Lopez Family blog

Last night at around 1 AM I was surfing the web trying to see off the last of my sugar/caffeine high when I ran across biorhythm. I’d never heard of it but it sounded to me like a semi-scientific horoscope. I don’t believe in horoscopes so naturally I decided to give it a try, not before consulting Wikipedia for the definition:

A biorhythm is a hypothetical cyclic pattern of alterations in physiology, emotions, and/or intellect. “Bio” pertains to life and “rhythm” pertains to the flow with regular movement. Critics assert that there is no conclusive evidence to back its claims, and that as such it is a form of pseudoscience.

Now that I knew what it was, it was time to give it a go.

Apparently I’m a really intelligent emotional wreck whose physical shape is on the down. I’m going to hell and I don’t have a clue about it but that’s OK as long as it’s aesthetically pleasing down there.

At least I’m intelligent!

If you want to give it a try you can go to this link Biorhythm Calculator

See my results below:

In my opinion the birthday milestones in a person’s life are:

16 – you can get your license to drive
18 – you can vote, and if I’m not mistaken you can also get drafted
21 – you can drink legally in the US
30 – you’re not a kid anymore

after that any birthday that marks a decade is a reminder that your body is old even if mentally you never left your teens.

I once had someone tell me a theory on people and their mental age. According to the theory your mind/personality would get ’stuck’ at the age of when you begun having kids.

My 31st birthday was this past Saturday and I realized the statement might not be far off from the truth. For me the age I got stuck at was somewhere in my twenties (around the age when I met my wife).

In my mind I’m still the guy in the picture:

In reality I’m the guy that is responsible for this child:

Just in case I wasn’t feeling down enough my wife gave me this shirt as a birthday present:

Even what I read has changed. I’d love to read Steve Souders’ book “High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers“, instead I’m reading Kim West’s “Good Night, Sleep Tight: The Sleep Lady’s Gentle Guide to Helping Your Child Go to Sleep, Stay Asleep and Wake Up Happy“.

I guess I really am a grown up now!

It seems like it was only yesterday that I was dodging cars in LA rush hour traffic. Tonight I find myself on another adventure which includes a 3hr delay out of Chicago on my way home. Trying to make the best use of my time, as any self respecting über productive member of corporate America would, I’ve categorized all my ongoing projects in order of importance and have come up with a strategy to work from the top down. Without wasting another minute I will take on the most important project: catching up on my Top Gear episodes (as soon as I finish writing this blog entry of course). You are probably thinking that there surely must be something more important I could be doing, and I would agree with you, only I’m not in the mood to watch The Transporter or The Transporter 2.

For better or worse this trip has not been as ‘eventful’ as the trip out to LA turned out to be. As with Bill I got to enjoy some of the benefits of the seasoned traveler. I got to fly on economy plus, the only real difference between economy plus and economy is the space between rows of seats. The trip did not go without it’s share of hiccups. Stephen planned this trip pretty well and even got us a rental car from a real rental car company equipped with an everlost satellite navigation system. Neither one of us had been to Columbus Ohio but we both knew that where the gps device wanted us to go was not the right direction. As a matter of fact everlost was lost for the duration of our trip. Not to mention that it was unable to find a satellite if there was a cloud in the sky.

The one sad part of the trip was that SMP was sick for most of it and to top it off he had to spend his birthday with me.