What's This?

September 11, 2011

Last week I went climbing seven times in seven days. Today, it feels like my fingers are broken. I'm thinking it comes from hitting the same 11.a twice in two days and not being used to it. That, however, won't be much of a deterrent from going this week. It is about all I do anymore.

Work has been work. Some days are better than others. Some days feel like weeks, others feel like minutes. There is plenty to do, but often it is just that after a whole day of working, there isn't a lot of visible progress. At that point, you just have to step back and say, "I swear I worked all day, even if I don't have much to show for it." 

David and I went shooting on Saturday, and the surprising lesson of the day was that the AK-47 can easily pinpoint a tiny cup from 20 yards. Dave and I played "Top Shot" and through a series of challenges, I prevailed. Luckily, there was no shotgun challenge, otherwise I would have been annihilated. 

September 16, 2011

Today, no work. Instead, David and I worked on building a floating candelabra for my madre's haunted house. 

HTC > Nokia

"Hello Blog, It has been a while."

"Oh, you know, not a whole lot. Just hanging out; living the life. Doing whatever."

"Yeah, I know I really should study more for the GRE. It is just really hard to get motivated to study something that I will never use again in my life. It is like learning to jump through one big, flaming hoop for one big show, then I will never do it again in my life."

So the last publication here was on the day that I broke my phone. It was a horrible day. I subsequently spent two weeks without a quality phone. At least T Mobile had a loaner program and I wasn't completely lost.

So here is the one reason I wish I had an ipad: I am currently about twenty feet away from my computer, yet because of the ipod touch, I can still write this on the computer. Is that worth the $600 for the ipad? Hell no. I am hoping that there is a killer android tablet that comes out before long. Rumors indicate that google is working on one with verizon, which pleases me not. Apple did it right by introducing a wifi version and a 3G version. I am afraid that you won't have a wifi version with this google/verizon pair up. Since I can use my nexus as a wifi hot spot, I have zero need for a data connection beyond wifi. Also, the nexus is basically a tablet computer itself. Maybe I should just invest in a new laptop.

It is Tuesday, which means tacos. I may or may not do an encore of my disappearing lime trick.

Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure:

But it comes with a free frogurt! That's good! The frogurt is also cursed. That's bad! But it comes with a free choice of toppings! That's good!

Alright, these are the cool stories that have happened as of late:

I went climbing 4-ish times last week. It was pretty spectacular.nthrope last one was even a multi-pitch climb where I had to belay Jon and Dave from the top. Way different. Way fun. One of the other times held a great story which will be told in conversation form...

(Jon climbing, me belaying, Dave wandering)
"HEY GUYS! THERE'S POT OVER HERE!!" - Dave
"Really? Like, just growing?" -Jon
"No, in Dixie cups. Five of them." -Dave
"You sure? Bring one over. I want to see if it is" -Brian
*walk, walk, walk*
"Yup, that's pot." -Brian
"What should we do with it?" -Jon
Then all sorts of ideas evolved, none of which I shall post here. The final idea was great. Lets leave it at that.

We had a poker game on Friday night. Me, Derek, Jon, Mike, Maile, TJ, Kelli, and TJ's baby. Yeah, they brought the baby. Further, TJ brought World of Warcraft and "ran a bot" during the entire poker game. It wasn't that he was running the bot, but more of the fact that he was doing all Kelli's work (betting, blinds, shuffling, dealing...) since she had the baby, and that he was actually playing WoW more than letting it just run. Way frustrating. Also, the game was 8.5 hours long. We finished at 5:30 in the morning. I won, and it became worth it. Derek would have won if he had waited for Mike and I to call his "all in" bet before showing us that he had four of a kind...

Froyo (AKA Android 2.2) "came out" yesterday. This means that somebody found where Google was harboring it on their site, gave the world access to it, and now we don't have to wait for the OTA update. Now it can act as wifi hotspot, tethered modem, supports flash (except hulu [bastards...]) and all sorts of other bells and whistles. It is really sleek now. It runs faster and is just continuing its overall awesomeness. Last night I started downloading stuff over its wifi-ness and it got about 1.8 gigs in 3 hours. Not great, but gets the job done. What do you expect from a phone anyway?

My sleep schedule is broken. I was up until about 6 this morning, then got up at 9. I slept until 3 yesterday afternoon after going to sleep again at about 6 am. I got up at around 10 the day before (which was early), after going to bed at 4 the night before. To recap...

If I was going to bed at 10 every night, and waking up at 6 every morning, these are the time zones I lived in:

Thursday night: went to sleep in Vanuatu

Friday morning: woke up in Samoa

Friday night: went to sleep in Japan

Saturday morning: woke up in the Philippines

Saturday night: went to sleep in Japan (again)

Sunday morning: woke up in Hawaii

None of this accounts for daylight savings time. I just counted timezones. It seems like I've been spending a lot of time in the pacific.

Bombachus

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• There's an XKCD about the shifting timezones thing (which is where the idea originated) but I can't seem to find it.