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.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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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