Car vLogs – Daily Video Log – May 5th 2012 – Taking Care of Things
Taking care of things. Realizing that the mount that holds my phone to work for navigation in my car sucks for facing outward but actually works OK pointed at me LOL. This video was uploaded from an Android phone by a WebOS lover.
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041712 – What Happened to my Other vLog?
OK unsure what happened. It’s 1159pm – let’s see if I actually can create and upload a video in a minute. Video was uploaded from an Android phone…
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Daily Video Log – Tuesday’s Quick Check in and DOWN 20 Pounds!
Following daily video logging for 100 days it’s becoming a habit I don’t really want to break (though should tell myself it’s OK sometimes LOL)… Many adventures today and happy to be down from 215/36%F 195/30%F. This video was uploaded from an Android phone by a WebOS Lover.
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Cricketgate – Day 59 – Time to End the Madness!
OK this has gone on with chirps for nearly 60 days!? OMG. WTF. What is going on here?! I pulled out the fridge and it appears that this cricket actually lives behind the wall or something? This beyond freaking bizarre insane.
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Cricketgate – The Less Than Effective Trap
Cricketgate! I created a trap based on a container on a string that has cricket food inside it in hopes that the cricket would walk in and want to hang in there. OK maybe this wasn’t my best designed plan so far but was worth a try. This video was uploaded from an Android phone by a WebOS Lover…
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Cricketgate – Day 52 – Chirping in the Morning
Chirpy is back with full force morning energy, which is impressive as he seemed to be chirping all night too. OK chirpy, although I admire your tenacity… It’s time to restore my home to normal and a cricket trap may be in your future very soon!
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Sushi Para II Palatine Illinois Live Streaming Christmas Eve AYCE
This video has been hanging out in my camera for 3 days and clogging up the phone so I’m manually uploading this and erasing the HTC EVO 3D. I really like the QIK application however I need to really consider if I should install this on my phone after the re-formatting. OK back in a bit.
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Server (computing) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
OK at this point I’m not sure either why I’m asking myself to create random songs about wikipedia entries, but it’s definitely forcing myself to play more guitar, read more, and make silly videos.
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WordPress TouchPad Didn’t Work
Bummed a rather rich blog post I’d created with my TouchPad never posted or even ended up in drafts. Frustrating. OK looking for alternate “blog portability apps” for my upcoming trip… That or I’ll take a week long blog break… we’ll see!
Feeling Like I’ve Not Slept Lately…
Granted, I don’t sleep much. However the past 2 days I’ve been in a semi-zombie state but still making progress and rocking forward. My brain just feels off from where I want it to be. I’ve looked at my food and supplement intake to see if something’s impacted this sleep or how I feel but can’t come up with any explanation.
In fact I’ve not even taken GABA before bed which I was doing for a while. Well, I’m not going to over-think into this when I have things to do and feel like a zombie. Perhaps it’s just another step towards growth. Perhaps this is what happens as I approach 42. Yeah I’d not really thought much of that, perhaps both my body and mind are needing more than the few hours of sleep I normally feel OK with. Last week I’m up at 5 every day and working out, this week barely ‘aware’ as I wake to an alarm at 6. That’s the other difference – I’m depending on an alarm. I’ve always had one as a “safeguard” but don’t like to depend on it except when necessary traveling. I usually wake up and turn it off before it’s ever even close to alarming. I mean who wants to wake to an alarm, what a horrifying experience. OK I digress. My body is probably trying to take care of itself and is speaking to me. Now it’s time to learn to listen within.
Why Am I Gaining More Weight?
Considering my aggressive exercise adoption and increased focus on lower carbohydrate and higher protein dieting, I’m somewhat surprised to see my scale shouting “210 210 TWO TEN TWO TEN” at me when just a few days ago I was in the wonderful state of ketosis and down to 204. I know there’s simple things that may be contributing to my weight gain, and have considered the following:
- Water retention while adapting to new healthy lifestyle.
- Hidden carbs inside vitamin supplements or elsewhere.
- Muscle growth is exceeding reduction of body pounds.
- Stress and anxiety is causing me to retain more weight.
- Body not playing well with artificial sweeteners maybe.
- Many number of reasons I’m not going to worry about.
I assume excessive carbs should be burning with my workouts.
Other than taking a closer look at my diet, I’m in need of increasing my exercise throughput. Since I’m getting up extra early for my P90X workouts (5am lately), this does leave a little more potential later in the day for bike riding or other cardiovascular commitments, so going to see what more on a fitness level I can “squeeze in” today.
I Have Way Too Many Blogs IMO!
Been up all night and trying to convince myself that insomnia is actually a productivity enhancing tool, that I can squeeze in an extra workout, an extra blog post, some more emails or get a head start on my day. Realistically, I may not be too far off though energy levels are lowered in this state. I’ve noticed my mind sometimes balances itself out this way; keeping me calm to best manage current opportunities and obligations.
Yikes I’ve already digressed from my subject line… OK regarding the blogs, for the past several years and quite aggressively over the past 3 I’ve been building out a massive niche blog infrastructure with the goal of selling lots of online real estate billboards. Since I’ve taken a new career this year and blogs and selling online ad space is much less my focus I’m looking to reorganize my online world better.
I really focus on a small percentage of my blogs, in fact I’ve created a few blogs just to manage and point to my other blogs! The best place I’d recommend anyone to start with would be Darren’s Blogs, which brings together the top 12 sites or so which I’m most active on, of course including this one!
The ramblings of a crazy man? Possibly...
This is Darren Williger and I am taking a look at what I can accomplish in the next 100 days, both personally and professionally.
September 2010 I had this thought - WOW there\'s just over 100 days left this year. Then I realized all my annual goals, professionally and personally - and said \"Darren, it is time\". A GoDaddy coupon code encouraged me to pull the trigger on this new domain and had the site up in minutes.
December 2011 seemed like an awesome time to do this exercise again! Over the next 100 days I will be taking a more serious look at my health and wealth, learning to focus more on what\'s important, and scheduling everything in my life for maximum productivity. I\'ll share details here, mostly to hold myself accountable and track my results on achieving greatness!
I\'m totally immersed in my new career and focused on learning more daily. It\'s been an incredible shift these past few months. On the side I\'m going to be exercising, writing, making more videos, photographing meals, tweeting, speaking and eating. Looking to minimize unproductive time sucking activities.
I\'m limiting my side business focus to weekends as I ramp up my new career. New blog coming soon, appropriately named Saturday Night Marketing. I\'m very excited!
It has been one helluva year so far - many challenges, and some frustration sweat and tears along the way - additionally, many net new opportunities have unfolded as several old ones fall by the wayside. Seems this pattern has repeated in life relationships as well.
I am so excited and grateful for all the incredible opportunities I\'ve been afforded and ones I will continue to create for myself. I\'m not going to allow anyone or anything (including myself) get in the way of the success and greatness I deserve!
Thanks for joining me on this journey!