RL Revamp

During the last few days of my vacation last week, I forced myself to take some time to improve my current living conditions. I focused a lot on creating a backbone for a financial budget and timeline for paying off some of my debt, namely a credit card. I also went through the exterior of my house and cleaned up a lot of the yard, making several trips to the local dump/recycling facility. When I finished with this I couldn’t help but feel happy that I had finally confronted these things that needed to be taken care of but also empty in the end because I really had nothing else to show for my effort except the result of the task itself.

You can spend two hours or more washing all of your laundry, drying it and then folding and putting it away, but what really do you have in the end except a nice clean pile of clothes that will be dirty again in the coming week? I mean, if I was playing a MMO or any game for that matter, and all I got for turning in a pile of boar skins was … a pile of boar skins, I can guarantee that the boar population would be thriving as I would probably never kill another one again. Yeah, I know its a pretty dumb analogy, but this is my mindset and I wanted to change things for the better.

Ahh Vacation

What had been planned as a three day vacation last Monday turned into a nice long week away from work. I usually use my accrued time for various days throughout the year and to extend some weekends to three days. When I found myself on the beach and spending some great time with my son and wife, I just couldn’t help but use the extra two days and make it a nice long week of regeneration. At the end of the week, I couldn’t believe how much I had accomplished.

China recruits Flanders

The past four days have been anything but my regular routine. I have been bewitched by the Book-that-must-not-be-named.

 

After spending 4 hours on the porch swatting away various bugs and accidentally using my coffee mug as an ash tray two times, I went inside and sat on the couch to read. Its nice to be on the final book now as I have spent the last week reading Book 5 and 6 for the first time. I stopped reading the series after someone in WoW spoiled Half-Blood Prince for me and I never had the inkling to pick it back up until now. Something about the finality of the story drew me back in. Also, having all of the books in the room tempted me like having the entire series of a TV show on DVD, you know you wont have to wait 6 months to see what happens next.