I went out swing dancing last night for the first time in over 2 years. I met my climbing buddy Karen at the Viscount. It was a little strang to lindy after so long, but it was a good time.
Well, the wheel I bought on the coast during the summer was starting to get more wiggy so I finally took it to a shop to true it up. I normally fix my own wheels but the nipples broke easily and I was tired of it. The woman at the shop on Belmont fixed it, said it wasn't the easiest job she's done.
I decided to order a super back wheel from them. I wanted disc brakes, but she pointed out that I don't have a place to put the calipers, so no disc brakes for me. But, I'm getting a 48 spoke tandem wheel. There were a few options for hubs, the Shimano (which I got) is around $100, and the Phil Woods was $250 (which I didn't get.)
I was taking a break and found this page that has a bunch of weather related photos. Pretty cool looking.
Last night I got a membership to the Rock Gym. Next week they're moving to a bigger location on Sandy and Burnside, and with that the rates are moving (up) as well.
I put a posting on craigslist to find a climbing partner and 3 people responded. I'm going tonight with one of them, Arcoma, and hopefully I'll end up going 3 or so times a week.
The cool thing about the membership is that I can take a new person for free. So if you want to go climbing, lemme know and we can go hit the walls.
I'm finally starting the coding of a web application for work, that'll sooner rather than later be put up on the Internet. We're doing unit testing with jUnit and the set up isn't too bad. What's nice is using Ant as the build tool. It will find the test cases you create and automatically run them. So after the initial set up, you just add a new unit test and it gets run on your next build. Much better than the C++ way, where you have to manually add the test cases.
I'm house sitting for my buddies Dan and Kirsten while they're away in Mexico enjoying the sun and surf. I was relaxing after settling in and watched some MTV and their show rich girls It was pretty funny to see these high school girls running around spending money and being in a completely different world.
They flew down to their estate in the Caribbean. They were trying to decide if they were worthy of their life while they sat in a huge pool in front of a little mansion.
One girl said to the owner of the estate, "You deserve this because you don't take it for granted, or say 'hey, look at all of my stuff.'"
Hey, I can say that too, but that doesn't mean I deserve it.
Later they were talking about life and the girl said "I think we're old souls." They're freaking 18!
Needless to say, I'm hooked.
I broke down and saw Bend It Like Beckham over the weekend. I know it's a chick flick, but it had soccer, which is always good. Then we saw 28 Days Later, that horror movie about zombies and viruses. It wasn't as scary as The Exorcist, but it was really good. I liked how it was shot and directed.
And on Saturday I saw Matrix Revolutions. It was better than the second, but not near as good as the first. Just seemed to lack something. But the graphics where better than the second, big CGI scenes looked real and not hokey like the burley brawl in the second.
Well, 16 hours after starting the diet, I'm off of it. After going to the gym yesterday and sitting down to a hunk of meatloaf, I decided this wasn't for me. Maybe some people can go without fruit and bread, but not me.
Well, today is the first day of my diet. Over the weekend I ate a lot of popcorn and pancakes to get ready for not eating them for the next few weeks.
I bought $30 worth of meat on Sunday and cooked most of it up into meat loaves and egg scrambles. I read part of the Atkins book and saw you can't eat over 20 grams of carbs. That means no fruit and not too much salad.
I'm snacking on pork rinds instead of fruit. There seems something wrong with that. You're supposed to be able to eat cheese, so I might be getting some Tillamook cheese for snacks.