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I broke my blog layout and I'm waking up super early from now on.

So the main reason I haven't posted in awhile is because the blog software I use broke into a million pieces. Specifically I was gullible enough to rely on its ability to back up the code and archives I put together over the past few months rather than keeping things in a separate location in plain text form. The result is I put everything back together today, pieced together the archived posts as best I could and now it's rather plain looking. I'm working on a kickass new layout, but that won't be coming for a bit, and the reason why ties into the rest of the post.

Someone pasted a link to this Lifehack Challenge: Become an Early Riser in 5 Days. Sounds interesting enough, and the timing couldn't be more perfect: I just got a new job that I start a week from tomorrow and could really use a quick turnaround from my recent insomnia-induced habits.

So, the goal is 6am every day for the next week so I can hit the ground running. There's no worse feeling than dragging yourself out of bed at the last possible minute to simultaneously take a gulp of coffee while brushing your teeth and chomping a piece of toast.

So why am I blogging about this? Well, there is the slim chance that Lifehack will publish this and follow my progress. But more or less this is a personal challenge that has the added pressure of public scrutiny in case I fail. If I fail, I'll write about it and take my lumps. I normally hate these kinds of blogs and as you can see from my archived posts I write about things unrelated to my mundane existence, but the hell with it. My life revolves around technology enough as it is that I might as well use whatever tool I can for motivation.

The first day will be the worst, because as an admitted MMA junkie, both the UFC and Dream are holding major fight cards, the latter of which starts at when I plan to wake up, at *3am*, as it takes place in Tokyo, Japan. The fun of watching my favourite fighters beat the living shit out of each other along with a heaping pot of coffee will hopefully be enough to keep me awake.

So, check back tomorrow as I post updates on how things go if the idea of reading about me waking up early doesn't bore YOU to sleep.