IQ Based on Time of Day and Proximity to the Electronics Lab

So. I was thinking about how hard of a time I always have in the Electronics Lab, like, I never have a clue what's going on in there. And then I realized that whenever I'm not in the lab I can actually think about the stuff we were doing or supposed to be doing and it makes perfect sense. And the time thing has been on my mind a lot recently also. I have smart times of day and dumb times of day. Unfortunately my dumb time of day corresponds with the time of all the electronics labs... And it's not just those lab days that I based the graph off of. This was created from empirical data collected over several semesters. First I started with a very simple graphic to show how I am  outside of the Electronics Lab...

Yes. The beard is there in real life too. 

And yes. I am that skinny in real life too. 

Oh yeah, and this is what I am like as soon as I walk through the door into the lab. 

Yeah. So you get the point. But to help relieve your minds of any clouds of confusion that may be lingering...

I hope you enjoyed this. And I wish I had more time to just sit around and come up with stupid stuff like this.
What that means is that a little bit more time sitting in class wouldn't hurt :)

First Training Run/Devo Challenge

So for reasons that I don't exactly like, I am running cross country again this fall (http://www.caller.com/news/2011/aug/21/gregory-portland-grad-on-the-run/).
One big reason being that I haven't run more than 60 miles combined since December 5th, 2010 when I did a marathon.

But! I am going to make the most of it and turn it into a good thing both for my fitness, the team, and my personal walk with God.

Fortunately my coach understands that running is nowhere close to a priority this semester as I tackle the behemoths of Dynamics and Electronics along with a few other courses as well as my duties as the head engineering peer advisor for LeTourneau University.

With all that said I'm sure you are still wondering how I will benefit from still running. Well, I decided to tie in my devotion with my plan to wake up at 7:30 to run every morning. This way I get both of them at the same time. I will be honest and say that my private prayer time has been even less prolific than my private running time over the past few years which is why I am combining the two now.

So today I wake up for the first outing of this and I open my Bible, (scroll my iTouch app), to Luke 12:1-4, (http://bible.org/netbible/index.htm), which says that everything that is hidden will become known and what we keep in secret will be shouted from the rooftops.

Not gonna lie, that is a huge challenge to change a lot of things about my life.

So during my struggling, wheezing, slow 20 minute run this morning I contemplated those verses. That was almost tougher than the running.

So I challenge you to join me in doing something hard this semester and making a habit out of something you need.