I haven't posted for a while, so I thought I'd remedy that.
And there you go.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
go home, want to
REALLY WANT TO GO home right now. Just thought I'd say that. Work is dragging on today, and I have at least 1 hour to go.
In other news, and since I seem to have nothing else to talk about, my lip, knee, and elbow are almost totally healed following my bike accident. My ribs are another story. They have been sore in some way pretty much every day since the accident. This is not a suprise to me given the fall, and it makes rowing a little more difficult since the rowing motion requires lots of muscles that attach to ribs.
And so you'd probably say that I should just not row for a while while things heal up. Well, yes, that would be the smart thing to do, but I am also trying to qualify for a seat in a rowing race in Boston that my club would like to go to. We are likely to enter only one "eight" (an 8 person boat, that is), which means that only eight members of our team will be competing. By my count, there are 12-14 people who would like to go, which means that only the top 8 will make it, which means I need to stay in shape and keep competing within the club so that, hopefully, I make it into that boat. Which means that every day I try to balance the work out with the relaxing and recovering, which it turns out is not straight forward.
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In other, totally unrelated news, the wife and I watched the 3rd Pirates movie on TV the other night (it was on, we weren't necessarily looking for it). Afterwards I wondered, will they dare make a 4th? And so I looked into it today, and sure enough, it's in development. Seriously. Oh, and the Pirates franchise has made something like 3 billion dollars world-wide. No joke. That's a LOT of pistacios.
The other crazy thing is to look at how sought after that Depp guy is. He's literally got 4 movies in post-production (including a Tim Burton version of "Alice in Wonderland" where he is the Mad Hatter), and another 15 (yes, f-i-f-t-e-e-n) In Development, including a remake of Don Knott's "Incredible Mr. Limpet" and "The Lone Ranger", in which he is signed up to play Tonto.
The whole movie / acting thing sure looks like a lot of fun from the outside. If I had to choose another line of work, I'd like to consider that one. But then I think back to that one play I did when I was a senior in high school, and I remember just how awkward, and really bad I was, and I go back to doing my engineering work.
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I'm sorry I complain so much. I need to accept the fact that I've got a pretty good life, and just move on with being a productive person.
In other news, and since I seem to have nothing else to talk about, my lip, knee, and elbow are almost totally healed following my bike accident. My ribs are another story. They have been sore in some way pretty much every day since the accident. This is not a suprise to me given the fall, and it makes rowing a little more difficult since the rowing motion requires lots of muscles that attach to ribs.
And so you'd probably say that I should just not row for a while while things heal up. Well, yes, that would be the smart thing to do, but I am also trying to qualify for a seat in a rowing race in Boston that my club would like to go to. We are likely to enter only one "eight" (an 8 person boat, that is), which means that only eight members of our team will be competing. By my count, there are 12-14 people who would like to go, which means that only the top 8 will make it, which means I need to stay in shape and keep competing within the club so that, hopefully, I make it into that boat. Which means that every day I try to balance the work out with the relaxing and recovering, which it turns out is not straight forward.
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In other, totally unrelated news, the wife and I watched the 3rd Pirates movie on TV the other night (it was on, we weren't necessarily looking for it). Afterwards I wondered, will they dare make a 4th? And so I looked into it today, and sure enough, it's in development. Seriously. Oh, and the Pirates franchise has made something like 3 billion dollars world-wide. No joke. That's a LOT of pistacios.
The other crazy thing is to look at how sought after that Depp guy is. He's literally got 4 movies in post-production (including a Tim Burton version of "Alice in Wonderland" where he is the Mad Hatter), and another 15 (yes, f-i-f-t-e-e-n) In Development, including a remake of Don Knott's "Incredible Mr. Limpet" and "The Lone Ranger", in which he is signed up to play Tonto.
The whole movie / acting thing sure looks like a lot of fun from the outside. If I had to choose another line of work, I'd like to consider that one. But then I think back to that one play I did when I was a senior in high school, and I remember just how awkward, and really bad I was, and I go back to doing my engineering work.
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I'm sorry I complain so much. I need to accept the fact that I've got a pretty good life, and just move on with being a productive person.
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