wiredgonzo

One of my main goals for Lent has been to rise earlier in the day. So far, I have managed to make some progress. I am getting up with an alarm clock and am not beating it into submission which I was once prone to do on a regular basis. Some days are better then others. More often than not I can walk the dog without resorting to sleepwalking.

As for my goal of waking up early and enjoying the morning: At this point I am succeeding with the first part, but haven’t realised the payoff of reaching my goal. I don’t feel like I am getting any real benefit personally from waking up early.

However, I am inspired by this article that I found online. Maybe it will inspire you too. There is hope.

10 benefits of early rising and how to do it

Enjoy… and before you continue on with your day, could you please pass me the coffee?

Sites like FaceBook and Linkedin are helping me reach my goal of reaching out to old friends. I have found both of these sites useful in finding and reaching out to old friends and former colleagues.

I find that MySpace is geared towards people of a younger demographic and I feel funny lurking there. Facebook is a little more relevant, but still geared towards twenty-somethings, which (un)fortunately I am no longer eligible to call myself. However, if you take it all in with a grain of salt, Facebook can be a lot of fun. Linkedin is geared more towards professional relationships, but that isn’t all bad and can actually be useful.

As useful as some of the social networking sites are, at this stage it would seem that not too many people who graduated high school in the 80’s populate them. This is a shame because many of the people I miss the most I haven’t seen since 1990 or thereabouts. I am not (yet) willing to pay classmates.com to find out if anyone I knew in high school or college are still alive and surfing (the net, not the waves). So I’ll keep an eye out for old friends wherever I can, and when I can and hope for the best.

I have been only partially successful in accomplishing this goal so far. The hardest part is finding a way to balance my need for sleep with my responsibilities as a volunteer firefighter, my family, my dog, and myself (in that order?!).