My name is Jonathan Goforth. I was born in Hawaii, moved around a bunch and now I live in Florida. I have recently acquired the title of "husband" by convincing a hot girl to marry me. I am a software engineer with a large-ish government contractor where I work in a sun-less cubical most of the time. I like theatre, computers, photography, reading my old blog posts, fruit loops, hot chocolate, torturing our cats, and flirting with my wife. I am who I have always been becoming. I want to know you.
As much as I love doing theatre and being in shows, there are a ton of advantages to not being in a show at all. I record this here to both inform and entertain my readers, but equally so to remind myself the next time I decide it is a good idea to do shows back to back right after making a sort of significant life change like buying a house. In no particular order, some of the advantages are as follows:
My body has time to heal. I tend to be fairly hard on my body when doing shows. This includes both not stopping to be sick and throwing my body around with reckless abandon. Almost all shows that I have a significant role in, I end up bruised and aching. It’s nice to heal.
Sleep: it’s kind of cool and I enjoy it.
Home cooked dinner at the table with my wife. Somewhere along the way, having fast food 8 times a week stopped being the ideal way to eat. Now that we aren’t at the theatre every night, not only do we have time to get groceries, but we get to eat in our house instead of in the car on the way to the theatre.
Who knew it was possible to go out and do fun thing or even do chores on random nights of the week?
At no point do I ever find myself in bed/shower/work trying to peel mic tape off of my neck.
It is actually possible to get a tan when I am not inside a a dark theatre every weekend.
I’d like to share a very short from the date night Amy and I went on last night. On our way to continue our long running putt-putt tournement, we stopped off at the mall to run a few errands. Also, since she had earlier mentioned the possibility of eating at chick-fa-la, we were required, by our own private rules, to eat there. Up to this point, things are pretty normal. What made this particular night different is that the Merritt Island mall had an entire orchestra set up just outside the food court. They were from Liberty College though that particlar factoid is wholy unimportant. If you have never experienced such a thing, let me assure you that a full orchestra soundtrack makes the food court and really the whole mall visit significantly more “epic” feeling. AfteriMAge finishing giving our order, Amy stopped the guy helping us as the music backdrop began to grow louder and more power, “and wait for it. Wait for it. Wait for it….” the music peaked in a huge note and copias amounts of cymbol crahes. “Polynesian sause.” Neither I nor the guy behind the counter could really contol our laughter.
Yes, I know you probably don’t find it funny at all. You probably had to be there. Maybe next time we find ourselves ordering chicken sandwiches with live music soundtrack and I forget to order Polynesian sause just as the music peaks, you can join us. You will probably appreciate just a little more why I love my wife so much.
Amazing (both in skill and heart for helping others) photographer Jeremy Cowart was already scheduled to go to Haiti when the earth quake happened. He did go, but decided to show a different viewpoint with his photos. He is now selling them to raise money. His Voices of Haiti site shows a new photo available for purchase each day with the proceeds going to buy tents for Haitians.
As of this past Monday, I have completely paid off my car that I bought four and a half years ago. Since I bought the car with less than 200 miles on it I decided to start accurately tracking my gasoline purchases starting from the very beginning, and in an amazing and uncharacteristic feat, I managed to keep up with that record keeping for the full 4.5 years. Because of that, I can tell you a number of things, in that time, I have paid as little as $1.62 and as much as $4.00, but averaged $2.68 per gallon. On average I get 28.05 miles per gallon, 54.71 miles per day, and $5.01 per day. I have driven 56,529 miles and have filled up my gas tank 169 times with a total of 1974.57 gallons at a total cost of $5276.22. It is also slightly crazy that I have a spreadsheet to tell me all of this.
I’ll leave you with a graph of my own personal price for gasoline from July 2005 – December 2009
This is an incredibly easy to understand description of how a differential works. I found it quite fascinating. Save yourself some time and skip to the 3:30 mark when the actual information starts.
Despite the fact that I am quite the deep sleeper, I doubt this will be making its way into my life any time soon, if only because I don’t Amy would approve of the air-compressor as part of our bedroom decor.
Have you ever been watching a movie after having drinking one of those giant movie theatre cokes and felt the need to use the restroom? Well a new beta website RunPee is your answer. There movie list isn’t huge, but for the movies that they have, they give you times in the movie where the action dies down, along with a summary of what is going to happen while you are gone. Sounds like a great bookmark to have on your iPhone.
This past Tuesday I was coming home from work, and was literally racing a thunderstorm. I was a particularly cool looking storm, or at least the leading edge was very cool. It was headed straight east, and I was headed pretty far north. I grabbed a fast shot of the front of the storm with my cellphone, but was trying desperately to get home and a real camera before the storm got there, or at least before it decended into just a grey mess. Well, I missed the front edge, but I did get some interesting texture. This shot is actually the back wall of the leading edge of the storm. This is one of about 7 shots I made before it started raining.
