For your enjoyment, the reason I can't water the lawn with the dogs around
And just cause I been on a juggling kick, Here I am juggling 5 balls
Friday, April 2, 2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
1000 hits on the blog, 420 pushups
So yesterday I got all kinds of stuff done and it was great. I didn't have to go to work either so I could spend some time cleaning up the house, writing, and studying Japanese. I opened the back up of my 2nd year Japanese book and spent 2 hours memorizing words. I also met Miho-san for an hour so I got a lot of studying done. I also did a hell of a lot of finger push ups - 420 over the course of the day. I even did 40 straight after I passed the 200 mark. I was going for 1000 for the day to celebrate my blog passing 1000 hits but I didn't leave myself enough time. I think I could do it but I need a whole day to myself to get it done. Maybe I'll try to next week. Not today though that's for damn sure. I wasn't sore at all after doing sets of 10 finger push ups most of the day and thought that had I had time I could have hit 1000 easy since I wasn't sore. Today though my chest, arms, and even legs are sore from all the push ups.
Looking forward to taking care of some projects tonight
Looking forward to taking care of some projects tonight
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
This is why golf is the dumbest game on the planet...
As if golf wasn't lame enough check out this yahoo sports news story. After a terrible shot Michelle Wie let her golf club rest on the ground. Apparently this is called grounding and it's illegal because it can help you test the firmness of the ground or break sand up around your ball.
Now I've never had any respect for golf and this story doesn't help. Watch the video and you'll see after Wie's craptacular shot her club comes to rest by her foot. Really? The ref or whatever the hell he's called probably had to nitpick because frankly he didn't have shit to do otherwise. What a stupid sport. Ever watched a real sport? Like hockey or baseball, basketball? I was at a hockey game on St. Patties day and watched a player penalized for beating the crap out of a member of the opposing team. Now that's a reason to be penalized! Resting your golf club on the ground, you got to be kidding me.
In case you hadn't figured it out I absolutely despise golf. You have a bunch of well dressed pretend athletes who despite being some of the best in the world at what they do can't take a shot without the crowd being quiet and have someone else carry their clubs around. They work up a sweat by walking. I remember how my grandparents stayed healthy - they walked too. I wonder if they'd be good at golf.
What's the saddest part of this story is the penalty cost Wie $90,000. Now it's not sad she didn't make as much money. What's really sad is that for there to be so much money in pro golf, that many people have to be watching it on TV. And the fact there are so many people at home wasting all that time just sitting around watching some prepped up loser hit around a little white ball into a tiny hole in the middle of a field of grass instead of doing something that's actually fun or productive is damn near tragic.
The only good thing that has ever come from golf is Happy Gilmore
. Period.
I remain,
Damon
Now I've never had any respect for golf and this story doesn't help. Watch the video and you'll see after Wie's craptacular shot her club comes to rest by her foot. Really? The ref or whatever the hell he's called probably had to nitpick because frankly he didn't have shit to do otherwise. What a stupid sport. Ever watched a real sport? Like hockey or baseball, basketball? I was at a hockey game on St. Patties day and watched a player penalized for beating the crap out of a member of the opposing team. Now that's a reason to be penalized! Resting your golf club on the ground, you got to be kidding me.
In case you hadn't figured it out I absolutely despise golf. You have a bunch of well dressed pretend athletes who despite being some of the best in the world at what they do can't take a shot without the crowd being quiet and have someone else carry their clubs around. They work up a sweat by walking. I remember how my grandparents stayed healthy - they walked too. I wonder if they'd be good at golf.
What's the saddest part of this story is the penalty cost Wie $90,000. Now it's not sad she didn't make as much money. What's really sad is that for there to be so much money in pro golf, that many people have to be watching it on TV. And the fact there are so many people at home wasting all that time just sitting around watching some prepped up loser hit around a little white ball into a tiny hole in the middle of a field of grass instead of doing something that's actually fun or productive is damn near tragic.
The only good thing that has ever come from golf is Happy Gilmore
. Period.I remain,
Damon
Monday, March 29, 2010
The Long Road to Sucess & The Quick Path to Faliure
Yukiyoshi Sagawa is quoted in the book Transparent Power
as saying that even with intense training it takes 20 years before your body is conditioned enough. 20 years is damn long time. You could be doing great for 5 years and quit and it wouldn't be near enough. I'm having a hard time sticking to pushups and moping and it's been a month. Training every day for 20 years, that's 7300 days.
The bar is a similar thing, it'll take 5 years of work to make it worth it. 5 years - 1825 days. Doesn't seem so long when compared to 20 years. But it's still a long time. And a bad day at the bar can end it for good. A minor drinking, some kind of accident, fire, flood, etc could put an end to everything and I'd spend the next ten years digging myself out of debt.
It pisses me off when people expect things for free, as if they deserve for me to spend another day or minute in debt so they can save a buck. The road to success is long and hard and a misstep can erase years of work. Some people just can't appreciate that.
Apparently some gamblers aren't addicted to winning or gambling so much as they're addicting to losing - they are hooked on having their back to the wall and having to fight to stay afloat. I've been a part of a failing business for 3 years - maybe I'm the same way. Maybe it's difficult to work too hard because I can't deal with being ahead. Hope that's not the case.
Today was not a bad day. I cleaned my room, worked and made some money. But I just got by, another day. I need to get more out of each day, I can't get a head just having a normal day. I can't get where I want to be just getting by.
Today was not a bad day. But tomorrow has to be better to succeed. Each day has to be better than the last.
Guess we'll see what happens.
On a more enjoyable note, I'll leave you with a picture of Bulleit. He's apparently crazy
as saying that even with intense training it takes 20 years before your body is conditioned enough. 20 years is damn long time. You could be doing great for 5 years and quit and it wouldn't be near enough. I'm having a hard time sticking to pushups and moping and it's been a month. Training every day for 20 years, that's 7300 days. The bar is a similar thing, it'll take 5 years of work to make it worth it. 5 years - 1825 days. Doesn't seem so long when compared to 20 years. But it's still a long time. And a bad day at the bar can end it for good. A minor drinking, some kind of accident, fire, flood, etc could put an end to everything and I'd spend the next ten years digging myself out of debt.
It pisses me off when people expect things for free, as if they deserve for me to spend another day or minute in debt so they can save a buck. The road to success is long and hard and a misstep can erase years of work. Some people just can't appreciate that.
Apparently some gamblers aren't addicted to winning or gambling so much as they're addicting to losing - they are hooked on having their back to the wall and having to fight to stay afloat. I've been a part of a failing business for 3 years - maybe I'm the same way. Maybe it's difficult to work too hard because I can't deal with being ahead. Hope that's not the case.
Today was not a bad day. I cleaned my room, worked and made some money. But I just got by, another day. I need to get more out of each day, I can't get a head just having a normal day. I can't get where I want to be just getting by.
Today was not a bad day. But tomorrow has to be better to succeed. Each day has to be better than the last.
Guess we'll see what happens.
On a more enjoyable note, I'll leave you with a picture of Bulleit. He's apparently crazy
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