Welcome to the online home of me, some guy given the name John Cleveland Payne. In the grand scheme of life, I am just another guy with another blog. But to myself, and hopefully to all of you who actually read this, I am something a little more special. From a young age, I fell in love of the idea of ‘the message’ and medium in which you try to transmit.
Basically, everyone has a message to give to the world. Some are basic, some complex, some have the power to up lift and some are just out there to bring as many people down as possible. But everyone has a message, and most people have problems identifying their message. And the ones who get that far can seem to figure out how to get the world to listen.
Well, I have a message, and this is where I will get a chance to share it. Hopefully, you’ll get plenty of things to keep you motivated or inspired, provide knowledge and comfort, and just have a little fun. Apologies for the state of flux and state of seemingly confusing messages that you’ll get here for a while, as I am doing a lot of personal soul searching, and scrubbing of old ideas to take the best of the past to build a new beginning.
In 2007, I changed the name of blog from “The Mis-Adventures Of The Jazzy Cool One” to “Life In Fast Forward.” I began to tear down old blogs and newsletters and try to find places for them here. My goal is to take the focus off of me the person, and show the world the life I live and share with every human on the planet. I aspire to life at a very high standard, and instead of dealing with people who rather slow us down, I want to find ways to help people pick up there own pace. As you get to see an insight to the further adventures I hope to lead, hopefully you’ll enjoy the ride, and want to come along.
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Rethinking Impossible Missions, Or, Here We Go Again...
And since I can’t do anything the easy way, here is my current gamelan for Simulations Impossible Missions:
1) Reclaim the dream of a professional bowler’s life - life got in the way of my bowling practice, so I am even further behind in that goal, but that’s not stopping me from getting back on track...
2) Read like a fiend – I’m want to average reading a book a week next year, but I’m going to cheat a little bit by making my goal 52 books by January 1st, 2010, which gives me the last 5 weeks of 2008 to bulk up my total. I will cheat even further by reading a lot of short and totally useless books...
3) Pay to run like the wind – The River City 5K is July 18th, 2009, approximately 9 months for now. I should be able to get into good shape by then, especially with all the bowling I’ll be doing right...
And you follow all the insanity that is my attempts to make these things happen, assuming I don’t go on 3 month drought of postings…like that will ever happen...
It’s hard to believe I that at 20 I could bowl a consistent 115, but at 33-years-old, my game is defiantly on a serious decline. Life as a professional bowler is obviously a ways off, with my average this weekend dropping from 105 to 91 (88/89/97), after I dropped taking my wife along with me as a distraction.
I am initiating a list of goals to use as my own personal carrot to dangle in front of myself. First is immediate, once I can average 125 for three weeks straight, I get to buy bowling gear. I also have a target to create a bowling team at work for winter leagues, which means I have to get better quickly if I want to find some people to bowl with me and not embarrass myself, other that from the few people who actually keep up with this blog.
There are three ways to become a member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA):
A 200 average or better for the most recent league season with at least 36 games in that league.
A 190 average or better in a sanctioned USBC Sport Bowling League. This is a league run by the USBC using the PBA patterns. You can find out if there are sports leagues near you by contacting the USBC at (414) 421-6400.
Cashing in a PBA Regional tournament as a non-member. You can gain access to information on entering regional tournaments on pba.com.
My plan is raise my skill level by bowl three games a week, and looking for a league in the fall. Of course, in my first outing a month ago, I was horrible. This time, not much better. Game one score at 124, game two scored at 96, and game three scored at 95, for an average of 105. The main factor to work on is concentration (might need to leave the wife behind when bowling for practice), followed by consistency.
Now that I have more or less mastered the man purse, its time to follow my next impossible mission. My current list to choose from, in no particular order or degree of difficultly:
- Eating with chop sticks - Becoming a professional bowler - buying a sport coat
While the sport coat would be the obvious easily choice, I am really digging the idea of bowling more (I like bowling shoes).
Two months ago, I blogged about buying my first moleskin notebook to go into 'The Man Bag Project.' This project has not been forgotten, and after a $29.99 purchase a few hours ago from Staples, I now introduce you to Man Bag V2.0. More photos of the new Man Bag, along with a shot of the first attempt, can be found here.
What brought about the whole 'Man Bag Project.' First, a lot like Batman has to to have a utility bill with anything he could need at any time, that's why I am always saddled with a lot of bags and overflowing arms of stuff that doesn't fit in the bags.
Second, and a lot more silly, is my quest to become 'more organized.' I have a list of 'Impossible Missions,' things that I can not do but intend to actually put forth the effort to learn (after getting this Man Bag thing in order, I next plan to tackle eating with chop sticks...that will get ugly...).
So while I might not have the most exciting (or well maintained) blog in the world, I welcome you to follow me on this Impossible Mission of organization and mastering the Man Bag.
When you consider all the blogsIreaddealing with GettingThingsDone , its a wonder why I have not falling into cult of the Moleskine. At least until I stumbled across this display at Barnes & Noble last night...
A shrine to “the legendary notebook of Hemingway, Picasso, Chatwin.” (so says the display of course, and I thought I could get of easy with a few cahiers journals to leave around for note taking…
…and then somehow I found a way to ‘convince’ myself to grab the real deal, and added a 240-page hard-bound notebook to the purchase.
The black notebook will become a part of my Man Bag Project. More of that to come…
