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One portfolio item added per week.

2009-11-23

• Added the “Folio Elements” theme to goodstand.com.
• Added 13 portfolio pieces.
• Need to customize the goodstand.com favicon; customize the theme logo, complete the “about” and “contact” pages, perhaps a few more additions.

200911-24

• I don’t like the “Folio Elements” theme after all. Need to find a replacement.

One new screencast added per week.

• None yet, but will start with basic imaging tutorial. Photoshop? Paint.net? Gimpshop?

Morning pushups: 3 sets

• 2009-11-23: 30 x 30 x 30
• 2009-11-24: Missed morning, shoot for evening; didn’t do them.
• 2009-11-25: 30 x 30 x 30; also did 10 x 10 x 10 hammer curls with 20# and some front shoulder raises.
• 2009-11-26: 30 x 30 x 30.
• 2009-11-27: none.
• 2009-11-28: 30 x 30 x 30.
• 2009-11-20: none.

Change. Coffee tracking: No longer a restriction, but just keeping track.

• 2009-11-23: One Americano from Aroma when I got downtown; one at lunch.
• 2009-11-24: One latte at home, one Americano from Aroma.
• 2009-11-25: Two lattes at home, one Americano from Aroma.
• Forget this coffee tracking thing. I think there are more important things to keep track of.

Start. One multi-vitamin daily.

• 2009-11-23: Taken.
• 2009-11-24: Taken.
• 2009-11-25: Taken.
• 2009-11-26: Taken.
• 2009-11-27: Taken.
• 2009-11-28: Taken.
• 2009-11-29: Taken.

One math section (minimum) daily.

• This could be a slow math week, since the Six Month Plan started today.

Get to work on time (8:00 a.m.)

• 2009-11-23: 8:31 a.m.
• 2009-11-24: 7:41 a.m.
• 2009-11-25: 10:11 a.m. (Bethy had a doc appointment.)
• 2009-11-26: Off Work (Thanksgiving.)
• 2009-11-27: Off Work (Thanksgiving.)

Daily progress on Data Genie

• Nothing yet

Daily progress on novel

• I’m leaving this here, but don’t expect much progress daily.

Are there frogs in those trees?

Leigh and I are in the process of night weaning Xander. That just means we’re trying to get him to stop breastfeeding at night. Leigh’s sleep has become a major issue with her health and happiness, which is of course a factor in the family’s health and happiness.

West just makes me think of Mormons, I guess.

We’re thankful for the suggestion to night wean, because we’ve always tried to lean towards child-lead weaning. While night weaning might affect Xander’s overall desire to nurse, at least we’re not flat-out saying “enough is enough” and taking the choice completely away.

Home, sweet home.

We’re at a point now where, once Xander is nursed to sleep, he is not to be nursed again until six in the morning. As suggested, we’re keeping him out of the bed, away from Leigh. If we don’t do that, he will wake up periodically looking to nurse, which proves disruptive and slows down the night weaning. My job, then, is to take Xander and sleep in the basement.

Not today.

This works awesome all around. Xander has slept very well, only rousing once at night to wonder what’s going on. I’m sleeping well, and it also gives me a chance to watch a movie each night on NetFlix. It should go without saying that Leigh is sleeping better, also.

Anyway, that’s all I have to say about that.

The leaf bags complete the scene.

I really hate using the telephone. I beat myself up for not calling mom or Amanda enough, but really—I just can’t stand to use the phone on purpose. That’s one of the reasons I don’t have a cel phone. Oh My God, cel phones are the absolute worst, actually.

That dude's car is just ugly. I don't like it.

Cel phones mean people can bug you at any time, anywhere. If you don’t answer your cel phone, you are making a conscious decision to avoid communicating, which in my case results in the Superego’s hammer of guilt pounding me. No thanks. Sure, you could say by refusing to get a cel phone I’m doing the same thing—but that’s only one hammer hit, and is more a question of lifestyle (and financing) than trying to avoid people.

And in this direction: A paycheck.

Cel phones mean you are beholden to more explanation of what you’re doing with your time. If you have a cel phone with you, and someone calls you, but you don’t answer, then you will have to explain what you were doing that made you not answer the phone. If what you were doing was private, then you either need to lie or tell the truth and face a needless interrogation about your motivations. I already feel 90% of my desires and actions are under a microscope. Carrying a cel phone would just bump that up to 100% real-time accountability. No thanks.

Whatever

It’s not just cel phones, either. People call me at work and I often don’t answer. Then I figure out who it was and email them. I can communicate better with them in writing. I can provide screenshots, photographs, whatever they might need to explain better. I can give them an explanation without being interrupted. In my view, it is just better customer service.

The bottom line is, don’t freak out if I don’t call you hardly at all, and if your calls are always going to voicemail. I’d rather carry a frog in my pocket than use the telephone.

Don’t take it personally.