I ran approximately 4.2 miles with a 0.2 mile walk after the first 3.7 miles, between Sparks and Garden St. After the 3.7, I was feeling a bit overheated. After a block or two, I'd cooled down and kept going.
Here's the map:
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
The morning run
I went for a run this morning at 7:00 AM or so. It was hot and muggy (approximately 83 degrees) though I felt pretty good. Well, mostly.
I ran approximately 4.2 miles with a 0.2 mile walk after the first 3.7 miles, between Sparks and Garden St. After the 3.7, I was feeling a bit overheated. After a block or two, I'd cooled down and kept going.
Here's the map:
I ran approximately 4.2 miles with a 0.2 mile walk after the first 3.7 miles, between Sparks and Garden St. After the 3.7, I was feeling a bit overheated. After a block or two, I'd cooled down and kept going.
Here's the map:
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Wednesday's Jaunt
Went for a short run on Wednesday morning around 7:15 AM or so. It was a muggy morning.
Diversity
Today started with a brief run around the river. Maybe... 2-3 miles or so? It was an off day.
I got to work by about 9:00 am or so, and decided I should flip my desk around so that I can see everyone in the office, rather an have them all sitting behind me. Good move, so far. It's nice not having everyone and their mother sneaking up on me and tapping me on the shoulder all the time.
Today was relatively productive, and definitely better than yesterday. Oh! And I had tofu yellow curry for lunch, which always makes a day better.
I ended up leaving the office around 6:15 pm, biked back towards Porter with Mr. Daniel on my tail. I got home, decided to make myself a tasty wrap of awesomeness, and found that half my veggies had gone rotten. Total bummer. And they were the ones I hadn't cut up! Grumble. But I had enough for a thang anyway, and it was tasty.
All that said and done, I was kinda late getting out to Framingham - maybe 7:45 or so. But, regardless, we had a great time and did more general jamming than playing of specific songs. We keep jamming on all sorts of random styles. Today was a sea shanty and a sorta funk groove. It was more or less awesome.
On the way home, I listened to The Aeroplane Over The Sea on my way, and proved to myself that I can sing the whole album, straight through, at full volume, whilst hitting all the notes. This makes me pretty happy.
And once home, I had some ice cream. Woot.
I got to work by about 9:00 am or so, and decided I should flip my desk around so that I can see everyone in the office, rather an have them all sitting behind me. Good move, so far. It's nice not having everyone and their mother sneaking up on me and tapping me on the shoulder all the time.
Today was relatively productive, and definitely better than yesterday. Oh! And I had tofu yellow curry for lunch, which always makes a day better.
I ended up leaving the office around 6:15 pm, biked back towards Porter with Mr. Daniel on my tail. I got home, decided to make myself a tasty wrap of awesomeness, and found that half my veggies had gone rotten. Total bummer. And they were the ones I hadn't cut up! Grumble. But I had enough for a thang anyway, and it was tasty.
All that said and done, I was kinda late getting out to Framingham - maybe 7:45 or so. But, regardless, we had a great time and did more general jamming than playing of specific songs. We keep jamming on all sorts of random styles. Today was a sea shanty and a sorta funk groove. It was more or less awesome.
On the way home, I listened to The Aeroplane Over The Sea on my way, and proved to myself that I can sing the whole album, straight through, at full volume, whilst hitting all the notes. This makes me pretty happy.
And once home, I had some ice cream. Woot.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Foo and the bar.
Today felt like one big exercise in awkward, frustrating, and/or embarrassing situations. Sometimes that's about all there is to say. At least the evening was nice and I got to meet Julia's friend Doug, who was awesome.
Meh. Yep. That's all I've got. Here's to tomorrow.
Meh. Yep. That's all I've got. Here's to tomorrow.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Kinda crazy.
Been a couple of days. Last Thursday, in fact. It's been a pretty nutty weekend, in its own special ways.
Saturday involved a trip to Target with Julia's family, followed by hitting up
TJmax, Newbury Comics, and Whole Foods. Lots of shopping. When we got back, we found Julia's bike had been stripped of its handlebars and cables. Argh. It was a total bummer for everyone on an otherwise great afternoon. She called the po pos, who came and took a report. I took he opportunity to tell them about my stolen seat as well, not that there's a chance they can do anything about that.
After all that business, I went home and spent the evening cleaning. I rearranged my office room a bit and took down the second table. The plastic one. There's a ton more room in there now, which seems pretty cool.
Saturday morning I bummed around for a bit, and then joined Julia on her apartment hunting trip. Saw a few places in Allston which were okay. Following that, we went to her place for a few, where I decided that she should do her laundry at my apartment to save some cash, and also give me the opportunity to make her some dinner. Good plan, right?
So I rode home with the intention of returning with my car to load up her clothes, head over, and have a lovely evening. As I walked out of my apartment, car keys in hand, I closed the door behind me... And realized I didn't have my house keys.
Really?
Yah really.
Sigh.
I called Eric, and he was still in Baltimore. I called Matt, and he was in Miami. I called my landlord, and he was out on the Cape.
Daaaaaaah!
So I returned to Julia's, sweaty and defeated and stayed there until a few hours after Eric got home. Lucky me, he wax returning Sunday.
Today included a rather productive morning, followed by Kat's birthday dinner at New Ginza in Watertown. Tasty tempura! Huge beer! Fried ice cream! Delightful.
After dinner, I stopped into Julia's for a few, before returning home. It's hot, but I have a fan. Whew. And that is that.
Saturday involved a trip to Target with Julia's family, followed by hitting up
TJmax, Newbury Comics, and Whole Foods. Lots of shopping. When we got back, we found Julia's bike had been stripped of its handlebars and cables. Argh. It was a total bummer for everyone on an otherwise great afternoon. She called the po pos, who came and took a report. I took he opportunity to tell them about my stolen seat as well, not that there's a chance they can do anything about that.
After all that business, I went home and spent the evening cleaning. I rearranged my office room a bit and took down the second table. The plastic one. There's a ton more room in there now, which seems pretty cool.
Saturday morning I bummed around for a bit, and then joined Julia on her apartment hunting trip. Saw a few places in Allston which were okay. Following that, we went to her place for a few, where I decided that she should do her laundry at my apartment to save some cash, and also give me the opportunity to make her some dinner. Good plan, right?
So I rode home with the intention of returning with my car to load up her clothes, head over, and have a lovely evening. As I walked out of my apartment, car keys in hand, I closed the door behind me... And realized I didn't have my house keys.
Really?
Yah really.
Sigh.
I called Eric, and he was still in Baltimore. I called Matt, and he was in Miami. I called my landlord, and he was out on the Cape.
Daaaaaaah!
So I returned to Julia's, sweaty and defeated and stayed there until a few hours after Eric got home. Lucky me, he wax returning Sunday.
Today included a rather productive morning, followed by Kat's birthday dinner at New Ginza in Watertown. Tasty tempura! Huge beer! Fried ice cream! Delightful.
After dinner, I stopped into Julia's for a few, before returning home. It's hot, but I have a fan. Whew. And that is that.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Has either got two glass eyes or he's wearing the patch on the wrong s-s-s-side.
Yeah, yesterday. Wednesday.
As noted, we went for a nice run in the morning. I ended up getting myself into work by around 9:00 AM, which was awesome. I spent most of the day coming up with a way for us to make it easier for developers to create new widgets/layouts/brands. I think it'll be pretty cool. It's always been a process fraught with errors, as it requires a great many very manual edits and copies. With any luck, this will mitigate some of that error-proneness and help us automate the process a bit. Good times.
After work, I took the short way home and gathered up myself, an iPad, some staff paper, two guitars, an amp, a capo, and a guitar stand and shuffled my way over to Jason and Kat's, where we subsequently went out to Framingham to Mark's.
Practice was good - we had a few awesome impromptu jams, one of which was pretty bluesy. Also practiced a few of our classics. Ob-la-de, Ob-la-da's guitar business still eludes me. It's very weird - no matter what I do, it somehow sounds like shit. I'm not out of tune. I'm sure I'm playing the right chord. It just... doesn't work, somehow. I think I need to be playing an acoustic for that song - the electric just doesn't work. It requires more chunka than Mr. Les Paul can provide.
Oh, and my stupid, $10 capo from Target died and wouldn't hold down the strings. That's what I get for buying cheap. Sigh.
We stayed pretty late last night - I think cause everyone was enjoying themselves. Jason sounds awesome on his new drums. I was pleasantly, delightedly, and excitedly surprised. Good job, dude! You rock. I practically thought there was a drum machine in the room or something.
Anyway, after practice, I headed home, unloaded my stuff, and more-or-less went right to bed.
As noted, we went for a nice run in the morning. I ended up getting myself into work by around 9:00 AM, which was awesome. I spent most of the day coming up with a way for us to make it easier for developers to create new widgets/layouts/brands. I think it'll be pretty cool. It's always been a process fraught with errors, as it requires a great many very manual edits and copies. With any luck, this will mitigate some of that error-proneness and help us automate the process a bit. Good times.
After work, I took the short way home and gathered up myself, an iPad, some staff paper, two guitars, an amp, a capo, and a guitar stand and shuffled my way over to Jason and Kat's, where we subsequently went out to Framingham to Mark's.
Practice was good - we had a few awesome impromptu jams, one of which was pretty bluesy. Also practiced a few of our classics. Ob-la-de, Ob-la-da's guitar business still eludes me. It's very weird - no matter what I do, it somehow sounds like shit. I'm not out of tune. I'm sure I'm playing the right chord. It just... doesn't work, somehow. I think I need to be playing an acoustic for that song - the electric just doesn't work. It requires more chunka than Mr. Les Paul can provide.
Oh, and my stupid, $10 capo from Target died and wouldn't hold down the strings. That's what I get for buying cheap. Sigh.
We stayed pretty late last night - I think cause everyone was enjoying themselves. Jason sounds awesome on his new drums. I was pleasantly, delightedly, and excitedly surprised. Good job, dude! You rock. I practically thought there was a drum machine in the room or something.
Anyway, after practice, I headed home, unloaded my stuff, and more-or-less went right to bed.
Wednesday the Runningith of June
Yesterday morning's run was a pretty decent 3.8 mile jog around the river course.
Still felt kinda tired from the weekend, but did decently. Here's the route:
Still felt kinda tired from the weekend, but did decently. Here's the route:
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
I'd pick you up each morning for doughnuts and tea.
Sunday was a fun filled extravaganza, even after the run. At 1:30 pm or so, my parents showed up at Chris and Aleksandra's and we had us a little birthday party. Complete with presents, cake, brownies, and little boys attempting to open presents that weren't their own - simply because they couldn't help it.
I ended up leaving Connecticut around 4:30 pm or so, and drove myself up to Sudbury for the evening. Hung out there until around 12:30 am. Good times. Jason is doing a great job.
Monday morning Julia and I had breakfast and coffee at Dado at 7:30 am. It was wicked relaxing. The work day went pretty fast, and I spent a good chunk of it trying track down some weird rendering bugs in one of our widgets.
In the evening after work, Julia and I ended up going to The Border Cafe for dinner and a margarita. Awesome.
Today was very similar to yesterday, except that I figured out the problems I was working on since yesterday, and we had smoothies in the evening at her place, rather than Tex-Mex.
I don't know how, but I am so full, and I need all that bolding and emphasis to convey to you the gravity of the smoothie currently nestled in every corner of my poor, yet delighted stomach.
Oof!
And now I should sleep.
I ended up leaving Connecticut around 4:30 pm or so, and drove myself up to Sudbury for the evening. Hung out there until around 12:30 am. Good times. Jason is doing a great job.
Monday morning Julia and I had breakfast and coffee at Dado at 7:30 am. It was wicked relaxing. The work day went pretty fast, and I spent a good chunk of it trying track down some weird rendering bugs in one of our widgets.
In the evening after work, Julia and I ended up going to The Border Cafe for dinner and a margarita. Awesome.
Today was very similar to yesterday, except that I figured out the problems I was working on since yesterday, and we had smoothies in the evening at her place, rather than Tex-Mex.
I don't know how, but I am so full, and I need all that bolding and emphasis to convey to you the gravity of the smoothie currently nestled in every corner of my poor, yet delighted stomach.
Oof!
And now I should sleep.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Sunday morning run, #28
So my proposed running route, linked in previous post, and my actual route were pretty close. I left out a small loop in the middle, but added a larger one at the end. So... all told, I went 8.3 miles.
It ended up looking like this:
So, umm. Yeah.
... YEAH!!!!
There, got that out of my system. I found myself with energy to spare at the end, and as far as I can tell, I was only outside for approximately 60-70 minutes or so. I think I must have left around 8:30 AM, stretched for a few, and got back into the house after a short walk at 9:45 AM. Sounds good to me. At worst, I was doing 8 min 30 second miles, but I'm fairly sure it was bit better than that, and I'm hoping it was sub 8. That might be a stretch, though!
It ended up looking like this:
So, umm. Yeah.
... YEAH!!!!
There, got that out of my system. I found myself with energy to spare at the end, and as far as I can tell, I was only outside for approximately 60-70 minutes or so. I think I must have left around 8:30 AM, stretched for a few, and got back into the house after a short walk at 9:45 AM. Sounds good to me. At worst, I was doing 8 min 30 second miles, but I'm fairly sure it was bit better than that, and I'm hoping it was sub 8. That might be a stretch, though!
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Material Girl
Tomorrow's proposed route:
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3803875
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3803875
Just so I can remember.
Today, I got up at Mom and Dad's, had some breakfast, then helped Dad move Grandma's old TV into the back of the truck so we could take it to the dump. The thing is massive. After half an hour or so of wrangling, tying it to a dolly, strapping it on securely and wheeling it down steps, we got it in there and drove it over to le dump.
Once there, we saw that we had it easy. There was an enormous 50" CRT TV, probably twice the size of Grandma's, sitting on a palette. Crazy. I think you'd need a forklift to move it.
After the dump, Dad and I went into his shop and took the pedals (or one, anyway) off my bike. Unfortunately, we discovered that the clicking sound their making must be inside the pedal itself. That being the case, I think I might just be getting some new pedals. These ones are kinda cheap plastic anyway.
Around 2:00 PM I started getting myself together so I could come over to Chris and Aleksandra's. I finally left around 3:00 PM after getting all my stuff back in the car. The bike was a total pain, and I'm going to have to have a really good reason to transport it in the car again. Augh.
I stopped at Best Buy along the way and got Mom her birthday gift. Woo!
Once here, I bummed around for a bit, ate some hummus (which I've been eating constantly all day), and played a smidge of guitar for a while. Around 6:00 PM, we got ourselves together and went over to St. Thomas' for their evening Speakeasy. Awesome. Gin and tonics in church.
The time is now 10:30 PM, and we just got back a few minutes ago. We played a lot of Canasta, and some other game called, "Oh, hell." Good times. And there was a bit of dancing, for which I wish I'd had certain company. Mid-game, at one point, my brother stands up and says, "I'll be back, I have to go dance," and runs over and starts dancing to Material Girl with a bunch of kids. I love that guy.
And now it's sleep time. Run in the morning. I've been thinking about it all day.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Isn't it a lovely night?
The hour is late, yet I'm still awake.
Just kinda bumming around Teh Internets, sitting in the guest room of my parents' house with the window open, listening to the crickets and Passion Pit, alternately.
Pretty much a beautiful night.
I woke up at 7:30 AM or so and got into work by 9:00 AM, which was great. I think I've finally figured out how to ride a bike. Yay, learning! Just a little shifting here, a little shifty-shifterton there, and look, you're not working nearly as hard as you were a moment ago! And you're going faster! Amazing.
Work was mostly productive - we've gotten through the estimation phase and are actually getting into development at this point, I think. The client is supposed to provide us with a bunch of documentation and such on Monday - after that we'll really be ready to roll.
I ended up leaving work today around 3:30 PM, biked myself home with my new skillz, packed myself up (including shoving my bike into the car), and headed towards Connecticut at 4:20 PM. I hit some traffic trying to get out of the city, despite my trying to beat rush hour, and ended up getting to Oxford at... 6:50 PM or so. Too late to get to Aleksandra's parents' house for dinner, but early enough to get to my parents' house before they got back from the former.
I think that sentence technically made sense.
I've been mostly catching up with Mom and Dad all evening. Did two loads of laundry. Talked to Dad about a bunch of book series I need to read, including a bunch of David Eddings stuff and the Foundation books. He found all of the Foundation series except the first one, of course. We can't figure out where that one is. Here's hoping that Julia has it.
I think that it is perhaps time to sleep. A full day awaits me tomorrow.
Just kinda bumming around Teh Internets, sitting in the guest room of my parents' house with the window open, listening to the crickets and Passion Pit, alternately.
Pretty much a beautiful night.
I woke up at 7:30 AM or so and got into work by 9:00 AM, which was great. I think I've finally figured out how to ride a bike. Yay, learning! Just a little shifting here, a little shifty-shifterton there, and look, you're not working nearly as hard as you were a moment ago! And you're going faster! Amazing.
Work was mostly productive - we've gotten through the estimation phase and are actually getting into development at this point, I think. The client is supposed to provide us with a bunch of documentation and such on Monday - after that we'll really be ready to roll.
I ended up leaving work today around 3:30 PM, biked myself home with my new skillz, packed myself up (including shoving my bike into the car), and headed towards Connecticut at 4:20 PM. I hit some traffic trying to get out of the city, despite my trying to beat rush hour, and ended up getting to Oxford at... 6:50 PM or so. Too late to get to Aleksandra's parents' house for dinner, but early enough to get to my parents' house before they got back from the former.
I think that sentence technically made sense.
I've been mostly catching up with Mom and Dad all evening. Did two loads of laundry. Talked to Dad about a bunch of book series I need to read, including a bunch of David Eddings stuff and the Foundation books. He found all of the Foundation series except the first one, of course. We can't figure out where that one is. Here's hoping that Julia has it.
I think that it is perhaps time to sleep. A full day awaits me tomorrow.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Hey, hey, hey, Thursd-d-d-day!
Work involved a lot of estimation. I got there at about 9:00 am. Like... Estimation pretty much the entire day. These things are usually pretty exhausting, and this time was no different.
At a little past 6:00 pm, Julia gave me a very welcome phone call, which got Mark and I out of the office, finally. She asked if I wanted to hit up the Cambridge Public Library, the prospect of which was pleasantly attractive to me, as I'd never been there before. It's wicked nice! Very modern.
After hanging out at the library for a bit, we walked ourselves to Harvard Square and had a pleasant dinner at Veggie Planet. Soup of the day, peanut curry, and Dinner for Henry were enjoyed.
After that, we hung out at Julia's for a bit, before I biked myself back home. Exhausted! Sleep time!
At a little past 6:00 pm, Julia gave me a very welcome phone call, which got Mark and I out of the office, finally. She asked if I wanted to hit up the Cambridge Public Library, the prospect of which was pleasantly attractive to me, as I'd never been there before. It's wicked nice! Very modern.
After hanging out at the library for a bit, we walked ourselves to Harvard Square and had a pleasant dinner at Veggie Planet. Soup of the day, peanut curry, and Dinner for Henry were enjoyed.
After that, we hung out at Julia's for a bit, before I biked myself back home. Exhausted! Sleep time!
Spring Run #27 - Thursday.
Woke up this morning at 6:10 AM feeling quite tired. Got outside by 6:35 when Julia showed up. Started off thinking, mostly to the road, "I don't have a lot to give, but what I've got I'll give to you," feeling like I wasn't going to make it two miles, much less...
4.6 miles. Whoah. Here's the map:
Not bad for a day on which I was tired, sleepy, sick, and sore. If I can do 4+ on a crap day, I should be all set for good days, right? Woohoo! It was really quiet out until the very end of the run up Mass. Ave. A chilly (~55 degree), wet morning. Lots of mist.
4.6 miles. Whoah. Here's the map:
Not bad for a day on which I was tired, sleepy, sick, and sore. If I can do 4+ on a crap day, I should be all set for good days, right? Woohoo! It was really quiet out until the very end of the run up Mass. Ave. A chilly (~55 degree), wet morning. Lots of mist.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
An efficient day.
After today's run, chronicled earlier, I got myself in to work by a round 9:00 am. The day proceeded along with a great deal of requirements definition, task breakdowns, and a lovely diagram of the request flow for the new application. Not bad. I left the office around 5:45 pm or so, right as it started lightly raining. Kinda annoying, as I was on my bike.
When I got home, Allie was waiting, so we went upstairs for a few, I grabbed a bite to eat quickly and gathered my stuff up, and we headed off to Jason and Kat's to carpool with Kat to Flamingham.
Practice tonight was pretty good! We played our usual songs, as well as this Clash tune. They didn't sound half bad. I need to figure out some different voicings for Ob-la-de Ob-la-da, cause what I am doing sounds like crap. Mostly cowboy chords.
Anyway, we left around 9:00 pm or so, Allie and I in my car, Kat hitching a ride home with Jason.
On our way back into Cambridge, Allie and I hit up Shaws for our respective vegetarian supplies. It was kinda funny how similar our grocery lists were.
After that, I came home, put my stuff away, listened to President Obama rap about the Gulf Oil spill, and now it's sleepy time.
Zonk.
When I got home, Allie was waiting, so we went upstairs for a few, I grabbed a bite to eat quickly and gathered my stuff up, and we headed off to Jason and Kat's to carpool with Kat to Flamingham.
Practice tonight was pretty good! We played our usual songs, as well as this Clash tune. They didn't sound half bad. I need to figure out some different voicings for Ob-la-de Ob-la-da, cause what I am doing sounds like crap. Mostly cowboy chords.
Anyway, we left around 9:00 pm or so, Allie and I in my car, Kat hitching a ride home with Jason.
On our way back into Cambridge, Allie and I hit up Shaws for our respective vegetarian supplies. It was kinda funny how similar our grocery lists were.
After that, I came home, put my stuff away, listened to President Obama rap about the Gulf Oil spill, and now it's sleepy time.
Zonk.
Wednesday morning run
This morning's run was a respectable, yet weary, 3.2 miles. Given that we just did 4.something last night, this doesn't surprise me too much. Anyway, it was great to be up and about. We started out from Julia's and did a nice river run:
Had a 1 mile bike ride on either end of the run to get to/from Julia's.
Had a 1 mile bike ride on either end of the run to get to/from Julia's.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Sleepyhead
Woke up kinda late today, got into work around 10:00 AM or so.
The morning involved a bunch of stuff on one of my new various new projects, figuring out what we were going to do, as well as some e-mailing with folks over at DW. Lunch was pretty good - we called in some Tofu Yellow Curry over Brown Rice. Yum.
The afternoon was fairly uneventful. I eventually left the office a bit after 6:00 PM - Mr. Erik and I were the only ones there at that point. I had a pleasant ride home through MIT's campus (Vassar Street) and along the river, getting home around 7:00 PM.
Once there, I tried to get the pedals off my bike. I had little luck. They're on there way too tight for my meager tools to undo. I'm going to need to like... bring it home, or get somebody with a better tool set to help me out.
At 7:45 PM or so, Julia came over, and we went for a run. It was approximately 4.3 miles.
It felt pretty good, though my knees were bugging me a little bit. I think I've done a lot of running/biking the past few days. Maybe just a tad worn out. Speaking of which, I should get me to sleep.
First I should finish my whiskey.
Mmmm. Whiskey.
I'm putting off reading A Game Of Thrones. Once I start, I know I'll be reading the series for a few months.
I've also been listening to Passion Pit a lot lately. Just picked up Manners today, and it seems pretty good. Rockin'.
Last night Julia and I were talking about writing over dinner at Jose's. I like the idea of having a site on which to post snippets of story. I've always thought that was a cool idea, it was nice to have a little validation that it isn't a crazy notion. (I don't know why it would be, but it was still nice.) I'd like to hook that up.
Maybe it needs to go on the todo list. Oh, yes. The list. Mmm.
Yeah, that's all I've got.
The morning involved a bunch of stuff on one of my new various new projects, figuring out what we were going to do, as well as some e-mailing with folks over at DW. Lunch was pretty good - we called in some Tofu Yellow Curry over Brown Rice. Yum.
The afternoon was fairly uneventful. I eventually left the office a bit after 6:00 PM - Mr. Erik and I were the only ones there at that point. I had a pleasant ride home through MIT's campus (Vassar Street) and along the river, getting home around 7:00 PM.
Once there, I tried to get the pedals off my bike. I had little luck. They're on there way too tight for my meager tools to undo. I'm going to need to like... bring it home, or get somebody with a better tool set to help me out.
At 7:45 PM or so, Julia came over, and we went for a run. It was approximately 4.3 miles.
It felt pretty good, though my knees were bugging me a little bit. I think I've done a lot of running/biking the past few days. Maybe just a tad worn out. Speaking of which, I should get me to sleep.
First I should finish my whiskey.
Mmmm. Whiskey.
I'm putting off reading A Game Of Thrones. Once I start, I know I'll be reading the series for a few months.
I've also been listening to Passion Pit a lot lately. Just picked up Manners today, and it seems pretty good. Rockin'.
Last night Julia and I were talking about writing over dinner at Jose's. I like the idea of having a site on which to post snippets of story. I've always thought that was a cool idea, it was nice to have a little validation that it isn't a crazy notion. (I don't know why it would be, but it was still nice.) I'd like to hook that up.
Maybe it needs to go on the todo list. Oh, yes. The list. Mmm.
Yeah, that's all I've got.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Event Awesome: The Seven Mile Run!
Whoah days.
Lets see...
Thursday.
I had a lesson Thursday! I think. Wait, no I didn't. That got moved to Saturday morning.
Instead, on Thursday, I had dinner with my cousin Peter, his wife Kimberly, and their daughter Abby! They live off in Oregon, and were in town for a weekend wedding for Kimberly's nephew, I think. We had dinner at Grafton Street in/near Harvard Square. I had a Sixpoint Bengali Tiger (IPA) and a pizza with wild mushrooms, rosemary, feta, and onions. Both were delicious. It was great catching up with them - sounds like things are going well out west.
Afterwards, I biked myself home and, as I recall, collapsed for the evening.
Friday involved hitting up a gathering at Julia's friend Ben's place down in Allston. We met her friend Alix in Central Square, got some supplies (read: cheese and beer), dropped some stuff off at Julia's, got some more supplies (read: wine), and then took the 66 bus down to their place on the other side of the river.
There was a lady on the bus who kept yelling out "DEEEHH!" (which I originally, creepily, interpreted as "DEATH!" the first few times I heard it), at irregular intervals, sometimes five or six times in a row. Loud. The bus did its best to pretend she wasn't there.
Society is weird sometimes.
The party was a good time - it was a wine and cheese affair, with great varieties of both. Cool group of people. Pretty chill - we left around the time when they started le dance musik. We all stood around and waited for the bus for around 30 minutes (or what felt like it), and then moseyed our way back to Harvard Square and crashed at Julia's place, all wine and cheesed up. There was a craaaaaazy thunder storm during the night.
Saturday morning I was to have a guitar lesson at Dave's over in Brookline. I got up, went outside, and discovered that someone had stolen the seat and stem off my bike. Bastards. My wheels were there, everyone else's bike seemed intact. My wheels are even quick release. Just my silly little seat was gone. What the hell! It wasn't even expensive or something - it came with the bike.
People are weird sometimes.
So, grumbling to myself the whole way, I walked my bike back to my place, had a quick breakfast, and car'd my way over to Brookline for a lesson. Dave and I talked about West Coast Blues some more, played it a bit, and it was time to go. I helped him out and gave him a ride over to school. It was graduation day.
After that, I recall taking a little nap and bumming around for a bit before going over to Jason's place around 2:00 PM or so, where we sat and talked about Ars for a while. I'm handing off storyteller-ness of our campaign to him, so I told him all my secrets. At 4:00 PM or so, Dave FR and Mike came over, and we all sat around and played Risk: GODSTORM. (Capitalization added for emphasis.) Fun Risk variant, though there were a few things that we weren't sure were particularly necessary, such as the underworld battle area thingy.
We played that for a few hours, and then I left around 8:00 PM or so and hung out with Julia for a while. Great end to a great day.
Sunday morning, we went for our weekend long run of 7 miles. SEVEN MILES! YEAH!
Lets see...
Thursday.
I had a lesson Thursday! I think. Wait, no I didn't. That got moved to Saturday morning.
Instead, on Thursday, I had dinner with my cousin Peter, his wife Kimberly, and their daughter Abby! They live off in Oregon, and were in town for a weekend wedding for Kimberly's nephew, I think. We had dinner at Grafton Street in/near Harvard Square. I had a Sixpoint Bengali Tiger (IPA) and a pizza with wild mushrooms, rosemary, feta, and onions. Both were delicious. It was great catching up with them - sounds like things are going well out west.
Afterwards, I biked myself home and, as I recall, collapsed for the evening.
Friday involved hitting up a gathering at Julia's friend Ben's place down in Allston. We met her friend Alix in Central Square, got some supplies (read: cheese and beer), dropped some stuff off at Julia's, got some more supplies (read: wine), and then took the 66 bus down to their place on the other side of the river.
There was a lady on the bus who kept yelling out "DEEEHH!" (which I originally, creepily, interpreted as "DEATH!" the first few times I heard it), at irregular intervals, sometimes five or six times in a row. Loud. The bus did its best to pretend she wasn't there.
Society is weird sometimes.
The party was a good time - it was a wine and cheese affair, with great varieties of both. Cool group of people. Pretty chill - we left around the time when they started le dance musik. We all stood around and waited for the bus for around 30 minutes (or what felt like it), and then moseyed our way back to Harvard Square and crashed at Julia's place, all wine and cheesed up. There was a craaaaaazy thunder storm during the night.
Saturday morning I was to have a guitar lesson at Dave's over in Brookline. I got up, went outside, and discovered that someone had stolen the seat and stem off my bike. Bastards. My wheels were there, everyone else's bike seemed intact. My wheels are even quick release. Just my silly little seat was gone. What the hell! It wasn't even expensive or something - it came with the bike.
People are weird sometimes.
So, grumbling to myself the whole way, I walked my bike back to my place, had a quick breakfast, and car'd my way over to Brookline for a lesson. Dave and I talked about West Coast Blues some more, played it a bit, and it was time to go. I helped him out and gave him a ride over to school. It was graduation day.
After that, I recall taking a little nap and bumming around for a bit before going over to Jason's place around 2:00 PM or so, where we sat and talked about Ars for a while. I'm handing off storyteller-ness of our campaign to him, so I told him all my secrets. At 4:00 PM or so, Dave FR and Mike came over, and we all sat around and played Risk: GODSTORM. (Capitalization added for emphasis.) Fun Risk variant, though there were a few things that we weren't sure were particularly necessary, such as the underworld battle area thingy.
We played that for a few hours, and then I left around 8:00 PM or so and hung out with Julia for a while. Great end to a great day.
Sunday morning, we went for our weekend long run of 7 miles. SEVEN MILES! YEAH!
I am happy with this.
After the run, we took a walk from our ending spot to Central, took the train to Porter, and got some coffee at Cafe Zing. It was awesome with lots of cream.
The next few hours involved my taking a shower, bumming around, and taking a bit of a nap from 4:30 to 6:00 PM or so. Whew.
Then there was Ars! Jason did a great job.
There was no power out in Sudbury, so we rocked the whole evening by candlelight. I think all tabletop RPGs should be done this way.
Then there was sleep, after the ride home. I was exhausted.
Monday, today, was pretty good. Did some more exploratory stuff at work, got a new, awesome coworker (Sam), and left by around 5:30 PM or so. Moseyed my bikin' self over to Julia's school by 6:00 PM, and we took a pleasant river ride back to her place. At 8:30 PM or so, we walked over to Jose's out in the neighborhood back there for some margarita, guacamole, and fine Mexican dining.
My roommate Eric just brought us Old Fashioneds.
A great evening.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Mundane Mond... Wednesday.
Woke up this morning for a 6:45 run, which went quite well. We ran from my place out to Fresh Pond, around said pond, and back to the corner of Concord and Walden. Similar to my weekend run, but with only one time around the pond. Rockin'.
After that, we hurried ourselves back to get on with our respective days. I got myself into work by around 9:00 am, thanks to my trusty bike.
My poor trusty bike is starting to make weird noises when I pedal. I'm not sure why, but it has nothing to do with the gears, but something to do with the pedals themselves. Weird. I'm going to try to investigate in the morning.
The rest of the work day went alright. Several weird meetings, and a lot of branding kit thought in the meantime.
After work, I biked home, squeaky clicking pedals and all, and got myself over to Jason and Kat's by 6:45 pm or so. Then we all piled in Kat's car and headed out to Mark's place for some music making. Did that until about 9:20 pm, when we went home.
Now I am sleepy and feeling mundane.
After that, we hurried ourselves back to get on with our respective days. I got myself into work by around 9:00 am, thanks to my trusty bike.
My poor trusty bike is starting to make weird noises when I pedal. I'm not sure why, but it has nothing to do with the gears, but something to do with the pedals themselves. Weird. I'm going to try to investigate in the morning.
The rest of the work day went alright. Several weird meetings, and a lot of branding kit thought in the meantime.
After work, I biked home, squeaky clicking pedals and all, and got myself over to Jason and Kat's by 6:45 pm or so. Then we all piled in Kat's car and headed out to Mark's place for some music making. Did that until about 9:20 pm, when we went home.
Now I am sleepy and feeling mundane.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
The beginning of the week
Yesterday (Monday!) involved a lot of being out and about in Boston.
I woke up around 8:15 AM, bummed around for a while, and set out around 10:15 AM and headed out to the South End to get brunch with everybody. We went a place called Myers + Chang, which was awesome. After brunch, which took until approximately 2:00 PM, we went to the North End for a bit, stopped in at Mike's Pastry for some gelato and the usual stuffage.
After that, I went home by about 6:00 PM. Around 7:00 PM, I think, Julia called, and I wandered over there to hang out for the evening.
I slept really poorly last night, which was rough. Kinda a bummer. Surprisingly I wasn't that tired today. I made it to work by around 10:00 AM or so, and left at 6:00 PM, after taking pretty much no time for lunch. The day involved a lot of investigation on one of our older widgets to see if it could support some new use cases. It... kinda... could. At least, I can see how it would. Ultimately. So, well, yay.
Tonight's been pretty chill. We're watching some movie about the perfect getaway or something. Some couples in Hawaii.
That's... yeah, I'm about done. Whew.
I woke up around 8:15 AM, bummed around for a while, and set out around 10:15 AM and headed out to the South End to get brunch with everybody. We went a place called Myers + Chang, which was awesome. After brunch, which took until approximately 2:00 PM, we went to the North End for a bit, stopped in at Mike's Pastry for some gelato and the usual stuffage.
After that, I went home by about 6:00 PM. Around 7:00 PM, I think, Julia called, and I wandered over there to hang out for the evening.
I slept really poorly last night, which was rough. Kinda a bummer. Surprisingly I wasn't that tired today. I made it to work by around 10:00 AM or so, and left at 6:00 PM, after taking pretty much no time for lunch. The day involved a lot of investigation on one of our older widgets to see if it could support some new use cases. It... kinda... could. At least, I can see how it would. Ultimately. So, well, yay.
Tonight's been pretty chill. We're watching some movie about the perfect getaway or something. Some couples in Hawaii.
That's... yeah, I'm about done. Whew.
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