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| I got my guitar in the mail. For a week I played it and I've got a pretty good hand on quite a few chords and I know it'll come together with time. But the other day in the gym, somebody asked if there was anyone on camp who was a musician and I guess my name came up. I thought that was funny. I can't play an entire song yet but people see a guitar and they assume competence. My little sister is starting her weightlifting program at home now. It's kinda funny trying to explain how to do some exercises via email. It just kinda sounds weird. Speaking of which, I told her to grab a magazine I have that illustrates how to do pretty much every basic exercise. All these years I've been thought of as messy, but halfway around the world I told her where to look and she found it in less than a minute. Organization after all. I had a big accounting project due on Sunday. I was worried I wasn't going to make it because I didn't have a single computer with excel on it and without excel, accounting projects don't really work. Thankfully, it turned up from multiple sources just in time. I don't know if the whole project is correct, but I only need a C for the class so I'm not too worried. I had my PT test this past week. It threw off my entire lifting schedule, but I got a perfect score so it made up for it. What I'm even more proud of though, is how well my friends did. I know I'm not directly responsible for their efforts, but I like to think I helped motivate them a little. | | |
| Another day, another 50 cents. Ironically I have begun to really enjoy being at work, and even going beyond that, helping people occasionally. Where this is coming from I have no idea, but it certainly makes things more enjoyable. My guitar is here. I spent all day playing it and now my fingers feel like they're going to fall off. On the plus side I am way better at chords than I remember being a couple months ago. Maybe Guitar Hero actually does help...hmmm... Now I spend all kinds of time looking up notes and tabs for songs online which is frustrating because I'm still a ways off from playing any of them. But if there's one thing I have, it's time. I haven't played basketball in a while. All the other guys ask me where I've been and when I'm gonna come back. I tell them I've been lifting a lot. It's true, but I also don't like getting beaten up every time I touch the ball. Maybe if they all signed an agreement saying "I will not elbow you in the face"...... Now my roommate is ordering warhammer models. He says he wants to give it a try. What can I say, painting is awesome. Plus it only takes him a day or two to put model kits together so this diversion might take longer. Big accouting project due date is fast approaching. Kinda makes me wonder how much my grade might suffer if I don't do it. Hmmm, probably be good to still do it. It's been frustrating though. Well only a few more weeks and no more accounting classes. | | |
| Well, first off, congratulations are due to little sister for graduation. Way to go, K. In the same vein, I continue to move towards my goal of taking less than 7 years to graduate. I got a 96 on my accounting midterm. I don't know if it counts for a lot or not, but hey, it's a good score right? Plus I need a C or better to transfer the course when I get back in school so it isn't like I'm pressing too hard here. With the new month, starts a new workout plan. I was talking to a friend the other day and he said he does six weeks of a program and then takes a week off. I couldn't help but laugh a little. I have nothing to do, so when I finish a cycle I just start a new one, because being tired is better than being bored. I guess sooner or later burnout might be a question, but we'll see about that down the future. Anyway, we went to lower weight and higher reps and it burns so good. It's been a while since it's felt like this. But that's a sign of progress too, so no worries. Of course, it's not all work and workouts. Finished painting a whole bunch of Night Goblins recently. Two units of twenty, plus a few more and they all look pretty good in my estimation. Only thing is now I have a new game that I spend some of my time playing instead, so production has slowed. But is video games and painting in combination with each other such a bad option? While work is not trying exactly. It is getting old. We're averaging 5-8 people on a normal 9 hour day. On the plus side, I usually get in a pretty good nap. I love my team. Clayton and Milly are just so easy to get along with, it's as if everything just slides right off our backs and we keep going. I thought we would have gotten along fine, but not as a trio of fast friends. I had an episode with my guitar. I found out it was on back order and after waiting for three weeks I started getting frustrated and poking around on the website. I found a guitar I liked even better for just a few dollars more plus they would deliver it to me directly. How awesome is that? Made me almost forget the three weeks I sat around guitarless. We watched the first two seasons of How I Met Your Mother on DVD at work in four days last week. Is that sad? Anyway, time flies by and I am thankful. | | |
| I now have a fridge, which means I lack no legitimate creature comfort. Also that my room is no a step above ghetto motel room and due to the fact that it's bigger, also higher than dorm room. I ran 5 laps up and down this road in 30 minutes. I have no idea if that's good or how far it is, but it felt like a long way. Why is it that Amazon will ship an Ipod to a place, but not an Ipod shuffle. Does that make any sense to anybody at all? This is a great time for somebody who loves sports that don't get shown a lot in the US. The Uefa champions league final was a great game and the lacrosse playoffs for college draw to a conclusion this holiday weekend. I got my books in the mail yesterday. I hate reading this stuff on my own, but there's no other way to get through school at this point. So for now, I'm plugging away, one boring accounting chapter at a time. At least it's the same book from one school to the next. | | |
| I can't stand the taste of sand being in the air. It's really kinda gross. Whenever the wind kicks up too fast, it just feels like it's everywhere. Basketball games are rough here. I switched to wearing protective goggles because my glasses kept getting knocked off. I can't see as well during games, but that seems like a decent price to pay when compared to not being able to see the rest of the week. I've started running again. It's nice to see that it still comes easily. No loops but I just run up and down the road for a while. I painted a unit of Night Goblins. I swear, the older I get the longer it takes to paint anything. I used to be able to whip a batch of spearmen out of nowhere. Now it takes me two weeks. I guess that's partially because the detail has gotten so much better, but it'd still be nice to be able to churn them out like some people apparently can. Since my computer broke, I'm pretty much stuck with older music from a previous collection. But I'm finding that this isn't such a bad thing. A few of the songs I used to really enjoy, I feel I've rediscovered and as such are even better than last time. | | |
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