UGH ..

So .. I've taken sick .. and probably more sick than I should be out of my own stubborn attitude.

Yesterday I went to an all day long Pervious Concrete seminar downtown. I woke up that morning feeling like I had a UTI. I went to the store, bought a box of cranberry pills, and figured I'd see how I felt after the seminar. Well, I felt fine, went to the gym for a hour and a half, came home, and no worries.

Then, I woke up in the middle of the night feeling like, well .. shit. I did not know what was wrong with me. My earlier pain was back and in addition I was feeling sick, running a fever, cramping real bad, ... It kinda freaked me out because I didn't know what was wrong with me.

So .. I was up until about 6:30 before finally getting more than 30 seconds worth of rest (I learned that curling up and not moving for about 30 minutes made the pain more tolerable). I gave up, got up for good at 9:30, and went to the doctor at 11.

Well, long story short .. my dumbass should have gone to the doctor yesterday because I just assumed that this was something like a cold and that it would just go away eventually. Instead I went to the gym and the extra blood flow and so on spread it around and made it worse. So instead of a UTI I now also have a kidney infection.

Dumbass...

Needless to say life sucks right now but I panicked and addition to my prescriptions I bought up anything and everything to make sure that this doesn't repeat and that, in general, I just do better. Now I'm just sitting here reminding myself that I really don't need to go to the bathroom and that I don't need to get sick either. Good times ...

Go Big East!!!!

So .. the Big East .. rocks ..

Here is the seeding of the Big East Teams for the NCAA Tourney ..

No. 2 Georgetown
No. 3 Louisville
No. 4 Pitt
No. 4 Connecticut
No. 5 Notre Dame
No. 6 Marquette
No. 7 West Virginia
No. 12 Villanova

The Big East is tough this year that I'd love to see one of teams win it all .. preferably the Cards .. :o)

How I Gained 5 Pounds ..

It's a simple story actually...

Work right now, ... well it just completely, utterly, supremely, and insanely SUCKS! It sucks so bad that it's bleeding into my personal life making even more problems in my life.

So .. I have been going to the gym 6-7 days a week for weeks now just to 'work away my rage' so that I can destress back to my normal level. Seriously... and it's not so easy to unwind after working at my job... it takes a good while and some hard work for me to calm down.

My year with my trainer only has 4 sessions left and I decided that I like being told when to be at the gym and what to do. So, I have started taking free weight and cardio classes because I LOVE working with free weights.

So now I'm going every day and working with weights more than I did before which leads to the 5 extra pounds.

I'm not mad though because if anything I look like I'm doing the opposite and personally I'd rather weigh more and look like I'm in shape than be skinny and flimsy. But it just stinks because I was over a personal 'threshold' / goal and now .. well I'm not. Dangit .. oh well.

I guess with my gym addiction it is a GOOD THING I don't have worse habits .. because I'd be a raging drunk by now .. ha ha

A Few Tweaks .. to keep things interesting

So .. lately I've been revamping my schedule and thinking ahead seeing as a few things will be changing over the course of the next few months.

1. Sadly enough the last UofL home game was today ... I could cry knowing that our seniors won't be back next year .. On top of it, that also means I used my last season ticket today. The season went by way too fast .. I'm sooo sad .. :o(

2. I only have 4 sessions left (I think) with my personal trainer. I am, of course, not going to renew that. Nothing against my trainer because she's awesome, but I have spent the last year getting myself into good habits that I was hoping the trainer would help with. Mission Accomplished and I think I'll do a good job of keeping it going from here on out.

3. My class schedule right now is light but it will unfortunately pick back up in June .. dammit.


Anyway ... after March Madness unfortunately I'll have a lot more free time. At the same time I'm being relative unproductive here at home lately, wasting time on this laptop, so I've decided to both work on mini-projects and also to pick up classes at the gym instead of just going and doing whatever.

Bottom line .. I like being told when to go to the gym and what to do. While I prefer to be in charge of my life .. there are times when I'll admit I prefer it the other way around, and this is one of those times.

So .. for the past two weeks I've been taking classes .. I think 4 of them a week is what I've been doing. Mainly spinning classes and free weights because the spinning is good seeing as I can't run as far as I could in the past (doctor's orders) and the weights because I love working with free weights.

Anyway I take 2-3 classes with free weights a week and 2 spinning classes a week. Then a time or two of doing whatever, either separate days or back to back .. depending on how I'm spending my evening for the most part. If I'm wasting away in the evenings, I'm leaving my house. While I'm on the 'classes' kick I'm just going to classes. Then .. when the newness wears out I'll go back to weight training.


Good times .. and I know .. no one cares but me. But .. I am obsessed with it right now and of course I have to schedule it all out and have my trips perfectly planned out. It will take a minute to get used to the new schedule and workout routine but hopefully the change in the workout habits will get me off my current plateau .. or so I hope.


So .. today we went to the 11am spinning class for the 2nd week in a row. After that I went home to shower and watch the UK game sin Patterson. Good game though. Then I went to the vet to pick up Archie's meds, to the store, and then I met Angie at 2:45 to go to the game. In a nutshell I'm non-stop from 10:30 this morning until 6:30 tonight.

Then .. nothing.

So .. this is one of those days I wish the gym was open late because I've been wired for sound and unproductive .. therefore wasting away on this device ... but .. I'm now all caught up on American Idol and I'm catching up on Lost now, although these days I honestly prefer the TV to be off.

Giant "Sea Monster" Fossil Discovered in Arctic

Giant "Sea Monster" Fossil Discovered in Arctic

Ever Googled Yourself?

Well I have. I actually Google a couple of names.

1. The name I go by (which FYI is not my legal name .. yea I need to get on that, eh?)
2. Joschmoblo which has been my internet alias for probably 15 years now

Why?

1. My name is because it's on all of my photos and because it's unique enough to find with a Google search
2. Because I use it for everything and it also reminds me when I need to do some housekeeping

So .. what did I find?

First I checked out my full name and I, of course, used Google...

1. Me on imagekind.com
   
2. My ESRI thread posts that I have put up over time .. OK that's work related and GIS and mainly over the DS Map Book, which is an ongoing 'quirk'
   
3. My German and Swiss relatives with the same name
4. Some of my flickr photos .. of course
5. One of the FLL EIS documents that I worked on when I was at Corradino. Apparently it's a reference document listing all of the people who worked on the EIS and what they did. I'm down for GIS (I think .. I didn't open it)
6. Me on MoreThanDerby, which is apparently a dead site now
7. Some reference to my photos on Nikon D50 Photos which I don't mind as they're literally referencing flickr

Now joschmoblo...

1. Me on flickr
2. Me on youtube
3. Me on Google Earth (need to houseclean, eh?)
4. Me on upcoming (again .. )
5. Me on nowpublic (they used a photo or two over time but may clean this too)
6. Me on AT&T 's forums (cell phone..)
   
7. Me on GameSpot (that's too active at times)
8. Me on Yahoo with a profile (??) .. I am obviously tabbing this in Firefox to check that out
   

ok .. i'm bored .. and i need to clean out some profiles

Trip to Switzerland

At a young age of 19 I went with my family to primarily Switzerland and Germany, where we stayed with distant relatives that my father met during his Genealogy research. To this day they still consistently speak and work to create the family tree, which has become amazingly large by now.

Here is a link to my Dad's recollection of the trip. Bear in my he's recalling his memories .. ours were full of things that we still laugh about today ... german cows and killer weiner dogs .. makes me smile even now... good people, a good trip, and a great time .. :o)