Sorry I haven’t really been posting that much readable material in the last couple weeks. I was working waaaayy to much there for a little while and I would say some sort of mental circuit breaker popped or something. I feel better now and am starting to get in the mood again to write some stuff. I worked absolutely no overtime in the last 2 weeks and to be honest I got a little bored. I wasn’t used to having so much free time. I spent a lot of the free time spending the money that I just made on stuff I really don’t need that much like AV piers, TV stands, remotes, and subwoofers. Oh well it’s not like it’s stuff I will be getting rid of in 2 months. It’s all stuff I will have for a long time so it’s not like they were terrible purchases.

I’m starting to get fat! I’m sure if you looked at me you would say, uhhh ok whatever, but I’ve gained like 15 pounds in the last couple of months since I quit smoking. I’m almost 180 pounds now and I have never weighed that much in my entire life. I know a lot of guys would kill to get down to 180 and are wondering what I’m worrying about but all I’m saying is that when you’ve been 163 pounds for 16 years straight and then in a 3 month period none of your pants fit anymore, well it’s kind of unsettling. For god’s sake I am seeing the beginnings of back fat! Gross!

Anyway I am struggling to start getting back into shape again. It is pretty frustrating and hard to get started since my body doesn’t want to move the way it used to. Yesterday morning I went out and rode the bike around the airport, through air park and then back home. It was 17.04 miles total. I know this because I got a handlebar mount for my GPS. It’s kind of a cool little gadget to have on a bike ride. It gives you something to look at for random useless info. Plus when you get back you can overlay the route that you took on a map. Here’s mine from yesterday.

Useful information? No not really, I suppose you can plan your route out on the map and then input it into the GPS to follow but what fun is that? It is pretty accurate though, if you zoom in on the map it can tell what side of the trail you were riding on on a 5 foot wide trail. I also went from 1122ft above sea level to 1294ft at various points during the ride. Ok ok, that’s boring. I am going to attempt to start running too. There is a 1 mile race next month that I am going to enter and various longer races throughout the next year that I can enter which eventually leads to the Lincoln Marathon next year. I don’t really want to enter the marathon, I was thinking of running the half marathon to be my goal. Don’t quote me on that though, I never really did like running that much because it hurts my knees too much. Running chicks are so freakin’ hot though.

I will cut today’s post short for now, I’m not near interesting enough to post everything all in one sitting. If I do there won’t be anything new to write about until next month. I will leave you with this link. Make yourself into a South Park character. Here’s mine:

Give it a try, make one of yourself wearing whatever you happen to be wearing at the time and send it to me and I will post it! (Save it by pushing the Print Screen button and then opening MS Paint and choosing Edit —> Paste on the menu. Then save it (as a .jpg file if possible) and send it to me!) It’s just stupid fun!

I’ve pretty much lost my motivation to keep this updated for the time being. I guess I kind of burned myself out on it. I was going to have to move to a new place but now everything is cool and I’m not moving. That’s a good thing because there’s no place good to move right now anyway. It’s a real pain in the ass to find a place that allows a dog that is kind of close to work. Anyway problem solved, I’m not moving. Sunday was father’s day, called dad and said hi but didn’t talk that long, he was napping. I decided to finally start pimping out my living area a little bit. Got some nice media towers and tv stand for the plasma and some plants to sit on top. Also got a 100 dollar computer programmable universal remote and a powered subwoofer for the surround sound system. I’ve been eyeballing that remote for like 6 months now and it always seemed like too much money for it but I finally got it and it works great. Before it was such a pain in the ass to get all my mix and match av equipment to all work together because you had to use so many remotes to do it but now you just push one button and it all just works. I’m happy with it, plus I need to spend my money on something. So far the whole system looks really sweet, still some more to do to it though. Let’s see what else? The internet at work is working right again, it’s been crap for a couple weeks and that really made it suck sitting here all night here at the front desk. That’s all for now I guess.

I’ve been working so much lately that I don’t know what to do with myself when I stop with the overtime. I slept like 22 hours because I was so exhausted and now it’s 4am and I don’t have anything to do (other than sucky things like cleaning). I went to the store and got some cruiser tires for the mountain bike. Basically just smooth tires with no nubs on them. I put them on and tested them out by riding from home to work at 2 in the morning to see how long it takes to get there by bike. 29 minutes, 47 seconds. They rode pretty good. They seem to be a lot better than the other ones at higher speeds. I might have to look into getting another set of rims so I can swap whole wheel sets out depending on what I will be riding. Talked with Hoop for a little bit at work and then came back home. Thats all for today, I’m still not really in the mood yet to be writing on here all the time.

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