back to old habits, and starting some new ones

i’ve taken up the addicting sport of crossword puzzling again. i find it’s a very relaxing exercise. and speaking of exercise … i think i have nearly motivated myself to at least take up running again. i need to plot some courses out because it’s been a while and i’m going to have to work myself up to any sort of a decent workout. i imagine that i’ll make it around the block once before i’m huddled over fighting for air. seriously though, the inactivity is getting to me. if i work at it i think i can reverse a majority of it within a couple of months. there needs to be a web site where i can plug in my address and how much i want to run and have it create a path for me. i’m really going to do this.

work is frantically busy. i have a to-do list the size of canada that i need to get through. i brought home work to do but i have barely even touched it. what i need is a desk. i’m back to the whole not-buying-furniture-until-i-move-again things again.

i hate to pull my old man card but … have i told people how much i love my flexible spending account? the person that invented this concept was a genius. i go to the doctor and the copay that i paid is automatically redeposited back into my account from my pre-tax contributions! plus i love submitting receipts for contact solution for reimbursement. i have this thing for filling out paperwork. there’s something stange about me that causes me to have this desire to fill out forms.

okay, now i’ve got a story to tell … you know those e-mails you get that read “get a new *insert consumer electronic device here* free!”? and then it asks you for your information and all that fun stuff and you can right away tell it’s a spam trap? yeah, well against any sort of common sense that existed in my mind i filled the stupid piece of shit out. now my email box fills with about 200 pieces of spam every day. which gets me to the moral of my story … i’m phasing out my ryan [at] notedinpassing [dot] com e-mail address and phasing in ryan [at] ryaninchicago [dot] com. i just couldn’t stand the amount of junk mail that i was receiving, it was driving me fucking crazy.

schweet … it’s tuesday [12:47a.m.] now, i’m off to indulge myself in today’s the new york times crossword puzzle.

gnight.

update: in today’s NYT crossword puzzle they have 36 Across: “The Soup ____” (classic Seinfeld episode) and 26 Down: Wiesel who wrote “Night” intersecting each other, i find that a bit ironic and the slightest bit troubling, but even more so i find it hilarious.