Sunday, January 31, 2010

Happy New Year!

Yeah, yeah...I know I'm about a month late in starting the resolutions, but there was just TOO MUCH going on in January to give anything more than lip service to my resolutions (conferences, Vegas, work travel).  So...my New Year's resolutions start tomorrow...I'll actually be home for the majority of February and it's a better time for me to focus without the distractions that come with being on the road.

It's probably no surprise to anyone that knows me that my goals all resolve around being healthier so I'll be exercising and eating right.  I've bought into a fairly popular exercise regimen and I've done all the background legwork...measuring, food purchases, portioning, etc.

One interesting item that I'll share is that this was the first time I've ever taken 'before' 'no-more' pictures (as recommended from the regimen for motivational purposes), and after uploading them I have to say that I threw up a little in my mouth.  While I have thoroughly enjoyed every meal and drink that has seen me to current size, enough is enough!!!  Once I've made some progress, I might be tempted to post them, but we'll just have to wait and see.

I suppose all is not lost...I'm a full two weeks ahead of the Chinese New Year!

Thursday, January 28, 2010

I'm plunging into the blogosphere pool...

So...I've decided to take a cue from one of my former co-workers (and lifetime friend) and open up a blog. It's not that I have too much in the way of important information to add to the global discourse...rather I want it to be a place where I can quickly:
  • pen the random nonsense that springs up in my head
  • vent to the world the idiocy that I witness during my travels
  • share new music, food, quotes, etc. that I like
  • share links to other tidbits that I see on the Internets

"Why not twitter? facebook? myspace?" you may ask.  Well, the short answer is that my patience has already run thin with all of those social networking phenomenons (I never was a twitter user BTW).  I just want a relatively calm part of the WWW that doesn't force-feed me quiz updates, score updates, farmtown, yoville...you get the idea.

As for the content or focus of this spot, that is wide open...music, sports, travel tales, drinks, maybe a little of the dreaded politics and religion...stay tuned to see. 

I do hope some of my friends from across the world decide to check into this blog every now and again, and perhaps they can help me figure out what in the world I'm doing with a blog spot now.