric phases of the lifting motion.


i made yet another car decision. i was thinking of buying a cheap economy car like the focus and then using the money i save to buy the sports car i want. this would lower my insurance rate on the sports car. instead i decided to keep my car, save all the cash i can, in january check out the new thunderbird at the autoshow. if it is what i want i am going to trade my sable into the dealer in july and buy the thunderbird. otherwise i will save enough to pay for half of a corvette and when i have that purchase a corvette. i can handle the insurance if i can get the payments to a reasonable level. plus two cars really is kind of impractical for my right now. though, i did love the gas mileage of the focus. anyhow, the jist of it is that i am going to at least wait till january to make the next decision. until then i am going to pay down the credit cards and get as much cash saved until then.


those are the snippets that happened the past few weeks. talk to you next time.