Gosh, even though this week was one day shorter, MLK day, it was STILL such a LONG week!!!  I am looking forward to this weekend, but it is going to be a busy one.  I start Nashville in Harmony tomorrow, there is a breakfast planned for the morning followed by a long rehearsal.  Then there is another rehearsal on Sunday.  This is the only weekend that we will have rehearsals on both days.  It is this season’s kickoff, so it should be fun.  I am looking forward to meeting the new people, and I am looking forward to singing again in a more “official” capacity.    I am sure that I will have lots to post about after this weekend, so look for that!

To prepare for the season, I have been recording myself on my phone while driving, then listening to it and picking out when I don’t sound right and working on my trouble spots.  I have not actually paid attention to my voice, in terms of proper sounds, in a long time.  I love to sing, and I do that quite frequently, but I never really analyzed anything after I stopped singing in Choir at MTSU.  I am hopeful that once I get back in practice, and get around other singers, I will start remembering all those tricks and techniques and begin working with Eric on his voice.  It will just be a challenge for both of us to find the time to rehearse.  We’ll get there, though.

I have kinda stalled on Sharp-blogger…  I still think that I have done a LOT and I am pleased with my progress, just really need to find time to focus on it.  I think that buying the new desk will help.  I am going to develop the program on my desktop at home, and while I loved my old desk, I had never REALLY worked on it, or spent a lot of time actually coding, writing, or otherwise attempting to focus using that desk.  What was wrong with the old desk is that it was not designed for more than one monitor.  I was able to make it work, though… and make it look nice, but in the end, it just was not right.  The monitors were too high, I couldn’t sit with my legs under the desk, I was really far away from the monitors, and the desk surface was too high.  I was always re-adjusting the monitors, removing and adding the keyboard drawer, and otherwise fidgeting with the desk, and I spent more time doing that then actually working.  I am reminded of Ellen when she sits at her desk to work.  She will say that she should write, then she will sit at the desk and look around and say, “Wow, that’s dusty.  I can’t work when my desk is that dusty.”  So she will go get a rag to dust, then on the way to get the rag, she will pass the cat on the stairs, pet the cat, then get a call from a friend…  and never actually work.  Ok… so maybe my real problem is procrastination.  lol.  *shrugs* whatev.  I still like  my new desk.   It may seem trivial, but a good work space is necessary to do good work, and now I have that, and there is less to fidget with, so I should be set.  In theory.  lol  I am still on track to have a beta ready to test by late spring.

My diet is still coming along…  have lost close to 30 lbs now…  and going to the gym more will hopefully yield faster results.  I have also started traversing the staircase at work 5 times after lunch every day.  It is not much, but I think that it helps in fueling my metabolism, which helps me burn more fat in my idle time.  However, I am growing more and more impatient with myself, so I must take this opportunity to remind myself that it took YEARS to get as big as I was, so it is not going to all fall off overnight!  To myself:  “Get over yourself!  You are doing GREAT!!”

And with that, I suppose I should get to work.  I am building an Active Directory Test Query app at work so we can troubleshoot Active Directory bugs and communication problems.  It is coming along fast and I am learning a TON about Active Directory.  Forests and nodes and principals oh my!!

-=brett=-