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Today I shot a gun. I had never shot a gun before in my life. I have to say, it was quite fun. Below is the results of my first ever shot.

Note the accuracy. Moral of the story: Don’t mess with me. I’m dangerous.

P.S. Technically this counts for Saturday even though it is 12:16 here… Though my Expression Engine settings are kinda messed up, so it’ll probably say this was posted at 10:43 or something.

Edit: Damn, 11:11… so close, but not really.

I’ve recently been listening to a lot of podcasts at work. I don’t know what spurred me on to do this, perhaps I got tired of music. Well, not so much tired of music, but I just have been looking for something different. Podcasts have filled this need very well, and have the added benefit of keeping me greatly entertained, up to date on news and current events, and they help pass the time faster.

Two things for this post; first, I’m going to attempt to post something on this blog everyday for the rest of the month. Not sure exactly what I’m going to post about, but it’s going to be something, whether it’s a nice full length post or a paragraph or two. So, having got that out of the way, let me start my first of 6 straight days posting with some Adobe hate.

I still remember this blog exists. I always think about writing something. I never feel like I have anything interesting or insightful to say. I usually don’t have any good tips that will help better people. I rarely have any interesting anecdotes that anyone who wasn’t there would find worth the read. Hell, I don’t even have anything witty or amusing to say about current events or random topics which lend themselves to be made fun of. At least, none that I think any one would be interested in reading. I’ve been trying to work through that, also trying to finish up some projects that need finishing that I’ve been stalled on either because I’m: a) Lazy. b) Not willing to take a chance and fail at what I need to do, even though I know a failure will ultimately help me get better. c) A combination of the two. I’ll try to post more regularly for the imaginary people who would actually read things (they’re all probably in my head). Just watch, I promise.

So, I’ve been lazying about. Well, not entirely, just when it comes to my site. It’s amusing to me, but I can make a pretty good looking (imo) site for a client in a week. Clearly it’d take longer if it had a bunch of features and what not, but I could do it fine. When it comes to doing things for myself, I never have any motivation. Well, I have given myself motivation. And a deadline.

I’ve been pretty good the last month about being frugal in my spending habits. While I would love my pile of money to keep growing (me wants a new Mac Pro or enough to put a nice size down payment on a 2010 Rabbit TDI which should be coming out this fall) sadly I must spend these on my current car and medical bills. Awesome. About a $1000 bucks for new brakes and $700 for my 2 stints in physical therapy last year (why they waited till now to bill me for everything at once is beyond me…). So to survive the next couple months I’m trying something that I’ve though about doing before but always lacked the motivation to do, not eat out, cook all my food at home, and bring in lunch to work.

I’ve wanted to do this for a while now, but I’ve been too lazy. I wanted a place where I could have a blog, put up some photos and some of my music (if I ever get around to putting my studio back together). Perhaps at some point even some art and some writings (ok, that’s a stretch). I originally tried to do this using drupal… however drupal is a pain in the ass. Instead I tried using Expression Engine since I had heard some good things about it and seen it used in a few sites that I like to visit. This turned out to be so much easier. Sure it might not be as flexible, but I’m way too lazy to learn drupal without some sort of monetary benefit associated with it.