2.0 Wake Up Early

WAKE UP BITCH

For the next 7 days, I will get out of bed no later than 5:00am, regardless of bedtime.  

Long Term Goals: Get into better sleep habits.  

Exceptions: None

Expectations:  I'll be super miserable for the first few days, and the for the first 15 minutes of every morning, but will love the extra few hours in the morning.   Will probably force me to go to bed earlier.  

WHY

There are a few main drivers here:

1) I need to get back to exercising, and Crossfit starts at 530am.   I had excellent success with crossfit and the requisite diet, recovery, and sleeping habits, so this will be a good way to get back on the horse.  I took December and most of January off and I'm getting PUFFY again and I feel awful. 

2) OWN THE WORLD...for a bit. When you wake up before everyone else, it's like you get a little bit of the world all to yourself for a little bit.  Get ahead of something catch up with others, it's the best time to do it.  

3) Want to get to sleep at a reasonable hour, and this will be a good forcing function.   Most nights it's get home-eat-feed kid-put kid to bed-clean up house-crash out on bed/in front of TV until 1030-1100 until I realize DAMN I GOTTA GO TO BED.  Much like experiment 1.0 was all about wasting less time and maximizing waking hours, this is very much along the same lines.  

If Tardar Sauce doesn't get his
19 hours of sleep he's even GRUMPIER

so, hope to get MORE sleep here, because it helps with:

• Weight loss
• Better training
• Improving your mood

So the real danger here is that I keep going to bed at 10-11 and wake up at 445a, because I will keep getting puffy, train poorly and be all PISSY. 

We shall see, it should be an interesting week.  Over/Under on k-cups drank is 40.  

1.0 No Facebook. No Twitter. No Reddit

I will not go on Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit FROM 12:00am on 01/07/2013 until 1am on 01/14/2013.

Long Term Goals: Pare my social networking down to a reasonable amount, and remember what it's like to not find out what everyone is doing or thinking every minute of every day.

Exceptions: Twitter for work, but a minimum.   LinkedIn, because it's no fun and I need to go there for work. I'd add Google+ here, but come on.  

WHY?

Because I'm on there too god damn much, wiling away hours and hours and scrolling through on my phone until I get to the last post I looked at 20 minutes ago.  It's a total time suck, and my efforts to curtail them work for about a day or 2, and then I'm navel-gazing again at everyone's kids and pets and meals and opinions on Obama/Guns.

Let's take them one at a time:

Facebook:  No original idea here.  Facebook is funny.  I came to the party later to a lot of people, and was dragged there kicking and screaming.  Now, it's a central communication hub for me.  For many people, I couldn't get in touch with them without Facebook.  I've rekindled friendships on there, and I curse the 3 friends I have that don't have Facebook accounts because I need to call them and be like HAY DID YOU HEAR HERP AND DERP McDERPSON HAD QUINTUPLETS OF COURSE YOU DIDN'T BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO COOL FOR FACEBOOK WHEN DID I BECOME YOUR RUMOR BITCH

This said, it's a total fuxing time suck.  I waste more hours :

SECRET ALLEY MURDERER

• looking at everyone's stupid kids/pets/meals/vacation photos (note, not YOUR kids/pets/meals/vacation photos.  I love YOUR kids/pets/meals/vacation photos)
• looking to see if anyone commented on the pictures of my stupid kid/pet/meal/vacation photos/pithy comment/obscure reference
• wondering why you'd post that?  I mean, people can READ THIS.  INTERNET PEOPLE.  THAT YOU KNOW.  THAT YOU MAY WORK WITH.  
• wondering what the hell your post means.  don't be VAGUE and tell me "what goes around comes around".  Tell me how the guy from Accounts Payable/the airport/the cockfight ring wronged you.  Tell me who you want to be dragged naked through a filthy alley by a gang of long-haired daschunds.  I know a guy.  I can help.  NETWORKING AT WORK.    
• looking at my past posts and thinking "Jesus.  Don't I think I'm just the wittiest guy ever because I posted a Hold Steady lyric as my status".  /punches self in gullet

Facebook is super.  But much like Miller High Life, it's to be enjoyed in moderation, and only after a hard day or week.  Not at work or in bed.  Or in a meeting.

If any of you connected crazygonuts
to this guy, we are hugging in my mind

Twitter:  I don't tweet a ton, but I read tweets like CRAZYGONUTS.  Twitter has become more of a go to for me since the election, because GOD DAMN people are hilarious dickheads on twitter about real issues.  

CLASSIC

My rationale here is that Twitter's snarkiness is making me snarkier than I need to be.  These people are dicks.  Hilarious, yes.  But I can catch up later.

Reddit: This one won't be too bad, because I can go other places to see pictures of grumpy cats.  

Again, another place I don't accomplish anything, short of going HEH.  or HUH.  or OH GOD WHY.  

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The common thread here is PISSING AWAY TIME.  I have a pile of awesome, well recommended books and excellent magazines that I paid good money for, as well as family and friends that I can be interacting with.  (please don't read into why the reading material came first in this sentence).

I HATE to use wisdom from something that could be on needlepoint on a pillow, but no one ever laid on the deathbed and said "Gosh Mavis, my only regret is that I spent more time on Facebook or reading dick jokes on twitter or looking at FAIL pictures on Reddit"