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| Saturday, December 27, 2008 |
| Mandatory New Years' Resolution Post |
Will Take Work on a Daily Basis
- Finish organizing my photo collection (~17,000 photos). Get at least 1/4 of the way through tagging, rating, and eliminating duplicates.
- Get a real start on organizing my old design/writing work files.
- Create a good organizational system for ITP work files.
- Rate 40 days worth of music.
- Average one blog post every 3 days.
- Stay on-budget every month.
- Make some babies~!
- Use my 'power tower' (ugh hate the name) Christmas gift. I have yet to determine actual numbered goals. Get more sexy! This involves about 45 minutes of workout per day in 10, 10, and 25 minute sections.
- Eat well (almost no corn syrum, limited sweets, good snacks like carrots and nuts, more but smaller meals, drinking 2.5 litres of water a day).
- Take 4,000 photographs, including 400 5-star photos. Post the best to Facebook/Flickr.
- Consistently shoot 80% on freethrows.
Will Take Work on a Weekly Basis
- Create a home inventory for insurance purposes, including all photos, reciepts and serial numbers.
- Finish Ignition. This means professionally mastered and with a new website to promote it.
- Start re-learning piano and/or theory (haven't set up specific goals for this yet).
- Go on at least 25 hikes or other outdoor excursions.
- Consistently (at least 2x a month) do little things for my wife that would make her want to date me if we weren't married.
- Stay connected to friends via Facebook. Use it to get together with friends while we're still young and sexy.
- Get a good, highly-productive routine going at work that encourages me to take carpal-tunnel saving breaks and keeps me alert through the day (this relates to the eating and exercising).
Will Take Work on a Monthly Basis
- Begin to learn PHP in depth, preferably through classes that work pays for...
- Set up a long series of doctor's appointments to check for just about everything one can be checked for, to deal with any problems I might have before they're problems. That is - abuse the fact that I have a job with semi-decent medical care.
- Work on some way of respectfully resolving some core differences of belief between me and the in-laws.
- Get out of town 8 times (including at least 5 to family).
- Read a book a month.
- Reaquaint myself with all the outdoors knowledge I had as a Boy Scout.
- Learn to properly tune up my car.
One-Time Events:
Winter:
- Pay taxes by Valentine's Day.
- Visit my co-workers in San Francisco (I work from home 700 miles away and have yet to meet them).
- Use our new toboggan.
Spring:
- For the Prius: Replace scratched rear turn signal assembly.
- Redo my homepage/portfolio again in such a way that it all actually works.
- Create "A Ninja Wedding"
- Create the Impulse Nine TF2 frag video
Summer:
- Get to a water park.
- Write a short (20-page) religous-political treatise.
VW Work:
- January: Scrape off all the tar board from the floors and put down rust-preventing primer. Install aluminum side panels.
- February: Install floor drains. Put down floor lining. Install side brush bars. Install larger brake fluid reservoir.
- March: Create map pocket and cup holder in side panels. Install fire extinguisher holder.
- April: Install Dynamat (weather permitting).
- May: Buffer time.
- June: Begin working with simple fiberglassing by making rear trunk covers.
- July: Replace all the wiring with Jordan, adding circuits for all the new stuff to be installed later. Add gravel guards. Replace turn signal. Install air horn.
- August: Powdercoat rims, bumpers, brush bars, gravel guards, and door panels.
- September: Buffer time.
- October: Replace rims and tires. Raise rear suspension.
- November: Install new headlight system.
- December: Replace door and window rubber.
Labels: basketball, doctor, exercise, food, hiking, holidays, Internet, Leelu, money, mp3, music, organization, photography, Rachel, resolutions, team fortress 2, To-Do, work, Yoshimi |
posted by Steve @ 9:38 PM  |
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| Friday, August 01, 2008 |
| The first Team Interrobang scrim |
As a member of Team Interrobang, I participated in our first-ever scrimmage match. I have never, in my life, participated in anything like this. My talents in Team Fortress 2 are better than mediocre, depending on the day and how familiar I am with the map. I had no doubts about the abilities of my teammates - they had kicked my ass pretty bad on more than a few occasions - but having no experience seeing others in this situation, I had no idea how good or bad we really were.
Turns out my fears were unfounded. Though our opponent - L@W - is relatively new, we crushed them in a match in the 2Fort map 3 to 1, and successfully attacked in Gold Rush (we never got a chance to defend, but defending is in my opinion easier than attacking on that map). In a humorous twist, one of my favorite team members, a feisty chick named Mommy, was playing against her husband, a member of L@W who until recently on our team. He uh, rage-quit after we won Gold Rush...
Maybe it's a good thing I haven't convinced my lovely, hyper-competitive wife to play the game.
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After the match, I had scheduled time to go climbing at Rocks & Ropes with Nyssa (who, bless her, pushed back our climb 45 minutes to accommodate the match). Last week I climbed: 4+*, 7, 6*, 7, (* signifies self-belay). That 9+ was a new record for me, and let me tell you those self-belays can be a real challenge, since you can't rest on your belay at all.
Tonight, I did a 7, 9, 8, and 7, so for the first time I've done 9s in consecutive climbs.
For the uninitiated: anybody who's healthy can do a 4 or 5; a 6 is fairly challenging to a beginner, and a 7 is something people can't generally do without some practice or being in good shape (or both). 8 is where you have to be in good shape, have strong hands, and a little practice. 9 is where things start getting crazy. The gym has 10s and 11s that are, um, insane. Those climbs require you to use handholds no bigger than a silver dollar (and not much thicker...) to go up a vertical wall.
Now the irony: Being super pumped up after playing a video game inspired my to break a small record in my fitness regimen.Labels: interrobang, team fortress 2 |
| posted by Steve @ 10:55 PM |
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| Monday, January 21, 2008 |
| EA <3 Valve |
“The existing Battlefield games are fairly deep; you have to be pretty good or you’ll die pretty quick,” Mr. Florin said Friday in a telephone interview from Geneva. “Now we’ve toned down the difficulty, shortened each game session to 10 or 15 minutes and made the visual style more cartoony.”
~ Translation ~
"We like playing Team Fortress 2 more than we like Battlefield, and we're going to try to undersell them by putting it online for free."
Labels: games, team fortress 2 |
| posted by Steve @ 4:42 PM |
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