So it seems this post falls exactly one month from my New Years Resolutions post. I thought I’d regale you with some updates.
Today I signed up for the Beginning Rock Climbing course at Planet Granite. I’m pretty impressed with what I’ve seen of the place so far. I start my first of 4 weekly classes on February 4th. I’m not sure how this will work out long term since even at the club to do the regular climbing I’ll need a partner. I’m hoping I’ll find someone in the same boat during the class that I can partner up with going forward. They also offer yoga classes. I think I’ll plan to attend two classes a week. If I do the Ashtanga yoga on Mondays and Wednesdays to start I can expand to a third class on Saturdays in the future. I haven’t checked it out but they also have a fitness center which sounds like a regular gym there. I have a membership at Gold’s Gym but I haven’t gotten out there too much because it’s kind of out of my way. Planet Granite on the other hand is very close to me. I discovered I can walk there in 15 minutes or so.
I haven’t progressed with learning Russian. I started with the Rosetta Stone program but then I got sick and haven’t gotten back in the flow with that. I also decided to hold off on taking Russian classes at the moment. I think starting out with the rock climbing and yoga I’ll be pretty busy. I’m still thinking about taking art classes, but like I said last month, it’s not something I’m planning on pursuing immediately.
Otherwise I’m keeping busy. Work is going well and I’ve met some cool new friends to hang out with. I’ve had an surge of freelance work lately that has kept me off the streets. Hopefully some of the extra money I’m making will go towards building myself a new computer.
I'm Andrew Shell. I'm a PHP developer in Madison, WI. Currently I'm working for
Hey Andrew,
Sounds like the Bay Area is doing wonders for your lifestyle, it’s all pretty ambitious but good clean fun. Speaking of fun, I got straight A’s on my Drupal and Intro to Internet Programming classes (woo hoo!).This semester (ActionScript 3.0 and PHP & MySQL Programming the learning curve seems steeper but by staring at php code till my butt is sore, I’m begining to understand the syntax enough to parse other people’s code and build my own. I’m so looking forward to semester’s end though. Sleep deprivation is an insidious form of torture.
One last thing before I toddle off to bed…someone in my PHP class tonight said that his company had dumped Drupal because it wasn’t SEO friendly.I thought that sounded off but didn’t have any stats to refute his claim.What’s your opinion?
Glad to hear your still on an upward trajectory in your career.
I’ve had to suspend my nightly watercolor painting to get my homework done but I’ve joined a group of artists working Saturday mornings on a giant mural in the Madison Labor Temple. That’s been the big release for me after coding all week.
Lastly, I’ve a friend who lives in Sunnyvale and is a programmer for HP but also teaches yoga classes.I’ll send him this url by way of introducing him to you.
.Bruce.