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Struggle as Hard as You can for Whatever You Believe In.

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Struggle as Hard as You can for Whatever You Believe In.

Struggle as Hard as You can for Whatever You Believe In.

So vague and so non-committal, a great fortune because it is one of those that I can take and run with. If you haven’t noticed that I pretty much write stream of conscious on these particular type of posts then you haven’t been paying attention. I have no direction on these FortunateBluFrog posts and so today’s “Whatever you believe in” is a perfect hopping off point.

I believe in myself

Despite the post the other day about how I have a hard time taking praise from people I still believe in myself. Each day is a struggle to work as hard as I can to improve that self. This may mean working out (something I am finally doing with regularity after a 7 year hiatus, ugh!), or eating right or monitoring my blood sugar levels. These are pretty much the three things that I struggle with on a daily basis. As you know I love to eat. I love greasy fried foods and cheese and sweets. I love them, they are delicious and comforting.

I struggle with weight

I’ve always struggled with my weight. From 8th grade to Sophomore year of college I remained 185lbs. I was as tall as I am now, 5″10′ on a good day. Now I look back and see that I wasn’t that big especially now that I am wearing 45 additional pounds. I do feel like I am wearing a 45lb full body suit with me everywhere. Now some people might look at that and say that I’ve got nothing to complain about because the number of pounds I need to lose is minimal. I guess everything is relative.

Being average gets you nothing

Did you ever notice that the world loves extremes. Look at Extreme makeover home edition, the people chosen have such extreme hard luck stories, the houses they build are extremely over the top and Ty yells extremely loud. Then look at the biggest loser, here you have extremely fat people being yelled at by extremely enthusiastic trainers and then they lose an extreme amount of weight.

This isn’t just on TV either. If people are extremely poor they have programs to help them. And if, lets say a company, a banking or automotive one, screws up in an extremely spectacular way then an insane amount of money goes to bail them out. If people buy more house than they can afford well they are getting a bail out too.

So what about the Average person?

Screw ’em is basically the feeling. I pay my bills so no bailout for me. I am not super fat so no extreme makeover for me. My clothes aren’t even bad enough for Stacy and Clinton to mock me over. Nope the average dude works, pays taxes and does the same the very next day. That is why they stay average.

Can you break the chain of average?

Now I’m not suggesting that you default on your mortgage and hook yourself to an IV of gravy. I do however, I think you can break the chain of average without doing harm to yourself, your waistline or your credit. One way to do it is to work hard, every person who has made anything of themselves and who is a person that people respect has worked hard. I had to add the earn respect part because there are people who have certainly made names for themselves who are not respected.

Working Hard isn’t Enough

If you are average you probably have been working hard your entire life. So why are you not more successful? And sadly I don’t have the answers you seek but maybe you have the answers for me. Leave a message about how you can break the chain of average in the comments.

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Perils of Late Night Snacking

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Perils of Late Night Snacking
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I try not to have snacks too late but the call of the Cheez-It is sometimes too strong. They are my absolute favorite snack cracker. I love ’em by the box. I find it very hard to curb my hunger for them. They call to me, they entice me with other flavors. I reject them all except for Pepper Jack because the flavor is baked in to them not a powdery topping like the others.

Okay so I didn’t go an take a decent photo today, so I took a macro shot of my snack as I tried to work on a website that I’ve been building for a friend. I haven’t said anything much about it because I wasn’t finished with it and it wasn’t public. However the site is now public and live. I’ve been creating a website called Duke Burial Vaults. Duke Burial Vaults is the northeast supplier of Eonian and Endurance Burial Vaults. From the Website:

Duke Burial Vault’s mission is to provide families of lost love ones with a more aesthetically pleasing, stronger, lighter weight, eco-friendly burial vault by distributing and installing the Eonian and Endurance rotationally molded polyethylene burial vaults. Duke Burial Vaults is committed to insuring that the burial vault service of the funeral is done in a peaceful and respectful manner through a professional and well trained staff.

I’ve learned more about Burial Vaults in the past few months and I ever through possible. These products are amazing too. The vaults can be lifted by two men rather than by heavy equipment. The vaults are also incredibly stable and strong. They are stronger than concrete. The concrete burial vault companies tried a stress test on the vaults but did not do it properly. They were trying to keep plastic burial vaults out of the marketplace. Isn’t that always the way when something lighter, faster and stronger comes along.

The most amazing thing about these vaults is that they are completely waterproof and weather proof, a tight seal is placed around the top and bottom of the vault that with time and pressure continues to cure to form a seal that cannot be broken without the use of industrial machinery. That means that is say a flood occurs and all the concrete vaults crack and break and everyone’s loved ones are floating down river where they’re caskets could be broken open, your dear sweet Grannie’s burial vault will remain safe. Sure the burial vault will be floating too but you have the peace of mind that her remains are undisturbed by the elements and also undisturbed by anyone taking advantage of pillaging open caskets.

Wow, off on a tangent. Everything outside the quotes is my own thoughts on this, I don’t think the marketing should be anything akin to my statements.

So today I decided to try out something on my Canon SD 800is. I finally turned to LifeHacker to make my point and shoot a super camera. I downloaded The Canon Hacker’s Development Kit. There are some things that I want to hack this camera to do and I will explore them very soon. I’ll tell you more about this as I try them out.

I ran into a snag on the Custom hats for BenSpark.com. My friend with the super sewing machine wasn’t able to replicate the logo. I then attempted to find a place int he mall that had one of those sew your logo on things kiosks. No dice. I did go into lids to find out that if I wanted anything sewn onto the hat it was $9.00 and they couldn’t do the logo, just text and if I wanted the blog url on the back of the hat that was also $9.00. Total Rip Off! I’m going to do some searching, the place I ordered from had embroidery services however it was something you had to call about and couldn’t order online. I went the quick route and am kicking myself now.