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Okay, so sports drinks, right? Flavored waters stocked with tons of sugars and salts and crap, you know the things. Well, every have the experience of drinking one after you got done with something genuinely taxing when it was really hot or something? Like after biking a couple miles in 90-degree heat in the summer? You slug down one of those drinks and instead of tasting like melted popsicle, it tastes like a touch of heaven. Basically, your body is really craving the compounds found in it, and so makes it ~feel~ like it tastes a lot better so you'll continue to put in more.
Well, you all know me and coffee (coffee and I?). And one of the really nice things about mornings (even those when I'm out of bed at 2 in the name of work) is when that first cup is brewed and ready, and when it hits the tongue it's just the most wonderful taste in all of life. Just thought I'd share that.
So yes, another of my obligatory "at least once a month, moron" postings comes about to restate the endlessly obvious - life's not too exciting right now. Things go on day in and day out, but nothing too far out of the ordinary. We did get our first bomb-drop of snow that's likely to stick for a little bit (day or two maybe), so I guess you can say winter's at least standing on the threshold if not here completely. Oh well, bring it on.
Looking back, my Halloween this year turned out to be pretty excellent both thanks to friends and some creative plotting on my own part. And just like that, we're done with 5/6 of the year and the countdown to the end is come. And with that comes the promise of Turkeygiving and the Big Two, and that one period of break time from work that actually lasts long enough to do me some lasting good.
Last year's such break was taken to bits and folded almost into ruddy oblivion thanks to moving from the older Roost to this newer one, and it actually kind of tossed me onto a track of depreciation and decline for a bit thanks to all the wrangling with both furniture and those institutions for whom changing your door number might as well be moving to Pripyat. But this one's slated to be a lot better - no move obviously, more time to spend with people, and I'm much more 'on top' of things than I have been in many preceding years. Also I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to strategically lengthen it again, despite... well, let's say that instead of just requesting it, I might have to sit down face to face and negotiate with the boss.
On another front, the DDR re-emergence is simultaneously still going and bound up in a snag. Some couple months ago I got myself a ~pretty~ decent floorpad that seemed to serve the purpose pretty well, but recent heavy use at a game club gathering revealed that it's just not good enough. If I were still back in the late 90s or early 2000s and still learning ~how~ to play the game the thing might actually have been a godsend, but as it stands I've spent too much time on the arcade version and the thing itself is just a touch too buggy to fit the bill. Pressing one button often makes it think you hit 'start', many times a step just flat doesn't register, all that. Not mad about it - it's still okay for lower difficulty settings - but I don't think I'm going to be able to get away with this and still re-train as I want. I'll keep an eye on money and see if, ere year's end, I can go for the ~full effect~ and get one of the units that properly copies the arcade platforms. It'd be pricey, but still not the most expensive single toy in my place (who would've guessed that?)
Another thing I'll be considering during the breaks is the place this journal will have in the future of my life. It's had a pretty impressive service record (not too short of a decade by now) and a lot of history is archived here that can be found nowhere else. But I also have to get down with the fact that I have ~maybe~ two regular readers yet, many friends have abandoned LJ for keeps, and it's not looking like anything's going to ~grow~ from this - one of the main reasons I had it in the first place was to keep up with the people I can't see IRL, and it's just not cutting the metaphorical mustard on that front any more. I'm not going to abandon this corner of the Net - not yet anyway - but it might just be time to... augment it somehow. I've considered getting a Tumblr or something that would be used exclusively for posting links to ~this~, which at least would let those who have gone on see what's up, and let me see their stuff as well. Like I said, consideration of options is forthcoming.
That'll do for now. Catch you on the download.
- Max out
Well, you all know me and coffee (coffee and I?). And one of the really nice things about mornings (even those when I'm out of bed at 2 in the name of work) is when that first cup is brewed and ready, and when it hits the tongue it's just the most wonderful taste in all of life. Just thought I'd share that.
So yes, another of my obligatory "at least once a month, moron" postings comes about to restate the endlessly obvious - life's not too exciting right now. Things go on day in and day out, but nothing too far out of the ordinary. We did get our first bomb-drop of snow that's likely to stick for a little bit (day or two maybe), so I guess you can say winter's at least standing on the threshold if not here completely. Oh well, bring it on.
Looking back, my Halloween this year turned out to be pretty excellent both thanks to friends and some creative plotting on my own part. And just like that, we're done with 5/6 of the year and the countdown to the end is come. And with that comes the promise of Turkeygiving and the Big Two, and that one period of break time from work that actually lasts long enough to do me some lasting good.
Last year's such break was taken to bits and folded almost into ruddy oblivion thanks to moving from the older Roost to this newer one, and it actually kind of tossed me onto a track of depreciation and decline for a bit thanks to all the wrangling with both furniture and those institutions for whom changing your door number might as well be moving to Pripyat. But this one's slated to be a lot better - no move obviously, more time to spend with people, and I'm much more 'on top' of things than I have been in many preceding years. Also I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to strategically lengthen it again, despite... well, let's say that instead of just requesting it, I might have to sit down face to face and negotiate with the boss.
On another front, the DDR re-emergence is simultaneously still going and bound up in a snag. Some couple months ago I got myself a ~pretty~ decent floorpad that seemed to serve the purpose pretty well, but recent heavy use at a game club gathering revealed that it's just not good enough. If I were still back in the late 90s or early 2000s and still learning ~how~ to play the game the thing might actually have been a godsend, but as it stands I've spent too much time on the arcade version and the thing itself is just a touch too buggy to fit the bill. Pressing one button often makes it think you hit 'start', many times a step just flat doesn't register, all that. Not mad about it - it's still okay for lower difficulty settings - but I don't think I'm going to be able to get away with this and still re-train as I want. I'll keep an eye on money and see if, ere year's end, I can go for the ~full effect~ and get one of the units that properly copies the arcade platforms. It'd be pricey, but still not the most expensive single toy in my place (who would've guessed that?)
Another thing I'll be considering during the breaks is the place this journal will have in the future of my life. It's had a pretty impressive service record (not too short of a decade by now) and a lot of history is archived here that can be found nowhere else. But I also have to get down with the fact that I have ~maybe~ two regular readers yet, many friends have abandoned LJ for keeps, and it's not looking like anything's going to ~grow~ from this - one of the main reasons I had it in the first place was to keep up with the people I can't see IRL, and it's just not cutting the metaphorical mustard on that front any more. I'm not going to abandon this corner of the Net - not yet anyway - but it might just be time to... augment it somehow. I've considered getting a Tumblr or something that would be used exclusively for posting links to ~this~, which at least would let those who have gone on see what's up, and let me see their stuff as well. Like I said, consideration of options is forthcoming.
That'll do for now. Catch you on the download.
- Max out