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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Many things

We are in Baton Rouge for the upcoming wedding of Maureen and Greg. I am excited; it should be fun as lots of people are coming into town for said wedding. Always nice to see friends.

The Tour continues to have it's issues. I just knew something was going to go down with Rasmussen. It seemed like every day his story got sketchier and sketchier. I do like all three of the people now in the lead though, so hopefully one of them will make it happen. Cadel and Levi are pretty decent time trialists, so I'm curious to see how well Contador can do, and if he can hang on.

While it is annoying that there are still cheaters to catch, I do think it is good that people are getting caught. I am also glad that the riders seem to be actively speaking out against everything. It isn't just, "I don't dope, leave me alone." Now there actually seems to be a dislike of the practice and the people who do it.

Tom Boonen gave me another reason to think he is awesome. Check out this quote:

Vino is a dirty cheat who they ought to suspend for his lifetime. He is causing immense damage to everyone. There are so many teams in search of a new sponsor. This case will not make it easier.

Tornado Tom does not mince words; awesome.

On the work front I'm trying to finish up some stuff to send off to Harrick today. My inlaws now have a wireless router, so that makes working from the house a lot more feasible. We will be heading out to Hawaii in two weeks from tomorrow. Pretty crazy. I still need to do my talk!

There were several things that occurred that I did not blog about. I went down to San Antonio to compete in an autocross event again, but this time I brought the Accord and raced it. It was a lot of fun, but I still have much improving to do.

We went to Merri Su and Brian's wedding. It was a very nice affair in the hill country.

Carrie and I saw Harry Potter and Ocean's 13 one weekend. I immensely enjoyed both movies, but I a sucker for both of those franchises.

On the subject of the HP, Carrie and I went get a book on Friday night, and she finished on Saturday night. I have yet to start the book, so I am eagerly awaiting starting it and quickly finishing it when I get back to Austin.

I really need to start riding my bike again. I know I sound like a broken record, but it's getting out of hand. With the upcoming trip to Hawaii and the associated work with that, it is going to be tough to make myself schedule the time for riding. But, those are all just excuses. If I really want to do it there should be no reason why I can't.

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10:17 AM |

Sunday, July 08, 2007

The New York Times

So I have never been one to jump on the whole New York Times bandwagon. I mean, as a former newspaper person in college, I respected them, but it was never a drool fest for me. But then when all of this iPhone buzz was going on, I noticed they kept using the NYTimes website in their demo videos. And the thing I realized after visiting their site is that the New York Times webpage looks like a newspaper. It's impressive. I have seen few other newspapers' online presence pull that off. Note, I have not done an exhaustive study or anything.

So I set it as my homepage to give it a shot. I have been reading their articles, and damn, they are just really well written. And they have analysis. Real, actual analysis in news reporting! I thought that was dead and gone. Fascinating. Anyway, now I'm hooked.

So, obviously, I decided to skip the autocross today as I just was going to feel guilty the whole day for not being at school working. So I am at school.

I haven't exercised at all in like over a week. Bleh. I need to figure out a way to get my butt up early and exercise before work. That way, I can still get here early, but I will have my exercise done. I just love sleeping and getting up early is tough. It requires planning the night before to get all of your stuff ready, and most importantly, to get your butt in bed at a decent time.

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12:20 PM |

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Weird week

I'll attempt not to bore anybody.

Having the 4th of July holiday in the middle of the week sort of screwed with my head. Keeping today is Monday, when tomorrow is Friday. We went to Houston and had a nice day with the Courvilles and Turners. Made some kabobs of different varieties. They all seemed to come out tasty.

I haven't been exercising enough.

I sort of have to kick things into high gear on the school front. I really want to go to the autocross on Sunday. We'll see how much work I can get done before then.

I am not a person who seeks out confrontation with strangers... I try to avoid it actually. Like, the other night somebody was parked in our spot. I could have put a note on their car, but I didn't. They eventually left; it was no big deal. Tonight there was a note on my truck because I had parked on the line accidentally. I admit, I was too close. I have been keeping the truck a little further to the right so that I can open the door as the new poles for the carport are badly placed. So I guess since I finally touched the line the guy left a note. It was a nice enough note, but I don't know... I just never actually do such things. Man, I'm so ready to get out of the condo. I am absolutely sick and tired of having other people all up in our area. I want a home. I don't need a big home, I just want four walls, a floor, and a ceiling that don't touch anybody else. Nobody to tell me anything about my cat, and nobody who I have to park next to. I am tired of it.

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9:11 PM |

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

French Toast

Made French Toast for breakfast. It was good, albeit a tad bit heavy. I was going to use the leftover French bread we had, but it had turned a tad bit hard. One would think that would be good... except that it was so brittle it shattered as I tried to slice it. Oh well... the Health Nut worked out well.

The autocross on Sunday was a blast. I improved as the day went on. I had a few spinouts, but that's all part of the learning process. I got 4th out of the 7 novices. Not too bad for my first time out, if I do say so myself. A guy in a Yaris beat me... but since he had taken his back seat out his time got a harder normalization factor than me. I hope to get the Accord back today, so come July 8th I'm going to give driving that a try.

I am having a very hard time debugging my code at the moment. I'm getting a segmentation fault, and I have absolutely no idea what could be causing it. This is why parallel programming is hard. Concurrency does weird stuff.

I keep wimping out on the Tuesday Nighter. I am not sure what it is... I just don't feel fast right now. I don't know... I think I am going to go swimming.

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11:43 AM |

Friday, June 15, 2007

Over a week

Hate it when that happens...

So I decided that I'm not burnt out on bike racing. I am burnt out on getting destroyed at the very beginning of a race. It is hard to motivate myself to train by myself for what seems like an inevitable ass kicking. Yes, I know training more would help that, but I feel like there is such a huge gap to cross.

So I've taken this opportunity to start getting my triathlon skills in order. Namely, running and swimming more. I still love to ride my bike, and I still love to race, but I want to not think about bike racing for a little bit. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that. There are several good tris in the summer, and this year I want to actually not look handicapped in the water. I know I will never be a *fast* runner, but I also would like to get myself out of the slow category. Working on the bike is the easy part.

Work is going okay.

I went to the autocross even with Jerry and some other people last Sunday. It was a lot of fun to ride along with everybody. We are planning on going down to San Antonio this weekend to the one there, and I am planning on driving. I was going to try out the Accord, but it is still in the shop, so I am going to drive Jerry's Miata. There is chance of rain, so people are all worried, but hey, it will be more interesting that way. ;)

I cooked red beans and rice on Tuesday for my school people. The andouille I used came from this place outside of Lafayette where Jeff Courville and I had stopped to pick up boudin. It was quite spicy. It really spiced up the red beans. I liked it, and the other people seemed to as well.

Oh well, enjoy the weekend.

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11:29 AM |




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