Jun 2008, 230 entries

bustermcleod: 8:36pm Delicious meal at Thomas St Bistro with Kellianne and Erin, talking about food!

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bustermcleod: 8:36pm Picnic, champagne, salmon, arboretum, peeing, awesomness!

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There are a lot of moving parts in my life at the moment, I just need to get them down on paper so that I can make sure they're balanced.

Work at the Robot Co-op.  I've been there for about 4 years, we went from scrappy beginners to building a successful and profitable network of many social networking sites.  I work with friends.  We work 4 days a week, and work on a product about achieving your life goals.  It definitely makes achieving life goals easier when you are thinking about it every day.

Work at McLeod.  It's been around for a little longer than 1.5 years, and has continued to evolve during that entire time.  I'm still just as focused on making it a home for extraordinary living through art, technology, and collaboration as I was when it started. 

Becoming healthier.  Drinking less, doing slow weights once or twice a week, running with my Nike+ once a week, bike riding, and just thinking about health for the year of 2008 has gone a long way to living a healthier life. 

Getting married to the one I love.  Kellianne is the best teammate I could ever have hoped for.  She gets excited about the things that excite me, and I am excited about the things that excite her.  Together, we're stronger than when we're apart.  We're getting married on October 4th, and I think I just finished the wedding website but it won't really be launched for a couple more weeks.

Balancing friends and the social life.  I feel like I have great friends.  People who want the best for me, and people that I want the best for.  I made a book of friends to help remind me of the importance of long-term friendships, as well as new blossoming friendships. 

Continuing education.  In my continued self-education, I've been exploring a lot of self-helpy-like books over the last few years.  The recent focus has been on emotions.  In quick succession I've read Emotions Revealed, Mastery, and currently What Every Body Is Saying.  They are really exciting and I'm learning a lot about how emotions, body language, calmness, focus, habits, patience, and expression are all tied together.  I just bought Mastery for each of my groomsmen, as required reading material.  It's a great book.

In between the rest of life's events, I've been learning a lot about running a business, about managing personalities, about accepting people for who they are, about respecting people, about the law, about getting things done, about making it up and making it happen, about branding, about financial responsibility, about enjoyment, about the plateau and the dip, about rewards in themselves, about persistence, about self-medication, about sincerity and authenticity, about living a well-balanced life, and about finding work that one loves.

A lot happening in life this year, all moving ahead.  I am going towards it, and living it is the reward in itself.

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bustermcleod: 8:36pm Talking about Vegas at my neighbor Ingrid's after a few drinks on the roof.

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bustermcleod: Reading three unrelated books in a row that act like a trilogy: Emotions Revealed, Mastery, and now What Every Body Is Sayng.

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at ps1, oh how i loved this! thanks to todd for driving

bustermcleod: 8:36pm Latest day of year celebrated on the BBQingest roof in Seattle. I'm on my second hamburger and bottle of vino.

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the sun sets at 9:11:34pm, later than on the solstice.