Strength

You can lift twice your body weight over your head? You can run 26 miles? You can balance on one foot at the top of a pole as tall as you are? Is that so?

Well, I can hold the woman I love for 4 hours straight as she sobs every last ounce of pain and frustration out of her body, all while smiling and proving to her how beautiful she really is.

I can cook, shop, clean, and maintain a house while the daughter I adore coughs in my face, sneezes on my food, and drinks from my cup when I'm not looking.

I can feed, burp, and rock back to sleep, an angel only days old while having no sleep, no food, a distraught wife, and a sick kid -- yet still revel in the awe and wonder a newborn baby can bring.

So, tell me again how strong you are ...


(Editorial Note: This is intended as a motivational message, not a literal account of events.)

Pains in my neck -- April 2013 edition

Closures, Deferred Objects, Promises, and the ideological differences between Serena Dimensions and Git.

The ONE Comparison You Should Make Today

The only person you should compare yourself to is yesterday's version of you.
(Paraphrased with thanks to Steve Kamb from NerdFitness.com)

http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2013/04/04/comparison/

Ideas From NerdFitness.com

See what prompted this post

Level: 1

Race:  (Larger than average, intelligent ) Goliath?

Current Class:  Trainee

Target Class:  Ranger/Monk

QUEST LOG

** = Currently Tracked Quests

MAIN QUESTS

• **  Make a Quest Log of things I want to achieve
• With concrete, realistic goals and milestones
• Purchase a single family, 4/3/2, 1800+ sq. ft. house
• Sell current townhome
• Save money to buy out mortgage difference at time of sale
• Stay in current neighborhood
• Travel to Japan
• Learn to speak Japanese
• Hirigana / Katakana
• Kanji
• Particles
• Grammar
• Summer Movie Games
• **  Figure out how to work with ColdFusion ORM (Hibernate)
• See conundrum below
• Work out Wager UI
• Actions list
• Segregate CSS/JS by module
• Weigh 200 lbs or have <= 10% body fat
• Nutrition
• Purchased Meals
• **  10 purchased meals per week
• 5 purchased meals per week
• 2 purchased meals per week
• 1 purchased meal per week
• Fluids
• Water
• 1 bottle per day
• 2 bottles per day
• 3 bottles per day
• 5 bottles per day (1 / 2 / 2)
• Other
• 2 caffeinated drinks per day
• 1 caffeinated drink per day
• Exercise
• Once per week
• Twice per week
• Thrice per week
• Do 10 pull-ups (optional)
• Do 100 push-ups (optional)

SIDE QUESTS

• Homebrewing
• Fermentation Chiller
• Kolsch
• Comic Book Tesseract
• **  Develop and maintain an exercise plan
• Set weekly entertainment goals (no, really) and add to Side Quests
• Manliness / Style

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SUMMER MOVIE GAMES ISSUE

Persistent objects (ColdFusion Hibernate) and how to work with them on a site that delays tying the Entities to a User (i.e. can use the site without being logged in). Problem started from an old A List Apart article talking about how sign-up forms are bad. I agree - but to play with the toys of the site requires DB (does it?).  Need to check onSessionEnd() to see if I can clear unconnected Entities to prevent DB bloat.