Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Nineteen, Dateline 8-7-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-nineteen of Operation Achieve Anything. I know it was just yesterday when I was saying that I got some extra sleep and am now in a much better mood. Though that may have been true when I wrote those words in the early morning when it was cool, as soon as the afternoon heat set in I felt like I wanted to cry. Though my day to day life isn't all that bad, I'm a big guy who can only take so much of constantly feeling cook.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Eighteen, Dateline 8-6-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-eighteen of Operation Achieve Anything. Sorry if my Daily Breaker post and SNL review were a bit rambly yesterday, I was nursing a box wine hangover which made it hard to focus as I rushed to get through my day. The nice part was that I was feeling just ill enough to where I only wanted sleep but the day after drinking sickness wasn't bad enough to where I couldn't get comfortable, so I was able to achieve my slumber goals.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Seventeen, Dateline 8-5-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-seventeen of Operation Achieve Anything. It's Sunday so that means I'm now nursing a hangover after another Saturday of hanging out with a box of wine. My original plan for the day was to get liquored up while also getting caught up on the second season of GLOW and Stranger Things. Unfortunately, I miss gauged just how much TV viewing that would be and only managed to get through all the episodes of the show about the Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Sixteen, Dateline 8-4-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-sixteen of Operation Achieve Anything. Not only am I excited by the fact that it's Saturday, meaning that I have no day job to get to, I'm also over the moon that I'm ahead of my work enough to take the day off to do some marathon television watching.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Fifteen, Dateline 8-3-2018

Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-fifteen of Operation Achieve Anything. Once again, we're at a Friday, and my should-be-simple day-job is about to drive me out of my mind. As I think I said last week, or possibly the week before, the work itself is a breeze, but the leadership has me feeling that this is a social experiment and not a gig that adds any real value to this world.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Fourteen, Dateline 8-2-2018

Good evening crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-fourteen of Operation Achieve Anything. Yesterday turned out to be a fun day where I had my little nephew as an officemate throughout most of the day. Now that I have a new computer my old one is set up on the desk behind me since I plan to keep it running as a back for all of my files. That thing’s been with me through my busiest era of writing, so I am too afraid to permanently put the thing away no matter how many documents I switch over.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Thirteen, Dateline 8-1-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-thirteen of Operation Achieve Anything. I got a good night’s sleep last night and am no longer burnt out to the point where I feel like another bout of depression is setting in. I am still a bit low energy from some of the thoughts that came up over the past couple of days while I was down, but the negative mood, in general, seems to be passing.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Twelve, Dateline 7-31-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-twelve of Operation Achieve Anything. I’m feeling a bit run down today because my sleep has been terrible over the past couple of days now that I’m back to the point where I can work with some comfort after close to two months of struggling through my sciatica pain in order to make my day. I’ve been so excited to be able to get to the extracurricular project that I’ve been neglecting that I’ve been up all night creating, fueled on manic energy, knowing all along that it was only a matter of time before I would crash.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Eleven, Dateline 7-30-2018

Good evening crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-eleven of Operation Achieve Anything. Here we go with another Monday where I am struggling to officially wake up because, once again, I was up to late last night fantasizing. Also, once again, the nighttime fantasies and not the type of fantasies that you are thinking in your filthy mind… well… not all of them at least.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Ten, Dateline 7-29-2018

Good evening crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-ten of Operation Achieve Anything. Here we go with another Sunday which means I’m going to try to make this one quick so that I can enjoy the rest of my day doing nothing in order to relax to prepare for the upcoming week. With that said, I’m going to skip the more extended intro and jump right into to discussing the assignments for today.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Nine, Dateline 7-28-2018

Good evening crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-nine of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s a good thing that the Achieve Anything… book is still focused on fantasy because last night I was fantasizing up a storm leading me to, once again, stay up late enough to see the sunrise. No, not that kind of nighttime fantasizing. The thoughts that filled my head were more along the lines of yesterday’ assignment where I was supposed to share my idealized dreams of success.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Eight, Dateline 7-27-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-eight of Operation Achieve Anything. Last night turned out to be a fun one out of the blue and this time there wasn't even any boozing or socializing at all. If you follow this at all, you already know that I've been a bit hobbled by my latest bout with sciatica that's been going on for over a month.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Seven, Dateline 7-26-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-seven of Operation Achieve Anything. Last night I was supposed to explore my views on fantasy as the Achieve Anything… book shifts its focus to how an active imagination can be a beneficial tool for accomplishing your goals. The book’s take is that if you can visualize the outcome, then you can use the make-believe hypotheticals to create a roadmap to real-world success. Though I wholeheartedly agree with this concept, my own personal relationship with fantasy it a little rocky.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Six, Dateline 7-25-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-six of Operation Achieve Anything. Yesterday, I was supposed to let curiosity run my day based on the assignment out of the Achieve Anything… book. Between the fact that I’m already entirely on board with the idea that curiosity is a good thing and how vague the task at hand was, I was planning to watch a documentary to cure my curiosity itch and then call it a day.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Five, Dateline 7-24-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-five of Operation Achieve Anything. It feels so nice to finally be back to a place where I can sit and get around to the point where I now have options for how I would like to get through my day. Since I started to experiment with working a graveyard schedule to cope with my slow, bedridden, lying on belly typing, I can now opt to either blog after midnight at the technical start of a new day, or put it off until the morning.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Four, Dateline 7-23-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-four of Operation Achieve Anything. Here we go with another Monday where, once again, my sciatica didn’t allow me to thoroughly enjoy my time off from the day job. I did manage to get caught up on a lot of the optional work that I put off during the phase of my pain where I was bedridden, so I at least have some sense of accomplishment, but other than that, I spent that last couple of days just trying to sleep in hopes that I’d heal.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Three, Dateline 7-22-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-three of Operation Achieve Anything. I think I’m having a Pavlovian response to the fact that it’s Sunday because I’m feeling a bit hungover even though this was the first weekend that I’ve gone sober in the last month and a half or so. I think I’m over the increase in drinking to where I was growing to be an official weekend warrior, sedating myself through the weekend to celebrate the fact that I have no official work to get done.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Two, Dateline 7-21-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-two of Operation Achieve Anything. I can’t believe it’s already Saturday again. That’s one of the things that sucks about having a consistent day job with a Monday thru Friday schedule. Sure, it’s nice to have the consistency and steady pay, but I really hate knowing precisely what day it is while also favoring one day over another. This creates that working for the weekend trope where life is split up to five days devoted to the employer and only two devoted to play.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-One, Dateline 7-20-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-one of Operation Achieve Anything. Yesterday, I was supposed to celebrate the fact that I’ve reached day number two-hundred of the Achieve Anything… book that delves out these assignments by going easy and reflect on my progress and gauge if I’m on the right track. In order to fulfill this task, I’m going to make this one quick to satisfy the go easy aspect and then point out the fact that I’m now earning an income while still, ninety-five percent in charge of my schedule is a sign that I’m on the right track. I don’t know how much the book has actually helped, but here I am.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred, Dateline 7-19-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred of Operation Achieve Anything. Holy crap, there’s still one-hundred-sixty-five days to go until I’m done with this challenge. That’s fine though, not only because I’m just going to start something new as soon as this one is done, but last night, I was so zoned out while writing that I couldn’t even wait to see what I had to say. That’s not to say that I made any sense, but it did remind me of why I do this as well as where I would like to eventually be as a writer, where I feel like I’m being entertained by the efforts of my own brain to express itself through my pecking hands.