Nice older bike
This is a pic of a bike from a video I shot at bike nite.
Video blogging?
I have been thinking about turning this site into a video blog. I have many reasons for wanting todo this. Not the least of which is that I am not a good writer. So here is the question, do you think it would be better to do that or just keep it text with fewer updates?
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Why I ride
Some months ago I was having a conversation with my good friend Daniel about why I ride. At the time I did not have a really good reason and I struggled with the question “What is it about riding a motorcycle that does it for you?” Since that time I have really thought about why I do it. Why do I put my life on the line? What is it that draws us to our great iron horses? Why doesn’t every one ride if it is so great? I am not sure if this will answer all those questions and I am not going to try, but I am going to tell you why I ride.
The realization of why I ride came to me the other day while I was ridding with my Dad. There was this feeling of complete Zen. I was in tune with the machine that was under me. All the troubles of the world did not mean anything. I had lost money that week in the market. That meant nothing. All that mattered was the place I was in at that moment. I was having problems at the office. None of that mattered. I was at peace.
The peace was so perfect and complete that I did not want to get off of my bike for the rest of the night. This is the passion that attracts people from all walks of life. You will find doctors, lawyers, plumbers and electrician enjoying the freedom and peace that comes from ridding. This is not why everyone rides. Some are in it as “posers”, they ride just to be apart of the group or other reasons. These people will wash. They will ride for a few years and give it up. They never stick with it.
As a security professional, people find it strange that I would know the risk and still ride. Should I not be risk adverse? I think it goes beyond that. I realize that when I ride I am taking my life in other peoples hands as well as mine. I can not justify the risk other than by saying, the illusion of control is very alluring!
So what ever the personal reasons for ridding, just go out and have fun. If it is not your thing, that is cool, just look out for us that do ride. We are really good people that all share the same feelings when we ride. So get out, have fun, and ride safe!
Goals for the New Year revised
Now it is time for the final round of my goals for the new year. This time I am going to put time lines where I can. These will force me to push myself.
Enroll in collage - This seems to be a no brainer, but I am going to get back in school. I have come really far without a degree and now want one.
Become a director - Some times I wonder why I push so hard for this, but I really feel I need to shape a company and this is a good way to start.Start my security video training series - I have put this off long enough. Time to make it happen. Date: 5/09
Spend more time with family and friends - This has got to happen.
Finish business plan for the company I want to start. Date: 3/09
Present my plan for funding. Date: 7/09
Get my wight down to 205. 3/09
I am going to push to make these. I will also do some follow up posts to ensure that I am on track.
EDIT: Decided to strike item two since it was way to ambitious.
Sean Making a Face
My son making a face at his birthday part after eating cake. I just love how cute he is in this picture.
Simplify everything!
Over the past few months I have noticed that my life is becoming hard to manage and over complicated. This has lead me to examine what I should do about it. I have come to only one conclusion. I must simplify! That brings up the question of what can/must go and what has to stay?
Right now I am not blogging a ton because I do not feel I have time. Does this mean I need to shutdown my blog? I do not think so. What I must do is figure out what is keeping me from blogging. Once I have done that I need to make them go away. This will remove me trying to create time to blog there by making my life easier.
I have a ton of tech in my life. I have 3 laptops, two servers, two desktops and 2 phones (One is for work and the other is for twitter) right now. I think this is way to0 many devices. I am going to move my mac desktop to a server roll for media and storage server. I am going to keep one VMWare server for my lab and the rest will go. I will still have 3 laptops. I will keep my main mac as my main machine and laptop. I will also keep a netbook for when I need to be mobile and I will also keep my work laptop. So in essence I am removing a server and a desktop. That should help somewhat.
Next on the agenda is my way of controlling inputs. I have many different tools for managing todo items and I have not standardized on any one of them. That is going away as of today. I am going to use Evernote for my main ogtnizational app. Evernote will manage my todos item as well as notes. Plus I can access it from my iphone so I will never be away from notes.
Before the end of the year I will also be compiling a list of all redundancies in my life and removing what is not needed. I will keep you guys posted.
Goals for the new year
Around this time every year I start to think about my goals both as a person as well as professional goals. I know some people say that once a year goal setting is useless, but for me some of these goals are used to keep me focused since I can not stand to miss a goal. So with out further delay here is my first draft.
Enroll in collage - This seems to be a no brainer, but I am going to get back in school. I have come really far without a degree and now want one.
Become a director - Some times I wonder why I push so hard for this, but I really feel I need to shape a company and this is a good way to start.
Start my security video training series - I have put this off long enough. Time to make it happen.
Spend more time with family and friends - This has got to happen.
Ok so there it is. Right now these are easy and I know I will be refining and adding more. What think?