What if

I would I do if I knew I could not fail? So many things. And I'm going to do all of it, too. Catharsis is the only sort of drug I get behind. 

Looking forward to watching Captain America this weekend. Should have watched it the previous weekend because this week's Marvel Agents of Shield contained major spoilers. Good thing I was never one to be too bothered by spoilers. A person told me Dumbledore died before I had the chance to read the book and I wasn't nearly as hysterical as some people got. 

Lazy sunday

Woke up early and did the usual Sunday morning run. Found out that going at a 8:3x per mile pace is just not in the cards for me yet. By the fourth mile I was struggling in spectacular fashion.

As always, it’s wonderful to see so many people on their fitness grind. Even if they’ve only got time to exercise on the weekends, it’s very much worth it isn’t it. Always treat and take care of yourself first; the other stuff will follow. Not so good having lots of money in the bank when you suffering from heart diseases now is it?

Stay fit; you owe it to yourself.

Hump day

We've had almost torrential levels of rain earlier this week and well so much for that because it looks to be a scorcher of a weekend (relative to San Francisco, of course). I don't particularly like running in the sun so I may have to push up my start time this Sunday. 

The past few evenings have been excellent now that baseball is back on the television. It's a lovelier day when you know there's around three hours of baseball to look forward to. 

It's good be back at work again after taking the previous week off for spring break. Knocked out a few blog posts for the car blog after taking a week off that as well. Sometimes we just need a break, don't we. 

I'm not happy about the HIMYM finale

The How I Met Your Mother series finale was an absolute let-down. I didn't like the mother had to die. I didn't like the producers threw away many years of Barney's character development (to me that baby scene was incredibly contrived). I didn't like that Ted got back together with Robin at the end when the entire 9th season set the audience up for Ted finally letting go of Robin. The pay-off simply isn't at all satisfactory both on a story and emotional level. 

I understand they shot the final scene during the first season, and the producers intended on using that scene no matter how long the show runs. But nine seasons is a very long time; things change, characters change. The intended ending just didn't fit the narrative that's been developed over so many years. Like I said, I understand it, but I'm not happy about it. 

Perspective

I woke up today in a first-world country, with a roof over my head, food on the table, and a healthy disposition. 

Nope, it isn't so bad at all. So many other has got it so much worse. 

I'm thankful. I'm lucky. 

No rest for the wicked

For me It doesn't literally mean no rest, though I bet many who utters the cliche is themselves in the midst of a heavy bout with sleep depravity, all the while performing some meaningful work or task. Me being an intense admirer of sleep obviously refuses to brave such frontiers, but rather the cliche of 'no rest for the wicked' is a sort of motivating cry to keep moving it along. It's to combat laziness that I admit creeps into my inner thoughts with far too frequency.

No I should not watch that movie I've already seen a hundred times, nor should I skip exercising for today. We've got a finite amount of time in this world and it's paramount to always be moving forwards, improving constantly, and having different experiences. Revisiting what I've already been and done is a tremendous waste of time. 

Rest is important, however. Sleep eight hours per day. At least.  

Spring break day one

Filed under 'things you didn't think you need until you had it': fast high-speed Internet. I recently switched from 6 Mbps AT&T DSL to 25 Mbps Comcast cable because I was absolutely shattering through AT&T's data caps (Comcast hasn't got any). All I can say is, wow: the speed delta is amazing. If I ever have to go back to slower speeds I'm going to despise it with great intensity. Perks of the first-world, for sure. 

Music is immensely important to me so I spent much of the day backing up my iTunes library onto an external hard-drive that will then get transported offsite. That way if for some horrible tragedy my place of living turns to wreckage (knock heavily on wood for this one), I'd still have my music. Yup, it's that crucial. 

The penultimate How I Met Your Mother episode aired tonight, and wow the amount of feels just keep increasing as we get towards the very end. I don't think I can handle the series finale next Monday.