Fasting Facebook: Day 2 recap

Yesterday it was surprisingly easier for me to avoid Facebook. I scanned a lot of medical records all day, that's all I did. I had a 45 minute lunch with MacKenzie. My new camera is supposed to get here tomorrow. I cant wait to take some candid pictures and go pay to get them developed. :) The days of old have returned. Yesterday I got not a single facebook notification, so my total unread messages from them stands at 5.

Welcome to day 3! Today seems like a flyleaf kind of day. I need that extra energy burst that the hard rock guitar provides me. I dont have any lunch plans for today, so someone should hit me up on my cell.

If anyone sees me tomorrow after work they should pose because Im getting my camera shipped to my work address, so that by the time work is over I'll be ready for some kick ass dual exposure pics. Hopefully it doesn't rain so I will have enough light to shoot after work. :/

Check out this awesome pic taken with a camera just like the one I'm getting!

It was taken in Switzerland, Its now made its way over to Lebanon as my desktop BG

Today's Planned Tasks: (will be henceforth known as TPT)
1. Figure out a way to get my Nike+ dongle to work with my iPhone.
2. Either play some basketball, or go jogging.
3. Burn Yes Man! (which i downloaded last night) onto a DVD
4. Move my XBox 360 into my computer room, for a hardline internet connection!
5. Play either some Gears 2, or some TF2, or buy Sims 3!

Fasting Facebook: Day 1 recap

So yesterday, after posting on Facebook that I wasn't going to be on for a long while, people posted comments on my stuff. This led me to the conclusion that my inbox is going to get pretty ridiculous if I plan on not even reading my notifications. (which I do plan on not reading them)

I devised a plan to sort my inbox so that I wont have to read facebook titles or actual notifications ever. If you're not familiar with GMail they not have folders all the mail is archived after reading or deleted, but if you leave something unread it tends to scream at you in big bold letters. Instead of folders, they have filters so everything is stored in the same searchable mail but can also be sorted to only show certain things.



Now that I have set this up, I have 2 filters one that catches anything from facebook and labels it not important, and one that catches everything else and labels it important. This has been really helpful in making me realize that 90% of my emails are from facebook. I now know more than ever that I have to do this. I have to rid myself of this time-sucker.

So other than that brilliant story about my venture into GMail filters, my life has been pretty vivid without the stress of checking ones Facebook, and wondering if anyone has commented about the pics I posted last week. Its all just a big waste of time. I mean honestly, the reason I started myspacing wasn't because everyone had one. It was because I liked having a public creative outlet. It did eventually grow into a monster of a time-sucker though.

That's when I joined facebook. Facebook had stolen a majority of my friends away from myspace and thus had forced me to merge all my profile info to facebook, and just toss out my artistic custom page. I must admit, Facebook has some pretty intense java scripted applications running nonstop on even the homepage. They have really stepped up the bar as far as convenience goes.

Sorry, I just caught myself thinking about Facebook, and all the good things about it.

Alright now that I've taken why too much space up not talking about my recap here goes.
Day 1: I find myself, as expected, more productive at work. I got way more work done yesterday than I probably have ever gotten done in one day here before. I placed an order online for a Holga 135 w/5 rolls of film. I had a great afternoon, sitting by the pool, Jogging with MacKenzie, and watching He's Just Not That Into You. And today I feel so stress free.

PS: check out the photo community I'm going to be joining to post pics taken with my new camera:)

Fasting Facebook: The effect of not depending on social networking introduction

So, the internet has been down at my house for the past 4 to 5 days on and off for some reason and it has been torturous. I feel like this is mainly because of mine and everyone else's hyper-dependance on facebook. So I going to try and tear my heart away from its love of facebook. Lets say I'm making a "Horcrux " out of facebook. for any of you that dont know what that means or understand what a Horcrux is, go here.

So now that everyone gets that I was making a nerd joke:), lets get down to business, my usage of the internet from now on will consist of youtube, blogger of course, and pretty much any thing other than facebook or myspace. I cant wait to see what kind of hobbies or interests I discover with all of my non-wasted time.

PS: I think I've found the perfect solution to my lost camera woes, here. and I will be updating my status, on my twitter whenever I get the urge to facebook. Hopefully this means I'll get in the habit of blogging daily. So check back daily!

Photoblogging?

Yesterday I went up to indiana beach and once i got there i realized I haven't seen my digital camera in ages. When I got home last night I was deeply saddened by the fact that I could not find it anywhere.

So until further notice, I'm searching for a good deal on a nice camera, and any photos will be taken from my crappy iPhone's camera.

For just 69.99 I could get this 8 megapixel beast and a 2gb sd card:) I might do that to remedy this quite depressing turn of events.

Once upon a thursday morn...

So this weekend is going to be pretty hectic, and despite all the crazy running about to open house after open house, I am incredibly calm today. Maybe its because I had a nice dinner last night. (Steak, potatoes, corn on the cob)

Any ways people of the blogging world, I have started a new game on my facebook where I listen to internet radio all day at work and post lyrics on my facebook status for people to finish the verse or line. It was fun yesterday. I've only gotten one person to participate, hopefully more will join. Pandora you're my bitch lover!

Working through the haze

Yesterday I was sick. I woke up at 4 am or maybe it was 3 am, my throat was itchy so i popped open a water bottle and chugged it as I urinated, apparently this is what causes illness because I have never puked as much in my life as i did promptly after urinating and chugging water.

Today I started my day off the wrong way... I walked like 4 miles to work on an empty stomach and now feel horrible, worse in fact than yesterday. I feel incredibly drained 3 day weekends tend to put me into a sort of haze that never bodes well for my work habits:(

The more I live, I see, that this life's not about me. I have to keep working my tail off in order for me to make something of myself. I'm no longer doing this for me, I'm doing this so when I have a child he doesn't have to deal with a lot of the things I did. No more youthful innocence, this life is just a stepping stone, for the youth of tomorrow to step upon.

Memorial Day Weekend

Effing great, three day weekend, i'll be frank with this one. Pool, board games, and hotdogs; what more could a holiday weekend ask for.