managing stress in a fast-paced world

Okay folks, I know what I want to be, but what does everyone else want to be?

btw, I want to be a bbq man, either that or a fisherman, at least for now.

As if walking too much lately hasn’t been tough enough on my feet, I got stung by something and now my left foot is totally swollen. My sandals or shoes don’t fit and my foot kinda feels like a dead log, it’s spreading too… the other day it was just the toe, now it’s like the top 1/2 of my foot.

1:20pm I added a picture of my foot, see the left toes? those are normally smaller than the ones next to it, and my foot looks fat. I also realized why it hurts to walk, the bottom sole of my foot is swollen too! If it doesn’t get better after today I’m going to the doctor.

I’ve been feeling like my life has been on autopilot lately, during my commutes it seems like I just space out and sometimes I look up and wonder where I am and when did that car get in front of me.

On another note, I had a pretty long hump day this week, see I woke up at 5am to go fishing with some guys I’ve never met before. Nice guys, I learned a few things from them. Around 9:30am I packed up and left for work, and then finally I came home at 10pm. I was so tired, I fell right asleep.

I bought yet another folding bike for my sister, she seems to really like mine and it was her birthday yesterday. I got her the Dahon Speed P8 I really like the Big Apple tires it came with, I’m gonna pickup a pair for the Jetstream P8.

broken ipod too… my ipod screen has developed a horizontal line on the display, that really sucks.

I don’t know what is going on, but I had another hard drive fail on me the other night. It’s a 160GB Seagate model which I picked up less than a year ago for cheap… It had on it about 50GB of pictures I’ve taken this year so far and I was just plugging it in to start backing them up to DVD!

Luckily I had committed myself to duplicating my photos manually onto a 2nd drive and that one still worked fine. I’m burning my discs now and looking into that home RAID setup again.

Everyday when I wake up, I can’t help but think about… [blank]

I’ve come to the conclusion that I am not a friendly person…

Monday evening the Pham family went out to dinner at Maggiano’s Little Italy to celebrate mom’s birthday. We are family style, although the kids had to school the parents on not filling up on bread and how to ask for 4th’s so you can bring stuff home.

I guess I’ve been in a bad mood lately, today someone asked if I was okay…

I have to say that when I get in a bad mood, it can be a 180 degree change from my normal self. And to those who don’t know me very well, or have never seen me at my worst, I can understand how it might be a bit of a shock. What it’s really about is the level at which I get like this. It takes alot to push my buttons and maybe that changes if I’m having a bad day or not. I guess everyone has their good and bad days. It just seems like there are more bad ones lately.

Great America did something different this year, they had 3 days of fireworks, so I photographed them the Saturday and Sunday before the 4th.