Groundhog Day Resolution 4/4 Check-In

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This is my second check-in of GHR 2013. By now, most people have abandoned their NYE resolutions and that is where GHR comes in for me. So, on with my resolutions.

  1. Relocate back to Houston Texas
  2. Drop and lose 5 pounds a month for 4 months
  3. Learn Ruby on Rails
  4. Finally complete my file server and host this website and photo archives on it.

Here is my progress from 3/3 when I started this until today, 4/4.

  1. Relocation to Houston efforts are an ongoing work in progress.  
  2. Lost a total of 3 pounds this month. 
  3. Have not even looked at Ruby On Rails.
  4. Regarding the development of a file server, the motherboard has failed. I am not going to spend any more time or money in to it. 

I need to lose a minimum of 8 pounds this month to achieve my goal of 20 pounds off in 4 months.

Keep up the relocation effort. After a couple of phone interviews and no results, this is discouraging and difficult to do in another state.

Tax season has taken a large mental toll on me and I have to shake this off.

I’ll be checking back in on 5/5 with updates.

Signal vs. Noise

The signal-to-noise ratio is measured by comparing the level of a desired signal to the level of background noise.

A lot of people on the web, myself included, are comparing the level of desired information to the level of distractions.

How can we possibly filter out something meaningful and useful when we have so many posts, tweets, and likes?

I’ve been in a year long process of cutting back. In the past, I subscribed to everything and contributed as well.

There were personal posts and business tweets and hundreds of web feeds to consume. Since then I’ve changed my online persona, deleted my Facebook account, pared down the number of people I was following and more.

If something didn’t have value or if someone wasn’t enriching my life with their posts about what they had for dinner, it got cut.

As a photographer, I’ve even changed the way I display my images. Flickr is more for personal use, if that. Instagram? Gone.

Socially, I am on Google Plus and on Twitter. This website is my personal hub from which everything else revolves around.

Doing these things have allowed me to regain my time and be more productive. I can focus on what is important to me and not what others want to tell me is important. That’s not how the digital life works. The web is what you make it.

Physically Challenged

So I recently turned 40.

I also just weighed myself at 197.6 pounds. Let’s round up to 198.

This is the heaviest I’ve ever been. On a 5’7” frame…that’s a lot of BMI.

In the past, I’ve participated in a few adventure races and loved it.

There is a new one coming up in a few months that I will train for.

Recently signed up with a great fitness center and looking forward to dropping those pounds to around 175.

For some reason this song lyric resonates with me…

Well I don’t know but I’ve been told, you never slow down, you never grow old.

– Tom Petty

Reboot ∞

To “reboot” means to discard all previous continuity and start over with fresh ideas.

To scrap everything and start over with fresh ideas and perspectives.

Previous posts (2005-2012) have been archived.

This is my reboot and constant web evolution.