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Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise… so what does up all night, sleep all day make? Miserable! Its the beginning of my vacation – I have two weeks off… We don’t have any plans to travel. So what did I do last night? I was up until almost 4am… and this morning I feel like I was hit in the face by Mike Tyson.

I’m sure that someone actually having been hit in the face by Mike Tyson could tell me differently – but until they do, I’m assuming this is exactly what it would feel like the next day. My head is pounding, my forehead is tight, my sinuses are completely stuffed with pressure, and my eyes feel like they are going to pop out of my face.

I know this is from being up all night because its the second day I’ve done this! But no more!!! Tonight I will be in bed before midnight… 🙂

That’s right – my big secret is that I don’t LOVE Red Velvet Cake – I LOVE creme cheese frosting. I would prefer strawberry cake with creme cheese frosting anyday over red velvet. That’s it

– my big secret. Maybe on my next birthday, I’ll get strawberry cake with creme cheese frosting.

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Just got a quote – I don’t know why nobody puts this online – its fustrating! Here is my quote:

4040 + K5A (this is the water softener and the reverse osmosis system)

$3895 – softener
$1260 – reverse osmosis

$5155 total

after a $100 off based on the fact that we have the plumbing already done and a $75 discount for getting both softener and reverse osmosis system at the same time it comes to:

$4980

Add sales tax – $302.29

Total out the door:

$5282.29.

If we pay cash – there is another $50 off and if we had purchased on the spot there was another $50 – so it was possible to get the whole system for $5182.29.

You know how Google has a modified logo every day or so? Today’s logo is to celebrate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi’s 118th birthday.  He is the guy that discovered vitamin C. That’s his impact on the world – and 118 years after he was born, we are still talking about him and his impact.

Its 2:30 in the morning – I’m working on installing Windows 8 on my laptop and listening to Beautiful Things by Gungor… translation = I’m sitting here pondering the meaning of my life.

Its interesting that we seek the meaning of life in general. I don’t know that I’m so concerned about the meaning of life in general – I’m more concerned with the meaning of MY life. Does that make me narcissistic?

What mark am I leaving on the world? Will Google (or whatever company exists at the time) be compelled to put my name on a logo on my 118th birthday? And if so, what would that mark be?

I don’t think I’m making a lasting mark like discovering vitamin C or going to the moon or inventing something cool or being a revolutionist or anything really. Nobody is going to look back on my life as it looks today and say “Wow, that guy was amazing!”

Does that matter? Do I need to make a lasting impacting change on a global scale? On an episode of Mad Men tonight a wife told her husband that disappointment was the way of the ambitious person. That’s not an exact quote – but the point is ambition is a bitch that never lets you enjoy the good times.

Is it sinful to be ambitious? Is the desire to change the world an ambitious desire? If ambition is sinful – then I would suggest it cannot be put in you by God. Does God call us to change the world? If yes, then that is not ambition or ambition is not sinful. I can’t decide.

Regardless, I want to be remembered! I want to make an impact. God makes beautiful things out of the dust… out of us… but can I make anything worth looking at? Much more, can I make something beautiful? What does my mark look like in 50 years?

Moved my site to the new datacenter – as long as I didn’t mess it up!

BTW – if you are reading this, then it looks like I got it right…

I’m not sure why I even have to ask – but what is going on in the world we live in when I have to continue to manage pictures the same way we did almost 10 years ago? You take pictures with your camera – then you have to connect your camera to your computer – upload the pictures from the camera to the computer – which means you have to decide where you want to put the pictures. You can create a folder named by the event or date or whatever – copy all of your pictures to the folder – and then what? You have to install a program like picasa to manage them locally – then you have to manually upload pictures to the web… Why is this so painful? Every picture you take today is automatically tagged with the date taken, the time taken, and if you are using a cell phone like the HTC Evo with an 8meg camera

– then its also geotagged with the location. Since the average parent taking pictures of their kids can be very happy with the quality from their smart phone – this can be SUPER SIMPLE! Just have the images uploaded AS WE TAKE THEM to an online service like Picasa. But take it the next step – don’t ask me what “folder” I want to put the picture in. Use the information already in the photo – location, time, date to ‘tag’ the photo like we tag an email in gmail. Think how quickly you could search your pictures – no more trying to find an event from a few years ago searching through folders for a few hours – just put the location in the search box and BAM! There are your photos from that location. If I want to see all pictures from Christmas 2008 – I should be able to do that without having to manage folders and uploads and blah, blah, blah… I should just type Christmas 2008 and see them. Then if I want to see all Christmas photos I have regardless of year – just remove 2008 from the search windows and BAM! There they are! This isn’t rocket surgery Google – make my picasa offering cloud enabled! It just shouldn’t be this difficult!!! Am I right here or what?

Google gave me a chromebook – its like

a netbook but with Google Chrome OS. Why? Because I asked for one! Seriously – you can read move about how I got it on my weight loss blog I Quit… Again! I’m planning on keeping track on just how I use this thing – what I like and what I don’t – all right here on Sackrider.org!