Category: Personal

Despite being at work all the time, and being constantly busy, I am still a human. I am social. I have a life, family, and friends. I have thoughts and experiences. Once in a while I share them, and when I do, I do so in this category. If you don’t know me personally, chances are you’ll find posts in this category particularly boring.

Huge face

Somebody mentioned to me that I must have a huge face, since it’s not fitting anywhere.  Examples to the argument were the header image of this site and my avatar, which I use on many web sites.  To you, sir, I say – you’re wrong.  The About page of this site features a picture with a full face o’mine.  Thank you for the smile. :)

Endless loop

I’ve been using Gmail for bookmarking for quite some time now.  It works, but not as good as specialized bookmarking applications, such as del.icio.us .  So, I’m moving many of my bookmarks from Gmail to del.icio.us .  A few minutes later, I see them coming up in my Google Reader subscriptions (I’m subscribed to my own feeds as well for easier searching).  I look through them and think “these are some cool links!  I should add them to my del.icio.us bookmarks.”.  Puzzled…

Running P.T. update

It’s almost two month since I got back to the gym.  At first I started with the same program that I end up with last time.  For more than a month I was pushing and pulling weights up and down, back and forward.  Somehow, it didn’t feel the same.  It was much harder and results were much weaker, no matter how hard I tried.  That was a bit offsetting.

Then I did something very smart.  I talked to Uncle Vova – my coach, trainer, and P.T. advisor. He resolved plenty of my doubts. Aparently, doing weightlifting in the morning is not the same as doing the same weightlifting in the afternoon. The body needs to wake up and get prepared.

Since I can’t go the gym in the middle of the day with my current time table, but only in the mornings, Uncle Vova suggested that I change the program a bit. I listened hard, but than I changed it even further for my personal feeling.

Now I just run. I go to the gym about 8:30 in the morning and I run. When I can’t run anymore, I have a small break doing some other exercises (no weights though). After about 10-15 minutes I go back to running. And that’s it. But I do it every working day (Monday-Friday) for the last two and a half weeks.

The first week that I did this, I could run only about 1-1.2 km during the first time, and then another 0.5-0.75 km during the second time. Today I did 2.25 km for the first run and 0.75 for the second.

I feel that running works better for me. My mood goes up, I’m full of energy for the rest of the day, I have no pains, and I have some gains. I see (and feel) the progress every (and I mean every) day. And progress stimulates me…

Note to myself: consult with people in the know regularly. Listen to what they say.

Photography is my art

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None of the arts – literature, painting, music, or even cinema – touch me in the same way as photography does. Photographic images for some reason go deeper into my brain, heart, and soul, and calm me down or, on the opposite, stir me up like no other form of art.

Music amplifies my mood. Movies shake me sometimes, give me food for thought. But photography gets inside, and changes me. And these changes can’t be undone. After looking at pictures like this one, I’m not the same person anymore…

Learning to think

I am using this blog to learn the thinking process once again.  I believe I did it in the past a couple of times already, but somehow the skill vanishes and I have to redo the process.  These days I’m going through a lot of information and what I noticed is that I don’t spend enough time thinking about what I read.  It’s more like scrolling through, then a quick spark in my mind which I can’t even describe properly with words, then I think something like “Hold on a second… Hmm.. Oh, OK. Next!”, instead of “I agree with this because…”, or “I disagree because…”, or “I never thought of that this way. I better look into it more…”.  As  a result of this, I have a suspicion that I re-think the same things over and over without coming to any conclusions, researching the subject more, or simply dropping it as uninteresting.  This has to stop.

So, I started blogging more, putting my comments – no matter how silly or insignificant – around the things that I read about.  Hopefully these will get more interesting with time and practice.