a whole chicken

I like to eat whole things. I like to clean my plate, the dish, etc. i like to eat.

I once left work sick and stopped by Little Ceasar's to get a hot fresh now pepperoni pizza for $5.

I finished it on the way home.

Last night I are a whole rotisserie chicken from Publix. It was freaking delicious and I didn't even feel like I could roll away afterward.

Vegetarians eat your heart out.

No. Really. Eat it.

decided yesterday

I decided yesterday while I was doing something, i can't really remember what, that I'm going to eat very clean for the rest of the year. thanksgiving and Christmas are going to be my only off days. that's it. no drinking, binging, super massive carb up or any of that shit. I usually do at least 1 "cheat" meal a week, usually 2.  so I'll be skipping 12 of them. shouldn't be that hard since I rarely feel like I go without, but if anything it'll just make me feel way cooler and give me a nice short term goal.

go me. 

feelin kinda sunday

the thing that can occasionally suck about not keeping sugary drinks and juice in the house is that sometimes you really need them. Usually the morning after alcohol is involved, then you're left to scrounge around for old some grape juice packages in the back of the fridge and drink them without a straw because the straw that was on it fell off somewhere.


going to NFL games  throws me off. It's such a saturday-fun kind of event then all the sudden it's over and BOOM! it's sunday night. I woke up (thirsty) at 2am this morning thinking I would be able to sleep in but then realized I had to be up in 4 hours. but, hey, at least the falcons lost. just like old times!

trends in google flu trends

One easy way for me to tell which blogs I read are the quickest on information is when a story or something hits, how long it takes someone to blog it. Google flu trends for example....one had it earlier this week, maybe last week. I've seen the titles come across my reader all week and had one this morning even. I only read the first one, so i'm not sure if the others are adding anything extra to the topic....I dont really care though because I didn't think it was that cool to begin with. but still, it's the info age. Gotta be quick folks, nobody likes a laggard.

grey noise

I got a 60 minute mp3 (actually it may be an mp4, but whatever) of a thunderstorm off of simplynoise.com. I normally just rock out while working, but I was looking for something to block out everything and not distract me like music sometimes can. I need to concentrate and retain.

I love rain and thunderstorms, so I thought it may be cool, but never really thought of listening to it to block out noise.

now I'm just occasionally distracted by how awesome this is and how well it works. 

addicted

i guess green tea has caffeine. it's not one of those things that I'd normally run to if I want a jolt, but i drink a few cups of green or white tea daily. Today, i didnt have my usual 2 cups white or green tea and maybe a 3rd by 12 and i had a monster headache.

drank a green tea and boom! headache gone.

I don't really like being dependent on caffeine, or anything else for that matter. Caffeine-aholics are just low-level junkies in my book, now I'm one.

mcfail

mcdonalds is trying to convince us that it's now OK to eat chicken for breakfast.

i'm all for eating meat, so i've got no problem with the radio re-affirming my delicious choices and culinary superiority, but let's analyze some reasons this is messed up.

1. chicken. as opposed to:
   1a. deep fried dough drenched in sugar sauce?
   1b. sugar and marshmallows floating in milk?
   1c. cinnabon.
   1d. nothing

  wait, I think they're talking about the nice traditional American breakfast of eggs, bacon and toast with a side of fresh squeezed orange juice. fork and a knife next to the plate. silly you though! what are you going to use the knife for? you have a butter knife on the butter plate and you know you wont cut the bacon. Oh well. the presentation was nice at least.

2. chicken for breakfast isn't weird. especially deep fried on a biscuit. which brings me to main main point...

3. this commercial is running in Atlanta. Know what else is in Atlanta and has been for years? Billboards with giant fake cows with cans of paint and terrible spelling/grammar on them convincing us to buy chicken for breakfast.

round these here parts chic-fil-a will be known for chicken biscuits until. just until. probably until our nation competely implodes. chic-fil-a will be one of the final buildings around and high school kids will still be lined up at 6:30 on Friday mornings to get a biscuit and be seen at the chic-fil-a before they head to the place where there used to be a school. used to be. it got foreclosed.

google words

like most people, i'm a fan of google. I didn't shit myself when that cuil search engine came out a couple months ago and faded quietly into the internet abyss and when i see someone trying to do a search with anything else i usually end up pushing them away, doing a google search and finding whatever it was we were looking for pretty quickly. (that could also be because i'm awesome at searching for things).

one of the things that i think is so cool about google is their whole approach to business. i'm sure they wouldnt put it this way but it seems like their motto is "cool and simple".  give the people what they want and make it cool and simple. except one thing.

the google blog.

uses

too

many

damn

words.

I never read it. I'm sure it's chock full of good information, but i expect something more awesome from google. charts, pictures, bullets. something.
 

greasy

Efficiency is a funny thing.

It's extremely important when there's minimal time permitted. for most, including myself, pre-work morning is one of those times. gotta get up, shower, brush teeth, feed the hounds, take them out, wait for them to shit while they sniff around for rabbits, bring them in, treat them, make myself breakfast, get my meals for the day ready, get dressed, look presentable, etc etc

Somewhere in there i usually try to put some hair gel or something in my hair so i dont look like a fuzzball all day and it looks like i actually give a damn how i look.

here's where it get's tricky - if I dont wash my hair it gets greasy. fact of life. happens to most of us.

grease can make hair look like it has gel in it.

if I wanted to be more efficient i could just not wash my hair (save some time and money) then just use the wet grease to hold it in place (save more time and money).

 but that would be gross.

not a numbers guy, but a numbers guy

a tail light went out on my truck. brake light, turn signal. it's been out for a while. I like to blame my hectic schedule and lack of funding for my inability to stop by the auto zone that's less than 2 miles from my house, but that's certainly up for debate.

it's the left one. the right one still works fine, ticks, lights, does all the shit it's supposed to. the left one is out though.

last night on the way home from school i started thinking about why only my left one went out. Did I turn left more than right? surely not. When I go places I usually come back the same way and all the lefts become rights and vice versa. then i started thinking about how many left turns i make and how many right turns and tried to quantify turns in my head. i jumped to the thought that it would be great to have some data to analyze. i would love to see the number of turns for each side, time spent per turn and then maybe match that to a map through GPS to see where i'm expending the life of my turn signal bulbs.

I scared myself. I really did. I'm not a numbers guy. I wouldn't say that I LOVE data and it rocks my world. "I'm a creative guy!" I was screaming at myself, "outside the box is where my head is!" but apparently data does rock my shit. apparently i've been conditioned to use data to explain things. i've always been sort of analytical (and cynical, while we're at it) by nature, so i guess this is just me wanting a simple easy way to explain a phenomenon in the most exact way possible.

without  having my data, i would say that the light probably went out because you have to wait at left turns more than right, but that would be too simple wouldnt it?

i started reading the 10 point manifesto on how to work more better

i got bored with it on the 2nd or 3rd one. this tells me 2 things:

1. maybe a good way for me to start working better would be to read things, follow through, follow up, etc

2. maybe a good way for me to start working better isn't to start a blog again.

Seriously though, I think most people know how to work better, they just don't. Maybe I'll learn why in one of my management classes. COLLEGE IS THE ANSWER!!!