Daniel Farrell

Need to rediscover my interior life

Daniel — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:55:52 +0000

I realized today as I took time to read some poetry by Rumi and to journal some just how much I’ve let my interior life slack.
For a good part of my life I had very good discipline with taking time to know myself, my motives, my feelings, and to focus on connecting with God. Unfortunately I’ve been neglecting that discipline for a while now and it’s showing in the rest of my life.
Hopefully my time this morning will be the jumpstart I needed to get that part of life back on track.

I’m still alive

Daniel — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:27:07 +0000

I know that I’ve lost all readership but I am still alive, in case you were wondering. I’m also still skinny(have been maintaining about 190 through the winter) as that was a topic of interest on here.

My life is fairly boring these days though so that explains the lack of updates. Just working away, playing soccer(Indoor at SCOR now after a fall CVSA league), and trying to enjoy life some. You can always see smaller details on twitter (@danielfarrell) if you want to know what I’m up to.

Losing weight this summer

Daniel — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:58:01 +0000

I’ve been dropping some pound this summer. It’s been good to be more active again and also to get back down to a healthy weight. I took a photo of myself in Photobooth yesterday and I saw that I had taken one just before summer soccer. The difference is noticable. Here is before:

And here is after:

I still plan on dropping some more pounds and hopefully putting on a few pounds of muscle as well. I’ll post progress as that happens.

Summer soccer is done but soccer continues!

Daniel — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:28:07 +0000

Our summer co-ed team(Random Heroes) was eliminated tonight in the semi-finals by a heartbreaking late goal. That brings an end to the summer soccer season for me. It was a great experience to get myself back into playing soccer and back into shape in general. I feel like I improved a ton during the season and look forward to continuing to improve as I’ll be playing on a fall team as well.

*Sidebar – if you are a guy soccer player in Richmond and don’t have a fall team yet let me know because our team could use a few more players*

I’m also interested in playing some street soccer if I can find some other people who are interested. I think it would help improve my ball skills and it just looks like a ton of fun! Hit me up if you want to kick it around downtown sometime!

Been busy over here

Daniel — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:23:45 +0000

I haven’t blogged in a while… haven’t really felt like taking the time to write something out that is longer than 140 characters. Might as well catch you all up on what has been happening this summer. The highlights of this summer have been the following:

I have been playing in a CVSA soccer league. It is a coed rec league but is much more competitive than I thought it would be. I’m definitely one of the worst players in the league but I’ve made good improvements. With that has come a renewed push to get in shape. I’ve been going up to the park a lot of mornings and getting in some soccer running(sprints and running, not just jogging). I’m down to about 220 pounds now with a short term goal of under 210.

We went up to Wisconsin on a mini-vacation. We got to see Nate and Anne and also explore Milwaukee, Lake Geneva and Madison some. It was great to see them and celebrate with them that Lebak 2.0 is on the way!

Our 7th anniversary is in a couple days. We are going up to Ashland to eat at Ashland Coffee & Tea and then to walk around and explore the town some. Should be a nice and chill celebration.

Besides that it’s just been mostly work and trying to hang with friends. Hope your summer has been nice!

Growing up

Daniel — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:31:20 +0000

As someone who struggled a bit to bite the bullet and grow up during my early 20s this post was interesting to me:

25 And Over | Tomato Nation

It’s a bit harsh at points but it’s an interesting statement on what our society thinks grownup means. It means being responsible and independence according to the article. I’m in complete agreement with the responsible part. The independence part not entirely if it means not depending on your friends for things and instead paying professionals. To me part of being friends to be be there for my friends. It’s okay to me that people depend on me. Here are some thoughts I had while reading:

You are completely fine to never send me a thank you note and save a tree.
Feel free to assume you can crash here if you need a place to stay when coming through town.
I will absolutely help you move. ASK ME. I kind of like it and I think it’s stupid to pay for movers.
You can tell me about your crazy dreams.

RVA all atwitter

Daniel — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:45:35 +0000

For those of your not on twitter(or Facebook) you will not have seen that we(Farrell IT and PharrOut) launched a new site today: rvatweets!

Yes, it’s pink. Get over it.

The point of the site is to allow community conversation and reporting over twitter and flickr. Anytime any major event happens in RVA we’ll have a tag on there for it. Tag your content with that tag and your tweets/photos will end up on the site. We hope it will be a great way for people to stay up to date on things and just be a good general resource for RVA. Enjoy!

Obsessed with soccer lately

Daniel — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:10:35 +0000

I’ve been completely obsessed with soccer lately. Maybe it’s that Basketball season is coming to an end or that MLS has started or that the Kickers season will start soon. Or maybe it’s just because soccer is such a fantastic sport! To give you a glimpse of how great it is enjoy this video:

(ht: Soccer By Ives)