Words in the CiTi

I have not updated my blog in forever. I have been cheating on it with girls like Twitter and Facebook, or as my dry cleaner calls it, The Facebook. A lot has happened over the course of a year, but strangely enough, as i look back on my previous posts, a lot of them still apply.

1. I had another birthday and it was great.
2. I did start training for my Triathlon, however it took a little break…for like a…year. I will get into that later.
3. I started my own DJ company that is actually going very well.

I’m too tired to talk about them now but I will post very soon.

Go Lakers!

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It’s an interesting question because for me, the question always implied that you did something spectacular. You were whisked away to some mysterious place, totally unexpected. Well the truth is, sometimes the best birthday can be the one that you don’t do anything on.

It is really hard to get some time to just do nothing. I have a job, a quickly growing company, a family, music, to do items, yard work, etc. I don’t know about you, but for me the hours in the day disappear very quickly. So when my wife asked, “What do you want to do?”. I flashback to being in Fresno for 2 days, working on websites and songlists, preparing for the party Saturday night, training a new DJ…

I replied, nothing.

Don’t get me wrong, we went out to brunch as a family, had a wonderful breakfast on Sunset and then we went home. I watched the first NFL championship game, grabbed my two year old, laid him on my chest and then we took a nap. 2 blissful hours of sleeping on the couch. I awoke and went to the store and bought the things necessary to make my homemade Beef wontons and chicken fried rice. I make everything from scratch by the way. We had a great dinner and then we relaxed with a little wine.

That’s it…nothing spectacular in the traditional sense. No running around, no gathering people for a dinner only to have to wait for them because they will undoubtedly be late. Just a very peaceful day with the family.

This was probably the best birthday I have had in a long time…

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We hope your year was a great as ours!  Here to next year!!

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Why did I start this again??? Oh yes, personal goal…???

Well, it was a pretty good week, I got in 3 days of training, but it was so hot that it was hard.  I may be a black man, but I’m not from Kenya. I can’t take all of this heat!  It was kind of a busy week so I really had to squeeze it in.  I got in 4 miles of running and then 2 days of weight training.  The weight training is apart of my normal week and I don’t plan to stop that just because I added some more intense cardio.  I typically don’t run more than 2 miles so even adding the 1 additional mile feels like someone is on my back, yelling at me, why pouring hot cocoa down my shorts.  I have not even attempted to swim or get on my bike, although, the 2 flat tires may have something to do with that.  Slow and steady. That’s how I roll, or walk… (more…)

Tags: achievement, cycling, personal goal, running, sprint, triathalon, weight loss
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I have had a suicidal dream for the past couple of months to subject myself to enormous amounts of pain and suffering all for nothing. I have watched these crazy people jump in a 50 degree ocean and swim a mile, just to come back to land an get on a bike and do what??? Ride 25 miles…but wait there’s more.  Once you get off the bike, don’t stop…keep RUNNING another 8-10 miles…

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Tags: achievement, cycling, personal goal, running, sprint, triathalon, weight loss
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I was reading through my good friend Linda Latta’s blog the other day where she had written a very insightful piece about acknowledging signs. It got me thinking about fate and divine intervention. Being of Jewish faith, we have always had a pessimistic outlook on signs. Signs can be ambiguous in nature, easily misinterpreted, or just plain wrong. Out of all the practices of the faith, there is one idea that I believe is something all should live by.

DON’T WAIT FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN, MAKE IT HAPPEN.
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Tags: God, Linda Latta, lindalatta.com/blog, procrascination, Signs
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Are we done yet? What a week I’ve had. If not the show, than the newly updated Check One Two Website (It’s almost done), and of course, Hanukkah. Don’t get me wrong, I love Hanukkah. Before I converted, it was the only Jewish Holiday I knew of, which is funny because as Jewish holidays go, this is literally at the bottom of the list.

More importantly though, it’s a time for family, and because of the distance between Christmas and Hanukkah this year, it has really allowed us to focus on “our week”. It doesn’t hurt that all of the stores are fully stocked with product too. See, there are benefits to being Jewish. (more…)

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Trackback Tutorial

This is a wonderful page to help you understand when to use a trackback and when to use a pingback. The blogger also allows you to test to see if it works by testing it directly on their blog! Thanks to them.

P.S. If you use wordpress, as I do, all you have to do is copy the trackback into the actual post and it does the rest. Very cool feature for wordpress users.

CiTi

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I’m been so busy lately that I can’t even write a simple blog, BUT, now that my friend Linda has got hers going, I couldn’t just sit here with a blank page. I’m a web designer without a webpage. Stupid. My next project is to get my site up, along with 3 others I’m working on. See you soon.

BTW – Check out my friends page..she’s a very talented writer.

Linda Latta’s Blog

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