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I count calories…well, sort of. I like to attempt to count calories. I try my best to eat right but I’m always cutting corners. Calorie counting helps keep me honest. With that said, I cheat a lot.

I like to try out various websites that help with calorie counting. It’s hard to find a single site that has everything I eat. My recent test-drive has been with Calorie Count Plus, a site provided by About.com. I like that it goes above and beyond just counting calories. It has a decent community side to it as well as a bountiful amount of information about food and general health.

I’m on day 2 of my attempt to count how healthy I eat. I’m not claiming any success, I’m just sayin’.

Last night I was recording what I had for dinner. I crunched the numbers and ran the food log report. 2 out of 7 items were healthy. The rest were given grades of a C+ or lower.

I pondered this for awhile, assessed the situation and proclaimed to Courtney, “Yep. I see my problem. It was the DQ Buster Bar and the mint ice cream that did me in.”

Courtney raised an eyebrow. “The Buster Bar and ice cream? You needed a website to tell you that.”

Apparently some of us know this information off-hand.

Damn, it’s been awhile. For those that don’t know I quit my job at IBS to pursue a career in the more “developmental” field. I’m now a Web Programmer with a good friend of mine. I’ll be moving to downtown Minneapolis in the coming months which should be an interesting experiment in social change.

Other than that everything is fly. I’ll be giving my couch away pretty soon if you are looking for something. Shoot me an email.

Someone mentioned to me the other day that I never post when I have good news. Now that is just a bold face lie I think. I post when I have something to say. I highly doubt most people visiting the site really care if I have a bird now. Or if my girlfriend is moving in. Or if I’ve seen some really kick ass anime lately. (All of which have happened). Just thought I would let you know that I’m not dead. I’m still here. But if you all would utilize the webcam you would know that I’m still around.

Actually, let me rephrase that. “One Bad Week” I have not had one thing go right this week. I should have known this after Monday when I got a stern talking to regarding the lateness of a project. From then on it just got worse. It got so bad that today I actually thought I was going to throw something across the room. I was so angry at poor workflow and shitass work that I could find no better solution than throwing something. Luckily I grabbed a stress ball and cooled out a little. But I’m still mad as hell about workflow.

New? You want something new? You want something more than just me bitching every day? You don’t enjoy this? You don’t find me amusing? You don’t understand where I’m coming from?

Imagine getting to the top of a hill. Then imagine that someone forgot to tell you that you had to go 10 more feet up. And then when you get there, you have to go 10 more. It’s neverending. You’ll never reach the top..

Alright, after NUMEROUS comments regarding the abysmal way my apartment looks, I am going to clean it. I hope you all are happy now. I know Courtney will appreciate all the harsh comments.

Work is picking up again. I’m ramping up to launch another site. This time it’s West Palm Beach in Florida. Unfortuneately I still haven’t visited any of the sites I have worked on. I would really like to visit the towns and stations just to say hi and get a feel for what they do.

I came up with the greatest idea this week. I’m going to rip all my CDs to MP3 and replace my CD player stereo component with a line from my computer. Wahoo! I have the 40gig hard drive on order. Someone suggested tape backup. I’m thinking it would be a good idea. I calculated that I would need roughly 22-25 gigs to rip what I have now. I figured in 450 CDs that are on average 50 minutes long. MP3 is rough a meg a minute so 40 gigs should do me fine. In the end I would like to write a Gnome frontend for it. I’ll probably end up using Bojay’s MP3 databasing tool too to catalog all the files.