I am Greg's Wasted Potential

It's Monday. Monday's are for starting things. It's also September 12, 2011. Yesterday was supposed to be a day of reflection and rememberance. Although I find myself of the same opinion as Paul Krugman.

Let's begin.

I turned 30 in February and realized I was pissed about everything. My country, my work, my life. I don't know what to do about the first, other than become another screaming jackass on the internet. Hence the blog. I won't say which way I lean politically. I'm hoping that the seven people who read this will be able to figure it out.

I will put up posts about politics. I hope they are intelligent and thought provoking. Failing that, I hope they anger the people I think should be angry about whatever I am ranting about.

As to the other two, they are roughly the same. I am exactly the title of the blog. I am become fat and intellectually lazy. I am angry about my lot in life. It is time to change things. To that end I have a fitness goal, three professional/intellectual goals, and a crazy dream.

I have been working out consistantly since a week before my birthday. I have lost 20 pounds. I have 50 more to go.

There are studies that indicate it takes ninety days to establish good habits. I have done that at the gym. This blog is an attempt to do so with the three professional goals.

The first is to become a certified network professional. I need to pass a bunch of tests from Microsoft. I had a good start on the studying but have failed to follow through. Time to fix that. A public log may help. I hope. Maybe.

The second is to get serious about my writing. It's time to be professional. I want to supplement my income. I want people to see the twisted wreckage that is my imagination laid out on the page, or computer, or e-reader. To do that I need to actually use the time I have scheduled to write, to write. Ninety days. Habits. I will probably repeat that.

The third is to go back to school. I want a degree in physics. Condensed matter most likely. I think one of the most important things that could happen is the discovery of a room temperature super conductor. Or FTL. That would be cool. Not condensed matter research, however.

I wanted to start school again this past month but couldn't swing the cost. See how goal 1 and 2 feed into goal three. I think a douchbag somewhere called that synergy.

The crazy dream is exactly that. I don't have anything to say execept it involves a bike.

That is all.