Long Silence

For some reason I've been very lax about updating during the week. I'll work on that. I know I got through stages of posting regularly and not so regularly, but I never know why that is. Anyway, the last week has been good. I've been making a concerted effort to be more active, and although the early part of last week I was pretty tired from the convention, by the weekend I was doing a fair amount of walking.

Walking, by the way, it what I'm doing instead of the gym most of the time. I'm sure I'll go to the gym, too, but most of the time I'm going to be walking. I may even walk to work semi-regularly if I can get up early enough -- which I'm really going to try to do. I'll let you know how it goes.

Work's been going well, but I don't feel like I'm really making progress on things. I should make some good progress this week, though. I was able to test something for the first time on Friday and it needs to be reworked, but the basic idea seems solid.

Thursday we started a new game of the new Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game. We, of course, randomly generated out characters and I'm playing a dwarven troll slayer named Bokdok the Bastard. He should be fun and I'm really looking forward to playing a straightforward fantasy game.

Friday I took a couple hours out of the day to run over to Redmond on an errand and took some time to stop by the game store and I even picked up a new Champions book. I can't help it, I love Champions and I enjoy what they publish, even if I'm not currently in a game and don't have much chance of getting into one anytime soon.

I spend Friday night discovering the evils of online poker -- which I won't be getting into anymore than I did this weekend because it could become much too expensive. So, consider that chapter of my life over -- although I did win two of the ten or so games I played, so it wasn't a total loss. Besides, I went to Sandra's later in the evening and played poker with real, live people, which is always more fun. And I won about $3.50.

Saturday was comics, laundry, and a long walk with Seth, during which we went to the mall and I bought an iPod. See, I neeeeeeded it (believe me?) because I'm going to start this whole walking regimen and my bulky, single-CD walkman wasn't going to cut it if I was going to be spending a lot of time trundling about town. See? Need.

Sunday I met a friend for coffee in Kirkland -- which was having a big classic car show, so I was able to check out some fun, old cars -- the oldest of which was from 1901, that was pretty cool. Plus there were some nice Mustangs, so I was entertained. When I was leaving there Shana called, so I picked her up and we had brunch at Mae's on Phinney Ridge. It reminded me of Mickey's Dairy Bar in Madison. Yum. Afterwards to went to Best Buy and Target, so we could needlessly spend some money, except Shana picked up some birthday presents for her dad. We also discussed what I should do for my birthday and I think I'm going to organize a dinner for this Friday with everyone. That would be fun.

This evening I went for another walk with Seth and then I had dinner.