krisguy's web life

I guess this one is for me and my psyche, but I'm gonna take the world along for a ride.

I am a man stuck in a mid-life crisis at the age of 33. My passion in life is using technology to make people happy and showing people how to do it, which is why I work for AT&T. I'm a father of two, and I spend time every day gaining energy from my boys. I'm married to a woman that lets me see herself without fear. This seems like a great life, right?

It is, but there needs to be more. I'm feeling very trapped right now, both by diabetes and by lack of time to pursue things like programming and language learning.

I took a real observation of my life, and I am not getting any fresh human perspective in my life. My 2 best friends don't ever talk to me, I have to not spend time working on projects because I have to stay with my wife because she's too afraid to try to make friends and we don't have any way to get a break from the kids.

Pity party aside, I am going to make some changes for MYSELF. First, I'm keeping a written diabetes diary, logging everything from sleep, food, exercise, and my routine. This is going to be done for two reasons: more permanent record, and to serve as the basis for my diabetes log.

Second, I'm taking time at work to make sure that my skills get better. I'm going to work on making sure that I remember that most people don't know what I can do on a phone, and that it takes steps to get there.

The last thing is that I will try to talk to more people every day, in real life or online.

I know if I can do these three things, everything else will be done well.

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Talking about ideas for web and mobile based diabetes logging system.

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I'm glad Comedy Central keeps exploiting Chapelle's Show, it's still some of the best social comedy ever.

I think I need a break from actively trying to keep up with social networking, so it's time to start reading again. Dickens or the Bard?

This has how my mind has been for the last several months. Stuck on that 140 character limit, try to write insightful thoughts. It's really a great exercise in learning how to write great, catching openings, but backing up a great opening with worthwhile content is the key. That is where I have been lacking for a long time. My plan is to do more reading and writing instead of working on learning programming and Japanese.

With more practice, I hope that the 140 character limit won't get me.

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I'm trying to figure out how to get some structure back in my life. I'm not talking about physical discipline (although that would be a huge help), or mental discipline, but emotional discipline.

I have been so starved for human contact I don't really know how to talk to people anymore. I really feel like my family is poisoning my happiness right now, especially my wife. It's bleeding into my job. I can't stand my coworkers and the rampant laziness they exhibit. My best friend has fallen off the face of the earth. Every call, e-mail, message, gets no response.

My online compatriots have all fractioned off to different services, none of which I can access well on my phone. When I do get in front of a decent computer, I fall asleep because it's so late in the day.

I want to be a mobile developer, but with the long hours and my family, I don't have any time to devote to it.

I feel like I have no dreams left. I'm a zombie, craving some positive human contact. I doubt I will find any soon.

Back to my day at work, just plodding along.

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I'm sitting in a training class for AT&T this morning. I love the people in this class, but the training is late. Most everything that is shown in these classes is good information, but about 2-3 months behind. When I get a phone, I have 90 percent of the phone's features working within 48 hours.

I hope my trainer keeps things light.

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