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Went to the gym for the first time in a long time yesterday. Upper body lifting. My shoulder is doing pretty well. Not at pre-accident levels, and I don’t know that I’m ever going to do dumbbell military presses again, but I may well start back up with barbells in a week or two.

Dash from there to Indian buffet lunch with Patrick the gymnast. (name space collisions, always with the name space collisions). Good food. The cute waiter that has been very, very friendly with me since I moved out here. Great conversation, good food. It’s strange to have someone kiss me who already has a bf, with whom he shares a ‘weekend boyfriend’ on a fairly major street.

Back to the office. Food coma. sacked out on the office floor for an hour or so til Ro got in. Work work work. Clear head by walk to park. Work work work. Lots of insanely complicated math. Just to do a least squares, three dimensional triangulation on a non-moving target (while moving linearly), should be easy right? Today will be day 3 that I’m trying to work on the computational geometry behind this. (though, in counterpoint to sounding like I’m actually productive, my freecell game has improved quite a bit).

Started biking home, realized that when I got home, odds were good that I would be the only one there. Went to gaming instead. Played a brief game of privateer. Won by being the last left standing (all players start out with three ships, everyone else lost all three, and I only had 2 left). Then convinced , his date, and a couple of other guys to play Puerto Rico. I think I came in second in a five player game (45, 42, 40, some other scores). I was the only one in the top 4 with no big buildings. I must have done something right 😉 Buying the wharf probably was not one of those things.

Discuss biking stuff with , we go back to my place, and chat with Simon, and Tom, when he got back, largely about geeky stuff that more than half went over my head. And end up staying up til 2am with this. So much for early gym today. =)

‘s post reminded me. I miss snow.

I had a very strange nightmarish dream involving bugs, all over the place, in my bed, in my bedroom, some centipedes (kinda like the alien brain implant from Taken) that rose up and dueled in a trash can. I’m pretty sure I woke up and made noise at some point (didn’t quite yell, but close). But I thought I had woken up at some point, when I saw the shadow of a rattler-sized centipede-esque thing crawling over my window. CrEePy.

I feel so like my mother who flipped out over the plane crashing ‘near’ pittsburgh on 9-11, but I read about this, and my immediate thought was “I hope Joel’s alright” followed by “he better have gotten that vaccine, especially since cheetah is so close to home for him” So, , consider yourself mothered 😉

lethal meningitis in chicago, vaccines anyone?

going in to work is not worth the commute today, because I fucked around at home too much this morning, and have class at 3. I’ll get reading in for class (as well as a fair amount of screwing around).

And as an example of my academic productivity gains: quiz time

New icons, but no closeup face pic yet. I’ll work on that at some point.

For breakfast (at 10, or was it 10:30 …regardless…) after having spent hours trying to get the under-development replacement for everybuddy, eb-lite to work, and before spending hours getting the environmental variables right to compile the other everybuddy replacement, ayttm, I had vegan french toast, which was actually pretty tasty, though more because of the vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves I added to the recipe than due to the pure-faux-egg-batter that the recipe espouses. Read more on the homelessness. The economics still sends my head spinning, but I think I catch most of the content in the process. Work at the office, freecell to limber up my brain for the painful exercise in linear algebra that followed. Much progress was made, though. Both of my evening plans, with the australian dentist to be, and the friendly gymnast guy were canceled, so I ended up bumming around the house, watching Taken with , then later having tardis help me with the ayttm compilation. Ayttm seems pretty fly, claims to have cam support, not that I’ve ever done a cam chat (bigger waste of time than gay.com, plus I don’t have a cam, I demand clever verbage). Goodness has resulted. I once again have a chat client that handles yahoo, aim, icq, and msnim, logs, and does so with a gui interface (though I’m ambivalent about the gui part). I also got mplayer to compile at last. Yay. =) now I can watch my vertical horizon videos and family guy excerpts. Maybe I should develop a porn collection. Or find some way to get nausicaa digitally. Hmmmm. Yeah, that’s all. Up way past my bed time. G’night.

So, I recently experimented with the vertical bar of chin hair thing. Really didn’t like it on me. Decided I don’t want to deal with the hassle of making sure that my little chin tuft is symmetric, and what not, so I’m going back to clean shaven/uniformly scruffy for a little while. Pictures will be forthcoming. =)

So I biked up the hill to the Lawrence Berkeley Space Science building, to do a 4 mile run with frontrunners (I made it for about 2 miles before my knee got really cranky and walked the rest). Then biked back down. The knee pain is annoying. Right knee, from outer side of the knee to the bottom of the cap/top of the tibia.

In related news, my recent ‘surgery’ seems to have done the trick, and the injury on my left knee is healing with less pain, no inflamation, and no pus.

Met with professor Quigley, shared my idea (as amended by Mr Rosenthal) with him. He was enthusiastic and supportive, and short on time. We meet again on Monday. =)