Marty October 2nd, 2009
Well, the quick answer is that I have been incredibly busy. Work has been a litany of 60+ hour weeks, plus getting stuff done around the house. Plus, I managed to be sick for a couple days this week. But I’m hoping to have a little more time in the near future – including time to launch my new work-related blog.
In the meantime, take a read at the Onion’s skewering of Michael Vick.
Marty August 4th, 2009
Okay – I’ve already been playing catch-up this month, so here’s just something funny I saw yesterday from the King of Usability, Jeffrey Zeldman:
Marty August 1st, 2009
Funk
I’ve been in a funk lately, one that is especially deep today. I’m not completely sure what it is about, but I can’t seem to break out of it.
I have some ideas of the causes but they shouldn’t be getting me this down. I think the chief concern recently is my health: I dislocated my toe, and it isn’t healing; I’ve been like shit for weeks; I’ve been sleeping like shit for weeks and getting heart palpitations recently, which scares the bejeezus out of me. And to top it off, I haven’t exercised in weeks beyond my daily 1.7 mile walk to and from the train stations – which ends up frustrating me more as I get fat and more out of shape.
And I’ve been just generally stressed, which never works out well for me. It feels like my life has been WORK > CHORES > TV > BED on weekdays, and CHORES > TV > BED on weekends, with little time for personal stuff like birding and design projects.
So, starting today I’m going to do everything I can to get myself together. Positive attitude is the first step, and I’m going to use this blog to help support that by posting at least one positive thing every day in August.
Marty April 16th, 2009
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to get creative about anything, but we recently had a contest at work to replace the boring “Day of Move” nameplates we had at our desks. I know it isn’t the Mona Lisa, but it was fun to think about how to represent myself. Continue Reading »
Marty April 2nd, 2009
I’ve been meaning to write here for a while. In fact, I think I’ve started at least 4 or 5 posts in the last three weeks, but never had a chance to actually complete them. Project deadlines, coupled with Shari being sick and me not feeling very well either have pretty much wiped out my time to get much done or write anything to completion. I like being busy, but it seems like I can’t seem to find time to do anything creative like writing or photography. Instead, I’ve been so exhausted and wanting to spend time with Shari that I’ve done little more than watch TV and fall asleep or play mindless games because I just can’t think when I get home. Continue Reading »
Marty January 27th, 2009
…is the guy standing at the door of the adult book shoppe waiting for it to open. That’s just weird (and yes, saw it this morning walking to work).
Marty January 27th, 2009
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while but just haven’t had the time to do it with work kicking my ass. But finally, here are the things that I found to be the best of MY 2008. Continue Reading »
Marty January 6th, 2009
Well, let’s take a look at how I did on my list of 2008 resolutions … I’m sure that it will be interesting. On the surface, I had 23 goals and 19 sub-goals, including 9 ’stretch’ goals (*). The scorecard: Continue Reading »
Marty January 5th, 2009
Let me preface this by saying, “Yes – I am a little OCD, it seems”.
Okay, now that THAT’S out of the way, let me explain. I don’t listen to radio very often around here, almost exclusively when I’m in my car. But when I do, the radio is usually tuned to WXPN, a local station that focuses on more independent (read: folk and singer-songwriter) music. However, there are times when WXPN is playing some programming (such as Kid’s Corner or during their pledge drives) that I have had to turn elsewhere, and my first two choices have been two rock stations – 93.3 WMMR and 94.1 WYSP. Continue Reading »
