This morning, my alarm went off at 3:30 AM. It was 3:32 before I heard it. I showered shaved and was all dressed for work and studying at 4AM. I studied from 4 tll 6:30 and I feel like I got a lot done. I think this will work pretty good! Now I can make a little time for some beach and swimming and exercise during the daylight hours. We’ll see how I feel when suppertime rolls around….
Still no sign of Tica.

Last night, the OI Girl stopped by on her way home for work, I had chicken cooking on the grill and we had a nice dinner. Things were good. I’m pretty much over my cold and she’s getting over hers too.
After dinner and a little nap, she went home to feed her cat and called me as soon as she got home. Very upset. I went to her apartment as fast as I could. Her cat, Tica, had escaped through the screen and is missing. My girl is devastated, she was crying on my shoulder full blast, totally heartbroken. We walked around looking for Tica, but to no avail. We slept on the couch in the living room so that in case Tica came home, we could hear her.
She loves her cat, she needs her cat. It hurt me to see her so sad. I got up at 3:30 and looked again, and succeeded in waking up the thousands of dogs that live in the area. And the roosters.
I hope Tica can find her way home.

This is an older picture of Tica, she still looks the same, but has a pink nose now.

I recently calculated it would take 55 weeks to finish my course, I want to do it in 6 months, that’s 26 weeks. The problem is fitting my 3 hours of daily studying into my day. Also I haven’t been to the beach hardly at all either. Just study and work. So now I have a new plan:
I intend to go to bed at 8:30 or 9 PM, and get up at 3:30 AM and study till 6:30. Every day. That way, my 3 hours are done befrore anything else, and I can go to the beach after work, just like olden times.
The key is actually getting in bed NLT 9:00 PM. My problem is lack of prioritization. If I get in bed early, I can get up early.
I would really like to know what you think of this.

Friday Morning, the OI girl started gettng sick. She came home from work early. Friday afternoon I started getting sick. We were both sick all weekend and she’s takikng a sick day today. I, however, woke up this morning feeling OK, so I’m back at work. Perfect! Sick Friday afternoon, well just in time for a Monday morning!

I’m going to give up sugar. Or more specifically, candy. I’m a candy junkie. I was reading Anduin Andorians blog and she posted about giving up sugar, and describes it as an addiction. Well that’s me. I eat a whole pack of life savers at once. In fact, once I open up the package of any candy I eat the whole pack. That sounds like me in an addiction. When I used to drink, I never woke up with any booze in the house, I’d stay up and drink till it was all gone. When I smoked, I was a chainsmoker.
Many months ago I wrote here about wanting to loose weight. I went from 200 LBs to 185 LBs, but I’ve been stuck at 185 for almost the whole time. I wanted to get down to 175. That’s not heavy for me (I’m 6’1″ tall), but 175 is where I’d rather be. Maybe giving up sugar would help.
I’m going to give it a go.

I just finished another section of studying. It took a week. If I spend a week on each lesson, it will take 55 weeks to finish my course. I want to be done by June. I’ll have to pick up the pace a bit….

Things went well yesterday at the broadcast from the Ritz, I was kind of nervous, using an untested system to broadcast, but it worked well. Because of rain, I couldn’t leave any equipment outside. Because of the Ritz, the equipment can’t stay in the van, I usually set it up on a patio. Yesterday I broadcast using an adapter that lets me hook up a mixer to a cell phone. I broadcast using that. In the studio, I put a new telephone interface in and then called and went through the interface.
It went pretty well and The Ritz had good coffee, while it lasted. But they always let it run out. And the chairs were backbreakingly uncomfortable.Shoddy

This morning I’m leaving for work early, I have a broadcast from the Ritz, on-air at 8:45. You can hear it live here. I won’t be talking though, it will be speeches and stuff and one of our newsguys. (The link should open your windows media player)