Dear Chesapeake Bay Bridge,
Thank you for proving that one cannot drive from Ohio to Delaware, and vice versa, without getting a serious case of road rage.
The extra two and half hours of driving time are much appreciated.
Sincerely,
AJ
Category: Daily Life
These are my daily rants, stories, and what not.
Dragon Ball Z
I have a weird urge to watch Dragon Ball Z. I’m not sure where it came from, but thankfully there are a bajillion episodes of Dragon Ball Z on Hulu I can watch to fill the urge.
It just reminds me of college, when we actually watched Dragon Ball Z. Hell, if the stories of my life are to be believed Pat and I are only such good friends now because of Dragon Ball Z and its ability to sell the belief that you become better friends through fighting. But that’s a story I can save for the Best Man Speech at his wedding.
For now I can secretly watch and episode or two after Sam goes to sleep and hide my shame. And, like my mind told me before I watched a single episode, it’s really not a great show. But its good in that stupid guilty pleasure sort of way.
Daily Drawings
I’ve ignored uploading Daily Drawings for a long time.
Since roughly March 2011. I’ve kept up with them for the most part. I fall behind when I’m busy, but make up drawings when I’m not.
I spent today scanning in the rest of my 2011 drawings. And spent the rest of my time tonight uploading a bunch of them. I uploaded April 2011, May 2011, June 2011 and all of July 2011 on my Daily Drawings page.
I’ll work tomorrow on uploading some more to my Daily Drawings page. I’m hoping to get all of 2011 uploaded soon, and when I get back from Delaware I’ll work on scanning in and uploading 2012 Daily Drawings during the rest of the summer.
Who knows… maybe I’ll get back into scanning on a daily basis.
Food Tracking
When I decided to work on getting in some sort of summer shape to go along with my biking I started to do push ups and sit ups again.
I did them for about four months last year (September – December) before winter killed my ambition. I started at two sets of 25 push ups and 2 sets of 30 sit ups and increase it every week based on how I feel. I only do them during the week, and take weekends off. This last week I did sets of 30 push ups and sets of 40 sit ups. Feels good.
But in addition to that I started tracking my food again. This too is something I did in the past to help me be aware of what I eat. I’m not one for diets. I just can’t picture restricting myself to any degree. But keeping track of what I eat helps me subconsciously make better decisions about what I eat. I don’t track calories, portions, or anything like that. If I feel like putting small or large down to describe portions, or know exactly what I ate then I’ll put it down. For example, a kid at work gave me ten French Fries the other day. Why ten, I don’t know. But I put ten down.
Anyways, I keep it online. I do all my food tracking with google calendar, its easy to enter from my phone and only takes a few seconds for everything I eat. So take a look if you care to. You’ll see I thought about starting at the beginning of the month, and only kept at it a week or two later.
A New Sound
On several occasions in my life I have randomly held onto a cd that I really had no interest in listening to. I think the best case for this was from my youth, when randomly the BMG CD Club sent me Pablo Honey by Radiohead. When someone visiting the house said they were I put it in the cd player and never looked back.
So yesterday driving home I was tired and looking for something to keep me awake. I grabbed the cd’s in the door of my car and came upon Oh My Me. I had picked up the cd with Wussy and Sundresses from a Kickstarter campaign last year. I love Wussy (they are amazing, check them out) and the Sundresses impressed the hell out of me as well. But Oh My Me, I had no clue who they were, and their cd was in a plastic sleeve looking a little underwhelming.
But wanting something new to keep me up I threw the cd in the car. The first song was blew me away. Sounding both old jazz/bluesy and yet something altogether different at the same time. I was awake and involved in the music for the next 20 minutes til I arrived at home. A quick search and purchase later and I had a live album to along with the cd I already had.
Life is good. I’ve got new music to listen to. And that’s always a good thing.
Relaxed Biking
I haven’t biked with a group of people in a long time.
I generally biked for distance or for speed. Basically as hard and as fast as I can. Which probably isn’t good for my legs in the long run. So I joined Meetup.com and went for a ride with people yesterday.
They met up 9 miles from my apartment and biked slowly for 14 miles or so. Basically you bike out for 40 minutes and back. So I biked the whole way talking to a few people. I had a long talk with a 10 year old on the ride about Garfield. Garfield is his favorite cartoon character. I then went out for dinner with them at a bar/pub around the corner from where me met.
So yeah, a nice slow ride. Felt almost like slacking. I think this summer I’d bike to wherever we meet, go for the 14 or so mile bike ride, and bike back to the apartment to throw a little more distance in. But yeah, leisurely bike riding, I’m down for that once in a while. It felt good.
Strangely enough, as much as I love my cyclocross bike, I’ve been eyeing road bikes too.
That’s a ways off though.
By the way, since buying my new bike the first week of April, I’ve bike over 450 miles. Not too bad.