I have reached 10×115 8×135 6×155 6×155 6×155 8×135. This is a baseline of the program/regime I am running. At least I am back to a starting point that can be followed and documented. Long way to get back on track though.
That is the current price tag. Not easy but very doable.
Right now two valid options:
...sobering up in Vienna for a few days and then going back to finish it off. I will post a picture soon.
Wow! So my best effort was 10×115 8×135 6×155 3×155 3×155 8×135 yesterday. I have fallen back pretty far, but I am going to re-focus. I should be back to old form fairly quickly.
It has been awhile since I have been able to get on this site and write anything. A little depressing actually. I haven’t been very successful at making any headway through the Bible and my chest (i.e. bench press maximum) as atrophied to high school levels. Time to reprioritize and start taking some action again!
Jul 28 02:18 PM US/Eastern
British tycoon Richard Branson on Monday unveiled a futuristic aircraft that will ferry tourists to the edge of heaven as part of Virgin Galactic’s much-anticipated space program.
The aircraft – WhiteKnightTwo – was rolled out for invited guests and media at an early morning ceremony in the Mojave desert, north of Los Angeles, at the headquarters of aerospace firm Scaled Composites.
The high-altitude aircraft, also named “Eve” in honor of Branson’s mother, will act as the mothership for the spacecraft Spaceship Two, which in turn will launch in midair and send two crew and six passengers hurtling into space.
The first flights of WhiteKnightTwo are expected to take place later this year, with Spaceship Two being attached for a maiden flight sometime in 2009.
Virgin Galactic is hoping to send its first paying customers into suborbital space some 110 kilometers (70 miles) above the earth in 2010. The company has said more than more than 200 passengers have already signed up for the first flights, which will cost 200,000 dollars each.
“The rollout of WhiteKnightTwo takes the Virgin Galactic vision to the next level and continues to provide tangible evidence that this most ambitious of projects is not only for real but is making tremendous progress towards our goal of safe commercial operation,” Branson said in a statement.
Branson said the decision to name the launch vehicle after his mother reflected the pioneering spirit of his space tourism venture.
“We are naming it ‘Eve’ after my mother, Eve Branson, but also because it represents a first and a new beginning, the chance for our ever growing group of future astronauts and other scientists to see our world in a completely new light,” Branson added.
In an interview with CNN, Branson later said that he and members of his family would be among the first wave of space travelers, and admitted he expected to be nervous at take-off.
“I’m going up myself, and I’m sure my stomach is going to turn, my children, my parents are going up,” Branson said.
“There’s going to be an element of nervousness, but it will be I think the journey of a lifetime .. So, you know, you’ve got to have a little bit of nervousness. It’s natural.”
WhiteKnightTwo boasts a wingspan 140 feet (43 meters) and is the world’s largest carbon composite aircraft, Virgin Galactic said.
With a maximum altitude of more than 50,000 feet (15,240 meters), the twin-fuselage craft will be able to support up to four daily spaceflights, the company added.
WhiteKnightTwo was designed and built by Scaled Composites, a California-based aerospace company run by engineer Burt Rutan.
In July last year, three people were killed after a rocket being developed by the company in connection with the Virgin Galactic program exploded.
My comment: I predict I am about 10 years away from this goal.
I received this fortune today, a little frustrating because I am already putting in about 70 hours a week but I guess I can always squeeze in a little more. I do feel like something big is about to happen in my life. We will see.
25.
a. One of the children of Israel (Zimri) wanted everyone to meet a woman he liked from Mid’i-an-it-ish (Coz’bi). However, she wasn’t really welcomed at the camp and Zimri and Coz’bi were speared with a javelin.
b. Phin’e-has, the guy that did the spearing was awarded the covenant of peace by God for executing the killing of Zimri and Coz’bi.
26.
a. The earth opened her mouth and swallowed up Da’than and A-bi’ram for being famous in the congregation.
b. This chapter is utilized as yet another sort of documented census of the children of Israel as God instructed Moses to account for every child twenty years old and older, all that were able to go to war in Israel.
c. Moses allocated land based on the size of the various families.
27.
a. The daughters of Ze-lo’phe-had were upset that they did not get any land because their father had died but had no sons to carry on the family name. After talking it over with God, Moses decided it was right to give the women some land and established rules about this scenario in case it happened again.
b. Through a ritual, God empowered Joshua to be the shepard of the children of Israel and the children were too obedient to him.
28.
a. Various offerings for different reasons are outlined, God requested some strong wine be used as the drink offering.
b. God continues (through Moses) to explain numerous more animal sacrifices that should be performed and convoked around.
29.
a. Apparently the seventh month of the year is the time that a lot more sacrificing is done and the details are explained in this chapter.
b. Through Moses, God explains that these things need to be done: set up the feasts, maintain all the vows, perform freewill offerings, burnt offerings, meat offerings, drink offerings and peace offerings. Basically, God wanted a lot of offerings and loyalty.
30.
a. If a man vows something to God, then a man is obligated to that vow.
b. If a woman vows something to God, then it is only a vow if the man of the house (her father or husband) allows the vow. If a man allows the vow of the woman, then it has to be adhered too.
It is a little disconcerting to me that God required so many animals to be sacrificed back in the day. A lot of slaughtering/sacrificing going on in the Old Testament.
...this goal is complete. Hopefully in the future I can help more people through http://www.entrepreneurialminded.com, an entrepreneurial blog I am working on.
This thing is really expensive to do for those that want to do it. I have already had two bags burst and now I need to rewire my bus to accomodate the new load from the compressors. Was it worth it? Hhmmm. Fun as heck though!
Between the writers’ strike, a new job, the end of the NFL season and having a DVR where I can now just skim the few shows I still watch, it is safe to check this one off the list.
I need to be careful though because American Idol and The Gauntlet are back – but I have developed the habit of watching less television long enough now I don’t think it is going to be a problem.
19.
a. God explains that it is not okay to touch a dead person and if you do then you need to burn a young cow in order to clean yourself.
b. It is a seven day process to get yourself clean again if you have become unclean by touching a dead body.
20.
a. The congregation and their animals were thirsty so, with the help of God, Moses tapped his rod on a rock two times and made water come out of it for everyone to drink.
b. God had Moses strip Aaron of his garments and brought death upon him because he had rebelled against God.
c. When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
21.
a. The people of Israel were still upset with God about being told to venture out from Egypt, which made God upset so God sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
b. God had Moses make a gold serpent on a pole, if one stared at it they would not die from their serpent bite.
c. God encouraged Moses to smote other people until there was none left alive so that the children of Israel could possess land.
22.
a. God made an ass speak to Ba’laam to address why he had smacked it three times.
b. Ba’laam was unaware at first that the ass was trying to save him from an angel of the Lord.
c. Balak took Ba’laam into the high places of Ba’al so that he might see the utmost part of the people.
23.
a. Ba’laam had Balak build him seven altars so that he could sacrifice an oxen and ram on each one.
b. It is confirmed in this chapter that God is not a man and has the strength of a unicorn.
24.
a. Balak was upset with Ba’laam because he basically wanted Ba’laam to condemn the children of Israel but God would not let him.
b. After exchanging some words with Ba’laam, Balak and Ba’laam parted ways.
I put a deposit on a hotel for my brother and I for this year. Barring any set backs, it is on!
13.
a. Under God’s order Moses sent the heads of Israel off to search the land of Canaan.
b. They came back with a report that the land flowed with milk and honey but that the area might be difficult to conquer because the current inhabitants were mighty.
14.
a. Once again the children of Israel began to lose their faith in God because they questioned God’s judgment and wondered why they had been dragged to the wilderness.
b. God was growing more upset that the children of Israel were being so provoking, and decided to breach the promise of giving some of them land.
c. Then the Am’a-lek-ites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in the area, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hor’mah.
15.
a. God outlined new rules for animal sacrifice and bread offerings when they reached the new land.
b. God had a man killed by ordering that stones be thrown at him. His crime was gathering sticks on a sabbath day.
16.
a. Moses tried to assure everyone that he wasn’t making anything up and that everything he was passing on verbally to the people was/is the word of God.
b. God finally had it with the people and killed all the people that had murmured pessimistically via earthquakes, fire and a plague.
17.
a. Moses gathered tree rods from the children of Israel to lay up in the tabernacle of witness.
b. The day after laying the rods up Aaron’s had budded and bloomed blossoms.
18.
a. God allowed Aaron to keep some of the children of Israel’s offerings, specifically all the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, and the firstfruits.
b. God continues on by stating that those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels.
Numbers is a tough book to get through. Also, I am continually intrigued by why God would identify to Moses a desire for money (i.e. five shekels in chapter 18). Hopefully I can get through Numbers before the end of the year.
Well I never made it to the run at UCLA, but I managed one better for December. I went on the Santarchy pub crawl in San Francisco. It was so fun. 500 Santas and Ms. Clauses, dressed to the hilt, full of libations and roaming the streets. It was great. Well, I guess that completes my fall trifecta. Happy holidays everyone!
I have had a lot of new and fulfilling experiences in November, I can’t complain, but for the purpose of this ‘thing’ I will submit that I started work towards the goal being all my fortune cookie says I can be. This is going to be a real fun goal to work on and I am glad that I started it. I am also running another marathon this weekend but since that was kind of last month’s deal it is not really new and it is on the cusp between November and December so I cannot really classify it as November anyway.
For December I might up the ante and make my new experience the Undie Run at UCLA. What do you think? I don’t know if I have the chops.
I know that I have to wake up early tomorrow to catch a flight and that the day is going to be very productive, so fortune one is complete.
To complete November’s new experience I want to make sure I get the goal get rid of stuff that does not suit my dream lifestyle done. I am going to need to work in sections around the house (with the garage and my office being the worst) to finally achieve this. I have attached a picture of my office just to give everyone an idea of how monumental this task is going to be… but how fulfilling if I complete it!
