I'd like to give a shout out to Dan! All is well, in order. Mostly. Steve and I have to play legos in your absence. We're extremely disappointed.
A crazy week. I've raised a business from the ground. "Lighter-Than-Air" a dirigible air shipping and travel company. Dirigible is the long word for blimp and less well known than zeppelin. Anyways, my team gave a presentation about our high initial costs, but our slightly lower revenues. Not sure if the idea sold, but it was probably one of the best presentations that I have given. I watched the video later, and I amazed myself on how well I turned my nervous hand movements into hand motions.
I've also done quite a lot of homework.
Also worked 8.5 hours total on Tuesday. I've crammed in a bit of work in the last few days, I was called with project. I love being able to help and give a real answer. Better yet, I also got to use some of the things that I learned in Pennsylvania.
I've done more homework, and a lot more to go.
I'm getting thinner.
My pants are looser. I've lost at least a pound. (which makes me angry)
But, in other news, today was the first day of Super Ab Tuesday. I'll let you know how I'm feeling tomorrow.
Uh. Yeah. Distracted. Until later.
And primal lifestyle is going well.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Surprising Number
Thursday. Another busy day. It all started with waking up. I'm beginning to think that maybe I should stay in bed.
I made myself coffee again, and it was excellent. I might become an addict.
Went to the first class, ESM 450, where it's engineers trying to learn to be accountants/marketers. We're attempting to learn about compounding interest, present worth analysis', discounting factors... I think I'll just hire all of those people and have them do it for me.
But in that class, I got my wish. My friend Andrew did not. We got selected to present our business plan on Tuesday (we have 5 days to write one) and he has a proposal for a student organization for NASA due Monday. I feel bad for him since his weekend will be terrible. He'll get a break at the end of the presentation.
Also yesterday, the first Tau Beta Pi meeting. It was during a BP info session, so at least 2 of the members were there. I wasn't expecting many because of the job fair going on. There were a surprising number of students there, but also the people who showed up were surprising. I may have support this year. Cool.
Then I started studying like mad and researching - got a break and went to dinner at Big Daddy's BBQ with the Farabaugh's. Atmosphere was alright. Food was decent. The leftovers eaten today were even better.
This morning, I was awake at 5:23. I was alive, and realized how much I kind of like getting up that early. Woke Steven up, got to the gym at 6:15. First thing that I hear there is "holy crap." Ahh... my old gym partners are still there. I got to catch up with them for a little bit, which was really nice. There's two guys who I know odd details of their lives, but I don't really see outside of the gym. It's worse than barbershop gossip.
The quiz that my professor kept telling me was going to be easy, was in fact easy. What a relief.
Had the rest of the day. Worked for a few hours. Got told my assignment was the best by another professor. ... Discovered why TV dinners make you fat.
That's right. I grilled a steak. It was quite a large steak. Steven had big bang playing. I sat down and started sawing away and eating. And sawing away and eating. And sawing away and eating. I ate 3/4 of it. I'm full. Very full.
Oh, and using the correct formula really helps with a homework assignment.
I made myself coffee again, and it was excellent. I might become an addict.
Went to the first class, ESM 450, where it's engineers trying to learn to be accountants/marketers. We're attempting to learn about compounding interest, present worth analysis', discounting factors... I think I'll just hire all of those people and have them do it for me.
But in that class, I got my wish. My friend Andrew did not. We got selected to present our business plan on Tuesday (we have 5 days to write one) and he has a proposal for a student organization for NASA due Monday. I feel bad for him since his weekend will be terrible. He'll get a break at the end of the presentation.
Also yesterday, the first Tau Beta Pi meeting. It was during a BP info session, so at least 2 of the members were there. I wasn't expecting many because of the job fair going on. There were a surprising number of students there, but also the people who showed up were surprising. I may have support this year. Cool.
Then I started studying like mad and researching - got a break and went to dinner at Big Daddy's BBQ with the Farabaugh's. Atmosphere was alright. Food was decent. The leftovers eaten today were even better.
This morning, I was awake at 5:23. I was alive, and realized how much I kind of like getting up that early. Woke Steven up, got to the gym at 6:15. First thing that I hear there is "holy crap." Ahh... my old gym partners are still there. I got to catch up with them for a little bit, which was really nice. There's two guys who I know odd details of their lives, but I don't really see outside of the gym. It's worse than barbershop gossip.
The quiz that my professor kept telling me was going to be easy, was in fact easy. What a relief.
Had the rest of the day. Worked for a few hours. Got told my assignment was the best by another professor. ... Discovered why TV dinners make you fat.
That's right. I grilled a steak. It was quite a large steak. Steven had big bang playing. I sat down and started sawing away and eating. And sawing away and eating. And sawing away and eating. I ate 3/4 of it. I'm full. Very full.
Oh, and using the correct formula really helps with a homework assignment.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
And Nathan said that it was Good
I'm reminded of how much pain is caused by not doing an exercise for some period of time. My current case and point: squats.
I'm not sure what day of the week it is. I've been extraordinarily busy, which causes a blur of every other day. Yesterday is a good example. I found out that my group was waiting around for a miracle to make a business plan. Our 3 week timeline has now shrunk to 6 days.
On top of that I was unable to fix my car.
But, dinner was grilled eggplant and the rosemary and garlic chicken, and let me tell you, Nathan said that it was good. Garlic is a funny after taste though.
Today, I talked to a professor about problems that I am stuck on, and I am still stuck. His homework difficulty went from a 3 to a 12 in one assignment. Great outlook...
I re-ordered my business group, and it looks like we're going to show some progress here.
And I went to history class. Pretty boring.
I've got a quiz coming up Friday, a crippled vehicle, a business report, and a tough homework assignment.
But! I've also got another bag of coffee and a lego set from my mom. I'm stressed out, but so happy. And loved.
My forecast for next week (assuming I present on Tuesday) is so much slower... I need to recover.
In other happenings, it was described to me that I may have senioritis (mom, again) explaining why I am leaning towards a job so heavily now.
3rd weeks are hell. That may be too strong, but it gets the point across. The third week of being primal - I was out of state, out of my niche, at a conference against diets. This week is my third week of actually being in school. I don't know why. Maybe you expect the first to be hard, the second you're cocky, and the third you're broken. Or it takes 4 weeks to set up a pattern.
I'm not sure what day of the week it is. I've been extraordinarily busy, which causes a blur of every other day. Yesterday is a good example. I found out that my group was waiting around for a miracle to make a business plan. Our 3 week timeline has now shrunk to 6 days.
On top of that I was unable to fix my car.
But, dinner was grilled eggplant and the rosemary and garlic chicken, and let me tell you, Nathan said that it was good. Garlic is a funny after taste though.
Today, I talked to a professor about problems that I am stuck on, and I am still stuck. His homework difficulty went from a 3 to a 12 in one assignment. Great outlook...
I re-ordered my business group, and it looks like we're going to show some progress here.
And I went to history class. Pretty boring.
I've got a quiz coming up Friday, a crippled vehicle, a business report, and a tough homework assignment.
But! I've also got another bag of coffee and a lego set from my mom. I'm stressed out, but so happy. And loved.
My forecast for next week (assuming I present on Tuesday) is so much slower... I need to recover.
In other happenings, it was described to me that I may have senioritis (mom, again) explaining why I am leaning towards a job so heavily now.
3rd weeks are hell. That may be too strong, but it gets the point across. The third week of being primal - I was out of state, out of my niche, at a conference against diets. This week is my third week of actually being in school. I don't know why. Maybe you expect the first to be hard, the second you're cocky, and the third you're broken. Or it takes 4 weeks to set up a pattern.
Monday, September 19, 2011
15 Foot Flames
Yesterday, I didn't even think about this blog. I don't know if that's good or bad.
Plus, I forgot to mention that on Saturday, Steven and I signed our primal contracts, so let the challenge begin.
Anyways, Sunday, I grilled eggplant. To me, it tastes remarkably like bread, but really mushy. It tastes really good with balsamic vinegar though. And everything tastes good with the charcoal flavor. I should try getting some wood chips and putting more smoke in the food.
I also made paleo chili. It's a spicy meat soup. There's 1 pepper, 5 stalks of celery, 1 onion, and 3 pounds of meat. It's amazing. Total man food.
After all of that was said and done, Steven and I went out to the Labeans to hang out with John and Missi, who were gone 14 days too long. (they were gone 14, but supposed to be 4) John made dinner and I ate a bacon triple cheese burger. I almost went meat burger, but decided to eat the buns and potato chips as a test to my contract. Three patties of meat and bacon is about the limit of my mouth. It's really tall.
Then it was bonfire time - a collection of all of the summer's pallets, branches, leaves, and grass clippings. First, we tried synthetic oil that had been used. No luck. Then gasoline. Made some cool explosions, but no luck. So John brought out cloth work gloves, we stuck them on the ends of sticks, put new oil on them and the fire, and in about 5min, you couldn't stand within 5ft of the fire. It was hot. And spewing 15 foot flames. The heat from that point on felt nice, from 10 feet away.
I also got to have some nostalgia yesterday, because Missi offered rice custard, which to me is rice pudding. It was excellent.
This morning was the first implementation of a power exercise infront of the normal workout, and it was squats. I'll tell you how I feel in the morning.
And for a day that seemed to be moving well, it got extraordinarily busy quickly. I received a few more homework assignments, have a quiz coming, a Tau Beta Pi meeting, work to work on, and so on. Great day...
I'm hopeful for tomorrow. I might have time to make myself coffee. I'm excited.
Oh, and angrifying is now a word. It's in my blog.
Plus, I forgot to mention that on Saturday, Steven and I signed our primal contracts, so let the challenge begin.
Anyways, Sunday, I grilled eggplant. To me, it tastes remarkably like bread, but really mushy. It tastes really good with balsamic vinegar though. And everything tastes good with the charcoal flavor. I should try getting some wood chips and putting more smoke in the food.
I also made paleo chili. It's a spicy meat soup. There's 1 pepper, 5 stalks of celery, 1 onion, and 3 pounds of meat. It's amazing. Total man food.
After all of that was said and done, Steven and I went out to the Labeans to hang out with John and Missi, who were gone 14 days too long. (they were gone 14, but supposed to be 4) John made dinner and I ate a bacon triple cheese burger. I almost went meat burger, but decided to eat the buns and potato chips as a test to my contract. Three patties of meat and bacon is about the limit of my mouth. It's really tall.
Then it was bonfire time - a collection of all of the summer's pallets, branches, leaves, and grass clippings. First, we tried synthetic oil that had been used. No luck. Then gasoline. Made some cool explosions, but no luck. So John brought out cloth work gloves, we stuck them on the ends of sticks, put new oil on them and the fire, and in about 5min, you couldn't stand within 5ft of the fire. It was hot. And spewing 15 foot flames. The heat from that point on felt nice, from 10 feet away.
I also got to have some nostalgia yesterday, because Missi offered rice custard, which to me is rice pudding. It was excellent.
This morning was the first implementation of a power exercise infront of the normal workout, and it was squats. I'll tell you how I feel in the morning.
And for a day that seemed to be moving well, it got extraordinarily busy quickly. I received a few more homework assignments, have a quiz coming, a Tau Beta Pi meeting, work to work on, and so on. Great day...
I'm hopeful for tomorrow. I might have time to make myself coffee. I'm excited.
Oh, and angrifying is now a word. It's in my blog.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
The Steven or Opportunity Cost
This is two days worth of material, and I will somehow try to catch your attention to keep you reading.
I'll start with Friday, at 1:30am EST when I did "The Steven"
50 push ups - 30 sit ups - 25 burpees - 50 jumping jacks - 40 mountain climbers - 30 dips - 120s plank - 120s superman - 50 slider push ups - 24 lunges
I did it in 17:43.97
NEVER underestimate the effects of caffeine. Even in small doses. I had a small amount before bedtime on Thursday night, and tossed and turned until 1:30 when I was so frustrated that I did the workout that I was supposed to do at 6am. I wanted to do double that, "The Steven 2.0", replacing all push ups with body weight rows, but that wasn't happening at 1:30am when I was fatigued.
I left PA with a lack of sleep.
I had the opportunity to swap flights back to Fairbanks so that I didn't have to get in at 12:20am. I was actually in bed at 10pm Friday night. I was so happy. Especially when I didn't wake up until 7am.
BUT WAIT!!! The flight was incredible because I got to sit next to a real estate/insurance tycoon who had made quite a bit of money. We talked about everything. I got to pick his brain. It was very inspiring/provoking. He told me to look at my opportunity costs for grad school. Assuming my job prospects pay me no less than $60k a year starting in May and grad school costs $40k a year and takes 2 years to complete, it would cost me roughly $215k to go to grad school. (Don't forget 6% interest)
Numbers mean a lot to me. Do my dreams of Nuclear Engineering pencil out?
He also said something that I've read in the Rich Dad Poor Dad books - he's not in the insurance business even though he owns a State Farm franchise. He's in the investment business. Something that I had slightly forgotten, but really shouldn't. His profits from his day job go into some investment portfolio. Real estate in this case.
And at the end of all of that, today, this morning, I was amazed at myself.
I benched 190lbs, dead lifted 335lbs, and shoulder pressed 135lbs.
Amazing: the most I've historically benched is 195lbs last spring. I've lost 20+ pounds and can bench almost as much. (How does that work?)
Yes, 335lbs. I tried for 345, but couldn't lift it. I should've tried 340 to double my body weight.
I'll start with Friday, at 1:30am EST when I did "The Steven"
50 push ups - 30 sit ups - 25 burpees - 50 jumping jacks - 40 mountain climbers - 30 dips - 120s plank - 120s superman - 50 slider push ups - 24 lunges
I did it in 17:43.97
NEVER underestimate the effects of caffeine. Even in small doses. I had a small amount before bedtime on Thursday night, and tossed and turned until 1:30 when I was so frustrated that I did the workout that I was supposed to do at 6am. I wanted to do double that, "The Steven 2.0", replacing all push ups with body weight rows, but that wasn't happening at 1:30am when I was fatigued.
I left PA with a lack of sleep.
I had the opportunity to swap flights back to Fairbanks so that I didn't have to get in at 12:20am. I was actually in bed at 10pm Friday night. I was so happy. Especially when I didn't wake up until 7am.
BUT WAIT!!! The flight was incredible because I got to sit next to a real estate/insurance tycoon who had made quite a bit of money. We talked about everything. I got to pick his brain. It was very inspiring/provoking. He told me to look at my opportunity costs for grad school. Assuming my job prospects pay me no less than $60k a year starting in May and grad school costs $40k a year and takes 2 years to complete, it would cost me roughly $215k to go to grad school. (Don't forget 6% interest)
Numbers mean a lot to me. Do my dreams of Nuclear Engineering pencil out?
He also said something that I've read in the Rich Dad Poor Dad books - he's not in the insurance business even though he owns a State Farm franchise. He's in the investment business. Something that I had slightly forgotten, but really shouldn't. His profits from his day job go into some investment portfolio. Real estate in this case.
And at the end of all of that, today, this morning, I was amazed at myself.
I benched 190lbs, dead lifted 335lbs, and shoulder pressed 135lbs.
Amazing: the most I've historically benched is 195lbs last spring. I've lost 20+ pounds and can bench almost as much. (How does that work?)
Yes, 335lbs. I tried for 345, but couldn't lift it. I should've tried 340 to double my body weight.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Derivative
I've fallen. I saw cereal at breakfast and couldn't resist. I don't necessarily feel bad, other than I betrayed Steven.
Oh well. We'll move on.
Today was the last day of the conference. I arranged a personal demo of a module so that I could learn it. I've never seen so much in two hours. I think I can figure it out. I also sat through a 4 hour session of the same module and similar products right after that. Needless to say, the phone came out, texting started, and so on. The modules were pretty cool, but there were guys who kept asking about the price and saying that they needed to bring back physical evidence. It got really boring. I now know that there is a software to do something that I wanted to do using pdf documents and filling them in on computers or iPads like devices.
But, my day was made awesome when Robin asked me a calculus question. I now get to try to figure it out. Woo hoo.
That's all for today. Not much exciting happened. I saw lighting this morning.
Oh well. We'll move on.
Today was the last day of the conference. I arranged a personal demo of a module so that I could learn it. I've never seen so much in two hours. I think I can figure it out. I also sat through a 4 hour session of the same module and similar products right after that. Needless to say, the phone came out, texting started, and so on. The modules were pretty cool, but there were guys who kept asking about the price and saying that they needed to bring back physical evidence. It got really boring. I now know that there is a software to do something that I wanted to do using pdf documents and filling them in on computers or iPads like devices.
But, my day was made awesome when Robin asked me a calculus question. I now get to try to figure it out. Woo hoo.
That's all for today. Not much exciting happened. I saw lighting this morning.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Amazing Day - 15
I think that I'll stop putting day numbers up there. It really makes no sense to.
Lunch at the conference was grilled chicken and pulled pork. While it tasted really good compared to the "eggs" I ate this morning at the hotel, the pulled pork doesn't compare to my dad's. I can't believe I had to miss my mom's second birthday party where there was pulled pork sandwiches. School...
I was able to put my Synergee knowledge to good use today in a competition among conference goers. (Other than work that is) The other members had little or no experience with the Model Builder Module, which I have worked with a lot before. I was able to whip out the model and create it in no time. In the end, my team finished 30 minutes before any other answering other questions and jumping other hurdles. We didn't win. The "tie-breaker" was pick a number between 1 and 100.
Ah, but today, and on other days, I realize how much I like being treated like an adult. I have real responsibility. I have a real job. The staff members here come to me to arrange with my schedule and needs. (Quite a few of them were shocked to see me, seeing that I am "so young") I'm driving a rental car for which I am responsible for. I don't know how to describe it. It makes me just so excited to go back to class to be baby sat for an hour and a half then assigned homework like I wasn't really paying attention in the class. Or given pop-quizzes to make sure that I'm attending. Or only having to show enough responsibility to not cheat on an exam.
I'm not a child! (Yes there is a word that precedes that. No I will not say it)
If I had access to professors like at a university, I almost prefer reading and learning on my own. The almost is because I like listening to intelligent lectures. But out here, I learn on my own time, which I have to manage well. I've gotten 3.667/4 homework assignments done while at a business conference attending sessions all day. (I'm stuck on a third of an assignment, this is where the professor would be nice)
Why can't school be more like this?
Lunch at the conference was grilled chicken and pulled pork. While it tasted really good compared to the "eggs" I ate this morning at the hotel, the pulled pork doesn't compare to my dad's. I can't believe I had to miss my mom's second birthday party where there was pulled pork sandwiches. School...
I was able to put my Synergee knowledge to good use today in a competition among conference goers. (Other than work that is) The other members had little or no experience with the Model Builder Module, which I have worked with a lot before. I was able to whip out the model and create it in no time. In the end, my team finished 30 minutes before any other answering other questions and jumping other hurdles. We didn't win. The "tie-breaker" was pick a number between 1 and 100.
Ah, but today, and on other days, I realize how much I like being treated like an adult. I have real responsibility. I have a real job. The staff members here come to me to arrange with my schedule and needs. (Quite a few of them were shocked to see me, seeing that I am "so young") I'm driving a rental car for which I am responsible for. I don't know how to describe it. It makes me just so excited to go back to class to be baby sat for an hour and a half then assigned homework like I wasn't really paying attention in the class. Or given pop-quizzes to make sure that I'm attending. Or only having to show enough responsibility to not cheat on an exam.
I'm not a child! (Yes there is a word that precedes that. No I will not say it)
If I had access to professors like at a university, I almost prefer reading and learning on my own. The almost is because I like listening to intelligent lectures. But out here, I learn on my own time, which I have to manage well. I've gotten 3.667/4 homework assignments done while at a business conference attending sessions all day. (I'm stuck on a third of an assignment, this is where the professor would be nice)
Why can't school be more like this?
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