Facets of My Life

Cutter's Log - Supplemental

If you look in the Blog Archive to the right side of the page, you may notice that some entries from 2009 and 2010 are titled "WSN."

"WSN" meant "Work," "School," and my website "Northern Illinois Sports Beat." I quit making entries of that kind after graduating from Sauk. In these WSN entries, I broke down my day or week into these three categories.

I've thought about bringing back this concept.

W - Work
N - Northern Illinois Sports Beat
F - Fitness

I'm not attending school at this time, so I replaced "S" with "F."

"F" is a fitting letter when it comes to my fitness.

"F."

Not good.


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W - I had to go to work last night to fill in the rest of a closing shift. Just three hours, but that's still an additional $20+ in my pocket. It's money! After a closing shift tonight, I'll have the next three days off. Then five straight days on, all adding up to the 39-hour threshold.

Other than that, everything work-related is going alright. Not too much I can tell any more about.

N - I have been working on a refresher column for most of the past week and posted it on Thursday afternoon. I can't wait to get back into the swing of things when it comes to high school sports! This year will be a very different one in terms of website operation from the past couple of years, but I am determined to not only keep everything afloat but make it better.

In the next few days I'll be brainstorming for some story ideas. I mentioned in my State of The Site Address that I'm going away from game articles because of travel costs and more important work commitments. However, a challenge is something that will be keeping me going. Which brings me to the next letter.

F - I fell off a cliff. Again. I don't even know the feeling of falling off a cliff anymore because I've fallen off so many times.

So it's back to the drawing board.

Money Habits:  I shredded my debit card, but not before writing the numbers down. This should teach me that drive-thrus are over with. Right now the checkbook is the only thing I'm using, and whatever cash I happen to get. I'm also trying to shop around for more limited accesses when it comes to using checks. YES, I use checks, but I have written enough of them to be fast at it so it won't frustrate you behind me in line! When I can I'll try to write out my checks before leaving home, although some businesses frown upon this.

Liquid:  I've been trying to limit my soda intake as of late. At work I found myself consuming at least 60 ounces of Pepsi or Doc360 for some reason with a 20-ounce plastic cup. When I leave work, usually this cup ends up on the car floor and rolled around in a mess (I still can't get into the rhythm of putting it with the dishes every night). It has gotten so dirty that I left it in my car for the past few nights. In its place, I got one of those 32-ounce styrofoam cups. Perhaps it's because it's a bigger cup and soda goes flat quicker in them, but my soda intake has actually decreased since converting to styrofoam. It's funny: styrofoam is bad for the ozone, but is good for me. But seriously, water is a better option.

Doing More:  One thing that I'm slowly starting to get used to is the absence of the dolly for carrying bags of ice outside at work. I used to stack 9 bags of ice (as high as it goes before falling) on the dolly and make one trip to the outside ice cooler. Five trips instead of one is a little help. Speaking of walks, the weather is getting much nicer. This kind of influences me to get out more.

Hopefully the batteries are re-charged. I have a feeling that I'll be revisiting this once more when website travel starts to pick up. I can't stress enough about how serious this is becoming: putting on socks has now become a difficult task, as well as bending down.

As mentioned, I have three days off in a row. Hopefully I can find the gumption to head on over to the local overnight gym (as I am still shy about working out in front of people) and digest my experiences there.

Then, perhaps, I'll explain a future workout song list.


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Those wondering about my grade school Book project, don't fret. I'll have time to dedicate myself to that as well.