Truck Truck Metal Love
Reinventing Rediscovering Re-
Once upon a time in a dream, my inner voice my soul my center found its outline in pen. It is happening again.
JAZZ V.S.O.P. #24 - VIRGIL GONSALVES BIG BAND PLUS SIX: JAZZ AT MONTEREY
V.S.O.P. #24
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VIRGIL GONSALVES BIG BAND PLUS SIX: JAZZ AT MONTEREYJohn Coppola, Billy Catalano, Dick Mills, Mike Downs, Jerry Cournoyer (trumpets); Bob Davidson, Leo Wright (alto saxophone); Danny Patiris, Chuck Peterson (tenor saxophone); Junior Mance, Merrill Hoover (piano); Eddie Kahn (bass); Benny Barth (drums); Virgil Gonsalves (baritone saxophone).
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I want to move
Not that I don't love San Francisco. I am dedicated to the beauty in this city (of course that excludes the BS politics and anything opposed to said beauty or acting in complete incongruence to such)...
BUT I do have a three year old. I am now a family woman. I want a cattle dog. We need a bigger house.
This would be the ideal time, with the drastic downturn in the economy, the chosen few who have bucks to spend can have at it. That's the small hiccup... we don't have the bucks to spend. I think it's time to follow Dad's advice and hit the lottery every week... that is, until my startup takes off. That is.
Not gonna miss you, Gut
31.9% body fat. 25lbs overweight. No energy. Pushing size 10. Pushing 31" waist. This needs to stop: NOW.
I just had my Equifit done (yes, it's the cheeze Equinox propoganda of branding everything with a spliced "Equi" upfront). My new trainer is awesome, and my mindset is deteremined. Yes it is the first week of the new year. Yes there were a gazillion new bodies to fight through in the locker room (obviously each with new year's fitness resolutions in tow). Yes my fitness goal birthday is in line with the other self-defeatist new year new goal births.
I get it. I may fail.
It's still worth a try...and I'm off to a good start.
25% body fat. 2lbs underweight. Lots of energy. Perfect size 6. 3.1kilometers target daily goal.
Goodbye gut, your lazy ass is headed out the door.
Too Deep in Analysis
It's funny how most of my recent web activity has been fueled by the need to understand user behavior rather than actually being interested in what I'm doing online. I would say in recent years, it's been a toss-up between two endeavors: personal novelty and professional study.
Am I becoming too immersed in this study these days? Possibly...but isn't that what is key to understanding? I find the most influential social web gurus hardly have any traceable activity online. One theory says they know better than to document any and all things truly personal. Another theory is they surround themselves by folks who do, all the while observing results from afar.
A friend brought it to my attention that my recent FB activity has been almost too self-revealing. Although I can argue the point that what I reveal still has it's borders drawn at the edge of the truly intimate details of "me," he has a point. I suppose study could be conducted under a stealth pyseudonym, but how accurate would the results be?
While usabililty tests have recently come to the forefront for me as the champion tool of experience analysis, I find that I still need to learn through experience. As Bird said, "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." How funny that I am seem to still follow Bird's gospel.
