What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?  Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%?

We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%.  How about achieving 103%?  What makes up 100% in life?

Here’s a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:

If:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z is represented as:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

Then:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K is 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

and

K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E is 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But,

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E is 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

And,

B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T is 2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

AND, look how far ass kissing will take you.

A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G is 1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that While Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it’s the Bullshit and Ass kissing that will put you over the top.

Friday (after work, the gym, and buying www.thecapsoffphotography.comwith Tanya) included the DeSales homecoming football game, with a tent filled with free food and drinks for Alumni! Ran into quite a few people I knew there, some I hadn’t seen in weeks, and others I hadn’t seen since graduation.  I got a few good photos with my phone.
[mobile photos]

After the game, which we unfortunately lost, I headed down to Cantina’s in the Arena District to meet up with some friends for Nikki’s birthday! I would say probably at least 20 people showed up for the event in an already overcrowded bar.  Some of the highlights include fun photos, playing Jenga with 2×4 boards, reconnecting with friends (including Jason, Carolina, Kelly, Spencer, Steve & Rachel) I hadn’t seen in a while… and of course there was loosing Kristen (who was celebrating her 21st birthday at midnight).
[Spencer and Nikki's photos]

Saturday morning, I wanted to sleep in because I was up past 3:30am the night before.  When I checked my phone around 11am, I noticed a missed txt and a few missed calls from my brother… it said “We have an extra ticket for the OSU game today, let me know ASAP if you can come (received 9:30am)”.  Crap!! I sent him a message back immediately, before I was even coherently out of bed, and found out they had just given it to someone else.  No worries though, because I already had other plans.

Shortly after I got up, the doorbell rang and a package 3 foot tall was left on my door step with Evan’s name on it. His plans were to do some bottling of the homemade hard cider before going home to Mansfield for the weekend to celebrate his birthday weekend.  We sampled each kind of hard cider and since I hadn’t had breakfast yet, I started feeling it quicker than the last sampling.
[pic from evan bottling in the kitchen]

I was running a bit late to meet up with Matt and Tanya at the Italian festival Saturday afternoon, and I ended up being a little late for the rest of the stuff I wanted to do Saturday, including the gym going to Dave’s for a cookout and having the first ever outdoor movie night at my house.

The Italian festival was fun! I had some AMAZING Italian food and drinks while I was there and played a bit with Mattie and Rachel. It was a bonus that they had a tent set up to watch the OSU game.  I felt a bit rushed, but got to see everything including some Ducati Motorcycles and saw the meatball that broke the North American record for the largest.  It took 46 hours to cook and weighed, I think, 655 pounds.
[tanya's photos from the Italian festival]

Next for Saturday evening was the First annual Wagner cookout, which the weather all day was perfectly planned.  It got up to 88 in the middle of the afternoon (a record setting day for Columbus on 10/9/10), and cooled off nicely for a bonfire and Smores at night. I LOVE Indian Summer Days! In addition to having great food, company, and seeing pics from Dave’s trip to Hydrabad, I got to play in the Jump-A-Saurus! They kids wouldn’t leave me alone after I started tossing and flipping them around in the designed-for-all-ages inflatable fort!
[phone pics from daves]

Made it home around 9 Saturday night to having the house to myself, and perfect weather to have people over for the outdoor movie night.  My neighbor Nate helped me mount the screen and Dustin brought over the Pandorum, which worked out perfectly for Halloween coming up around the corner.  Ever since Dustin and I saw Event Horizon in High School, I have enjoyed Space SciFi/horror flicks.  Having it outside and having a fire going added to the atmosphere. Plus we all enjoyed some of the home-brewed cider.
[outdoor theater pic]

Honestly, I shouldn’t have stayed up so late Saturday night, because I had plans to drive down to Louisville with Matt for a business conference at 5 in the morning.  I think I only got 4 hours of sleep before waking up and the sun still not being up either (I am not a morning person).  The drive down was kind of ruff, but the conference was worth every minute! So many inspiring stories and people moving a head in their lives and businesses!  I got back just in time Sunday night to go to the gym and make some phone calls/emails before relaxing a bit.
[pics from conference]

Monday was Columbus day, so apparently only I had the day off. Even Mike, who works for the government, had to work (but to be fair, he gets the day after Thanksgiving off).  I spent the morning just cleaning up around the house before my my weekly appointment with Bill, which was pushed up to 1 in the afternoon because I had my day off.  It was cool to hear from him that my associate membership into the 3rd Armored Division of WWII Veterans is official, which we had been talking about since the Columbus, GA trip.
[link to Columbus, GA blog post]

I had a date night Monday, which went well, but that was only the start of the evening.  I had some Dave and Busters cards that my friend Wes gave me a while back and wanted to see what was on them.  When I walked in, I ran into my personal trainer Rob, and a couple of girls he was hanging out with.  Unfortunately, there wsa nothing on the cards Wes gave me, while I was there and played a few games with the card I purchased about a year ago.  I started watching the Vikings verses Jets game, and it was just getting interesting when D&B closed at 11, so I went to a sports bar and made some friends there.

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Here is an outline of the trip. Soon I will be adding my more detailed memories of the trip… including some great stories!

Wednesday
Drive from Columbus, oh with bill and patrick duffy.
Hotel checkin and dinner
First night out at the Sports Page with the hat

Thursday
Breakfast
Room arrangements change
Lunch across the street at (check foursquare)
Board of Directors Meeting
Gym
Dinner and meet & greet
Second night out solo on Broadway

Friday
10am meeting
Trip to the Infantry museum
Lani and I back early and the Gym
Dinner pasta line and the guy in yellow
Hanging out late with Meridith

Saturday
Memorial Service
Trip to Fort Benning
2.5 mile run through columbus state university
Banquet
Drinks in the hotel after party and waffle house till 630am

Sunday
Early morning and last breakfast
Drive home

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Outline
1 Monday Drive North
Sunset
Hotel Check in
Exploring
Beaches and disco nap on the beach
Tuesday
Sailboating
Casino
Exploring north west side
Resturaunts and bars
Wednesday
Jet Skiing
Dinner at Phils
Thursday
Bike paths and lake, but no fishing
Last night in traverse city
Friday
Lunch at Phils
Drive to Dustins uncles
Girls at gas station
Dinner and talking about the rug business
Saturday

About 2 years ago, I came across another group of single friends who were on the path to becoming healthier. Once again, I stuck with them and ran every race I could. I still remember the most brutal of these was the Engineers Frostbite 5k through the hills of Athens, OH in February. It was probably the toughest of all the races I ran, but when we finished it was also one of the most rewarding. Not because of the free tshirt at the end of the race, but it was that feeling of accomplishment combined with the adrenaline and endorphins pumping through my veins.

Now, as I feel the surge through my body to want to continue running, it seems like I am needing to look for a new group of friends to run with, which is why I am glad that I have no hangups about meeting new people all the time. Because of my job, I missed the Dublin Irish Festival 5k Pub Run, but I went to the finish line any way and met a great group of people who were wearing shirts from the race. I soon found out that this group helped sponsor through ColumbusRunning in Dublin/Hilliard.

We had a few drinks, and I found out that they also started the Cbus Pacers, a club that meets every Saturday at 10am at the ColumbusRunning store. 10am on Saturday only seems to come so early because of the desire to stay out late Friday night, but I am determined to meet up with this group soon to run with them! In the mean time, I will have to continue checking out Ohio Runner to find other local races for good causes. Its time to get people together, get healthy, and have fun!

I love taking photos and capturing moments wherever I go. Thank goodness cellphone cameras are getting better and better all the time for those random moments that cannot be prepared for, although its never a good substitute for my DSLR.

I bought my Canon Rebel XS about 18 months ago when my neice Natalie and nephew Ben were about to be born and my second brother to be married, Steve, was about to have his wedding.

Before I get off on a tangent about how awesome it had been, I am getting ready to do Ben’s 1 year old photos this Friday. I can hardly believe a year has already passed. With Ben, the last pics I took were for Christmas when he was only a few months old.  Now it should hopefully be a lot easier to get some expression out of him, but I still need to figure out some fun poses with him plus mom and dad.

I love photography, and don’t mind doing it for free for my close friends while I’m still learning how to do it effectively.  I definitely owe some thanks to my friends who helped get me started on it, as I moved from just having ‘a cool toy’ to actually using some of the more advanced features that helped my pictures pop out a bit more.

Keep an eye out in the albums section, as the photos this Friday will be there shortly. And soon I will fill in the photography section with the portraits and landscapes I have taken.

Hopefully there will also be another photoshoot with Natalie soon, as her last photos were taken about a month after she was born.

Soon enough I will be doing photography professionally!

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Here is a twilight and post-twilight pic I took with my Motorola Droid. I thought the cloud formations looked pretty sweet all lit up, but I hardly noticed them once the sun was below the horizon. Check out these before and afters taken less than 5 min apart.

Now to practice what I preach. Everytime I read this phrase or one similar in an email, online, or elsewhere, I always think to myself “that was really nice I should really be doing that too”.  From now on, if you ever get see something I have written,  it is my intention that it will have those magical words at the end.

Thanks to everyone who I have heard this phrase from, as I feel more inspired because of it. Now its time to pass it along to hopefully inspire someone else.

To your continued success,
Justin