Too Much To Do... Again

09.24.2012

A few months ago I restructured my Big list of Things To Do and started to make some headway. Then something happened. I think more things got added to my list. On top of that, some of the things already on the list got a little more complicated.

So now I'm revisiting my list and trying to get a grasp on it. My first pass found a list unwieldy and imposing. Scary even. So I've backed off and tried approaching from a different angle. So far it's working, but it's still a big list. Right now, it's a list of things to do. Soon I will have to turn in into a list of things to do and times to do them. That's the hard part right now.

I've got time available to do extra stuff, but I spend half of that free time trying to decide what I'm in the mood/mind-set to do. Not the most productive time for me. I'm getting little things done here and there, I just have to optimize and turn those little things into big things!

Or at least a train of little things. A big long train.

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The Megaforce Thumb

09.16.2012

Today was the grand viewing of Megaforce on sweet, sweet DVD by myself and my good close personal friend, Charles Jr. Charles Jr had not had the pleasure of viewing Megaforce before today, except perhaps an errant partial veiwing here and there on the YouTube. He was not as fortunate as I, to have seen this during its theatrical release in 1982 with my Mother.

At the ripe age of thirteen-ish, I remember walking out of the theater with Mom and telling her of this movie's $20 million budget, and then saying "$19 million must buy a lot of donuts for catering." If I knew then how bad this movie was, I could only imagine how bad it would be 30 years alter.

It hasn't gotten any better.

As bad as it was, it was cheesy, 80's bad. Jerry and I still watched it all the way through. I've yet to finish watching Ghost Rider 2 (that's how mad Ghost Rider 2 is!).

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Lego Fri... Thursday Night

09.15.2012

Instead of opting for Lego Friday Night, this week had Lego Thursday Night, which actually started with unbagging all of the pieces on Monday. Since the Lego Batmobile was a 1000+ piece behemoth I opted to take some extra time and lay everything out where I could find it. This turned into a necessity once I got started because I was having fun reading the instructions. Pictures of black Legos on top of black Legos are hard to read for an old man like me.

After taking 2 days to lay out everything where I hoped I could find it, I got to the crux of snapping everything together on Thursday. I was multi-tasking by watching laundry at the same time, and I had season 5 of Big Bang Theory playing on TV. Multi-tasking supreme! It took a while to put the Batmobile together, not just because there were so many pieces, but I kept getting lost in the instructions. Lego instructions have no words and are just pictures of Legos as you layer them on top of each other. The Batmobile is so big that at times I had no idea where the new pieces were supposed to go. Eventually everything came together, although I still managed a handful of leftover pieces.

I'm not sure which Lego will be on tap for next Friday (or Thursday if the week goes like this one). I may skip a Friday and take a gander and some of the new boardgames I'm suddenly been acquiring.

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Lego Friday Night

09.07.2012

I'll admit I haven't grown all the way up. Probably not halfway-up. Case in point, on a Friday night I thoroughly enjoyed myself by having a creme soda and building a Lego F1 race car.

Starting from the left is the large assortment of Legos that I dumped out of the box. Second, I decided I needed that creme soda. Finally, the finished car and creme soda.

I had iTunes playing some songs in the background but was otherwise ignoring the computer. There's a certain mindlessness that you go into when putting Legos together. I forgot how nice that zone is. This may become a Friday night tradition as I've recently uncovered a cache of unopened Lego sets.

After those are open, this could turn into an expensive tradition, though.

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Shake Report - Special K

09.06.2012

As previously mentioned, I'm trying alternatives to the Atkins Shakes that I've been drinking for years. Over the past week I've tried a couple of Special K Chocolate Protein Shakes. I waited past the initial "wow this tastes different" until my palate got used to the flavor. The big things I notice in comparison to the Atkins shake are:

• It's thick.
• When first drinking, it's a little chalky.
• The aftertaste only lingers about 10 minutes (and that's good).

Those things may sound negative, but it's not a bad shake. As far as how the Special K shake ranks against the Atkins as far as nutritional value:

Atkins Shake Special K Shake Size : 11 oz 10 oz Calories : 160 190 Fat Calories : 9g 5g Total Carbs : 5g 29g Protein : 15g 10g

So, in 1 ounce less I'm getting an extra 30 calories and 24 grams of carbs, but 4 grams less of fat. Although I was only drinking 1 Special K shake at a time as opposed to the 2 Atkins shakes, so I guess overall I'm coming out ahead on all points.

Next up: Slim Fast shakes!

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