So its now late October and looking at this blog, I realize that I havent posted anything in a couple of months.  Before that, it was probably a month or two as well.  

Blogging is a discipline for sure.  Its like working out.  The longer you go without doing it, the easier it is to neglect and the harder it is to get back into shape.  Its not from lack of desire to do so, it just becomes (more often than not) one of those things that I hope to get to but rarely do.  I don’t make it a priority but I want to get better at that.  I really do enjoy recording my thoughts and being able to look back on them in retrospect. 

Despite my inability to keep this blog current, I have been keeping a personal (and more private) journal for just about one year now and today I took some time to read through my late October posts from 2009 to see where I was and how things measure it.  

This blog is linked to a number of my websites and social media profiles, yet it has remained dormant.  So, I vow to become more committed to regular entries here.

Catching up … 

About a month ago, we decided to finally move forward with our patio project in the back yard.  Kristin and I have been discussing extending our dinky concrete patio for a while and we finally pulled the trigger.   They just finished up last week and now Im in the process of landscaping the new flower beds to make the project complete.  It is coming along nicely and Ill post before and after pictures when it is done.

About 7 weeks ago, Kristin and I took a vacation to Chicago.  We had a blast and the pictures are posted on my Flickr stream.  

We’ve reached the part of the year when the real estate market begins to slow down a little bit.  While I am still busy daily with work, I am more focused on long term projects, planning and education.  I’m currently in the process of converting my website (Better Austin Living dot Com) from Typepad format to Wordpress format.   It’s been a long process but much easier than actually creating it in the first place because the majority of the content was already in place.  I’m pleased with it. 

I’m coaching Fall baseball and while our season is coming to an end in the next 3 weeks, it has kept me quite busy over the past 2.5 months.  

As far as my P90X pursuit was/is concerned, I pretty much stuck with it up through week 10 (of 12).  I did not follow the routine religiously and took a week off here and there.  However, the past 2 weeks or so I have gotten side tracked and fallen into the trap of not working out.   So, I cannot say that I made it through the entire program.  The results that I saw were encouraging nonetheless.  

I actually think I’m going to start over again today.  However, instead of going with the “classic” program, I’m going to do the “lean” program which is slightly more cardio and core focused than muscle focused.  In a strange way, Im actually looking forward to getting back on that program.  I’m not going to force myself to grind six days a week but I do believe I can commit to 4.  Ill most likely lift twice a week, do one cardio session and then Kenpo X on the weekend.   We’ll see …