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Well, working out has been good and bad lately. It’s been good because I’ve truly been enjoying it. I like the rec center, I like feeling like I have a bit of a clue as to what I’m doing. I even like the work out itself, and I feel accomplished when I come home achy and tired. It’s been bad because I don’t want to do exactly what Nick and Steve are doing, so I can’t seem to get the timing right on how to do what I want to do in the same amount of time that they take to do their routines. And since I have to rely on one of the to get me home, it’s really putting a damper on my regimen.

I’m going to ride my bike tomorrow for the first time and we’ll see how that works out. It may be the golden solution to everything, it may be the end of what I thought was a great idea. Either way, I’m doing it tomorrow at the very least. At least then, I won’t have to try to be done at the same time as them, I’ll be able to listen to my Nomad while I work (after they’ve finished) and won’t feel like I’m ignoring them somehow. I’ll be able to actually save my cardio until the ride home and won’t have to try to get it in before they’re done with theirs. The big down side is after biking in 100° weather, I’m so going to wish I was still at the rec center to take advantage of the leisure pool. I don’t suppose any of you live in the Nottingham Woods area and have a pool that an exhausted sweaty man could collapse into at about 6:30 or 7:00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

If you haven’t been paying attention, I’ve been playing with Buzznet and the Component layout in LiveJournal and have actually gotten them to play together nicely. I know most of you probably only see my entries in your own friends’ page, but I’m really liking the way my page is shaping up, and all that matters is that I’m happy.

Heather’s in the other room making Nur’s Red Lentil soup. Maybe it’ll be closer to the way Nur made it. The last time Heather made it, she forgot the potatoes, and while it was still good, it was a little wierd and wasn’t as pleasant. We’ll see what happens here in a bit. My appetite should kick in any minute now.

My parents have announced that they will be coming to visit, but at the same time, they’ll only be here for, like, 3½ days. Strangely enough, though, they’re going to be flaying in on the 14th and flying out on the 22nd. They’re going to be driving up to Memphis while they’re here, so of their 8 days, 2 will be spent driving, 3 will be in Memphis and the rest will be here in Denton. I almost feel like we’re getting the short end of the stick here, but hey, it’s enough that they’re coming. I was just hoping to convince them to rent a boat so we could go out on the lake or something. Funny thing is, I told them I could take a whole week off to visit with them. As it is now, I don’t have to take any time off at all, they won’t even be around for the weekdays.

Ah, and in geek news: I thought I had lost the high level character I converted special for Steve’s game that he’s finally running on Saturday (so much for working out then), but I found a paper copy, post conversion, in my D&D flip file, so I don’t have to completely recreate him. Again. Beware the 19th level Tiefling Rogue with 7 nearly guaranteed sneak attacks!

it’s official, my moblog is now on Buzznet and the LJ version of it is pelmoblog3

Fuck you Textamerica. You suck.

so I think I’ve finally decided that textamerica sucks. I’m thinking of changing over to buzznet. Anyone have any experience with any other Photoblog or Moblog services?

Man am I in a wierd mood today. I can feel depression licking at me like whisps of fog on the grass on a cool morning, but I can’t think of any reason why I should feel this way. Simultaneously, I feel tense or twitchy, whcih could just be the coffee. I don’t know, I didn’t have nearly the breakfast I had yesterday, just a banana; no cereal.

I’m upset about money. We got an extra $300 this month, and yet we’re still scrimping to make it to the end of the month. I don’t know how to start moving positive again. I’m doing so much better and not just blowing money arbitrarilly, and yet we’re still tightening our belts. There are so many movies, cds, books, games and MMORPG fees I’d love to be spending money on now, but I just coast from month to month, putting all the thing’s I’d like to have on hold so that I can keep buying the things we need.

The positive side is, I feel much less materialistic now than I used to be. I don’t need to own things to be happy, I can look at them or borrow them from people and be happy with the experience without feeling the need to own it myself. Though, at the same time, I do feel bad about all the music I’ve downloaded for free, I feel I owe something back to the artists… I just can’t afford to pay them. If I could do them a 99¢ favor for each song I download, I’d be fine with that. I could, like, make them a sandwich for a song. Of course, they’d have to buy the bread and stuff, but I’d still make it.

Anyway, shit, I don’t know what I’m talking about anymore. I guess I’m just kind of bored, lonely, and rambling. I’ll stop now before I get myself in trouble.

Sunday afternoon, before we ever went to Gameworks, I met Nick and Steve at the Rec Center to excersize. When I pulled in, Steve walks up to the window and says “What the fuck is wrong with your car?” I had no idea what he was talking about, but apparently there was a plastic guard on the underside of the front end, passenger side, that had fallen down. I suspect it happened when Heather and I were putting up signs for the garage sale, because shortly after that, we started to notice an unhealty grinding noise whenever I turned extra sharp corners. I kept checking the wheel wells, thinking maybe a piece of dirt or trash got stuck in there, but I never saw anything, and it only happened once in a while.

So yesterday I called to see if it would be covered by my warranty, but they say they won’t know until they look at it. So I have to drive down to Lewisville today to have them look at it and tell me if they’re going to charge me for the repair and find out if they have the part in stock. So even after I drive down there, they may still not actually repair it. I need to remember to take my checkbook just in case.

Then, after I’m done with that, I have to try to get back up to Denton to get to the Rec Center and work out with Steve and Nick.

So every few days I realize more and more that has been lost on my portable Hard Drive. I feel like it’s going to continue for the next few years like this. Now I need to remake my Tiefling for Steve’s game.

Subject: Please help right away — we’ve got to stick together
Dear friend,

Congress is about to vote on amending the U.S. Constitution to deny marriage equality to same-sex couples.

Never before has our Constitution been amended to take away anyone’s rights. Yet our Senators will vote on this amendment in the next 48 hours.

It’s urgent that we speak up now. This hateful divisiveness has no place in America. Please join me in saying so, at:

http://www.moveon.org/unitednotdivided/

Equality in marriage is the civil rights issue of our generation. We can’t let anyone, or any group, be singled out for discrimination based on who they are or who they love.

Thank you.

tee hee, my hands smell like Taco Bell even though my lunch was quesadillas I made myself at home.

I like Taco Bell, so the smell makes me happy.

snagged from kittykates

This is the problem with LJ, we all think we are so close, and we know nothing about each other. I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don’t know about you.