http://qbrain.randomnonsense.com Finance, Food, Fitness Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:12:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have struggled to figure out what I want to do with my life. I have given it a lot of thought, and other then the abstract “become independently wealthy” I have failed to find a life goal. So I must be playing the wrong game. Maybe a life ... http://qbrain.randomnonsense.com/2008/08/17/general/goals/ As far as I am concerned they are. The swimming is done, except for the 10k, and the swimming is all I care about. In four years time, I hope they take some steps to improve the swimming coverage. Rowdy Gaines either needs to accurately announce what ... http://qbrain.randomnonsense.com/2008/08/17/swimming/the-olympics-are-over/ I follow the budgeting for dummies method. I save $X every month, and whatever is left over can safely be spent. That way I am sure to meet my savings goals, and I don’t have a lot of overhead keeping track of what I am spending my money ... http://qbrain.randomnonsense.com/2008/08/16/finance/why-budget/ Swimmers come out of the wood work during the olympics. Once every four years, swimmers get a ton of press from the Olympics. So I am going to share the olympic swimmer blogs. http://www.swimroom.com/?page_id=87 Mark Warkentin’s blog, he is the open water swimmer, is quite entertaining. Since he is ... http://qbrain.randomnonsense.com/2008/08/10/swimming/olympic-swimming-blog/ We went to the Restaurant Week Preview dinner at Chamberlain’s Fish Market last night with my mother and her husband. Dinner was about twice as good as I expected and the wine pairings were not quite as good as I expected. Chamberlain’s is easy to get to in Addison and ... http://qbrain.randomnonsense.com/2008/08/10/food/chamberlains-fish-market/ I have noticed that I am much happier in general now then I can ever remember being. Two major contributions are obviously my enjoyment of work and my completion of my degree. First work. I don’t love my job, but I don’t dread Mondays in the least, and when ... http://qbrain.randomnonsense.com/2008/08/07/general/happy/ This weekend I bought a foam roller. I had read about foam rollers for a while in different workout blogs and fitness publications, but I had no idea what they were. Only that foam rollers were used for self message. This weekend I finally broke down and ... http://qbrain.randomnonsense.com/2008/08/05/swimming/foam-roller/ The title says it all. What I have learned today, is that soft size is not hard size. The nuggets of wisdom that are acquired during the course of a day are fascinating. http://qbrain.randomnonsense.com/2008/08/05/general/soft-size-is-not-hard-size/ I am currently reading Work Less, Live More. The book is about early semi-retirement, and this brings up a fundamental question I think about all the time. WTF do I want to do? If I had unlimited funds and unlimited free time, I still have no idea what I ... http://qbrain.randomnonsense.com/2008/08/03/finance/work-less-live-more/ As I am working through C++ programming problems my C++ Primer Plus book, this story pops up on my news reader. I think the same justifications hold for a traditional CS education. You might not actually use the knowledge directly, but it creates a basis of understanding that will help ... http://qbrain.randomnonsense.com/2008/07/20/education/good-advice/