Thanks for the fish

started weight watchers on tuesday and I’ve already lost 4 pounds. I also feel like I”m about to pass out. : ) But that’s ok. Went to happy hour last night with a girl I don’t talk to much and my friend A from work. It was fun. We went to a wine bar and I had 2 glasses of shiraz and some crab cakes. My parents were in town the last 2 nights and put an offer on a house a little north of here. Now they’re headed back to the midwest to await the decision.

I’ve read some good things lately about productivity. J signed up for a news reader called newsgator so I copied him and then copied all of his feeds too. Most of them are about buddhism. He’s on a kick and he is soooo pleasant now. I love him dearly but he has a tendency to be really negative and to dwell on things people did in the past (usually stupid things). I dwell on stupid things I do but if someone else effs up, I let it go immediately. There’s no point in dwelling on it. Anyhoo… 2 tips I learned lately.

1) the martini method. This is from the guy who wrote clockwork orange. He’d hammer out 1000 words per day and then reward himself with a dry martini and spend the rest of the day doing what he wanted.

2) the jerry seinfeld method. Have a calendar on your wall that shows the whole year. Work on your thing (whatever that may be) each day and mark it off with a red x. Every day add your x so it forms a chain, and the theory is that you wont’ want to ever break the chain so you just keep taking baby steps toward your goal each day. My goal is 600 words per day but I’m averaging about once a week (usually on sunday) instead of once a day. So I’m considering buying a giant wall calendar and give it a try. It takes about half an hour to write 600 words. I can do it.

I read a thing the other day about these cars that run on compressed air. They’re coming out soon and cost about teh same as a “mid priced car” - which for me is a whole helluva lot of money. I’m all over the Hyundais. BUt seriously, I want one and they’re really cute too. They get about 100 miles per gallon. Of course there are no gallons, there are cans of compressed air. I’m tired of spending more time at the gas station then I do with my loved ones.