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Better being positive

Lately it seems that I’ve been struggling with a lot of “hard stuff”, life challenges you could call them. It’s okay cause I see it as normal, but I find my propensity to then want to spew, and I DO mean to use that word, on the social networks in a frustrated ‘rage’. Why? Am I looking for attention? Most likely. Plus I know it’s NOT helpful to my whole social media experience (that’s the marketer in me talking…) Klout measurement or for the bombardment to my friends and acquaintances. I mean, really who wants to hear someone spew negative shite?

Seems like this spewing behavior on social media outlets is part of the norm for most people, as I see it. Most times I attribute it to people who are “unaware” of what they do and the consequence of what they do. Or maybe they just really don’t care. Well I do care and I putting this out on my blog as a way to reinforce my commitment to keeping my social media comments as positive.

Onwards and upwards!

3 month condensed

Wow. So much has happened. Amazing how sometimes life can just TAKE OFF.

I meet a woman.
We feel in love.
We got engaged.
We moved in together.
At a new place for the two of us.
Have had all kinds of issues with the new place and challenges with the landlord.
Get got robbed.

Anyone of those things on a singular basis would be enough for one person for a month’s, but this has all pretty much happened in the last 3 months. Well I met my future wife some time ago, but I’m excluding that.

Interesting thing about the robbery, I lost a few things that were more important to me in my past than in my current time. For instance, I got my turntables and mixer stolen. If that had happen 8 years ago I would have been much more devestated. Now, not so much. I morn the loss of my camera, but the reality is that I haven’t been taking that many pictures with it. The irony of that statement is the day we were robbed, I had a gig to do a photo shoot for a private event.

God, are you trying to tell me something? I will say, my love for my gal has been strengthened!

 

Derth

Sometimes you just don’t feel like updating.

I feel anxious about that, but I’m just gonna let it be for a while. No need to push it.

See you in a bit…

List 9: Fave website/blogs

Have to say, it’s not very exciting. Funny thing is that by doing this, it makes me want to look for more to add. Particularly about Paleo Diet stuff and Texas Mtn Biking.

Facebook
Twitter
My Google Reader page
Dappered StyleHodinkee – about watches
The Oatmeal
Eating our words (Houston Press Food Blog)
Indirect heat (food blog)
Dude, you going to eat that? (food blog)
Bike EXIF
Cycle EXIF
Daring Fireball
REI-outlet.com: Deal of the Day
Digital Photography Review
My Google Calendar page
Bayou City Outdoors
Gmail

List 8: In the bag

List 8: What’s in my bag?
Okay so yeah, I missed a couple of posts, so sue me. Never mind, I don’t have the money! ha!

Anyways, todays list is about my bag. Funny thing is now these days I carry about TWO bags. One is a gym bag and the other is the work bag. So we’ll discard the gym bag as being in this list.

Actually I did an earlier post about my bag here. Since then I have come to really enjoy and like the bag. It’s grown on me!
So lets get to the contents:

  • 2 USB drives
    a USB multi SD card adapter
    a eyeglasses screw kit/replacement screws
    a Cross® Pen
    a rotting® 600 Newton Rollerball pen
    a rotting® 600 Newton ballpoint pen
    a Moleskin book (small)
    a Field Notes® 48 pg memo book
    extras of my business card
    an original Leatherman® Tool
    3 packages of CD mailers to send out
    1 UBS hard drive (100 gig)
    Esquire® magazine
    The Economist Magazine
    Some old mail
    a leather bound portfolio that i’ve had for years with legal sized paper pad

and that’s it!
Yep I have NO laptop. An iPhone is working pretty well for me on that front. I may eventually get an iPad, and if I do, the Timbuk2 case I got will easily accommodate for that.
I have to admit though, there are days when I just carry the bag around without opening it which makes me wonder, why bring it?
Topic for later…