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Okay, so I need some suggestions. Having newly acquired healthcare benefits, I want to exploit them. Is there anybody I've left off this list? What are your thoughts?
Everything/Nothing Doctor - General Practice, i.e. Generic Doctor. A potentially unnecessary step, just because I feel like he/she's going to defer all my significant issues to specialists. I take that back - maybe he/she'll prescribe some really strong Vitamin C... Voice Doctor (Cough Doctor?) - It seems every time the seasons change (or maybe not quite quarterly, but at least annually), I get some variation on a horrible cough and cold sort of thing. This could just be an allergy thing, which would be nice, if I can whoop a bunch of stuff with one single pile of pills... Snore Doctor (Tonsil Doctor?) - I have snoring problems, which are something I am very motivated to eradicate. I recently found out of someone who once had snoring issues, but they went away upon tonsilectomy/adenoidectomy (is that embarrassing? not sure if naming names is okay with this sort of thing)... I've never had anything "out" so maybe I just need to start having things removed, just to see what gets fixed in the process. Spin Skin Doctor - I sometimes have some issues with acne-related things, and general bad/oily skin. For the most part, I think it's all stuff I can deal with, but there might be some inherited skin trouble that comes along with my theft of my father's face. Just good to talk about it while somebody might be listening.
Brain Doctor - As you may know, I'm a repressor. Represser? I often think I have memory troubles, but that might just be misdirected repression. Like, I'm not _bad_ and remembering things, I'm just _really good_ at tucking them away never to be seen again. So, recently I think maybe I've found the limit of things I can stuff in repression hidey-holes, and it is instead spilling over into reality-brain and it shakes me up quite frighteningly. So, Brain Doctor. I mean, I don't at all mind crying at weddings - but I should have other, more controlled ways to handle my emotions... Tags: doctor, healthcare
Current Location: Work
Current Mood:  curious
Current Music: None
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So, to preface the rest of what I'm going to say, I need to start by saying "I got an iPod Shuffle!" And that of course is followed up by, "Abby, you're the best :) " Okay, so it might be a bit of a misnomer, in that I'm not much of a shuffler when it comes to music... Although, I guess it all depends on what I've got on there. I mean, if I put a whole bunch of creepy halloween music on there for a party, it would certainly make sense to shuffle. Or perhaps a carefully crafted list of singles that are great for a roadtrip. Perfect. But, for example, when I first set it up, I thought to myself, "what's the nerdiest thing I could possibly put on here? A-HA! (no, not A-Ha, although that would indeed be pretty nerdy) I'll put on 'Ender in Exile' by Orson Scott Card, audiobook of the new sequel of the book 'Ender's Game'." This sort of thing, I've found, is perfect for working out. Montell Jordan - This Is How I Do It.But you don't often find yourself listening to audiobooks (this one happens to be in 40 minute pieces) on Shuffle. Just kinda takes all the flow and narrative structure out of it. I expect I'll probably also do a lot of Opera Research with my iPod, which will probably also be a non-shuffle sort of thing... So, how do you people feel about Shuffle or Random? Discuss. Tags: ipod, music, shuffle
Current Location: Bedroom (Bed)
Current Mood: Energized
Current Music: Washing Machine noises
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Okay, so I was recently told about a Jewish childrens' song, the first line of which is, "Abraham, the very first Jew." I've also deduced from This MySpace Video that some of the other lyrics are God wants to have a talk with you It's time for you to leave your land and travel to the promised land and then Sarah laughed, "Ha Ha Ha, I can't believe my ears! Who'd have thought I'd have a child after all these years?" Okay, so Dr. Lauren was entertaining the notion of recording this song for a holiday CD. Awesome, right? So of all the googling, all I can find is a cellphone video of a girl singing it in a dorm room. What the F, world? A YouTube search of "On Top Of Old Smoky" yields 195 hits. And that's YouTube - Google yields "about 120,000". I'm just disillusioned. I want a Sharon, Lois & Bram version of Abraham The Very First Jew, dammit! That way I'll be able to pull the chords out of it and make it a sweet 80's dance remix. Sweet. 80's. Dance Remix. So, the internet. What else did I find regarding the song, you ask? This article, specifically about how the lyrics are nowhere on the internet: http://repetitioncompulsion.blogspot.com/2005/12/words-that-dont-exist-on-internet.html#linksAnd for some reason, this video came up as another search result... Not sure why it came up, but I like it. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/256330/jewish_is_cool/That's all I got. If anyone knows the lyrics, or has piano/guitar music for this ditty (Shmuel? are you out there?), let me know. Peace out! Tags: abraham, children's music, judaism
Current Location: Work.
Current Mood: patient
Current Music: The indoor/indoor air conditioner.
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12/27/2008 (ouch.)
CD's Moved: 40
Flights: 120 (down, then up)
Stairs: 1,680 (down, then up)
Steps (Stairs & Steps): 6,720
Time: 106 minutes
Time per CD: 2 minutes 39 seconds
* So I succeeded in my incremental increase to 40 CD's. That was a determination thing that I'm glad I accomplished, but since it has been painfully too long since I've been on the wagon, it obviously killed my time.
* Now that I've reached the 40 CD mark, though, it's now all about getting my time down. Now this doesn't, however, mean that I'll only work out when I have 90 minutes free. Even doing this for 30 minutes will get my heart going, work up a sweat, and be excellent for me. Bottom line (as I may have mentioned before), I just need to get used to being out of breath, or being sweaty, or what have you - so much so that I simply don't have to anymore when I work out (don't have to sweat or get out of breath).
* My pacing was decent, although slower throughout. I knew it was going to be a tough slog, so I just got started with it, and kept pushing through to the end.
Cumulative
CD's: 150
Flights: 450
Stairs: 6,300
Steps: 25,200
12/1/2008
CD's Moved: 35
Flights: 105 (down, then up)
Stairs: 1470 (down, then up)
Time: 70 minutes
Time per CD: 2 minutes
Thoughts: Strange that the time per CD wasn't worse... It felt quite a lot worse. Everything was fine at the beginning, but I was pretty worn down by the 3rd or 4th set (I go in sets of 5 CD's).
Actually, I was considering only doing 20 CD's. Sound designing has filled every crack of my time for the past week, and it's been chronologically impossible to "make" time for CD's, not to mention those 3 incredible Thanksgiving dinners I had this week plus leftovers. Wreckingball. So, during my 4th set, I was really considering starting over the whole process at 20, and building in increments of 5 again... But then I got to 20, my stubbornness (and I guess perseverence) kicked in, and I continued. And once you've hit 20, shit, you're more than halfway there...
Another thought, is about how freaking hot I'm going to be when this is all said and done. As inspiration, one of these times I'm going to take a picture of my leg, because that is where my body currently hides all of its tone and definition. In my left leg. No joke.
Cargo of Note: No Son of Mine by Genesis (Eric's). CD Single. Doug Levine's Kromatica - interesting because we were just talking about him last night... Cumulative
CD's: 110
Flights: 330
Stairs: 4620
And for all you data lovers out there, I've been doing some more data collecting!
I was at the Dollar Tree in Robinson Town Centre buying a booklight. That's the kind of thing I feel shouldn't cost more than a dollar, so there I was, buying it for a dollar.
In the same section, I noticed they had a pedometer for a dollar. For some reason, I just couldn't get up the nerve to buy that. It's gotta be some crazy subconscious thing, but I just can't trust a $1 piece of electronics to accurately count my steps. Now maybe that's just silly - didn't McDonald's give them away with Happy Meals for awhile? The technology can't be too complicated, right? Okay, maybe I'll buy one next time. I don't know, though - knowing me, I'll probably wake up one day thinking "I need a pedometer." And then I find myself in The Sharper Image buying a pedometer/radio/phonograph/800G iPod with wireless ear implants for $1,150. Yes folks, that's my style.
Point being, the pedometer got me thinking about how many overall steps I'm taking. So I did some counting:
CD bin to the top of the stairs: 7 steps
Bottom of 3rd stairs to Top of 2nd: 9 steps
Bottom of 2nd stairs to Top of 1st: 21 steps
Bottom of 1st stairs to CD Box: 5 steps.
Wow that's bizarre. That's 42 steps. That's downright creepy. Okay, so each CD is 42 stairs and 42 extrastairricular steps. For data purposes, let's call these all "steps". This step figure also includes both down and up.
CDs: 35
Steps: 5880
Cumulative
Steps: 18,480
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11/19/2008
CD's Moved: 30
Flights: 90 (down, then up)
Steps: 1260 (down, then up)***
Time: 51 minutes
Time per CD: 1.7 minutes
Thoughts: Feeling good. Got a time, and I'm a little surprised that it takes less than 2 minutes. Not sure why I'm surprised... It seemed like I was sweating less this time. What does that mean? Maybe I just hadn't had much to drink.
I was kinda in a hurry to get finished so I could get to rehearsal, so I started with quite a bit of hustle. The ability to hustle ran out at the beginning of the 3rd set (for counting reasons, I mentally break it down into sets of 5). It all felt just fine, though - never lost my pep.
One thing I'm really anxious for is when I get good at it. I'm anxious for the time when I can hurry up to the "penthouse" area at work and not have to wait for 1-2 minutes to stop being out of breath. Sheesh being massive sucks.
Cargo of Note: Got through the Phish collection and most of the BNL collection today. Odd: The Real McCoy - I Wanna Come (With You) CD Single. Garbage: The Moody Brothers - Cotton-Eyed Joe. Good song, right? Sure, just don't do a bad cover of that song, make it the title of your horrible album to sell copies. It was a waste even in the $2 rack at Camelot Music. Cumulative
CD's: 75
Flights: 225
Steps: 3150 *** Turns out my previous calculations are only true if each Flight of stairs has 42 steps. Unfortch, each flight only has 14 steps, and it's a CD which has 42 steps. Soon enough, I'll be up to 3150 steps, though... Where were you on that one, math peeps?
------------------------------------- 11/17/2008 CD's Moved: 25
Flights: 75 (down, then up)
Steps: 1050 (not 3150) (down, then up)***
Thoughts: Feeling even better. The cool-down (or rather, the still-out-of-breath-down) was a lot easier and faster. I'm recognizing the great effect on my breathing and breath support. I'm thinking 5 CD's/15 Flights is a good increment to bump up each time. Then I'll just keep getting better and better until I'm sneaking into stadiums like Dr. Jack Shepard & Desmond Hume. I wonder if stadiums have CD collections in their bedrooms which need to be put in their basements... ------------------------------------- 11/15/2008
CD's Moved: 20
Flights: 60 (down, then up)
Steps: 840 (not 2520) (down, then up)***
Thoughts: Well, I was planning to start with about 10 or 12 CD's, but I felt like I could handle more. 20 was a good number, though. Beat me up pretty good. ------------------------------------- Okay, so I don't write in my LiveJournal very much. I'd like to start by saying that this journal entry, like perhaps all entries, is about me. Mind you, it's not about my award-winning musical compositions. It's not about sculpture being perhaps my favorite visual art form, or the jaded ambigrams I once designed that were quite well-liked. It has nothing to do with my dabbling in video editing, animation, or SQL programming. It's not about my double-jointedness, my color-blindness, or my dislike of yellow cheese. It's not about my beef roast, my time as a youth softball umpire, or working at Long John Silver's. It ain't about having read War and Peace, going on a bus tour of the West Coast, or winning a trophy for a flute solo which I actually played on the glockenspiel. Now I know what you're thinking. After all that, how can it still be about me? I'm kinda thinking that myself - note this as a list of LJ entries I'll have to write someday. I am so incredibly awesome I could write about me forever. Awesome. Incredibly. In fact, in comparison, this entry seems kinda silly. I have recently started a project, and this entry is to record the data and keep track of my status. So, if you're at all interested, bookmark the entry - I'm not making a new one of these every 2 days... The Project
I'm moving my CD collection. Purpose
My world needs some exercise. STAT. So, it seems I'm always coming up with hare-brained schemes to do something about this, and this one I really kinda like - and I'm hoping that since I'm writing about it, that'll help it to stick even more. Details
My CD collection is currently in my bedroom. I don't need my CD collection -- haven't since '96. Yet here I am hanging on to it. Fortunately I was able to pawn off a bunch of them back when I was extra hungry in grad school, but there's still a crate or two full of them.
So here's the idea. I'm moving my CD collection from my 3rd Floor bedroom to the basement. One CD at a time. So, it's a pretty simple concept. Maybe after I get a bit better at it, I'll start selling tickets so people can come watch. I was also considering having people donate their unwanted CD's so I can take them from my bedroom to my basement. I mean, c'mon, I'm gonna run out of CD's here pretty quickly... So, I think the idea is to do this every other day. The days between will be to soak in the soreness and for stretching, which is awesome. Any thoughts ideas or suggestions? Go ahead and tell me - I might even consider them - I'm pretty stubborn, though...
Tags: cd collection, exercise, flights, steps
Current Location: Bedroom (Bed)
Current Mood:  good
Current Music: Rest & Relax: The CD
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Okay, so I know that I'll probably get bad reviews or perhaps not even get nominated for a LJOscar this year, but I'm just choosing to use this entry to post some great YouTubage. And no, they're not awesome original videos around a campfire. Those will be next. * Science: So, I assume everybody has heard about the Large Hadron Collider project that recently was launched at CERN. Wait - no? Well, okay - so it's this particle accelerator. They're apparently recreating the big bang or something. Look it up. Or, just watch this rap video! * Religion: Jesus will zap you any way he can. Zap. And no, it's neither a cartoon nor a joke. Weirdass canucks. * Political Science: If you're not familiar with the concept of RickRoll, you should wiki it. Then you'll better understand the compound idea of a BarackRoll. Finally you'll be able to appreciate the genius of this McCain BarackRoll'ing. Beautiful video work... I'm not sure why these videos have all entered my life today, but I wanted to share them! What do you think? Tags: politics, religion, rickroll, science, youtube
Current Location: Bedroom
Current Mood:  thirsty
Current Music: sporadic YouTube videos
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I know, my special readers have already seen this, but it was a worthy bit of writing that I thought I should post up here... Okay, so I know a number of you use laptops, and I've recently (maybe a smidge because of my new IT job) been thinking a lot about laptop theft. It sucks. Sad as jail. So, I want you all to seriously consider the options I'm suggesting, and I'd be happy to help anybody out with implementing them if they'd like. ---------------------------------------- ---------- Adeona (named after the Roman Goddess of Safe Returns) is a freeware software program that runs on your computer, and regularly reports back and essentially says, "Hi, I'm your laptop and I'm currently being used at 17 Morningwall St." So, if your laptop happens to walk off without parental consent, these messages will allow you (and/or local law enforcement) to track down and recover your investment. AdeonaI'm going to install it on my laptop to test out the software, so if you want to wait a week or so to get a firsthand review, that's awesome as well. If you like this idea, but are weirded out by OpenSource LinuxNerd kinda software, there are also some commercial products: LoJack for LaptopsThe Cyber AngelFor some biased pros and cons Free vs. Commercial, check out Adeona's FAQ---------------------------------------- ---------- A lot of people also recommend getting insurance against theft. I've never dealt with this since I've never really thought of my machines as valuable, since I get them a few years used and tweak them until they do what I need them to. If you're ambitious, talk to your insurance company - I'm sure they'll have some options for you... ---------------------------------------- ---------- Another resource for stolen laptops is/are Stolen Laptop Registries. I've found 2, but it's hard to say how much these actually help with recovery, since they're an unfortunately passive database. You have to count on your reseller to be legit enough to care whether or not this computer they're selling is hot or not. I give it a 10. Especially at a computer show, flea market, or swap meet (if those still exist). http://juststolen.net/http://www.stolencomputers.org/home.html---------------------------------------- ---------- So, check yourself before you wreck yourself. Let me know if anyone has any questions or would like any help! Tags: adeona, laptop, theft
Current Location: Living Room
Current Mood:  thoughtful
Current Music: Freaks & Geeks
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