See that little hash mark in the center of the image?  That’s my location.

I’m ready… 

(While walking through Lowe’s tool department…)

Jess:  Oh look, crowbars … I could use one of these.

Me:  You don’t have one?  I thought you did.

Jess:  No, I don’t, and it’s sad.

Me:  Really?

Jess:  Yes.  You don’t know what it’s like to have a crowbar-shaped hole in your life.

I was chatting with Justin Moore this morning and he pointed me to this link…probably the funniest campaign ad I’ve seen.

…I-O

…it’s just that I’m not a big fan of Facebook applications like Pirates vs. whatever, Movies, or stuff like that. It’s nothing personal, they just don’t hold much value to me at this point.

Just saying…I’m not a hater.

I don’t watch a lot of TV, but lately I’ve noticed commercials like this one popping up here and there.  Take a look…

Does this bother anyone else as much as it bothers me?  It seems like credit companies are more and more desperate to reel people in these days, to the point where they use commercials like this to make the cash-carrying consumer look like the BAD GUY!

Now this isn’t a financial blog, but I need to rant on this a little.  There’s nothing wrong with a credit card that’s used wisely, but cash is (and always will be) a better practice.  It burns me up how credit card pushers try to make the use of cash look slow and inconvenient, and in this commercial’s case, even inconsiderate to others.  As far as I’m concerned, this is terribly deceitful.  “Life takes fast money” is such a falsity.

Life doesn’t require fast money, but it does require well-managed finances.  Make sure you don’t get the two mixed up.

I know I’m not supposed to be posting on IT stuff right now, but I came across this and couldn’t help but throw it up there.

It’s a promo video of some sorts for MS-DOS 5.0 (Original post here).  Was music really this bad back then?  This makes old-school DC Talk sound good by comparison (and I mean the FIRST album).

I was cruising through Google Reader the other day and happened upon this post from Cool Tools.

I’m a big fan of carbonated drinks, so much so that I have no problem putting away soda or even straight tonic water.  It’s not the healthiest thing to be a fan of though.  This is something that very well may get experimented with during my vacation.  Make your own soda?  Imagine the possibilities.

I was out early this morning and happened to catch this sunrise while I was outside…

Definitely worth a picture.  I want to be awake to see more of these before it’s too cold to be outside.

Here’s another pic a few minutes later…

Normally you’d expect a post like this to come shortly after New Year’s Day rather than heading into the dog days of summer.

There was a time when I was in pretty decent shape.  I wasn’t super-athletic but I had plenty of energy and I at least made an attempt to get some regular exercise in.  In July of last year my life started to take a big shift in the way of scheduling and priority-type stuff.  We were getting ready for the transition into our new building, and I was already starting to get things set on the network end. 

In August, it was apparent that some big changes were going to happen in our new infrastructure.  Don’t get me wrong, these changes were good, but they cost a lot, especially in terms of time.  I found myself working some night-owl-style hours and putting away lots of caffeine drinks to get things done, and by December when we opened, I was taking in enough Rockstar drinks to be at a very serious health risk.  Since then, I can hardly look at a can of Rockstar or Full Throttle without gagging.

My diet has definitely improved since then, but I didn’t realize how bad of shape I was still in until this last Friday.  I was asked to stand in for one of our drummers so that our worship team could practice their music.  Now I LOVE drumming (and bass guitar almost as much), so I jumped at the chance to do this, because I haven’t played in about 9 or so months.  Long story short, I was able to tell just how out of shape I was over the next couple of days.  Everything except my legs and feet just HURT!!

It’s crazy how it takes something like that to motivate me to want to get exercising again.  Don’t get me wrong, either:  Exercise is NOT my favorite thing to do.  However, the health issues that hinder me now are the same health issues that could seriously disrupt my life 10 years down the road, and I don’t wanna be that guy. 

So tomorrow after our staff meeting, I’m headed down to the gym I used to work out at to restart my membership.

It’s weird…you know for me, the exercise isn’t half as hard as the act of prioritizing it.  That will be my challenge.  My goal is to start waking up at 6am and be in the gym by 7, because past experience tells me that if I don’t do it in the morning, it’s EXTREMELY hard to fit it in the middle of my day.

This isn’t something I’m going to post on regularly, but it’s been on my mind a good bit this afternoon, so it was worth some typing.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.