Week 3

Hello everyone who may  read this blog post.  This almost feels like my last will and testament overall.  In any case, I wish to report on how my week 3 went.  Besides the slip ups and issues I had with school, I'm more or less realizing how much reddit has controlled what I do with my free time.  In a sense, by eliminating it, it feels like as though reddit was a necessary evil.  The way to describe it would be that reddit, youtube, facebook, and its complimentary websites were part of a scale, and by eliminating reddit off that scale, the scale readjusted.  Now primarily, facebook and youtube control my time wasted and now are forced to be my constant sources of entertainment.  This worries me, as rather I realize how bad having such distractions have been, and worrisome as how deep the roots of their control have been me.  Its interesting to understand that I may have to arrive to a point where my interest must rely on the newly formed hobbies I must form immediately.  I decided to try  list...but I'm worried how that list might go, so I'm gonna try to put them down here.  Please, comment and describe how your list would be.


List:
-Programming
- Take up violin and/or trumpet
-Traveling/hiking ( going and walking -_-)
- Reading (this is actually extremely tough for me)
- Exercising
- Calling, scheduling, and hanging out with others
- Start to date again (this is another post all together, but it will be done, probably next week)
- Math
- Farming
-Mechanical engineering
- News
- Gymnastics/dancing
- Personal Experiments

This list depicts how exactly I was thinking on what to do and how to do it.  I need to start loving to learn again because truthfully, I have lost that love awhile ago.  I don't know when my laziness took over my love to learn, or rather whether that relation was always there.  I'm worried that I will never love to learn again.  However, like any relationship, it takes time, effort, trust, and communication.  These are definitely things I must redo and must take time to understand.  2 more weeks, and then begins the true trials of suffering for me.  I will come back with more details.  For now, I'm still 19 days without reddit and every day is every more harder.  I will get back to you...Good bye...and good luck.

FIELD TRIP : Russian River Brewery

Yesterday, I decided to go on a small road trip with my ChemE friend, who owns the blog Greens and Machines and his roommate to the "Russian River Brewery" in Santa Clara, California.  I didn't know it was a brewery at first.  My friend said "Let's go to the Russian River", so I thought "Okay, I should bring swim trunks and extra pair of clothes".  When asking him whether I needed such objects, he said "wtf no", so I just wore some normal bar clothes and decided to get ready to drink.  Later I found out that the "Russian River" was code for a brewery that made one of my favorite beers "Pliny the Elder".  After about an hour (more like 30-45 minutes) of road tripping thanks to "S" and plenty of old fashions tunes such as "She's a Brick House", we made it to good old-fashions Santa Clara.

 Amazingly, the line looked ridiculous, but we stayed on it knowingly because it was going to be worth it.  After about 15 minutes, we were able to get in.  I got a pint of "Row 2, Hill 66", my friend gets a half pint of "Shadow of a Doubt", and S gets "Blind Pig I.P.A".  We all drink while having slight jokes with stranger about how ridiculous people are with their Pliny the Elders.  Then I decidedly become one of those ridiculous people alone with S and get a "Growler" which is a pretty large bottle filled with Pliny the elder.

After making that hilarious mistakes such as that, we decided to check out the local bookstore to find books for my favorite author..and fail to do so (Philip K. Dick), we found out our table is ready.

We get a sample, pizza, wings, and "beer bites"...it was all delicious and I want more...I'm still hungry...mother of god everything was a blur afterwards...I'm still hungry..NOW FOR MORE FOOD

Week 2 - the Social Media experiment

So as of January 1st, I have decided to have the New Years Resolution of not going on reddit for a year.  For the next 37/38 weeks I will discuss the tribulations, the weirdness, and the depression that goes along with having no distraction given by reddit.  By week 10, I will stop browsing imgur/HAWP/roosterteeth/instagram/"porn".  By week 20 which will be around June 15th, I will up the score by going no youtube and facebook.  This is a personal experiment as I go on to see what happens when a man clearly addicted to internet social media and ADD stops that social medium.  I have no started a bet, and even some close friends said to use moderation or not to go cold turkey.  I will have to disagree in order to try out my personal experiment.  The only thing thing I will not stop is Pandora (for music) and snapchat (because screw you).

As of week 2, I have noticed that the lack of reddit has indeed made me question some habits I have had over the course of the previous years.  It has made me question some things like "what am I doing with my life" and "where the fuck am I" a lot more.  I have noticed some habitual things forming and the fact that most of the sites I go on is due to reddit or as a condition from reddit.   Personally, I have noticed that I have relied a lot on NSFW from reddit for "my own personal reasons", but now I have had to go on the "old" sites to do my bidding.  In any case, I have found that this is going to be one of the hardest years for me in many ways, and I might as well make it harder on myself because that is who I am.  Its the small steps that make the greatest leaps towards enlightenment...hopefully my small steps will be deemed worthy.  I truly am scared about what will happen as I have noticed breaks in my psyche just as of week 2...I know it's silly to be worried about such trivial things like reddit, porn, or even facebook, but I'm starting to realize that I have used many of these social mediums to feel worthy or to feel happy or to feel like I'm a part of a group.  I feel like I will lose connection to a lot more people as time moves on because of the constant connection I had with the social media of today.  It was nice talking to random middle school people or to old highschool friends, saying "High Five" at random in my chat windo and seeing how to reconnect, but that ability will soon be gone.  Slowly, it will all be gone...In any case, this experiment is going to be intense.  I will post every week to show my progress, thoughts, and any mental issues I have.  Whether I'm using you as a therapist or not is up to you.  Thank you for being there.

An Apology for a Moment of Forgetfulness

Sorry those who read this blog.  I'm sorry for kind of failing you guys in hopes for the next book in the series, and I really wish my stupidity would have alleviated what happened, but the fact is, I forgot to bring a book on my vacation to read.  So next week onwards, I will try to continue my stride and read at least 50-100 pages a day of a new book and try to read a new book a week going into the school year.

I hope you had a great New Years Eve and New Year.  Be careful, be safe, and have fun.