Let me add to the hype. I just woke up this morning and my roommate pulls the iphone out! I didn’t even realize he was getting one. First impressions: Damn. Very slick interface, amazing web browser. It’s running off our local wireless, so it was extremely fast. The internet is the internet, no filter. Music, videos, and the phone all work great.I’m very envious.
Overall, this is a great product that I hope will spur the lagging US cellphone industry. We have so much bullshit currently, with locked contracts and charges for every little thing, I’m glad Apple is changing things.
I just got out of Die Hard 4. This movie kicked serious ass. I’m simplifying but shit blew up, Bruce Willis had no shame in living it up, and I totally enjoyed it. The pg-13 rating kinda ruined a lot of the violence but it wasn’t too toned down overall. Yippee ki ya motherfucker.
I’ve come to something of a realization: I’m currently the happiest I’ve ever been in my life. I have a great job, I’m in the best shape of my life, my situation here in NYC is never boring, my friends rock, I’m making serious plans about my future and overall, I just have nothing to complain about! It’s the strangest thing, whenever anyone asks about how I’m doing, all I can immediately reply is, “Great!”
The other side of the coin is that I find the root of all of this happiness is due to money. You heard me right, I find money leads to my happiness. Not the idea of money, the accumulation of wealth and power, but its enabler effects. I came to the expensive city due in part to the well paying job, which has enabled to eat well, save up and invest, and enjoy my time more prosperously. My main goal in life is to get rich, not for the effect of having 10 digits to my name, but to enable me to live my life in the manner I want.
Some might call me jaded by the glitzy NYC lifestyle and I totally admit to that, but not all the way. I take breaks every weekend travel from the city and ground myself in reality. I am very aware of what I don’t want to turn into, but on the flip side, driving an $80K car in a $5K suit wouldn’t be bad at all. I do have more grand ideas than flashy displays of money though. I’ve traveled a portion of the world, but I would love to see all of it. I would love to vacation in the Bahamas for once. I would love to take all my friends out to best restaurants in the city and enjoy fancy food all the time. Hell, I would give up all the cash for a chance at love if the circumstances were different, which is another story, but the circumstances didn’t work out unfortunately…
Money is a means to an end for me and that end is to live my life in the best possible manner. I can do it rich or poor, but being rich seems like a hell of a lot better.
Last weekend, I forced myself to wake up around maybe 8 - 9AM and went for a run. I was trying to see what it was like, maybe run through the city streets, but when I got outside, things were already kind of busy and the sun was mostly up. Today, this Sunday, I randomly woke up at 6AM, without any intervention of the alarm clock, and just kinda went for it. I must be crazy, but I loved it.
It definitely looks like 6AM is the sweet spot. The sun has just risen, but everything is still quiet and calm, the traffic is pretty dead in NYC, and the track only has like 5 other people who are just as crazy as me, if not more so! The only downside is that all the hobos are still sleeping around, I saw like 20 on my normal path. That’s a bit of a downer.
My main goal today was to sprint a 3KM, which I did, but I wasn’t happy with my time, a 13′31″. I’ve been sprinting too much lately, I need to do a crazy 14KM run or something distance and balance myself out. My body can handle the distance physically, but I never want to prepare and bring food with me, lack of energy for running that long is always what kills me. Now maybe I can get some work done, it’s not even 8AM yet…
