Flew into Seattle Thursday night to celebrate Bestemor’s 75th birthday with her. Stayed through today (Sunday) and will fly back at 3 pm. Did a management retreat with Jordan, played Wii with Justin White and Nick Fitzer and the White family, and checked out Jordan’s new house. Also went for a six mile run with the antelope Jimmy!
Stress
My stress levels have been pretty high lately. Lots of projects are needing my attention at work and I am trying to make sure we continue to offer the highest levels of service.
I probably should do more intense exercise to burn off the extra stress. This evening I think I will go to the La Cienega LA Fitness and do some heavy squats and running.
PS4?
I have been thinking about getting a Playstation 4 recently. Not sure though… might be too much of a distraction from other things I need to do.
Game of Thrones
Laurel and I have started to watch Game of Thrones and it is a very addicting show! We are almost done with the first season and we have been highly entertained. I usually give her back rubs while we watch which makes her very happy and she makes me dinner which makes me very happy. Good times 🙂
Every Day Exercise
Exercising every day is a big challenge for most people. What I have done to motivate myself to exercise every day is to track it in my personal goals spreadsheet that I update each day. You can see the types of exercise I have done each day below for the last two weeks:
| 6 mi run, 9:40 pace |
| 4 mi run |
| Rock climbing |
| 6 mi run |
| Rock climbing |
| Light lifting |
| Rock climbing |
| Fitstar watch |
| 6 mi run |
| Rock climbing |
| Bball 2 games |
| Rock climbing |
| Bball 5 games |
| Rock climbing |
| 6 mi run |
Only 2 days off!… read more “Every Day Exercise”
Fitbit Blaze Watch Review
I have a fitbit blaze watch. I am not a huge fan of it, mostly because it’s not very accurate. The GPS always gives me different readings for the same 6 mile run I regularly do, and the heart rate monitor is very slow to catch up to my current heart rate and is often off by 30-40 beats.… read more “Fitbit Blaze Watch Review”
Petersen Car Museum with Laurel Today
Artificial Intelligence Takeover Might Be a Good Thing
Most people believe that a scenario in which a new dominant species arose and possibly wiped out humanity to be a terrible thing. This is natural as we instinctually fight as hard as we can for our survival.
For the last few millions of years though our ancestors have evolved from one species to the next, each new version better fitted for survival and more competent.… read more “Artificial Intelligence Takeover Might Be a Good Thing”
Project Euler
ProjectEuler.net is a really fun way to improve on your coding skills. I have worked through the first eight problems and am looking forward to working through the other 550. My programs are definitely not the most efficient solutions though, often taking quite a bit longer than the recommended one minute to solve.
Happy life
My advice for a happy life based on what works for me / research in general:
- Eat healthy every day
- Exercise every day
- Find a live in significant other
- Talk to a friend or family member daily
- Caffeine and alcohol are high interest short term loans, generally better to avoid
- Move on
- Build things you are passionate about
- Listen to other people
- Read good books