Simulation
September 4, 2008
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Booya
So far this week, work has been blah. I’m swamped as usual and I will admit it now, I can not keep up with the workload. There is just so much crap to do and everything is considered to be a priority, so I have no idea where my actual priorities are. Well, I mean, I can kind of tell based on the kind of work I am giving, but it is still pretty annoying.
I am so glad that Monday was a holiday, but it also meant that I had one less day in the week to try to get some work done.
Hmm, listening to music on my new laptop is kind of sucky. I am now the proud owner of an HP dv9925 laptop and well, whenever I listen to music, I constantly hear static coming out of the speakers. I think the same thing happened when I used headphones too, so I am pretty sure it’s some kind of sound card hardware/software issue. It shouldn’t be a RAM issue since I have 4 freaking GB’s of RAM. I guess I should look for an updated driver or something. It’s just annoying though. I downloaded some kick ass classical music the other night and I had such a hard time listening to it because of all of the scratchiness. Grrr.
I am also slacking on my next fitness challenge. It was supposed to start September 1st, but I was so busy with my blog issues, I neglected to work out that day. Doh. I did go to the beach on Tuesday though and I actually swam that day too. A buddy of mine has started a 15 minute freestyle challenge where my buddy is going to try to freestyle for 15 minutes straight. I wasn’t going to do that challenge since I don’t get the chance to go swimming all that often. Tuesday we set a couple of build up goals where we would swim for say, 1 minute straight. My buddy did it and then I tried it and I swam and then just kept swimming. It was great. I didn’t think I was going to be able to do it, but I swam half way between the 2 lifeguard stands near Magic Island non-stop! Yay!
Of course my shoulders were a little sore, but it was cool. I really love swimming. I am almost tempted to take swimming lessons again to learn better techniques, but I doubt I would follow through on that right now. Of all the strokes out there, I never really learned how to do the butterfly. I just loved watching swimming during the Olympics. I am kind of modifying my freestyle technique because of how the swimmers swam during the games. Heeheee. I just really need to build up my endurance and shoulder/back strength though.
I did finally hit the gym again tonight and just sat on the bike for 40 minutes tonight. I was and still am pretty tired, and I should go to sleep, but I kind of wanted to listen to this Gulag Orkestar album by Beirut I just downloaded. I love the Amazon mp3 store. They have album deals of the day where you can download an album for a ridiculously discounted price. The Gular Orkestar album is only $1.99 today. Heck, how you can go wrong for $2? I downloaded a pretty good album by Itzak Perlman the other day for 99 cents! Ooh yea. I can afford those kinds of prices! That is one really sucky thing about iTunes. I mean sure, they have a couple of free songs, but when I used it, albums seemed to have costed the same as a regular CD – which did not make any sense to me. I mean, you can usually download an mp3 album for quite a bit less than a regular CD at Amazon.
Anyways, since I didn’t quite start my fitness challenge on the day I was supposed to, I think I might delay the start date and instead of Election Day as my end date, I think it is going to end on Thanksgiving instead. That way I can call it my Thanksgiving Throwdown challenge. I just couldn’t think of something to name my challenge if it ended on Election Day except Election Day Extravaganza and that didn’t quite make sense to me.
My goal is to do 45 20 minute cardio workouts, 15 hours of strength training, 1500 crunches and hopefully 15 yoga sessions. Let’s see if I can do it.
Ahh one more song and I will go to bed.
September 4, 2008
