Quick Updates

Tao of the Gauntlet
Crazy time at work has finished.  We are in the middle of releasing to production with our most annoying partner ever and the idiots in charge fired the entire test team.  Also, my project is likely to be canceled.  Also, my project is likely to be uncanceled shortly thereafter.  I am neither surprised nor annoyed this time.  I am getting very bored, very fast. In order to not be a complete asshat (vis a vis the strings my boss pulled in order to let me move to NYC) I need to last another 5 months. One of those testers was put in charge of my project while I was gone, and having me back probably sealed his fate in the layoffs.  So try to image how he is gonna feel if I quit.  But don't get too many feels, because he's one of the apparently multiple people who didn't know you couldn't put mutable fields on enums in the java language.


The Social Dragon
My volleyball team kicked ass last week.  We normally aren't that good.  It was actually kind of shocking...in this co-ed league the men are typically assumed to be stronger players...so much so that there are not only rules about keeping men off the courts, but rules that disallow them from spiking in the back (guess how I learned them).  Being the horny misandrist that I am, I obviously don't mind, but what was truly interesting about our most recent game was the revelation that the girls are actually the strongest players on the team. Some of them can play all positions, including striker.  I may play with the same people again next season, even though I'd probably meet more people if I just signed up by myself again to be placed randomly.

On that subject, I've been told that there are a lot of book clubs here with hot girls.  Not even kidding; the girls on my team told me that.  A promising change from Seattle, where the book clubs literally bared men from participating.

The Purge
I have nearly reached the midpoint of my stay at this apartment I am subletting, and I still haven't unpacked all of the boxes.  At this point, I'm starting to think I should just leave them like that for the next move.  Having my shit lost by uhaul for so long and being forced to live without it gave me an interesting perspective...it kind of proved just how shockingly few physical objects I actually need for my day to day life.  The rest of them...well is mostly all activity related.  Motorcycles, flying, climbing, skiing, guitars & recording equipment, and computer gear.  And legos.  You would think I could start getting rid of a few of those categories, but I can't bring myself to do it.  I have gotten rid of a ton of books and clothes though.

5 Stars
Learning to cook--for reals and not just ramen--has been on my TODO list for a very long time.  We are starting lite:  I do this new thing where I cut up an entire lemon or lime into slices and drop all of the slices into a glass of water.  Its pretty fucking awesome, because when you use the whole fruit like that, you don't even need to add sugar!

Fatass
Aside from joining a shady gym that is probably going to screw me when I try to quit, I really haven't done much in the way of getting more fit, other than cutting out soda...again.  Except this time I actually cut it out (except for when I go out drinking).  Nevertheless, my weight seems to be dropping slowly.  My theory is it is simply all of the extra walking I have to do to get to work.  I do still want to learn proper weightlifting, but that is perpetually getting deprioritized.

Gnashing of Teeth
Getting a new dentist has been on my TODO list for a very long time.  I'm probably overdue for a checkup by about...as long as I've been here.  So like 3 months.  If I had one, that might have been super helpful, because today, at Panera Bread, I apparently ate part of my tooth.  Didn't realize I was eating it.  I just reached into the back of my mouth with my tongue to check for crumbs and discovered a scary, gaping hole where the last tooth should have been.  There was no pain.  At first, I thought the entire tooth (other than the root) was gone, however after trying to look at it in a mirror (difficult) I'm pretty sure that I've only destroyed part of the tooth.  I had been telling my dentist in Seattle that I don't grind my teeth anymore.  Turns out I'm full of shit.

It is, shocking, I guess, to realize that I am stressed, perhaps mostly because the rational part of my brain thinks that I shouldn't be stressed, and therefore refuses to acknowledge it.  However, now realize that I have a terrible habit of teeth grinding, perhaps at its worst when I am awake, because I've been absent-mindedly trying (and failing) to grind my teeth all day.

The Pain in the Ass
I am losing motivation to work on this start up.  It is difficult to focus on two jobs at once, especially when both are demanding.  I do expect the day job to get easier, shortly, so perhaps I'll find a balance.

In other news, my business partner continues to confuse "important" with "urgent," and the importance of something seems directly correlated with how little this person understands something.