Alucolor & Roksys: We Don't Know What We Are Doing

I think a large problem I have is that my interests bounce around so much. It makes it difficult to make headway in any one project when I'm onto something entirely different the next day, but if I try to force myself to keep on one path, I get bored and frustrated and end up actively not wanting to have anything to do with it. But in addition to being so impulsive, it doesn't help that I'm also rather impressionable, much as I don't like to admit it. As a result, my reading and re-reading the Scott Pilgrim books and my dad's old Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes collections have instilled in me an interest in producing comics, at least for the time being. Alu periodically expresses a similar interest, though in her case, I think it's a more permanent one than mine likely is. Who knows though? Maybe if we get a good start on a decent idea, we'll stumble into something worthwhile. About a week ago I had an inkling of an idea for something called "Rick...

I didn't blog two of the four I was supposed to. I think this new setup is both good and bad for that reason. I don't worry so much about blogging so I don't write nothing blogs, but also sometimes I just don't blog. Oh well, there's no use in worrying about things I can't change. Now onto goals: Fitness Based Goals Reach Weight Goal (160 lbs) | I have been fluctuating on this goal for a minute. We went a bit to crazy after phase one was up. But we are coming back down and are getting back into the diet and being more true to phase two. I am over 200 still but only just. I am looking forward to continuing this diet and hoping we can still retain some self control now that are restrictions have loosened. This morning, I weighed: 200.5 lbs. | Lift Three Times per week | We stopped going to the gym while our bodies adjusted to no carbs. But we kept not going u fortunately. But we are planning on going back tomorrow and starting out easier on ourselves. Do ...

The gift I was making for Rok was supposed to be a Christmas gift, then it was supposed to be his birthday gift, then when it wasn’t done by his birthday it was supposed to be done by his birthday party, now it has been several months and I am still working on it. I guess my next goal is just to get it done before his next birthday. Maybe I can finish it before Christmas this year. I have been working on it a lot but I still don't see an end in sight yet, it was a rather ambitious gift to start with (Oh also I am sorry I am not saying specifically what it is, Rok will probably read this. I will probably make a post about it when it is finished and Rok has seen it, or maybe he can make a post about it.) But anyway, back to the point. It was a ambitious gift that I didn't realize would be so much work. But here I am stressing myself out because I haven't met a single deadline so I can give it to Rok. I am going to hopefully work on it all day today and get at least close to...

I don't know if I'm a fan of this diet. I also don't know if I'm a fan of dieting in general. We have indeed been losing weight as advertised, but I keep wondering whether it's worth it. I feel like so much of my mental energy is going toward our food now and I don't know that that's healthy in and of itself. And healthy or not, it's obnoxious. I have other things to think about. Thursday marked the halfway point of the first phase, so we're going to try to finish out that part at least and it's supposed to get easier after that. Although, for something that's supposed to kick your cravings for bread, I think the other day was the first time I actively contemplated stealing a sandwich out of someone's hands in the breakroom at work. I'm becoming increasingly frustrated that things that are healthy and things that are easy or convenient seem diametrically opposed and it's making more and more sense why so many people are overwei...

Alu and I have been watching Fullmetal Alchemist, the 2003 one that isn't Brotherhood. I've never actually finished this one, but I prefer Brotherhood in general and this runthrough doesn't look like it's going to change that. Overall, the storyline, pacing, characters, animation, even the voice acting just doesn't impress me as much, but that's all been covered to death by other people for the last ten years. What I can't find any discussion about is how the two series treat alchemy itself differently, which I think is strange, considering how important the practice is to that world. We're not finished with our run of the show and I might have to correct myself on this later, but I feel like while FMA '03 talks an awful lot about alchemy being a science based on equivalent exchange, it doesn't seem to go much deeper into it than that and its use often even seems to contradict that idea. A lot of the time, it seems as long as a circle is prese...

It's Sunday and we have made it three of the 14 days with no carbs! It has been a long couple of days! Fitness Based Goals Reach Weight Goal (160 lbs) | I have been backpeddeling on this goal for a while, but since we started this new diet I have been starting to lose the weight I had gained, I am still over 200 for now but I am hopeful that this new diet will help Rok and I control ourselves, and not order pizza five times a week.   This morning, I weighed: 205.3 lbs.  Lift Three Times per week | We did start getting back to the gym, but since we have started a new diet that is designed to ween our bodies off of carbs, the main energy source for Rok and I, we have opted out of doing the gym until he stops feeling the no carbs and I stop feeling hungry all the time. Do Cardio Four Times per Week | This is the same as lifting, except we didn't get as back into it as we did lifting. But we are still opting out for now. Do Morning Yoga | Similar to the first two, thi...

Rok and I have burned through all of the Gundam we can currently buy. It's a lot of series and Rok's ability to recall any of it at any given time is impressive to me. But that isn't what I want to blog about today, maybe another day. But since we finished everything we have and can't buy more we have resulted to watching other shows. We have watched the Netflix Series Castlevania. We both thought it was pretty good. A little bit to much animal death for me personally and really, in the first two episodes at least, I little to much blood and gore. Episode three is what I expected form the show, there is some gore but there isn't literal pillars of blood and guts and babies being eaten. But I would watch it again, and I am looking forward to season three. I looked into it and it appears their will be a third season at least, and I want to know what happens to my boy Hector. Since we finished that we have moved on to Fullmetal Alchemist, the first series not the b...

As Rok has said before we are starting the South Beach Diet today, well we are buying and prepping food to start the diet tomorrow. Which we are both pretty psyched about. We have been eating just horribly, because bad/sad things keep happening, life generally sucks sometimes, and the fact that we were going on a diet soon. So I am excited to actually get into healthier eating, something I have tried at before but haven't made permanent life changes about it. Another reason I am excited is that with all of the excess food we have been eating I am not getting as full as I used to when eating the same amount of stuff. I want to have better habits but when both me and Rok have been beaten down with boredom and frustration for 8 hours we break to easily. With a more physical job I am hoping we will be engaged enough that I won't think about pizza during lunch and then spend 4 more hours thinking about pizza. Also with a more physical job eating out every once in a while won'...

For the past couple months I have been working on a gift for Rok that I think he will really like. I can't talk to much about it here since this is a shared blog after all. But this project started as a little thought of something that would be cool but needed far more planning and time commitments than I thought at the time. Now I am 100 hours deep and about halfway through. But I can see the other side and the closer I get to finishing this project the more excited I get for Rok to get to open it and see what I have been working on this whole time. I still have more drawing to do, elements to assemble and time to spend till this project is fully complete but I am getting closer by the day. I wish I could say this was my first time that I got way to into a project to later realize how big of an undertaking it is. Then I have to ask myself, "Do I take the option where I have wasted however many hours of my life on this thing that will never be complete. Or do I spend howeve...

We don't have the best track record with goals, and we're really only adding to that with the last week or so. Most of our goals have exploded in one way or another, so I'm not sure whether I should bother really reflecting on them this week. That said, we're planning to start a push on Wednesday, so I suppose a review wouldn't be the worst idea. So I guess here goes that! 　 Bench 100 lbs. I'm no closer to this than I was last time, but I'm no further either, so I guess it's better than some of the other goals on here. Really this is pretty arbitrary, so I guess it's not that important, it would just be nice to know I'm getting stronger. Tuesday Night Yoga We were doing pretty well on this one until this week when we got distracted and didn't end up doing our yoga. We were just about to get new mats, too. Morning Yoga We've been on and off for quite a while on this, and we've actually been pretty all right o...

Our machining teacher seems confident we'll be able to find work easily enough, but I'm having difficulty finding anything we'd likely be qualified for online. It might be that the type of place we'd be hired by wouldn't post job openings online, but I'm not sure. I guess I'll have to ask further about that. I'll also have to brush up on geometry, because I was getting confused the other day. We were supposed to be cutting a groove into our workpiece with a 30 degree angle on either side, and by my (apparently mistaken) calculations, the dimensions shouldn't have been able to add up. But eventually I got fed up with working out the theoretical dimensions and just got to cutting the part and ended up with nearly the exact dimensions I was meant to without quite understanding how. It's a bit funny since earlier that day I was talking to Alu about the ills of overthinking things. That said, I would like to at least figure out why my figures were ...