DDR

We all know DDR, right? Yes, I'm sure we do. We've seen the crappy machines at Wal-Mart, the mall, or any other venue where teen-agers are liable to be rowdy and crazy. So Stuart, Joey, Sarah and I all went out to see King Kong last night. First off, King Kong is over three hours long. And that might be ok for some people, but honestly had Peter Jackson actually desired to make a decent movie with the film that he shot, it would have been around 45 minutes. Up until the moment they meet Kong the movie is pretty good. No over the top fight scenes between Kong and three T-rexs, no extended stampeding dinos, no crazy giant insect battles, and especially no "ice skating" in central park. Of course, all this does occur afterwards we meet Kong, and well.. it goes downhill faster than people falling off a cliff. And yes, it does take them a long ass time to get to the bottom, and usually not much worse for wear.

Anyways.. (this post is going to be long..) we got out of the movie without killing the annoying little bastards sitting behind us. Those kids were really pushing my last nerve.. and Stuart's also, which is odd taking into account Stuart is well.. Stuart. Anyways, we got out and were sitting around talking about the movie, when we noticed DDR. And not just DDR 2nd mix or something, this was DDR eXtreme or something. Below is a photo account of the Joey/Stuart head to head action.

Here they are starting the game. Clearly Stuart can't figure it out, and Joey appears to already be convulsing madly.


The game continues, Stuart is figuring things out and Joey refuses to even remove his hands from his pockets for he is a video game GOD! (Unfortunately this God-Like presence only appears in first person shooters released in the 90s.)


I won't tell you which, but one of them is not hitting the right arrow. Can you guess which one?


Joey finally removes his hands from his pockets in a desperate attempt to make up lost ground. But Stuart's uncanny balance and ability to match up what his little japenese avatar was doing proved to be the deciding factors in this clash of titans.


Ok, enough for now.. later.

One less car.

So yesterday I rode my bike to work. I know, big deal right? But that is roughly 20 minutes my car didn't run yesterday. Imagine if you well a world where once a week everyone who could reasonably ride a bike instead of drive did it. Wouldn't that be fantastic? Of course there are tons of people that commute 30 miles or more, but I think there are a significant number of people that could feasibly ride a bike into work. While riding this morning and getting passed by tons of cars I noticed that almost all of them only contained one person. Huge SUVs carrying one individual. Lovely German sports cars which get 15 mpg only carrying one stuck up individual. I don't know, maybe if people saw this from a bike rather than their leather trimmed interior that something might change. Or maybe it is just the exhaust fumes scrambling my brains.

Anyways, I rode my bike into work again today. And I'm going to try to do it all next week too.. I might not succeed, I may wake up one morning and think, "holy crap it is colder than a witches teet out there.." and jump in my car only to realize the heat probably won't be effective until I'm parking at work. But still.. I'm going to try. And perhaps every day I'm in the office I'll try to ride in. The bosses don't seem to care if I'm a few minutes late if I'm on my bike, not that they care if I'm not riding, but that isn't the point. I feel better knowing I didn't drive my car into work. I feel more awake in the mornings and can actually get work done in the first hour (yet I'm blogging now - it is like work.) And I just feel better about myself... go figure.

Later

Home again

Well, it seems that I might actually be home again for an extended period of time. Which will be nice since then I'll be able to see friends (Joey, Sarah, Shawn) and I just recently visited my family, which was nice. I really forget how awesome California is. Drove through Davis (friendliest bike city in the country I believe..) then saw tons of bikers rocking it on the hills of San Francisco. Even saw a fixed gear or two.. which was quite freaking awesome if you ask me.

Anyways, I should be in town for the rest of the year. Yeah I know.. laugh all you want, but who knows, maybe the deal I made with the devil won't be so bad. We'll have to see. But definetely Joey.. we should chill.. kick it old school.. and all that other jazz.

In other news, I'm going to try to sneak out of work early. By sneak I mean ask my boss if he would care if I left. I'm guessing no.

Alright, I'm off.. going to try to ride my bike a little with the Sean.

Later

My Bike!

Alright, here it is.. my beautiful new bike. I absolutely love it. Smooth ride, fast, light, super responsive.. if I was in shape at the moment my ride yesterday would have been smoking. But, off season. And work.. you know how it is. I like this picture.. you can just see my triathlon bike underneath it. I actually have my other three bikes sitting underneath it.. so hopefully when I get my other bike stand I'll take a nice picture and post it up here. Geez, I think I'm obsessed.


Alright, gotta get packed for New Orleans.. fantastic.

Later

Snow

It is snowing like crazy here is Illinois.. cold wet heavy snow. Of course on a construction site that means massive snow ball fight after the safety meeting. Ahh, aren't we all just kids at heart. I'm just glad this rough and tough construction guys weren't making snow angels or anything crazy like that.

Bike still hasn't come in yet, makes me sad. Also being in Illinois away from friends makes me sad. This job sucks sometimes, but I guess all jobs suck sometimes.

Climbed last night (one benefit of working in Illinois) with Spann.. it rocked. I felt pretty good, yet out of shape entirely. But, not climbing for 6 weeks will do that. My arms hurt like nothing else at the moment.. but I'll survive.

Alright, I'm going to jam.. they are doing big picks out of the plant it is fun as hell to watch.

Later