Aaron Cooper’s thoughts about, you know, stuff.
By Aaron
I’ve been having trouble getting a good night’s sleep recently. I think that somewhere along the way I’ve messed up my body clock. If I go too bed too early I toss and turn for a couple of hours before finally dropping off to a proper sleep, and if I go to bed to late, well, it’s too late.
I read and article today about power napping without actually sleeping, and it sounds like just the thing I need. I’d link the article but I don’t have it handy right now.
It talked about using binaural beats to get into a relaxed-but-not-asleep state for twenty minutes or so. I’ve found an iPhone app that generates them so I’m going to give it a go and see what happens.
There was also talk about using them to actually get to sleep as well, so that’s going to be tried as well.
It actually sounds a bit like deep meditation, which is something that I keep meaning to try as well, when I think about it. I don’t really care as long as it helps me stop feeling like crap.
Hopefully it’s going to work out ok and I’ll be able to sneak them in here and there through the day. Maybe even on the train, although my fear there is that I’ll fall asleep and end up in the train yards after hours. I might have a couple of practice attempts at home first.
By Aaron
Hey, if I update now it won’t be quite 12 months since my last update! Cool. This is more a test post than anything. Wordpress on iPhone and all, doncha know. Maybe if I have it more immediately available I’ll update more often.
We’ll see…..
Now I’ve just gotta do something about the template. I think I’m over it. Might also rehash the whole site and make a personal “landing page”. Just have to dig up that example I saw a couple of weeks ago.
By Aaron
My intentions were good setting up this blog, honest. Regular updates, good content, all that sort of thing.
Doesn’t seem to be happening though, huh?
I think I need to allow myself to do shorter posts. Not everything has to be worthy.
By Aaron
The first thing that I need to do to start getting things on track is to set up some tools.
Everyone seems to sing the praises of remember the milk, so that’s what I’m trying first. It’s got nice Gmail integration for when I’m near a computer, and Twitter integration for when I have ideas on the run.
I’ve just got to figure out how to read it on my phone so I can access it for the hour or so a day I’m not near a computer. There’s probably a mobile version, but I haven’t seen it as yet. Not that I’ve looked all that hard mind you.
I’d also like some finer control over the lists, but for the moment it will do.
For calendaring I’ll use Google Calendar, again because it just plugs into Gmail. I already check Gmail as part of my morning routine, so having both my calendar and to-do list there might mean that they get read more often than if there were one separate pages that I had to visit on their own.
Early indications are that it’s actually working. I just called and made a booking to get my dog clipped, something that I’ve been meaning to do for weeks now!
By Aaron
So. Now an introductory post, I guess.
I don’t have a bad life. On the contrary, I’ve got a pretty great life. A great wife, an awesome daughter, I’m not in *too* much debt. I guess I could be being paid more, and that’s limiting my ability to do things, but that’s about all I’ve got to complain about.
Yet, I’m feeling out of sorts with myself. Not in any specific way, just in a whole lot of little ways. I’m out of touch with my inner geek, I think. I could stand to lose a few kilos. Or 10. Maybe even 15. I could be more productive. I could definitely be more focused. I need to somehow "get my shit together", as it were.
I think basically I’m spending too much time catching up with life rather than living it.
One of the things I intend to do with this blog is to explore and document what I’m trying to do to get on top of things. I need one central place that I can refer to, otherwise everything will remain scattered and I’ll be worse off than I was before. For now, this blog is it. Sure, I could do it all offline in a diary, but one of things that I do know about myself is that I’m lazy, and if it’s something that I’m only doing for myself it will be the first thing that gets dropped for someone else.
If I commit to a blog, then at least I’ve got a commitment that I have to uphold, even if it’s to an anonymous, faceless internet. That might inspire me to persist with things for a little bit longer.
By Aaron
Hi all!
This is mainly directed to the people who are still subscribed to my feedburder feed. All nine of you, according to the stats page. Brand new blog, so I doubt anyone else will be reading this. You’d probably forgotten that I was even around, let alone subscribed. That’s what 2+ years between posts will do for you.
Brand new blog on a brand new website! I finally got around to getting myself some hosting so I figured I’d point my domain over here and install Wordpress. It’s not completely finished yet; I still have to tweak the template some, and get to grips with what Wordpress offers, but I’ll get there eventually.
My reasons for starting blogging again will become clear in the next posts (hopefully). I’m not sure which direction this version of my blog will take just yet. I’ll work that out over time, I guess, but the first posts will mainly be me sorting some things out in my head.
Stay tuned.
