A boring one if you ask us. We have been shopping for an outdoor fountain recently and you know how it is… spend your day looking through sites that just do not cut it… until… Read More »What’s A Garden Without A Garden Fountain?
So tomorrow I leave for Nerds Unplugged to spend a weekend disconnected from anything of the computer variety. Well, besides the iPod… and occasional cell phone call. But for the most part, “unplugged”.
If you would have told me 10 years ago that I would be in the business that I am in, talking nerd talk and writing code… I probably would have crapped myself in laughter. I always say this, but in high school… I paid people to type up my research papers. I would write them and all, but I HATED computers so much that I would pay some one each time I needed one typed up.
By the age of 19 I finally owned my own computer. I remember getting it and I couldn’t wait because it had the “internet”. Little did I know you had to buy the internet and have it hooked up and then you “had” the internet. I pulled it out of the box, jumped on it and was thinking I would just be on this magical thing called internet.
Obviously… not the case.
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I used to swim in high school.
Yup, this fat kid used to be lean & mean and wreaked of chlorine.
It seems like 10 million years ago now. Spending my days in the pool, putting miles in the pool until my arms didn’t work anymore. Eating everything I could get my hands on… because… when you swim that much, you can’t keep up with your metabolism.
Oh how times have changed.
With the USA swimming phenom Michael Phelps grabbing more gold than Uncle Scrooge, it is easy to think about how it could have been me. Standing atop the platform waiting for a bald guy to hand you a big fatass gold medal… as the world watches your ever move.
Tough life.
Here are the reasons I fell short, and you can take them and apply them to your situations and learn a little as well.
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