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I have had several political conversations the last week that have really had me asking a lot of questions:

• Why are all politicians liars in some form or another?
• Why is it impossible to be involved in politics without being a hypocrite?
• Why is it okay for the government to be hypocritical but not for its citizens?
• Why won’t people just vote for the candidate that most similar to them so that we can get rid of this stupid bicameral system?
• Why are people so uninvolved?  Why do we wait until something effects our daily lives to care about it?
• Why is everyone so greedy, selfish, or inconsiderate?

However, amidst all these questions the only truly important one I find is:

Why is it so hard for people to peacefully coexist?

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So October is breast cancer awareness month.  Last year I modified my old blog theme to go Pink for October, and this year I’ve now done the same.  One of the people I follow on Twitter and in web technologies, the creator of Habari, Chris J. Davis made his blog Pink for October last year (and apparently has done the same again this year).  It was because of him that I was inspired to change my blog to a pink theme.  Thanks Chris.

This year I have changed my blog again (obviously).  Read the rest of this entry »

I ran my first mile with my Nike+ tonight.  It went well and I love the resulting output.  With statistics and visualizations like this I may just be able to stay motivated!

So Katie and I watched Gossip girl tonight (we missed it last night).  In one scene I realized that my hair is slowly starting to resemble Nate’s due to the length and how unkempt it is.

Afterwards I was talking with Katie when I said (mostly jokingly) that I should grow my hair out like Nate’s.  She replied, “I think it’d be weird to see you with long hair.  And it’d be weird if you didn’t have the same haircut as your boss.”  I managed to keep a straight face as I said: Read the rest of this entry »

It’s not often that I get to take the things that I absolutely love the most in the world and combine them with things that I absolutely hate the most in the world.  Usually when those two things happen it is related to Microsoft Windows in some form and it absolutely kills me for several days.  Well not this time, this time it pertains to a very positive turning point in my life I believe.  I have recently acquired a Wii Fit as well as a Nike+ iPod kit.  These two small sets of hardware have enabled me to combine something I love with something I used to hate and hopefully improve my life and have fun while doing it.

I must admit that there are several factors involved in my decision to start getting more healthy.  I decided to cut the majority of soda out of my life after my incident several months ago where I had 4 kidney stones and some major medical issues that were not very pleasant to go through.  But in addition to cutting out soda there needs to be more.  Something more substantial that will make it so I’m not having a heart attack before Paisley has even graduated high school.  So here is the list of things that has helped change my motivation for working out and getting healthy: Read the rest of this entry »