11:34 PM
I think today was another productive day. I completed the dailies I created yesterday such as the minimum 5 pull ups, 5 chin ups, and I actually put 10 push ups minimum, but I said 5 for all of them in my entry yesterday just to make it easier. I still did 23 push ups in a row today though, because 10 feels too easy. 5 pull ups and 5 chin ups are still challenging to me, but I still do them.
What I don't like about the constant pull ups and chin ups though, is the effect it has on my fingers. My fingers and the area of my hands that grip the pull up bar are starting to develop calluses. It's kind of annoying doing the pull ups and chin ups too, because they hurt my fingers. But I still do them. It's not much, it takes me like 30 seconds probably to do 5 pull ups, another 30 seconds to do 5 chin ups, barely any time at all. Just a minute over an entire day. Yet I still skipped this every day.
I washed the dishes this morning, I swept the floor, I took out the trash. I don't take out the trash daily so I can't add that as a daily, but I added sweeping the floor as a daily. I walk barefoot around the tiled floors of my condo and if it's been a while since I swept, the underside of feet turn black from walking over all the dust and debris. Most of the dust in our homes is from our shedding skin. Mary swept the floors when she was here, and she did a great job. For several days after she swept, my feet didn't turn dark at all from walking around. I swept too before she arrived of course, but it wasn't as thorough apparently. Every time my parents visit they always clean my home too.
When I was growing up in Virginia, my parents did all the chores at home. They vacuumed every two weeks or so, they cleaned the bathroom every week or so, they dusted pretty much every day, they cleaned every day. I didn't have to worry about doing the dishes or doing the laundry, I didn't even have to worry about cleaning my own room, my parents did it all. I could literally just leave dishes on my bed, and my parents at night would come and get it and wash it.
They just cared about me getting an education and studying and getting money, so that was the unspoken agreement. They agreed to take care of me, but I have to become successful and take care of them in the future, we never talked about this at all explicitly, growing up they didn't care at all about my grades (i still got mostly A's without trying), they didn't nag me or sign me up for any tutoring or anything, but I interpreted their taking care of me as meaning I have to become successful myself. It was implied. And I wasted a lot of time too. I played video games all the time, I wasted my life, I wasted my childhood playing games.
I became good at them, I made some videos and got a few million views on some of my video game related videos. I have faster reflexes and faster thinking from playing literally thousands of different Warcraft 3 maps, each in a different genre. I guess an equivalent today would be Roblox, where people can make different games within Roblox, all sorts of games, but Warcraft 3 was a strategy game by default, everything created in it was more complicated. You have to think and strategize and compete against other players who are also strategizing and coming up with their own schemes to win. It's a war game too, although not every map, in a lot of them you have to control many units and many buildings, so it really requires a lot of thinking.
But I still consider this time of my life a waste of time, I could have been studying math or something much more productive instead, like art, or programming, anything that I could develop a skill in that I'd have and keep today. But I didn't. I lost all my Warcraft 3 ability once I quit the game. That's the curse of video games, that's why I often just play them for a few days until I'm at the top, like with Mobile Legends when I got 35 kills in a row or something and 0 deaths, I quit that game after playing it for 3 days. I only play them too if I feel like excellence in that game is achievable for me. Like Mobile Legends, if I sucked at the beginning, I would have quit forever after a few games. But I dominated having an 90%+ win streak since the beginning, so I ended up playing for 3 days.
And I think it was unfair that I didn't get any tutoring or any extra lessons or anything, I feel like I was disadvantaged because of that. I had friends that had SAT tutoring and math tutoring, I didn't get any of that.
In all my classes though, I would say I was in the top 5 students or so, for every class. But especially any computer classes. I signed up for Information Technology in 9th grade, and I dominated in that class. I literally stood out and was singled out all the time by the teacher just being so much more advanced than all the other students there. For example there was one point where we had to learn typing, I typed at over 120 words per minute (I'd reach 190+ words per minute a few years later), this was 2009, no one in class even came close. Honestly there was typing contests and stuff online already, and I was one of the fastest in the world, yes, the entire world, at that point in time. And I picked up everything in class instantly too, whatever it was. Like we'd have a lesson and a task to do, and I'd finish the task in a few minutes, literally, and the teacher allowed me to play games or do anything else for the rest of class. I was friends with everyone there too.
There was a chart on one of the walls where we would place our typing speeds, put our names next to them, and every class had them, I was the first place person in the entire school, by a lot. I was the only person in the entire class with my own website too. I made my first website in 3rd grade, and I had a domain name website in 9th grade. By 12th grade this website received over 1 million visitors per month, I still have that website today, but I've repurposed it to just being nothing now basically: JustMegawatt.com. I haven't updated it in years. Anyway yeah, I stood out in that class. I miss those days.
Oh yeah, it was a mixed class, we had students from all grades in that class. I was a freshman and there were juniors and seniors in that class, some of them were taking programming classes already, yet I was still ahead of them. They'd even ask me for help on things. Crazy right? That's because I already did my own at home, for years. I didn't have to learn it in school.
What the heck did I go on this tangent? Anyway. I was already on YouTube since 2006, when I was in 7th grade, and 13 years old, and I made my own videos at that age that got hundreds of thousands of views. No one else in that class knew how to make any videos, I don't even know if most people knew about YouTube back then, it still was nowhere near widespread as today where it's ubiquitous. So yeah, I just dominated in that IT class in 9th grade. No comparison. I was light years ahead of any other student, of anyone in that generation.
I think I'd just be an average student in today's generation probably. I don't know. People are way more into computers and technology now than back then. I was exceptional for the time, but I think I'd be average now, maybe.
Anyway. I did those dailies today and what else? I worked out with Eric tonight, and we used his gym's sauna, and then chilled in condo's public hot tub after. That was fun. I did some work today.
I have a goal now of getting six pack abs, that is my next goal. To do that, I mainly just have to lose weight. I think I have abs underneath my fat stomach. So I'll just have to do whatever it takes to get that. Then I'll start dating again. I'll ask Mary if she'll take me back, because I'd have improved a lot of areas of my life by that point hopefully.
Anyway I'm tired and sleepy. I'd keep writing more, but I'm just exhausted now. I'm going to write again tomorrow. I think it's important. Every day is so finite. We just have a limited time in this world.
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