Jorg's Brain Log

After looking back at my history of phone numbers, email adresses and personal websites I have used over the years I thought it would be usefull for a small post with my latest contact information and some other links that link to my online presence. Let’s start of with the basics:

Keep in mind I have a new mobile number since March 2009!!!

Mobile phone: +31 634 027 003

E-Mail: jorg.jansen at gmail.com

Personal Website: www.jorgjansen.com

The above is also what is stated on my personal business card, so with the above info, you have it all. To make it a little more complete below you will find my online presence and how/why I use them:

• Friendfeed: My online presence aggregator! I’ve got a big gadget on my personal website. It collects most of my online stuff over here. So don’t bother reading the rest of the list, but everything interesting turns onsite here!
• Twitter: Everything done on friendfeed is also put on twitter
• Google Talk: my main use is actually not the IM function but the status update/lattitude function. I use this to update my status and location through my t-mobile G1 android phone. Friendfeed grabs the status and pushes it to twitter, hyves and some other status update function on some social websites.
• Google Reader: My RSS aggregator. Thinks I like or read I also share, sometimes with some extra comments with them.
• Google Calendar: Where I put all my appointments in. Everybody is free to watch my calendar and see when I’m in a meeting and not available on phone. Or when I’m free to plan an appointment.
• Skype: You can find me with the name jorgjansen. How convenient! now that I got it installed on my G1 phone I plan to use it a lot more just for calling. I don’t have it installed on my laptop, because I don’t like installing stuff on my laptop… I really need a netbook I guess.

My presence on different social networks:

• Linkendin: for my business network. If you have something interesting to mention/ask you’re free to add me.
• Facebook: Mostly used for my non-business international network.
• Hyves: The Netherlands has their own biggest social network called hyves and here’s my profile. Looking through it now it’s maybe to clean up a little bit.
• I’m also on Plaxo, Myspace, Orkut and districtworld but I seem to loose more and more interest in these networks.

Other stuff:

I’m on many more popular websites, but that’s probably not so interesting to mention here. You can follow activity on those mostly through my friendfeed page. Think Digg, Chi.mp, Brightkite, Goodreads, Flickr, Picasa, Last.fm, Reddit, Slideshare, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Youtube and many many more.  My up to date list contains 221 websites I’m subscribed to, and I didn’t even dare to look at my notepad filled with website info.

So all in all, enough options to reach me!

Finally back behind my laptop. I was on winter sport for the first time of my life. It was a great experience! Not only was it great to do some snowboarding but I also learned a lot; about myself, others, general stuff and not so general stuff.

My girlfriend stayed home with the kids and I went together with Sanne and his girlfriend. So all in all, I was pretty much boss of my own time, not influenced by urgent needs from the kids or other appointments and agreements. I planned to do a lot of snowboarding and the rest of the time find some rest by reading books and watching movies that I brought on my laptop.

We drove from Eindhoven to Solden (Austria) on Saturday 7th of march in a good pace. Starting at 6:30 and arriving in Austria around 13:30. But the last 100 km took us around 3 hours, so by the time we came in our rented pension we were pretty tired. A quick pizza and beer for dinner and after picking up our rented gear and after that it was pretty much over with the energy.

On Sunday morning it was our first day. And after studying the map of the ski region it was pretty clear that our pension location was very good. Only a 3 minute walk to the first elevator! After paying a ridiculous amount of money for a 6 day ski pass, we walked to the lift and went up. It’s a pretty fast ride of around 10 minutes that brings us from 1300 meters to 2300 meters at the giggibach pistes. Sun was shining, weather was good and I had a knot in my stomach from what I was seeing.

I think I have snowboarded before for around 12 times or so. But all the time it was on a great indoor piste. 550 meters long, elevator inside and everything. And I thought I was prepared and ready to go. I must admit that when I took the lift to the first blue piste (the easy one!) and I looked down I really second guessed if I was ready and why I was going to throw myself from a mountain. After attaching the bindings correctly and standing on my board for several seconds, my adrenaline-jorg took offer and a little voice said: go go go…

You can prepare as extensivly as you want, but nothing beats just trying the real thing! First lesson learned: If you’re afraid to fall, you will never learn anything!

After a few times up and down the piste it was becoming more and more easier to manoeuvre all the ways I wanted to and I even began to relax a little bit on my board. As soon as I relaxed on my board, the board took the way with the least resistance and that was not the way my body was going. Major wipe out. Lesson 2: Don’t be too comfortable soon, prepare for the unexpected!

After 3 hours non stop on the piste it was time to take a lunch. Down at our rooms we relaxed and ate a bit and at the same discussed what we were going to do. We looked at the map and decided it was time to find the highest point and take the long way back. What sounded like a great idea, became a long trip down feeling like a triple marathon. Because we did the 12 kilometer route in the afternoon many people already destroyed the snow with their ski’s making bumps and holes everywhere in the route. Bumps and holes are maybe fun for skiers but not for snowboarders, or at least boarders called Jorg!

Lesson 3: Don’t take the road much traveled! It’s boring and you don’t learn a thing!

We came back exhausted after this long trip, but all in all in was a good first learning day. There were many more lessons coming up in the next 5 days!

So what’s the status of my 12 weeks schedule? 6 weeks have passed, and I have 6 weeks to go. In short: things are looking good! Below a more detailed overview on where I’m standing at the moment.

Things I’m proud of:

• did a 1500 crawl swim without stopping or resting
• ran for 1 hour, also without stopping or resting
• improved my strength big time
• lost 7,5 kilo’s
• learned to cook some food! (if you want to eat healthy you have to cook and not order)
• in control of my food rages!
• discipline to do some sport activity, even when I don’t feel like it! Afterwards it feels double as good.

Some numbers. In the 6 weeks, 42 days I:

• did some sport on 28 days. didn’t sport 14 days.
• went swimming 10 times, for a total of 9,3 kilometers
• went running 5 times, for a total time of 2:34 hours
• went to the gym 18 times for a total time of 9 hours
• did a total of 15 hours and 20 minutes of sport.

So I’m pretty happy what I’ve done. Only thing I’m missing at the moment is the stretching part I did not start yet. Maybe next week! Oh and I’m 0,5 kilo’s behind schedule at the moment. So I have to break through the 118 kilo barrier at the moment.

Only 6 more weeks to go and I’m motivated big time! Let’s continue to create a healthy lifestyle wich in turn creates a healthy body as well.

Some rules: 4 times a week cardio, 4 times a week fitness, good eating paleo style, start stretching!

You can follow my daily updates on training through friendfeed or twitter!

Again too long of inactivity on my blog. Only 150 days until my birthday and I must say the future looks very different than only a week ago.

Questions I’ve been asking myself for years seem to have clearer answers at the moment. Even some of them transformed from bad to good answers so that’s positive.

The last 1,5 years really changed my life, as well in my personal life as in my professional life. And just when you think that this is it, this is what I was counting down for, something else happens that put everything else in perspective and make me look at the countdown at a whole different way.

As you can see in my friendfeed I still have been very busy with a lot of stuff. I’m especially glad that I’ve found the time again, thanks of the support from my girlfriend and friends, to do some serious sporting again. In a later update I’ll post my progress with that.

Oh and before I forget: Happy Birthday to my sister who turns 26 today! Cheers!