I decided to have a little adventure out here in San Jose, so I hopped on the train this afternoon heading for San Francisco. Along the way, I leafed through one of those free publications that litter every city in the country these days, and saw that the House Jacks were playing at a little . . . → Read More: I am a lucky guy
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Just wanted to mention that I ripped off 32 pull ups at the gym today. Sets of 5, alternating between close grip, wide grip, behind the neck, and chin ups. Around 20, I started thinking “what the hell? All this working out is paying off?” Rock on, Navy Seals. The packing saga continues. The realtor told us that our house might fetch additional coinage were it not so burdened with all of our crap. “You’re interesting people, and people will remember how neat all your hobbies are, but nothing about the house.” Right. Hide the hobbies. I have to say, in her defense, that . . . → Read More: Stuff, stuff, stuff Got my garden in today. Realistically, this means that it’s going to be a rough year for everything except the radishes. According to conventional wisdom, it’s *way* too early to be putting in lettuce in Minnesota, and only a little too early for the rest of it. Radishes are tough, love frosts, and will happily . . . → Read More: Gardening Sitting at the Milwaukee airport again. The impression I have is still overwhelmingly positive, within the bounds of possibility for an airport. I had thought that the combination of Midwest Express airlines and stopping in Milwaukee would make for a gritty and uncomfortable trip. Both have well exceeded my (admittedly low) expectations. Midwest has first . . . → Read More: Airport Draining day of conferencing and being presentable. Hopefully the attendees had fun. I learned a lot, but got the impression that it went right over or past most of the heads in the room. Quick talk-down of the organizers afterwards revealed that we all pretty much had the same impression: The $400 fee had created . . . → Read More: Conference Done… Climbing was good today. I successfully led a 5.9, and toproped a (possibly overrated) 5.10b which was all balance and almost no strength. Took a decent lead fall too, after making it over an undercling, but failing to successfully clip in at the top. The weak point remains my mass. Dropping 10 pounds would would . . . → Read More: Sore I’ve decided that most of the great teachers were *not* speaking in metaphor. Take the buddhist admonition that “Attachment is the source of suffering.” This may have some higher level meanings about spirituality, but at the moment it seems pretty accurate when related to the process of moving my household. The more crap I want . . . → Read More: Metaphor Slept too much, got up too early. Was productive earlier this morning, but now…blah. Hit a really hairy bit in the code. Everything is centered around this idea that you’ve got one and only one instance of the database, and it’s coherent or not as a unit. Moving object piecemeal between two instances (our . . . → Read More: Vague |
