Tuesday, April 22, 2008

oompa loompa

So I'm keeping a month between posts... better than nothing I suppose.

I have a good excuse this time. I swear!

To explain, perhaps I should do a run-through of a typical day since I've started my new job.

So I get up every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning at 5:15AM, meet my friend at the gym and work out. I shower with the ancient men that, as near as I can tell, just sit in the locker room all day long just being naked. (that topic deserves a whole post.) I dress up in my little white oompa loompa outfit, steel toe boots, and safety glasses, and head off for the half hour drive out to the manufacturing plant.



I clock in at 7:30 AM and start coding.

While I'm at the plant I'm almost completely incommunicado. No blogs, no hotmail, no IM, and since there's a mile of concrete and metal between me and the nearest cell tower, no phone service either.

The whistle blows at 9:00, (no shit, there's a whistle) and head out to the break room for my ten minute coffee break. Then back across the plant for more coding.

The same whistle blows at 11:30 for my half-hour lunch break and then on to more coding.

Another whistle and another break at 2:00. More coding.

I clock out at 4:00 and drive for an hour to one of my two other jobs for a few hours.

I grab shit food on the way and fall into bed.

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I landed two pretty big independent contracts and this new position nearly simultaneously. The bad news is, I'm working like crazy, the good news is...

I'll be nearly into five digits for April!

So, yeah... the preceding message might sound a bit like bitching, but in light of that, I *really* can't complain.

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So I've been working out four days a week since January. I've only lost 10 lbs or so, but I'm back up to benching around 200. The guns came back even quicker. I was working out with 50's per arm when I was a senior and I'm pulling that off at 33 with almost three months of work.

RAWR!

I'm amazed I've been keeping to that schedule in light of all the work I've been doing lately. I have to say it really helps to have someone to keep you on track.

I'll try to post some more before the week is out.