count. count. count.

i constantly measure+count things.

especially units-in-between stuff.

for example: there are 24 days left till end of the school year, and that is 16 work/weekdays.
that's 1 holiday (good friday), 2 sundays and 3 saturdays.

the end is near, whoo.

i constantly convert musical notes into numbers, to remind myself what the real differences are: 

for instance, if i go from triplet to quads, 

that's going from 1/3 to 1/4, 

meaning 0.34-0.25 = 0.09, 

which will almost round up to 10%. and when you are 10 dollars short of 100 bucks, in north america, you cant exactly bargain for impromptu 10% off.

when my music's in mostly 8th notes, i probably obsessively re-cut in 16th and quarters. i do like re-arranging all my basic units within one-degree difference (so for quarters, practice in half notes and sixteenths; for 16th notes, cut it in 8th and 32nds, etc).

i try to run 5k a day, 5 times a week.  

5 k is approx. 3.1miles, so for me to properly fit it into a half-hour session, i need to put out average of 6.2 miles/hr.  so sometimes i start at 6 miles/hr, and sometimes i start at 7 miles/hr, then play with the numbers on the three windows of the treadmill till i meet that 5k self-imposed distance.  5k usually works out to about 350-400 cal per workout, with bit of 'incline' play.

with money, i try to stick to spending cash in the 'little' wallet, and when i run out, i am out for the day usually.  and so there comes constant calculation for the total cost of the item-

-if an item has pre-tax price of 8.80, then we are good to drop a tenner,
8.8 *1.13 = 9.94
-if a lunch item (a sit-in), it has to be under 7.70, for me to tip a standard 15%.

1.13 (item with tax) +.15 (pre-tax tip 15%) =1.28, 

round to = 1.30.
-and this year, if i have a 5 dollars notes, i try to not use it till i have 20 of them, means... 100 free dollars (yeah yeah. i know it wasnt free but... lol).

 i count bars in my phrase (so that i can plan out page turns, breath, or just to be organized and be in sync), i count the times i have read books (there are annual re-read of certain book), and when i travel i log all the numbers - the departure hours, arrivals, travel time, estimation of cost, actual cost, etc.,

i check my pulse at times, just to see where my body is. when resting, it's usually between 54-56. when im 'hiking it up a bit' at the gym, i like to push right up to 160, and check how fast it falls back to 54-56.

i count changes, bills and coins i use.

i count my steps, i try to convert things into numbers.

i weigh myself whenever im at the gym, and when no one's watching, sometimes i bring the 'handweights' to the scale, just to see if they are accurate (usually accurate enough).

i read my credit card contracts (TD visa debit just up their foreign transaction fee*using TD debit on ATMS outside of canada, or buying thing susing TD debit card when outside of canada, by 1% up, from 2.5% after conversion of foreign currency at visa international rate, to 3.5%. which is... making me miss my no-foreign-transaction-fee amazon DEAD chase visa card already).

ive lived 14,161 days and no two days been the same.
of those days, ive been without my younger brother for 2876 days. 

we used to be 2 years, 2 months and 22 days apart. that's 814 days. 

we've grown apart by 350% (2876 / 814).

i have yet counted number of countries i have been, but im sure i will.

i count because it makes me see the distances between the things. and the distances i need to go. and the distances i can look back.

im constantly travelling in time and flux, and i count, 

just know where i am.