Yo ho ho and a bottle of 4Loko

So a lot of changes have rolled out in the last week or so, give or take.

The biggest and most obvious one is that I am a homeowner. Picture a gigantic fucking asterisk on that as it will in truth be roughly 30 years until I actually own the place outright. in the meantime the bank owns it and I pay rent to the bank. That’s ok though, its a step. I went back and forth a lot over whether or not I should actually buy. I mean yes at the end of the day you have something to show for it but at the same time you get certain things that you otherwise wouldn’t by renting. The two biggest items you get are the freedom to cut the cord and the freedom from responsibility more or less. Fridge breaks? Not my problem to replace it. Accept a job in sri lanka? Great, I can do that. On the other hand my mortgage will be over 100 a month less than my current rent. and over 150 a month less than what the increased rent would have been had I not renewed my lease. For a lot more space. Admittedly the association dues changes that situation so that I will be putting out more per month but its enough that I am comfortable with it.

The other big change happened today. About a year ago I started the process of getting my CAPM which is an intro certification in project management. Well today I finally took the test and I passed. I learned a lot of different things as I was going through the process actually. Some of them were, obviously, about project management but some of the more interesting items were about myself. One thing I definitely learned is that I actually do better when I don’t tell people my goals. Instead I just do what I want to do and then present the results. I have mentioned it before but it was wildly apparent in this case. I honestly wish I had never told a soul about the damn thing before I finished. One of the other things I learned is that project management might not be for me. Or it might. Could go either way. But hey, looks good on a resume and as I told the lady it never hurts to invest in yourself.

As I described myself to a coworker: highly intelligent and observant, criminally low motivation at times. So here’s to overcoming some low motivation.

Finished Arkham Origins earlier this week. Pretty good game actually but you can tell its not from the same team or writers. I did like it enough to actually purchase the DLC which I thought was exceptionally well done and well written. It might have been fairly short but I thought it was worth the money. Started playing Remember Me and realized that while the concept of the game is amazingly good the execution is amazingly bad. The mechanics, the camera, the  fighting…. its just not good. We will see whether I can power through to actually finish this game but so far the prospects are not good.

One of the big things I need to take care of soon (in addition to moving & furnishing and whatever) is getting the bike into the shop. At the end of last season the front fork got seriously crunchy which is pretty darn bad. However now that the down payment on my condo is done (ouch by the way), I can set aside the money to get that fixed and fixed right so that i can start riding again. Its a beautiful day and man do I wish I was out and about on the bike.

Now I think I should probably get back to drinking a few beers in celebration and packing.  Or something.

On to the next set of goals and all that.

One Response to “Yo ho ho and a bottle of 4Loko”

  1. Trevnor the Traveller Says:

    Hey that’s great news about the CAPM; I didn’t know about that. Looking forward to seeing you!