I was talking to dutch today about my trip to Chicago to visit R***y this past weekend. We ended up getting into some google maps and playing around with street view. Since I didn’t have my camera and didn’t document my trip here are a few good street view shots.
I also attended Danny’s Bar that has the best matchbook I’ve ever seen and $2.00 PBR’s. Mostly I drove 300 miles to see R**s, drink, and eat alot. If I have some more time I’ll add some additional shots.
To put this matter to rest skydiving was fantastic. Other then getting rained out the first scheduled day I couldn’t imagine having as much fun as I ended up having. Premier Skydiving was a great place for a first timer like myself and all the staff and patrons were great. Personally I would suggest anybody who has the ticker for it to give skydiving a shot. For the most part I never feared for my life and the thrill is totally worth it. Would I go again? I don’t think so for me it was a one time shot and having the video is sweet. Hope everybody enjoys once again vanbergs has created a masterpiece.
At work I’ve joined the “Healthy Lifestyles Incentive Program“. My reasons of joining are mostly financial (completing the program gives me $25 dollars off my insurance premiums per pay period plus other incentives) but recently I have been taking a small interest in my health.
Today I went into work a little early and got a biometric screening. To sum up the experience, they pricked my left middle finger, weighed me, took my blood pressure, and I got to talk to a cute engaged woman in an enclosed room for 20 minutes.
Overall I was pretty suprised with my results. For somebody who doesn’t know my eating/sleeping/life habits and just looked at my results one might think I’m a healthy person. Just in case I lose my handout with my results I’m going to copy them down here for historical purposes.
Height: 5′8 (no “little wes” or “get taller” comments please)
Weight: 133 (fully clothed no shoes please no “eat more” comments please)
Total Cholesterol/HDL Ratio: 3.3 (Less than 4 ideal) Cholesterol: 146 mg/dl (Less than 200 desirable) HDL Good Cholesterol: 44 mg/dl (Greater than 40 goal) LDL Bad Cholesterol: 81 mg/dl (Less than 100 ideal)
Overall a quality experience. For a long time I’ve been curious what my cholesterol levels were at. Going into this I was expecting some bizzare/depressing/life changing results but according to this screening I’m just the pinnacle of health! I could be a marathon runner if I didn’t drink game fuel constantly, go to the bar five times a week, play countless hours of Halo 3 co-op, and ate better food then Dunkin Donuts.
First let me apologize for the lack of updates here. There isn’t an excuse for my actions. Well there is and I’m going to tell it to you. The main reason is that I don’t really have anything that positive to write about. The tail end of the summer has been pretty standard fair and I’ve lost a little bit of my interest to publishing content on the web. My previous posts since July have been mostly forced in an attempt to keep up with jjafuller and since then I’ve given my online presence less and less thought.
For the last two months I’ve been trying to cut my online time down a bit. Not remove it but take an hour here and there to do something different with it. For a long time I was focusing on WAY to many things online. I was posting pictures on flickr, working on bauercount, and I’ve gotten to a point to where it was too much. For the most part I’m sure everybody reaches a point similar to mine.
Another thing I’ve learned is that I can get most of my daily computer activities out of the way in such a less amount of time. After reading Timothy Ferriss book and blog posts about E-Mail Detox I’ve cut my e-mail and web surfing time down maybe 85% as of late. Most of my free computer time is chatting with my friends, and watching good content rather then browsing.
The thing is that it feels great cutting back a bit and making an effort to disconnect. In the mornings going for a walk and reading feels so much better then reading cnn news stories and chatting. After work rather then going straight home and hopping on the computer it’s so much better having five PBR’s at Logans and watching MNF with friends. There are days over this summer I can remember waking up and sitting in front of the computer until I went to work. Working eight hours in front of the computer, and going right home and sitting in front of the computer for the majority of the night.
It all boils down to I’ve had a lot of changes in my life and I’m trying to not let that change own me anymore. This weekend I’m going home to visit family. The weekend after that I’m going to visit R***y in Chicago. Some how I’m winning my fantasy football league. Skydiving was amazing and video should be up soon. The Nintendo Wii is still amazing, and Halo 3 is amazing. Coney Island is my favorite place in the world. 24isprettymuchdoomed. BRB
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