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Accomplishments #4.5 – Mid February 2011 Edition

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 at 12:01 am

Terrible 15 days of unproductivity. Terrible. Terrible. I should punish myself but that does not sound like it is in my best interests so I won’t.

Shows / Movies

Books & Manga
Street Fighter: The Ultimate Edition Book 2 – complete

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Finish my Social Network post….you stupid procrastinator (by you, I mean me). – in progress

Gaming
Finish Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) – to do

Web Development and Design
Object Oriented Book (Finish?) – to do, have not read anything in 15 days
Start HTML5 and ASP.NET book – to do

Other

Notes
I partly blame the pain I’d been experiencing since Feb 4. Man, has it been 11 days already? I’ve missed 2-3 days of work outta the last 5 as well as missed today because I went to UWaterloo. Falling behind in work. >_< Right before a big deadline. I need to get my ass in gear but I find I'm just so terrible unmotivated/distracted with other things lately. Playing a LOT of DOTA in my free time. Z's gotten pretty good lately and we've been playing a lot together, working on our teamwork in game as well as real life.

I’ve realized that I’ve had the OOP book open, on my desk for 15 days, w/o touching it. I’ve got good intentions but…you can’t get anything done with simply good intentions alone!

Because of the recent health related issues, I’ve been blogging more which is a nice side effect. I was worried from January that this blog was on the death bed…but maybe I just needed a bit of a break. I notice as my web development reading went down, my blogging (as well as my DOTA) went up. Sorta as expected. Well, except for the DOTA. Without the health issues, I wouldn’t have so many posts though. I haven’t been walking to work lately. The pain in my abdomen is aggravated the more I walk so I definitely did NOT walk to work this month. I totally, now that I haven’t walked to/from work in so long, really appreciate and love that walk to work. Getting my brain going to write/blog/think, etc. Like driving alone…your head just….wanders off to a nice place. I can’t wait until it’s warm and my pain is gone and I get back to normal.

Accomplishments #4 – February 2011 Edition

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 at 12:01 am
What I accomplished in January

Shows / Movies
Re-watched entire series (so far) of How I Met Your Mother – Complete
Re-watched entire series of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air – Complete
Black Swan…+ probably a ton of other movies -_-;

Books & Manga
L, Change the World – Complete
Street Fighter: The Ultimate Edition Book 1 – Complete
Street Fighter: The Ultimate Edition Book 2 – In Progress
Flash Issue 92-162(?). Introduction of Impulse, Terminal Velocity, <filler>, Dead Heat (Savitar), Race Against Time, <filler>, Grant Morrison’s run, Cobalt Blue, Walter West arc…ah, that is some ultra good reading
Feather Issues 1-5

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Gaming
DC Universe Online – Created a character and played it up to level 30. I am definitely NOT addicted, though it was close for a couple days there :)
Lots of Initial D: Extreme Stage [PS3] w/ my wheel…GT5 and it’s simulation took a back seat to my drift.

Web Development and Design
CSS Book – CSS Mastery – Complete
Started an Object Oriented Book – In Progress…51/632 :/
Start HTML5 Book – To Start
Start ASP.NET 4.0 Book – To Start

Other

Notes
Surprisingly accomplished more this month that I thought…been slacking on reading the OO book. Reason being is that I’ve learned all this already, though I need a good refresher. Still, when I read the book it’s like “oh, I know this….blah blah time for gaming”. With the CSS book I was at least interested to see what else I would learn. Still, my OO isn’t great and I’m only 50~ pages in so I’m sure it’ll surpass my skill at some point, probably soon.

What I want to accomplish in February

Shows / Movies

Books & Manga
Street Fighter: The Ultimate Edition Book 2

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Finish my Social Network post….you stupid procrastinator (by you, I mean me).

Gaming
Finish Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)

Web Development and Design
Object Oriented Book (Finish?)
Start HTML5 and ASP.NET book

Other

Notes
Wondering if I should just buy a Nintendo 3DS when it comes out and play Zelda: Ocarina of Time on that.

I think I’m outta novels and comics to read…I brought home around 70 issues of the Flash from my parent’s house during X-Mas….went through them all while I was sick (that’s all I did was read in bed during the last day of my flu).

EPIC SITE – after watching and re-watching the Social Network, I’ve kind of lost…passion for my EPIC SITE. Reason being is that the purpose of an EPIC SITE is
1. To learn and do something with current technology.
2. To do a great job with a minimal amount of work/maintenance (user-managed content is key).
3. To make some money.
I can’t do 2 and 3….with my EPIC SITE idea, nor am I sure I can dedicate the necessary work, time, and maintenance to the site that I know it needs (based on the idea). So I’m also contemplating what ELSE I can do my EPIC SITE on….if I really can’t think of anything, I may just as well proceed with my current EPIC SITE idea but I don’t plan to decide that until…..April. Yes, April is when I will start dev on my EPIC SITE regardless of how much I’ve learned. Meaning, I’ll have to learn a lot in the next 2 months. But it’s completely doable. :) I should always set reasonable goals for myself…otherwise I just procrastinate!

Accomplishments #3.5 – Mid January 2011 Edition

Sunday, January 16th, 2011 at 7:56 pm

Oops – One day late! Maybe because I really don’t have anything to say. Most of my time has been dedicated to a CSS book (which I completed a few days ago).
I’m going to read my OOP (Object Oriented Programming) book and my HTML5 book…with my ASP.NET 4.0 book. Not quite sure what to do first…

Shows / Movies

Books & Manga

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Update Links section

Gaming
Finish Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)

Web Development and Design
Start (and Finished) my CSS book (CSS Mastery) – Done!

Finish my ASP.NET 3.5 book
Start my (other) CSS book

Other

Accomplishments #3 – January 2011 Edition

Saturday, January 1st, 2011 at 9:18 pm
What I accomplished in December

Shows / Movies
Re-watched Slam Dunk (anime 101 eps)

Books & Manga
Finish second Dark Angel novel (260~ pages)
Finish third Dark Angel novel (260~ pages)
Finish Death Note: Another Note story (176~ pages)

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Gaming
Have Street Fighter Tournament at work
Play GT5 at work

Web Development and Design

Other
Christmas Shopping, whew!

Notes
Not much done this month, the sickness took me out about 4-5 days in total using the time i had dedicated towards Zelda. Ah well. I got a lot of good reading this month, I guess that’s my main accomplishment this month.

What I want to accomplish in January

Shows / Movies

Books & Manga

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Update Links section

Gaming
Finish Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)

Web Development and Design
Finish my ASP.NET 3.5 book
Start my CSS book
Start my (other) CSS book

Other

Notes
My focus this month is my CSS book and Zelda. That’s it. I’ve been procrastinating both for so long. I’ve cleared my plate and I’m ready to start fresh on these two items.

Accomplishments #2.5 – Mid December 2010 Ediiton

Thursday, December 16th, 2010 at 3:07 am

Shows / Movies
Re-watched Slam Dunk (anime 101 eps) – Unplanned accomplishment
Watch Blu-Ray Toy Story Trilogy (and extras)
Watch Batman TAS and DVD Extras (low priority)
Watch Batman Beyond and DVD Extras (low priority)
RE: the 3 items above: Decided not to do these. I can do these any time and right now, with cable, it’s much more difficult to watch *my* stuff. It seems like this month was dedicated to the Food network -_-;

Books & Manga
Finish Reading 2 novel (260~ pages)Done!
Finish Reading 3 novel (260~ pages) – To Do

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Keep blogging! I slowed down a bit near the end of this month. – Doing good so far
Update Links section by Friday, Dec 17th, EoD – To do

Gaming
Finish Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) – To do
Play and be awesome at Gran Turismo 5 – In progress…
Hold Street Fighter 4 (and other games) tournament at work – To do – next week!

Web Development and Design
Finish my ASP.NET 3.5 book – To do
Start my CSS book – To do
Start my (other) CSS book
Start my HTML5 book
Work on my EPIC SITE

Other
Mega Man Tribute Artwork – To do…maybe

Notes
I’m pretty behind….I don’t know what I’ve been doing but it hasn’t been what I should be doing.

I’ve been watching a lot of Slam Dunk…101 episodes in 15 days still averages to about…7 episodes per day…which is like, 2 hours…so that’s a lot of time there.

I’m hoping to spend the next 2 days VERY productively and the rest of the month more productively than the beginning…it’ll be tough with all the holiday stuff incoming but there’s also more free time.