Thursday, November 30, 2006

Observation of the evening...

ok, so it's not the most major benefit in the world, but the cold water that you get out of the tap on a nice cold evening is some of the most refreshing chilly water you could ever drink. It's a good thing.

Fridays are the off day so there'll be more exposition. I promise. Man it's nice to be able to blog again though.

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08-13-06_0954.jpg, originally uploaded by bthemn.

This is my normal sunday morning work view now. Running camera for the church web stream... Real exciting stuff. More when i get home tonight... I've been stuck in shoots for advent puff all day. I will say that all me the church ladies have been out in force this week making the building look festive. It's really quite pretty.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

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11-29-06_1156.jpg, originally uploaded by bthemn.

Look... It's the holiday jalapeno's at the burrito place near my office

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11-29-06_1009.jpg, originally uploaded by bthemn.

The view outside the window this morning. It's supposedly going to be zero this evening. Wonderful. This state has such weird weather

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11-29-06_1005.jpg, originally uploaded by bthemn.

Commodore mentioned that he hoped i'd be back to photo blogging (ok he didn't actually say that, it was more along the lines me boring meeting self portraits... We'll see about that. In the meantime it's an icy snowy mess here today. So maybe you can see some of that in the background

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

new beginnings...

I've blogged in the past, but been sidelined the past few months for various reasons. I'm back though and a little more anonymous. I'm hoping that this blog will be a way to help document some changes that I want to make and just my life in general. I'm a past Ironman. Ironman emeritus? I don't know, but I think that at some point you lose the right to call yourself an Ironman and it's been four years since my last attempt at the distance. I hope to get back there.

As I've fallen away from where I was when I finished Ironman Wisconsin, I've watched my weight go up, the business in my life increase and just over the last few days, an element of depression enter back into my life. I need to change. I want to change, I'm just not completely sure how to go about it. How I go about finding my motivation... to get beyond "Common Man Syndrome" as my friend Commodore would say. I think I can do it, and I know that I have done it. It's just a matter of getting back on the right track.

What's with Reaching for the View? I just always feel like I'm always trying to go one step beyond where I am. I'm always hunting for some kind of advancement. Maybe it's a matter of 'the grass is always greener'. I'm sure that's there, but I've just always generally been on a self-improvement quest. Whether it's trying to get out of debt (my wife and I have been working Dave Ramsey's plan for a couple of years now and now that we've found some traction due to career development hope to be out of debt in the next year), Trying to learn more about the movie industry (someday I want to be making films. Someday) or just trying to work on my body. Will I ever actually take off the weight I talk about trying to take off?

My new title though, is mostly an attempt to create something that allows me to be as all over the map as my mind usually is. I have a hard time pigeon-holing into just writing about triathlon or life or movies, it just has a way of all blending together.

I hope you come along for the ride.