Shadow Boxing Day

Punxsatawney Phil didn't see his shadow yesterday, but that doesn't mean you can't.

If the day after Christmas is Boxing Day, the day after Groundhog Day must be Shadow Boxing Day. It's a day devoted to self-examination and intention setting.

It's been a month since many people set new year's resolutions. To those who have followed through, you have my admiration. For the rest of us, this is a day to sit down and have a frank look at why we don't do the things we plan. We'll get inside our enemy's head and psych him out. The shadow's had the upper hand and dealt us some blows, but this is the day for some fancy footwork and a surprise strike.

Today is the day we'll shine a light on what holds us back, knocking the shadow out of the way and taking charge of the situation. Not only will we do this, but I will do this and you will do this. Only I can knock out my own shadows; only you can knock out your own shadows.

Now go do what you've been putting off. When you're done, share it with the world. Brag about winning the fight with your shadow. It will give you confidence for the next round.

i2Tones

Procrastination end #1: Dropped my car off for repairs.

Procrastination end #2: Uploaded and arranged photographs from December and January. This image is from the My Morning Jacket show on 1/13. One secret of producing good photographs is to take a lot of photographs and ignore the bad ones. I sent my best five (out of 159) to the band's website; one of my pictures is the thumbnail for the Denver shows.

Sno-B-Gone

5 to 50 in 24 hours. Colorado's a meteorologic sports car.

Breakfast Pun

If someone only eats Rice Krispies in the morning for several months and then goes through a phase of eating only Corn Flakes followed by several months of morning devotion to Raisin Bran, they practice cereal monogamy.

Shadow Boxing Day: Accounting

My accomplishments on this Shadow Boxing Day:

1. Write about Shadow Boxing Day.
2. Start a load of laundry.
3. Drop off car to get headlight fixed.
4. Get exercise by walking back home.
5. Start another load of laundry.
6. Upload and organize photographs.
7. Shower.
8. Get more exercise by walking back to mechanic's.
9. Start another load of laundry.
10. Carry funky uncomfortable couch from living room to dumpster.
11. Clean mud in entry way.
12. Vacuum.
13. Rearrange living room to account for lack of couch.
14. Finish Egil's Saga.

I've had a bit of a headache for a few hours, so I've been ending my day as I began it: reading e-mail and posting to LiveJournal. I didn't do any side project programming today, but I'll let that slide on the grounds that I did a bunch of programming this week while not twiddling my thumbs waiting for my laptop to stop swapping. Overall, I declare victory.