• On Life and Love

    Three things: pass it forward

    Stolen from Krista: List 3 things that bug you – things that others may find trivial. If you have an idea on how to fix it, be sure to put that down too. Then tag 6 of your friends. Only list three things because you may/can be tagged again. Slowness – Not just ordinary slowness. I mean slowness in getting started on things that you know need to be done. I mean stopping in the middle of a project to dick around and leaving shit in shambles while you frolic. I mean dragging a five hour project out over two or three days. I also mean being late getting places…

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    Scariest thing ever.

    Dreamhost‘s “Let’s Save Our Environment” “music video”. Jebus, I couldn’t stop laughing at that poor man. Watch it, including the little credits box at the end. I dare you. Dreamhost is also hosting a Remix Contest related to that video–winner gets free hosting for life. If I had the l33t audio/video skillz, I’d hack that shit up. In other news, today is my last day at work. I’m also having a new bed delivered to the apartment this afternoon. The summer is coming to an end, but it’s been marvelous.

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    This mess is for the birds.

    Birds who like to eat bugs, preferably. I just got back from another ride on campus and on the bike path–I don’t think I’ve eaten as many bugs as I did tonight during my last 1.5 years of running on that trail. Combined. I still like riding, even if I suck at it and sweat a lot and get tired easily. It should be just like running, though: keep working at it and I’ll get better. Now I just need to work on my ability to navigate and take corners and not fall off the damn bike when my stop. My poor, abused crotch…

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    Skills I didn’t realize I didn’t have.

    So I have this bike. See the pretty bike. You know how people say that riding a bike is a skill you never lose? I wonder if those people ever went seven or eight years without riding a bike, then tried to hop on one. Yeah, that was a little scary, particularly on skinny little road bike tires. The bike’s a little big for me; benefits of being short and stubby, I suppose. I also don’t have a name for it. “Sexy Bike (TM)” is already taken by Mae’s… well, sexy bike. I took it on campus early this morning (before anyone would be awake on a Saturday to see…

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    Easy, easy

    Yesterday’s weight-lifting session went well. I found out that one of the power cages is wide enough for me to do wide-stance squatting. I need to work on moving slower through the squats, but I did two sets with just the bar (10 and 6 reps, I think; I don’t have my papers with me). I’m inching up strength-wise in each exercise, and I’m particularly in love with the sets of dips and pullups. I got up at 05:00 this morning to do my Friday run. I haven’t had a run that easy in a long time. I probably could have done all three miles without stopping, but I went…