{"id":479,"date":"2008-07-15T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/lego-chipotle-abs-motivation-traffic-importance\/"},"modified":"2008-07-15T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T16:43:00","slug":"lego-chipotle-abs-motivation-traffic-importance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/lego-chipotle-abs-motivation-traffic-importance\/","title":{"rendered":"lego, chipotle, abs, motivation, traffic, importance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on a project at home that required some very specific shapes &#8211; and I had one from an old Lego set that fit the bill.  Needing more, I checked out the Lego site and found I was able to order specific legos &#8211; in any quantity I wanted.  It was way cool.<\/p>\n<p>Finally convinced my room-mate to go to Chipotle recently.   He thought the burrito was okay, but thought they put too much rice in it.     I, of course, ate my burrito in it&#8217;s entirety and enjoyed every morsel.<\/p>\n<p>I bought an &#8220;abs ball&#8221; a while ago &#8211; essentially a weighted ball used to enhance abs strengthening exercises.   It&#8217;s been mocking me for a while in the living room and I haven&#8217;t had the motivation to try it out yet.  On Monday, I fired up the included DVD and tried it out. <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t really get a good workout from the ball &#8211; but I think that was because I was taking notes from the DVD as I never wanted to watch it again.  The fitness dude on the dvd was a complete tool and seriously annoying to listen to.  I did the exercises and took notes &#8211; I&#8217;ll run though the exercises again tonight without the DVD.   I saved it, though, as the DVD also has an advanced program on it too.   I suspect it&#8217;s the same guy.  Update: I just looked at the website for this product and found they won an award for the DVD!   Proof positive that people will give other people awards for everything.<\/p>\n<p>Motivation &#8211; I lack it.  Really tough to get and stay motivated here at work.  We&#8217;ve got some big projects, but I&#8217;m finding it difficult to stay on track.  I&#8217;m getting stuff done, but not as much as I should be.<\/p>\n<p>The drive to work this morning saw me going the speed limit and slightly above.  And the traffic was flying past me like I was standing still.  Normally, I&#8217;m a little casual with speed limits but with the cost of gas I&#8217;m a little more careful about my speed.  Plus, we were all going to work &#8211; why would someone be in a hurry to do that?<\/p>\n<p>I got a few &#8220;high importance&#8221; emails today from people that were wondering what to do with the sudden increase in a particular type of spam.   I&#8217;ve never really understood a high important flag on an email &#8211; am I suddenly going to drop everything else in favor of that one email?  Not likely &#8211; especially when I get several at once.   The spam had a heading about &#8220;urgent fund transfer&#8221; and one of the users actually asked if it was legitimate.  Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s it for now &#8211; starting to get busy this morning.  Later&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-2701989397241532885?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on a project at home that required some very specific shapes &#8211; and I had one from an old Lego set that fit the bill. Needing more, I checked out the Lego site and found I was able to order specific legos &#8211; in any quantity I wanted. It was way cool. 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