Category: Me

gaming & great weather

Ryan

Weather is great for a change, we planted some corn last weekend. Instead of indoor climbing we went biking this week. was fun, but my butt was kinda sore after a few hours.

And what’s new with gaming here? Well I started dual-boxing World of Warcraft (playing two characters simultaneously).  I must say, playing two different clients at the same time is something you have to get your head wrapped around. Right now I’m trying to get a warlock and a paladin up to max level. Then I can use my paladin for normal instances, and dual box two warlocks at the same time (2xsame class is defiantly less of a mind twister). Other than that I started plaing Final Fantasy: Core Crisis on my PSP. It gets a 10/10 rating on my “cool games” scale.

PS. Did I mention that my wordpress is strange? Every time I write something, a red box pops up that says “You do not have permission to do that.”. While that is probably true, I have no Idea WHAT it wants to do. Thus making it a bit difficult to fix the problem …

biking & climbing

Ryanbiking, climbing

I started off my 2008 biking season with one of my standard 30km routes (biking to work doesn’t count, that’s only 2km away). It seems I’m pretty much out of shape after this last winter. I felt pretty dead afterwards. My goal will be doing 100Km a week in summer (split up over a few days, probably 2x30Km and a 40Km).

My climbing is getting better too, although I still have problems with anything that isn’t straight upwards (in overhanging situations, I can’t seem to build up enough body tension). I’ve lost a bit over 5kg since January and my percentage of muscle mass stayed the same, so I’m pretty pleased with that so far. Another 6Kg and I’ll be able to do routes unthinkable now. May goal is to get down to 78Kg, but that’s long term, maybe I’ll be there by the end of the year, depends on how much biking, climbing and swimming I do this summer.

fasting

Ryan

Every year a few of us at work have a little bet going on … The 6 weeks between carnival and easter we fast. To sum it up: forbidden is everything yummy. No chocolate, no snacks, no sweets, no cake or cookies, nothing sweet from the bakery, and if you are right now thinking “what about ….” yeah, that’s probably forbidden too.
So now comes the fun part, if one of us gets weak and eats something that is not allowed, he (or she) has to eat a slice of bread with Vegemite. If you don’t know what Vegemite tastes like: it is probably the most disgusting thing ever mass produced on earth. Sorry @ any Aussies that might read this, but your taste buds are defiantly borked, must be some genetic defect that allows you all to eat it without your body going into “self preservation mode” and trying to eject it again.

Things that go BOOM

Ryan

I think god hates me, and he is thinking up really creative ways to show me it too. I had just got finished at work preparing some things for tomorrow, when the lights went out and came back on about a minute later. Turns out a voltage transformation station nearby decided to short circuit and tear down the whole power grid of the city (that, I found out later). Now that wouldn’t have bothered me since (as a data center) we have emergency power that can run for a while. Yeah, that is really useful … unless of course the circuit my computer is on decided to blow the fuse when the power came back on (and I of course don’t have access to the room with the fuses, or else I could have just flipped it back up). Now I either had the choice of grabbing my laptop and going into one of the network rooms and working from there or saying “aw F#$%” and going home. The later choice won.

The city is kinda interesting without power. Took them about 45min. to get it turned back on too. Traffic was a bit chaotic without traffic lights (thank god I went on foot, the stupid drivers would have run me down within 5 mins.) Streetcars held up a while since they seem to be running on their own grid, but eventually the started getting stuck in traffic too (and running low on power ;))

PS. If the video from the last posting doesn’t work, try the link underneath. For some reason it works on some computers, and on others it doesn’t. I haven’t been able to figure out why yet.

Helmetcam test

Ryan

took my helmet camera with me today when we went climbing. I learned two things: next time put on the camera BEFORE I do the hard routes (by the time I got around to grabbing my cam, my arms were tired and you all get to see a boring route), and I somehow have to get the picture more “zoomed out”. My head is pretty close to the wall (leaning costs strength) so unfortunatly 90% of the film is looking at a wall up close. Yeah, it’s really that exciting.

 

 

Gallery link: http://bilder.dopefish.de/helmkamera/Untitled.wmv.html