1) “Hey guys! This leads to the roof!”
2) [Other stuff happens]
3) BATMAN: DEFENDERS OF THE NIGHT

Three reasons I didn’t pay much attention to the Virginia Tech shootings:

1. I don’t have a television
2. I knew from past experience that the media wasn’t going to have much in the way of facts and I didn’t want to be exposed to their fiction
3. I’ve become jaded by man’s inhumanity to man

One day later and some real facts are starting to appear. The one that concerns me; the shooter is a South Korean, resident alien of the United States.
I just don’t feel safe anymore. [This is a joke. See the comments.]

Seriously though, how long before the media blames StarCraft for the shootings?

Today I stole a Bible.
I didn’t want it,
I just liked the irony.

I call today’s routine CTD II (for chest, triceps and deltoids 2)

Freemotion Cable Flys 12/60*
Freemotion Cable Press 8/70*

Chest Press Machine 8/170*

Decline Cable Flys 8/70

Reverse Pec Dec 8/135*
Pec Dec 8/150*

Front Forward Lateral, Hammer Grip 8/25*

Lateral Raise Machine 8/125

Two Part Cable Tricep Extentions 8/65*

A ‘*’ indicates a new, heavier weight for this movement. I’ve been seeing a lot of ‘*’s lately, that tends to happen when I go to the gym regularly.

More than anything else, weightlifting has shown me the importance of putting in the time to do something right. When I was a kid a was the laziest little bitch on the planet. I didn’t lift a finger to do anything. And when I look back on the first half of my life all I can say is, “I sure watched a lot of TV.”

1989-93 Goal: Wait out my enlistment.
1994-98 Goal: Make up for my poor performance in high school (because I was so damn lazy) and get into UCSD.
1998-2000 Goal: Graduate from UCSD.

And that was pretty much it. Not a bad turnaround, a kid who failed high school algebra three times graduated with a 3.4 GPA from one of the best mathematics departments in the state. But I still didn’t understand goals(plural) I only understood goal(singular). And each of these goals really just involved waiting it out; waiting out my time in 7th Comm, waiting out my time in MSSG-11 and 7th Motors. Waiting out each semester and quarter until they were all over. I showed up, but just barely.

And when I reached that last quarter, that last goal I’d forgotten that setting goals and working towards them was more important than reaching them. When I lost my job (fuck Sportvision) I lost everything I’d worked for which was all I had.

I didn’t really put this all together until I started writing. When you’re writing there’s no waiting it out, like I did in the Marine Corps. There’s no institution pushing you along like college did. If I want this book to get written there’s only one way that’s going to happen, I gotta write it.

Goals. They keep you moving forward. ‘Cause if you’re not moving forward, you’re falling behind.

What are your goals? Have you been showing up?

-can convey the excitement I feel about the cover to Justice League of America #8 [full article]

I just hope the Karate Kid (no, not that one, the original) gets to put Batman in his place.

The goal was: Finish the first draft by the end of March, take April off, begin the Second draft in May.

But the combination of dead-laptop and new-girlfriend shot that in the foot. Of course I’m not complaining about the girlfriend, but I’m still trying to get my money back from HP before I buy a Macbook Plus. And from what I’ve been hearing it might behoove me to wait on the MacBook until the end of the summer to catch the new model and OS.

When I sit in front of the desktop I get into the day-job mentality and I can’t get into a writing mode.

So I’m going to have to start writing by hand. I’ve been reluctant to do this because a) it takes so long and b) I think it’s important to write with two hands to keep both halves of the brain engaged.

But “done is beautiful” and getting somewhere is better than getting nowhere.

Don’t speak to me until you’ve seen Grindhouse.

How do I vote for this Sanjaya Malakar guy?
I’ve never seen the show, but I hear he’s really good.
-Tone