PHAT Goals September 2015

Yeah, I don't know when Netflix is going to get the new movie.  Season 5 of MLP popped on pretty fast.  We preordered the 3 Movie box set on Amazon.  It was basically 5 dollars more to get all three movies vs just getting the new one.  The discs should have the extra videos that my daughter likes to watch on YouTube.

Donate more time to free running group
Do more yoga per week
Reduce overall intake of bread in large quantities at home
Reach 100 push-up a night
Get to 200 sit ups a day
Do more bench press excersizes

I have been told to input a weight measurement system for the week so I might buy a scale at some point - not sure.

Reach 4 lap rotation on running days. - currently at 2.

You must do a lot of left and right walking as well as bending over. So there must be a lot of things to do in class I wager.

Reading Goal: PASSED!  Scanned through a teaching book I had on the Good Read list for half a year.  Removed the Lewis Collection, but plan to go back and read through one book in the collection a year.  All in all, probably removed half the books sitting on the currently reading list.

Watching Goal:  PASSED!  I only watched a single episode of SAOII, but almost finished the first season of Bleach.  I think my daughter wants to watch it more than I do.  I have to rewatch several of the episodes because she runs them in the background while I am working.

Husband/Father Goal:  PASSED!  We saw Darth Vader and my daughter even got his autograph.  We did not go to Equestria LA yet, but we are definitely going tomorrow.

Home Goal:  Passed?  I caulked up the kitchen, but not the bathrooms.  After caulking the kitchen, the ants still found a way to get in so I decided not to caulk the bathroom.  Looks like it is time to call pest control.

Gaming Goal:  PASSED!  Finished side quests and began the next Chapter (12?).  The quests and chapters are short, but I only have a few hours late at night to play.  Maybe another month of the game?  Poor Persona Q is just sitting there.  

Other Goals:  FAILED.  I totally forgot about My Fitness Pal APP.  I just got a Fire Phone since Amazon was basically giving them away.  I spent two nights playing with it and setting it up and the Fitness APP just left my mind.  I still need to get music and some personal videos onto the device.  It is short on Apps, but that seems to be the only draw back.

Weight:  183.2  Down 3 pounds from last week.  I have been at 183 since last Monday.  Until I figure out how to eat with the new schedule, 183 may be my new limit.  That is not bad.  Way below 190 and about 10 pounds from last year.

Bonus:  
*I got to take my daughter out in her wagon again because it has been cooler.  We got some extra play time, and I got to interact with a bunch of my neighbors.
*I found an empty room at the school that I can plan in.  This has almost reduce the work I bring home to nothing.

Dam bro your dedication to betterment is amazing good luck

And the way you set up goals in small increment is probably the best way you could have done it, like chipping away slowly but surely toward your overall goals.

Week Two Report!

Book Goals: PASS, PASS, FAIL
So I did finish Mort by Pratchett.  It's great, and I would like to continue with the other Death books, but so many other books are calling.  One of which is Speak for an online book club I am in.  Starting it was the second goal.  I am 30% in and bored as hell.  I'll get through it, but am only scanning at this point.  I have only enjoyed a few books from this book club, but honestly I am in it to talk to friends who have moved away.  The third goal was to continue reading in the morning.  I failed here because there is too much to do in the morning.  If I want to work out and read before I eat, it's doable on most days.  But the heat has forced me to walk the dog earlier, plus daughter - you got to keep her alive with food and continue potty-training.  This is kind of a double fail, too.  The lamp on my side of the bed broke, so this week I have not been reading a physical book before I head off to sleep.  I want to continue reading from paper before bed (instead of staring at a screen), but reading in the morning is going to be more of a luxury than a goal.

Watching Goals: PASS, PASS
I reduced the DVD pile by a few inches.  I did not watch Cowboy Bebop (because I have already watched the series three times), but instead moved it to the shelf.  I bought that because I wanted to have it, not necessarily because I needed to watch it right away.  I usually watch some episodes and the movie around Halloween.  I did watch the first Xmen movie.  I don't think I can continue to do two a week, though.  All this media and gaming consumption is conflicting.  I really wanted to continue playing Xillia 2 instead of watching the movie.  But once I started the movie, I just wanted to keep watching the rest of the collection instead of watching, playing, or reading anything.  As for Bleach, I am halfway through Season 2.  It feels like a different kind of story-telling and now I remember why I stopped watching when it was on Adult Swim.  The second season so far is just one long battle instead of complete stories contained in an episode.  I'll keep watching it.  The style is fine since I can choose when to watch the next episode, but I remember it being really annoying having to wait a week between episodes.

Husband Goals: pass, PASS
We did go to Equestria LA, but any exploring of Anaheim we did was on accident.  I knew it was going to be busy because of Disneyland and the holiday weekend, but I did not expect the marathon.  We got to Disneyland in 35 minutes (record time), but spend 45 trying to find a place to park.  I was a little frustrated, but was still civil.  My wife kind of sat around while my daughter and I explored.  We did not go out to eat because we just wanted to get home.  So, a technical pass.  We had a good time at her parents house.  I almost failed this one because I had some work to do, but I just brought it.  I spent most of the time with the family.

Father Goals: PASS, FAIL
My daughter had a ball at Equestria LA.  We did not buy passes, but we were still able to mingle with all the people.  The tickets allowed us to go into some of the autograph rooms or panels.  The staff let my daughter go into the kids area, which was super cool of them.  No one was dressed in full pony gear, but it was pretty much what I was expecting: mainly bronies.  I think they did a good job creating two or three mini cons at the hotel.  You could hang out with the bronies, go to the kids area, or just go play the card game.  Since the heat came back, I was only able to take my daughter out once in the wagon.  Even then, she was drenched with sweat by the time we got home.  I could have taken her out more, but we would have melted.

Home Goals: PASS, PASS
The power went out a couple times last week.  I used this time to work outside and then jump into the community pool.  It's a pain to dig out trees that have set down roots.  I figure I can probably pull one or two out every time I work in the yard.  As a bonus, I got to play around with the sprinkler timer since the power outages caused the system to default.  I also got to fix leaks in the drip system.  Funny enough, the part I needed was a bit of pipe I bought for my daughter as a replacement bubble-blower.  The ants seem to take the weekend off, and I have not seen any since Wednesday.  I did call an exterminator and spent an hour on the phone with him, but I will probably not use him.  I don't want another year-long contract.  

Gaming Goals: PASS, PASS
I did avoid the in-game poker.  It was pretty hard.  I finished Chapter 12, which was pretty awesome.  The twist was revealed and all that.  I jumped into the side-quests and would have finished them, as well as the next chapter, but watched Xmen instead.

Professional Goals:  pass, PASS
I outlined the rest of the course, but it has been changing day by day.  The plan is not complete, but pretty solid.  I could teach the rest of the course without further planning, but it would not go as smoothly as I would like it, too.  The upside is that the more I generate now, the smoother the next time goes.  Usually this last summer course is easy, but by switching the book it suddenly feels like a new course.  I did not give the students an essay for week 3, but we did work on summaries.  Building a summary worksheet is another reason why I did not get to read or game as much as I wanted to.  But now it's done and I should only have one or two more sheets to build.

Weight Goal: FAILED
So close to the 182.x.  I was at 183.0 this morning, so just a tad under last week.  I did not see 179.x at all.  I did see 182.x during the week, but never in the morning.  I could have held off eating breakfast until I was 182.8, but I figured I would follow the spirit of the challenge.  Even though I have a capital FAIL up there, I still did not gain weight, and I am about 14 pounds less than I was when I started following the podcast.

UFF Goal:  I read and posted through PHAT, Random, and the Question sections.  Those seem to be my usual haunts.  Going through the games only makes me want to go play them or add them to my already-hefty list.  I was tempted to go break 1000, but I'd rather it happen naturally.  I don't want to generate posts just to hit a number (because, you know, been there already, hehe).

New Goals to come later.  Time to get back to work.