1/9/10

Resolute

List of my New Year's Resolutions not broke or totally derailed:

1) Fluent French by next Christmas - I'm making excellent progress here so far

2) 1,000 German words by next Christmas - Doin' aight here too

3) No alcohol or drugs until thanksgiving - No problem yet

4) Train to become cage fighter - I pretty much kick ass already

5) 20+ pounds of muscle this year - Been working out steady and I just ordered all my supplements (By the way, this is a perfect time to plug Beverley supplements. My favorite.)

6) Read all of Christopher Lasch - Half way through The True and Only Heaven right now

7) Read the Bible twice - I'm on the program

8) Read the Oneworld Publications Beginners Guides, Concise Encyclopedias and Thinkers series - Need some money for this one

9) Steal my wife's leather journal on account of it being nicer than mine with a spiffy latch - I've got the beginnings of a plan here

10) Write regular essays for Majority Rights, Kinism.net and Occidental Dissent - I've got some ideas and rough drafts cooked up

11) Start a novel - This one has been on the list for a while and I don't see myself making any progress

12) Raise a wise, kind, loving, healthy and strong son - God help me here

13) Treat my wife with love and respect - God help me here
Posted by at 1/09/2010

22 comments:

  1. No.10 would be good. Very good, in fact.

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  2. 1) Fluent French by next Christmas - I'm making excellent progress here so far

    Fluency requires many years. I'd set my sights on something a little more realistic.

    3) No alcohol or drugs until thanksgiving - No problem yet

    What tends to trigger it (crowd, place, stress etc)?

    8) Read the Oneworld Publications Beginners Guides, Concise Encyclopedias and Thinkers series - Need some money for this one

    Try this

    http://avaxsearch.com/

    I don't know if you'll find the titles you're after there but a good alternative is the "Very Short Introduction" series, most of which has been uploaded.

    5) 20+ pounds of muscle this year - Been working out steady and I just ordered all my supplements

    No chance. Well, unless you're willing to add something like 50lb fat in addition, and then good luck keeping even 10 of the 20 muscle when it comes time to cut. Ninety-fi...no, ninety-nine percent of what even "the experts" say about muscle gain is complete bullshit.

    My (realistic, time-honed) advice: lean up first, then bulk. Then be very happy with even 5lb lean muscle gain at the same body fat percentage within 12 months. And consider that the gains will only taper off from there.

    Most supplements are next to useless, and unnecessary at any rate. Whey helps, but 1g per pound of bodyweight per day is more than enough.

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  3. Fluency requires many years. I'd set my sights on something a little more realistic.

    We'll see won't we?

    What tends to trigger it (crowd, place, stress etc)?

    I don't like crowds. I want more creative control at my job.

    What triggers it is the simple fact that I like alcohol and mushrooms.


    I don't know if you'll find the titles you're after there but a good alternative is the "Very Short Introduction" series, most of which has been uploaded.

    Thank you very much my man!

    No chance. Well, unless you're willing to add something like 50lb fat in addition

    All I can say is trust me. I'm a very experienced body builder. This is actually my most reasonable goal. I can't 'lean up' any or I'll disappear! What I can do is put on a pound a week or so for the first nine months of training. I plateau after I hit 175.

    Yes, supplements are called "supplements" for a reason. Whole foods are entirely necessary.

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  4. Most of these have or are goals similar to mine. Since you asked, here's my thoughts on some of them:

    1) I believe you can do this if you have the aptitude for French. You can practice around the house, with music from the radio in the car, translate news and commercial snippets in your head, and speak daily phrases all day to your family and pets.

    2) I can assist here, if you'd like to correspond with short notes a few days a week or want advice on a good study book or program. Another good method is memorizing a German phrase or two a day, or get a German penpal, or do 30 minutes of daily work on an online buddy language network such as LiveMocha.

    3) Doable, especially if you are in training and give your trainer permission to kick you in the face for every drink.

    4) Way cool.

    5) Used to train heavily but too old and busy now.

    7) Once is enough for a year, you need time for reflection. You might even want to narrow to the gospels this year, the remaining books for next year, third year for review. I would recommend you go to Sunday School to get motivation and assistance. Not that many people there know what's what, but just being there and listening keeps you interested.

    10) I'd certainly like to read these.

    11) I'd drop this one for now, except keep a notebook for ideas. It's a full time even for a professional writer; it's too much with everything else you want to do this year.

    12) & 13) are top priorities, of course


    Mine are pretty tame, mostly homeschooling goals fuer die Kinder, and some modest dietary and exercise goals. I'd like to keep my top scores on many of the Wii fitness games, but we'll see, the kids are getting pretty good. I want to keep up my shooting practice and get my son into shooting and shortwave. Got a nice happy family home, will work to keep it that way and improve where I can.

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  5. OH, and you're young, how about children? We need some more baby booties on the ground!

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  6. We hope for her to be pregnant again by the end of February or March.

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  7. Good luck and practice, practice, practice!

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  8. I might take you up on your offer as well.

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  9. Any particular subject matter you are interested in? News, religion, classical or "classic" literature, pop culture, household conversation, correspondence? Are you wanting to work from a particular German text book?

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  10. I think probably the classics and classic lit. Maybe Nietzsche and Schopenhauer in the original?

    I have a book my Reverend gave me, an old, first year grammar book. It looks pretty tough.

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  11. Whoa, that's beyond my abilities. I'm more in the beginner's-intermediate learner level, still working on basic grammar and vocabulary. I have completed one course (Essential German, by Gene Moutoux) and am working on another (German, by Joseph Rosenberg) mit meinem Kinder, and am doing a little basic reading, listening, and other grammar on the side.

    If I had to create a beginner's bare-bones vocabulary practice space, it would look something like this:

    http://1000gwbc.blogspot.com/

    I'm trying to catch up with the posts, and will stop at 365. The content may become a little more sophisticated as I go but not by much. I plan on adding movie, song, and other popular phrases and quotations. Drop in a let me know what you think.

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  12. I'm definitely a beginner. I've had no previous German experience. I'll check it out.

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  13. We might could work through
    Zarathustra, one word and grammar principle at a time. You would collect a 1000 word vocabulary from the text and grammar examples within the first 5-10 pages.

    Here it in English:

    http://books.google.com/books?id=wjATAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA272&dq=nietzsche+english+german+Zarathustra&as_brr=1&ei=qGlSS8TmEIvEMcmPoLEC&cd=9#v=onepage&q=nietzsche%20english%20german%20Zarathustra&f=false

    Auf Deutsch:

    http://literaturewiz.com/files/00108-1.pdf

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  15. Perhaps we can start a Zarathustra thread here:

    http://forum.wordreference.com/forumdisplay.php?f=18

    Benefits: Neither of us need moderate, it is an active forum with several knowledgeable and prompt experts, and we can PM each other.

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  16. Drawbacks: confusion introduced by other learners and an inability to collect or sort as you could on your own blog.

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  17. Are we gonna use a Germanic alphabet or a Roman alphabet?

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  18. You can use the Roman. For umlauts, just put an e after the vowel. For maximum coolness, you can hold down the alt key while dialing in three numbers on your number pad:

    alt 132 -> ä
    alt 148 -> ö
    alt 129 -> ü

    alt 142 -> Ä
    alt 153 -> Ö
    alt 154 -> Ü

    alt 225 -> ß

    Use English punctuation marks.

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  19. I studied French for 3 years at the university level. Unfortunately, I only use it when I catch a glimpse of the directions on perfume bottles.

    Studied German in high school. Ich haben braun augen. That's as good as I get there.

    Drinking is a good thing in a bad world.


    Lastly, beneath your muscles are only bones, anyway.

    Happy 2010!
    j

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  20. Drinking is indeed a wonderful thing. God gave man wine to make his heart glad.

    French is one of the internationalized languages. If you know French, Spanish and English you can pretty much circumnavigate the globe on the linguistic level.

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  21. Wie ist dein Deutsch? I'm still posting on the 1000 German Words before Christmas blogs, as well as on the 1000 lateinisches und Griechisches Blogs. Still studying away hier, natürlich.

    Are you still working out consistently? We're trying to keep die Familie fit und eat right. Our homeschool work includes progressive workouts für unsere Kinder, viele Zeit on the Wii, und spazieren mit den Hunde. We're endeavoring to eat healthier, especially because my daughter's skin is so fair and sensitive to the poisons of processed foods and to the hormones in Rindfleisch und Milch.

    Später.

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  22. Working out is still going good. The French is progressing nicely. I haven't done so good with the German but I'm going to change that.

    I saw all the new blogs of yours! Thank you.

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