Nashville Address

My fiancee and I went to Nashville on our Spring Break with one goal, FIND A PLACE TO LIVE. We began our search as soon as we got down to Nashville with a list of apartments that we had found on the Internet and could possibly live there. The first couple of apartments were on the West Side of Nashville off of Charlotte Ave. Nashville is a relatively big city and when driving out from Nashville I began to get a little worried about the neighborhood it was getting a little bit dirty. By dirty I mean it had some trashy looking places on the side and it was looking older. My friend once told me you can tell quite a bit from the roofs of houses in the area. The roofs in this area were troublesome. We went to the first apartment and were pleasantly surprised at how nice and new the apartment was, the price was in our range and it was a 2 bedroom with washer/dryer connections. We then went to three other apartments in the same area and were depressed by each one although the prices were considerably cheaper the area wasn't all that great. If these were the apartments that we found then we were going to be living in a rough neighborhood. Later in the day we drove down to Hillsboro Road/Green Hills area, oh my dad, this area was super nice with really nice apartments and houses all around. We checked out a few prices and got depressed really quickly not in range. We then drove around to see what else was in the area. A huge mall, Cheese Cake Factory, and all kinds of really nice restaurants all around.

Then next day we went out to Bellevue area with determination to find a place that was suitable, we drove passed several places that were not on the list. We looked at around 4 apartments in the Bellevue area and we were set on one particular one that we wanted, however, we looked at one last apartment and that is where we settled it was more expensive but the area is unbelievable. Anyway we found an apartment in the Bellevue area and now we have a Nashville Address and I will move in May 14, 2007.

Fiesta Friday...Regrets

Ok so today was like a flashback to about a year ago when all the guys at work would go to lunch together and have a good time laugh and joke, we would listen to Latin music and just relax a little. Today, we had an event called "Fiesta Friday", we journeyed to the Traveling Taco Cart to grab some cheap yet some what authenticate food. When I ordered the Burrito Loco I had no idea that would be almost 5 lbs and as long as my forearm. It was a shocking specimen. The Burrito Loco came with Chicken, Steak, Pork, Beans, Rice, Lettuce, Tomato, and a mixture of other things all in a tortilla. I only ate about half of the burrito because it was so freakin huge.

Now as I sit here at home for Spring Break my body is saying, "Why the hell did eat that burrito". I sit here in a cloud of flatus that is disgusting it makes me honestly gag.

Status: Regretting Fiesta Friday chose of Food!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Life or no Life...

I have come to the realization that maybe I don't have a life or I have a life but am not living it. Example: Friday Night, instead of me going out with my Fiancee and having a good time at some place around town, this Friday I sat in my room and did my Visual Basic Homework, watched TV, and just read online Linux Forums until about 2:00 AM. This is why my Finacee can't leave me alone for than a night if she does I turn into a very serious geek. Now I think there is time to turn this around, or not, no there is no way to this around. I will continue down the path of the geek, destined not for greatness but carpul Tunnel.

Mindless Drone

This is my last semester at Murray State. My classes are setup so that I have maximum time to be able to study other materials, and by other I mean certification exams for after school. As of right now I have not cracked one of these books open to even begin studying. Currently, I get and go (only if I am feeling like I haven't been to class in a few days) to my Visual Basic Class where I listen to an arrogant professor tell us how stupid we are for not knowing how to program with Visual basic before the class. Then he goes on and on about material we have covered a week ago, its a very iterative class. Then I go to work. Then I go to my Rootkit lab and then its off to the Personal Finance class. Currently the best class I have is Personal Finance, reason being its about my money and ways to make more money.

My schedule is relaxed but this semester it feels like my mind is just not getting a workout. Last semester I was in some high pressure, high stress classes that really pushed me to the brink. This time I have to much downtime?? 13 hours of class isn't much especially when 3 hours of those hours are not in a class room I am glad that I don't have that much class but at the same time I think I am doing a disservice to myself by have taking all my hard Capstone courses early and now taking electives.

I think I am becoming a mindless drone with no work or projects to keep my mind fresh and critically thinking.

I pose the question: Which is better to setup your last semester as the easiest semester of your career or Take those capstone critical thinking courses??????

Workout 2007 -- Week 3

This is wrapping up week 3 of my "Workout 2007" plan.  The last post I made on here was about "Super Size Me" the documentary and since then I have worked really hard to get back in shape and not eat such bad food.  I get up at 5:30 - 6:00 AM every day and go to the gym.  My exercise routine on Monday, and Thursday comprises of:

• Run for 20 min
• Leg Press 3 sets 12x10x8 reps 160x180x200
• Leg Curl 3 sets 12x10x8 reps not sure what the weight is
• Leg Extension 3 sets 12x10x8 reps 95x105x115
• Calf Raises 3 sets 12x12x12 reps 95x95x95
• Lat Pull Down 3 sets 12x10x8 reps 95x105x115
• Seated/Compound Row 3 sets 12x10x8 reps 95x105x115
• Biceps 3 sets 12x10x8 reps 65x70x75

The Tuesday and Friday workout is as follows:

• Run for 20 min/ Sometimes swim on Friday
• Chest Press 3 sets 12x10x8 reps 95x105x115 (discovered how weak my chest really was when I couldn't get 115x125x135 the desired reps)
• Incline Chest Press 3 sets 12x10x8 reps 85x90x95 (refer to note above...weak!!)
• Shoulder Press 3 sets 12x10x8 reps 70x80x90
  
• Laterial Raise 3 sets 12x10x8 reps 50x65x70
• Tricep pushdown 3 sets 12x10x8 reps not sure
• Tircep extension 3 sets 12x10x8 65x70x75
• Abs 3 sets 20x20x20
  

The Wednesday workout is as follows:

• Run for 30 min / Swim sometimes
• Abs 3 sets 20x20x20
  

Now at week 3 I have to say I am starting to feel better about myself  I have a long way to go but I hope to be stronger, have more energy (if I go to bed early enough), feel better, and have more endurance by the 8 week mark.  My body weight is staying the same but my muscle tone in my arms, chest, and legs are coming along.  My toughest areas I really have to work on is the stomach and the neck ( don't ask).

So far so good if I can keep this up and steadily improve on the reps and the weight when I reach the reps I plan on raising the weight up a notch.

Wish me luck!!

I am not in shape!

I hate netflix!!!!  I don't really but I just got a movie in tonight called, Super Size Me.  This was a documentary about fast food and its health issues.  A guy embarks on a experiment on himself to eat 3 meals a day of nothing but McDonalds menu and get no exercise and limit his walking to 5000 steps a day.  I want go into it a whole lot but needless to say I decided to take a look at what I eat on a daily basis now using Google Docs and spreadsheets.  today, Tuesday alone I had 5 cokes, only two .5 liters of bottled water.  2 cups of coffee and the food was bad too.  I decided my intake of cokes was way to high, if I replace cokes with water I would be much better off.  I am allowing one cup of coffee, my goal no fast food except once a week but smaller portions when I do go, kiddie coke, single cheeseburger, no fries, and a kiddie parfait.  I am going to work really hard this next semester and hopefully it will stick because I really want to loose some weight and get back to a healthy BMI again.

Damn you McDonalds!

Stress Relief

OK, so the past week of school as been hell. Basically it was the week before finals, all assignments were due and projects had to be turned in. I finished everything, my group term project, my lab report, my group term paper, and several other assignments I would rather forget about. I turned in everything but my lab project. All of my data stored on my 6 GB thumb drive. The night I go to print off my lab report 60 pages of A work, my thumb drive quits. Needless to say I lost everything, I tried every trick that I know to extract data off such as using dd, ddrescue, and ddrhelp on the drive in Linux, nothing. I then crack open the drive to reveal a Compact Flash connector with a micro drive (i.e moving parts). I plugged the drive directly into a Compact Flash reader to see if it would work, nothing. This confirmed for me that all was lost.

I talked to my professor, I worked out an arrangement that I thought and he thought was fair. After the stress of this week I am not ready for finals.

Oh but on a happier note I got a job for after I graduate!!