Goals

This blog's intent is to do more in the real world, than to elaborate and pontificate on the Internet.    Updates will be short, sweet, and goal-oriented, with little embellishment.

- Quit soda.
- Quit video games.
- Read one book per month.
- Listen to one audiobook per month.
- Get rated in fencing.
- Hit 50 rounds in the black at 50 yards.
- Weight: 170 pounds. (currently 200)
- Visit: New York City, Rhode Island, U.K., San Francisco.

Optional:
(learn Chinese)
(pick up flute and piano again)
(write three novellas)

Too grand?  Too mediocre?  You tell me.  I like to reach impossibly high and look back at the distance I've made than aim low and always "succeed."  Limits are made to be broken.  It's how we advance as individuals and as civilizations.  It's how we planted flags on the Moon.  And it's worth achieving, regardless of the self-sacrifice necessary.

Progress:

- Soda is down to one, 12 oz. can/day.  I'm weaning myself off caffeine; cold turkey induces headaches otherwise.
- Gaming, currently, has stopped since Tuesday.  Weekends are a struggle for me.  Monday and Tuesday will prove trials.
- 20% through Peter Hitchens' "The Abolition of Britain."  Digging into Chapter 3 tonight.
- Easier for me to listen than to read.  I'm halfway done with Mary Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Women."
- Need to search out a tournament to get rated at.
- Need the weather to improve, lol.
- I've exercised twice this week, and I'm replacing snacks and fats with fruits and juices.
- NYC and RI are in planning phase.  U.K. and San Fran are off on the far horizon.

Nowhere near touching the three optionals, lol.

Forecast is done at work, fencing is starting up again, family won't visit anytime soon, and life should start to normalize.  Which means I really must push myself on my off-time.

At least things are looking up. :-)