So apparently 58 degrees is cold. It was a miserable run yesterday evening from 6pm – 7pm. I was mostly running to calibrate the Nike+ so I didn’t really try that hard and on the way back I walked a lot (you need to walk to calibrate a section anyways). Big mistake… I got so cold from walking I couldn’t even get myself running again, LOL. I’m not sure if it was just the temperature or the fact it was fairly windy on top of that. It sucked. Also, my hip was twinging again so I didn’t bother pushing it. So next time if I know it’s going to be that low and that late in the evening when the sun is starting to vanish I think I’ll make sure to wear my ColdGear. Wonder if I will stand being able to run outside once winter rolls around again… Yes, I am wuss.

Looking forward to seeing how much more accurate the Nike+ is now at least. My new goal is being able to run to the 15 and back. That will be about 11 miles. I have no set time-line for this since mostly this will be a weekend thing. I may try to get up to 8 miles on a weekday tho since 6 only currently takes roughly an hour. I was debating trying 8 today but since I just started doing 6 I figured not to push myself too fast and hurt myself or burn myself out. It’s not supposed to be overly nice this weekend anyways.

I really want to try and make some cupcakes this weekend. I need to hit the store to get some special stuffs. I saw a really neat recipe online, debating how much I want to make from scratch or Frankenstein a box. Hopefully they turn out edible but I’m most going for a certain aesthetic product this time around.

I think after last weekends attempt at making healthy “meals” for myself I learned that is just not for me. Is sucks to do that for just one person. I don’t want to eat the same shit for 4 days straight (even tho I already do that with cereal and fruit…) and I also don’t want to try and 1/2 or 1/4 recipes down because then I just end up with a bunch of half used ingredients that will just go bad before the next time I want to make it again. My current meal plan was working just fine for my anyways. I wasn’t really getting bored of what I was eating, just more wanted to see if I would want to try and add more variations. I tried, I didn’t fail, I am just too lazy to bother with it!

I think today is also a good day to invest in another sports bra, I just want enough workout clothes to last me the week so I can do laundry on a weekend and not run out before that. I only have 2 pairs of shorts I really like but I have an other 2 which are new and it would be dumb to replace them out already (we’ll see if that holds true when I go to Sports Authority today). I have 2 pairs of long sleeve tops, 2 short sleeves, and then several tanks from years past. I may get another long sleeve even tho that seems kinda stupid since technically summer is near but San Diego seems to be in limbo on settling on a consistent temperature right now. I have a decent amount of ColdGear from being on the east coast and Utah but maybe there will be some sales on stuff since their seasonal stock should be changing. Oh money, how I love to spend you. Thank god I have restraint and most everything I make goes into my savings account and I just deplete what I put into my checking!

Tonight I am going to respond to Leah’s last blog. I had been planning on making a similar post awhile back but my iTunes library is such a mess I need to sort that first. So that’s on the agenda today as well.

Guess I should stop babbling and get going!

One last thing… Congratulations Leah on a fantastic 10k run!!!

Kunark finally launched and with it one of the biggest stresses I’ve had for quite some time. We added an adaptive combat music with this expansion to 1) get some more fitting music for battle and 2) get something that changes along with that is actually happening in the battle to make it more immersing.

It’s been out for 1 week now and the majority of comments I’ve seen are positive which is very pleasing as I was a little nervous about how it would be received. Code, the composer, and I spent a long time trying to come up with a way to get everything working as smoothly as possible. Lots of little revisions. It’s nice to see something like this pay off and have people enjoy you work. I’m very glad I got to work on something like this as well… it was nice and exciting and presented some interesting issues along the way! I think it’s definitely an improvement in our audio.

…and I’m stuck at work.

It’s been hard for me to get into gaming the past 2 or so months. Since I’ve been reevaluating my life and priorities other things have just kind of jumped ahead. Kung Fu, friends, decorating my place, etc. I am at Kung Fu 4 days a week, I’ve hung out with friends like 3 nights this week, it just doens’t leave much time for games. I’m not sure if that makes me sad or not. Right now I kind of associate my main game with something I want to purge from my life completely. Maybe the break is healthy. I’m sure I’ll get back into it soon…I hope anyways. I just don’t want to be as hardcore as I used to be. I look back and kind of saw my life slipping away some. I guess working on them for 8-10 hours for a day job can potentially kill some of the desire. I’ve been doing this over 7 years now. I think I’ve filled up my newly released time with some cool things tho.

But today it’s nice and gloomy out with some scattered rain. As I was driving to work in this all I craved was to be home on my nice new couch, wrapped in a blanky, and playing some 360. It seems gloomy days only fall on weekdays here in San Diego. I guess overall that’s good, most people want to go out on the weekends and enjoy the nice weather. I don’t want to be gaming on weekends anyways but god I wish I were hope right now all curled up getting my ass whipped in Halo 3 or smacking some rabbits around.

Shooters

I suck at these very much. In fact, they actually make me sick much of the time…I get like vertigo. EverQuest used to give me the same disorienting feeling when I first started playing a billion years ago. It took me about 3 weeks of constant playing to get over it. I haven’t dedicated that much time to any shooters yet but maybe with Halo 3 just releasing I can try and overcome this issue with some friends who will help me hold my interest in it.

Racing

I probably suck at these. I hate them tho so I’ve never really played them enough to know if I suck or not! Actually I lie…I was pretty fucking good at F-Zero…not sure if that counts…but people at Acclaim refused to play me after awhile because of my skillz.

Puzzle

I will hand you your ass in puzzle games. Lumines, Puzzle Quest, Jewel Quest, whatever…I will probably pwn you. Most of my 360 achievements are coming from these stupid things… /shame

RPG

Depends on the game, for the most part I’m pretty good.

RTS

Again, depends on the game. But not as good as say with RPGs.

Action/Adventure

Pretty good at these. I used to be better when I was younger for some reason…that kinda worries me. Gaming skills shouldn’t disappear with age…I am I’m not even 30 yet. I hate the button mashing ones.

Sports

I suck HARD. Probably even harder than with NGTT. I’m piss poor at them all. Football, baseball, soccer, whatever. The only ones I was decent at were the Legends of Wrestling ones (check out that hot review…) and that’s only because I worked on them so I had lots of hands on time.

MMOs

Any of the ones I actually cared about I was good at. Good is such a subjective term tho in these kinda of games. When I was playing EverQuest I was one of the top necros on the sever in one of the top guilds server-wide. I was one of the fastest to level when the caps were increased, etc, blah, etc.

I’m not like that in EverQuest II but I’d like to think I am still good. I raid when I can at a high level when I’m not working.

I played even less of WoW but I think I will still OK at it. I only ever played it because friends were playing. Not sure why I bothered playing, I mean I never did drugs when I was growing up even tho all my friends did… There are of course others but it’s not even worth mentioning.

I think that covers the majority of genres. If I didn’t mention it…I probably suck at it. Oh well, you can’t be good at everything!