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I ran 10 miles and did not die!

At the five mile mark, the clock said 48:40, at the finish it said 1:32:*mumble*. and her dad kept me from going nuts and losing all my oomph for the first 7 miles. Then I used up my oomph for a dramatic finish.

Also, I have salt trails on my face where the sweat dried. Neat.

I think this a post exercise headache. I don’t think it’s dehydration based, though I suppose it could be low blood sugar based…

I chugged oj right after had two toaster waffles with real maple syrup and several “stone ground wheat” crackers. Plus some protein powder. This headache had a late in the day onset. Google convinced me I have brain cancer (Not really), or that this may be a migraine (it does exacerbate my photosyensitivity and my aversion to noise. It’s also only on one side of my head. But it is not so debilitating as I thought migraines were. Sinuses?)

So am I being anorexic and thereby giving myself headaches? Just overdoing it with the running? Facing imminent death? Do I have a migraine problem? Sinus troubles? Or maybe it’s just stress…

• happy hour with coworkers.
• Discovered my rushwork was called off and planned my training travel to Denver next week.
• I packed one box of books.
• I had dinner and quality time with Jeff (the proto-boyfriend?) before he heads off to Palm Springs.
• I started learning Python and I’m also babystepping into the Tk module.
• I started programming Through the Ages: complete so far, class structures for all the cards. (I may want to subclass production v urban v military, but so far, not). Developed a shuffling algorithm (which is actually trivial) then learned it was in the random module anyway.
• I ran ~ 7 miles, walking some, maybe 1 hour 20 minutes ish? First run in over a week. Great training I’m doing there. Hope I pace myself better on Sunday.

Yesterday I surprised a few people with my assumptions about porn. But, before I go there, let me be clear, I consider internet porn and “amateur” porn to both be porn. I do not count the use of one on one cam chat as porn, because it is neither broadcast nor recorded. Broadcast cam shows and pictures sent from one person to one other are a grey zone.

Now moving on saturday morning->early afternoon. Yay?

ETA: helpers still very much appreciated. You will be fed nice things.

I have a van reservation for all day friday. Now I just need (a) helper(s). Preferrably during business hours. Hmmmm.

I’ve developed one of my board game manias for Through the Ages. I haven’t had it this bad since the Scepter of Zavandor. (btw, I am _so_ over Scepter) I can tell I get a little off-putting with my enthusiasm. Especially since both games take hours to play. In order to work this mania out in a less irksome way, I’m thinking of writing an electronic version of the game. This brings up a couple technical questions, and a significant legal question.

Technical Questions: AI and Programming Language

My favorite LJ birthday wish posted by

Last night’s birthday party was very cool. I prepped a bunch of snacky things, a salad, and made potato leek soup with asparagus. Much fun was had. Jeff was introduced to the friends and got along well. I got to see a person or two I don’t often see. Jeff and helped me clean the place up afterwards, and much of the kitchen is now tidier than it has been since I moved in. bought the pies. put the candles on and lit them. I now have an excess of blue moon, but only because I bought a 12 pack and so did one of my guests. =) Btw, pomegranate fusion smirnoff ice was agreed to be an abomination by most of my guests. I was simply indifferent. And Jeff stayed over, that was an unmitigated good.

I also settled on a place to live. The space is sadly non-conducive to dinner and board game parties. (more conducive than ‘s place, but not massively so.) And sub-ideally located. The train ride will probably be about 10 minutes longer each way. But it is not badly located, the gym and the L stop are both within 10 minutes walk (as are both Whole foods and more conventional grocery stores) and it has central heat and air as well as laundry in unit. I intend to stay at least 2 years, because I need to get out of the habit of moving. It is also dirt cheap, so I will have no excuse for not paying down my credit card debt. My roomie to be has indicated that he’s totally fine with me having people over, though he won’t do so too terribly often himself (he likes to do it “right” when he does it. I think the serving of soup in coffee cups last night would have offended his sensibilities.) I also need to dispose of much of my furniture. Unless someone asks for it, most of it is going back to the brown elephant.

Happy bithday to scu,
Happy birthday to scu

I boned myself with my fear of commitment. And this was a no lube, no reach-around boning, just so you understand.

I had a decent apartment possibilty, nice kitchen, close to the train, central heat and air, large shared spaces, close to whole foods, trader joe’s, a cheap, but servicable gym, etc. For cheap.

Saw it saturday, it was rented sunday morning, I diddled around until monday afternoon to say I’d take it. Sucks to be me.

Now there are the sucky apartments and the distant apartments remaining. Bleh.