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Notes to kick off 2015.
11 years ago
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Survived the holidays, Christmas and New Years were the usual do nothing days. I had enough work to avoid burning vacation to bridge the days after at least.
So on that note. I have no official plans to go to Further Confusion. I might drive down Friday to hit a couple of parties (mostly squeaky) and hang around Saturday. If the weather's nice I'll probably take a drive out to the coast along the old circuit I used to run out to Whale City Bakery with the Mach1.
First con coming up for me will be Frolicon out in Atlanta, GA. It's close to the weekend of FWA but a fet con instead so it'll be fun to go rubberpony there for the weekend.
Second con is still up in the air, I'll either do BLFC in May or Confuzzled. I found a really nice price on airfare to the UK but that's a big step for me since I've never been out of the country before. Heck I still have to get a passport! If I go Confuzzled I'll be in the UK for two weeks, arriving a week before the con to visit folks and cling to
wolfpawz because I'm kind of sweet on him. So n'yah.
If I do the Confuzzled plan, I'll be short enough on vacation time that I probably wont hit another con until Rainfurrest and MFF, assuming I don't have to pick one over the other (in which case it'd be MFF).
A whole lot of this can change over the course of the year depending on how things go with selling the house. If it sells my budget will be soooo much healthier finally and I think you'll see a lot more of me.
As for other things. Someone at work flagged it to my attention that we have a seasonal ice rink up here outdoors near Shasta. I've managed to get up north to play a few games and it's just friggin awesome playing hockey outdoors in the shadow of snow covered mountains ( https://www.dropbox.com/s/h31utw47a.....0265.JPG?dl=0) . :)
Last year, during the year I shifted things in my diet. I dropped soda at home, diet or otherwise and try to make sure I hit fast food less. Eventually I'd like to kick that habit altogether but it's harder than it sounds when you've been conditioned to it. I've done the salad for lunch daily thing for a few years now to try and alter my diet, but I was "padding" them with big servings of bread to avoid feeling hungry. I've since dropped the bread so lunch is pretty much down to salad and water which is something I think I've finally adjusted to. If it seems like I lost weight (in the Hawaii pictures) that'd probably be why.
The second part of that, heading into this year is I need to flat out get off my duff and exercise. Hell I'm tired of having moobs because they don't go so well with rubber critters... anyway I'm trying to be good about being more active and changing culture/lifestyle and such because the things (or lack thereof) I've been doing are just slowly killing me. I owe it to be better to myself and give you all a nice tight n shiny pony to check out. I guess we'll see how things are going in a few months.
And on the car front, haven't done much since it's winter and it's fricken cold here! I did decide to try out the video feature in my camera though and shoot a quick vid of the 89 now that I've got the Flowmasters and dumps on it. Enjoy boring car vid! http://vid53.photobucket.com/albums.....psa0a3ok6t.mp4
So on that note. I have no official plans to go to Further Confusion. I might drive down Friday to hit a couple of parties (mostly squeaky) and hang around Saturday. If the weather's nice I'll probably take a drive out to the coast along the old circuit I used to run out to Whale City Bakery with the Mach1.
First con coming up for me will be Frolicon out in Atlanta, GA. It's close to the weekend of FWA but a fet con instead so it'll be fun to go rubberpony there for the weekend.
Second con is still up in the air, I'll either do BLFC in May or Confuzzled. I found a really nice price on airfare to the UK but that's a big step for me since I've never been out of the country before. Heck I still have to get a passport! If I go Confuzzled I'll be in the UK for two weeks, arriving a week before the con to visit folks and cling to
wolfpawz because I'm kind of sweet on him. So n'yah.If I do the Confuzzled plan, I'll be short enough on vacation time that I probably wont hit another con until Rainfurrest and MFF, assuming I don't have to pick one over the other (in which case it'd be MFF).
A whole lot of this can change over the course of the year depending on how things go with selling the house. If it sells my budget will be soooo much healthier finally and I think you'll see a lot more of me.
As for other things. Someone at work flagged it to my attention that we have a seasonal ice rink up here outdoors near Shasta. I've managed to get up north to play a few games and it's just friggin awesome playing hockey outdoors in the shadow of snow covered mountains ( https://www.dropbox.com/s/h31utw47a.....0265.JPG?dl=0) . :)
Last year, during the year I shifted things in my diet. I dropped soda at home, diet or otherwise and try to make sure I hit fast food less. Eventually I'd like to kick that habit altogether but it's harder than it sounds when you've been conditioned to it. I've done the salad for lunch daily thing for a few years now to try and alter my diet, but I was "padding" them with big servings of bread to avoid feeling hungry. I've since dropped the bread so lunch is pretty much down to salad and water which is something I think I've finally adjusted to. If it seems like I lost weight (in the Hawaii pictures) that'd probably be why.
The second part of that, heading into this year is I need to flat out get off my duff and exercise. Hell I'm tired of having moobs because they don't go so well with rubber critters... anyway I'm trying to be good about being more active and changing culture/lifestyle and such because the things (or lack thereof) I've been doing are just slowly killing me. I owe it to be better to myself and give you all a nice tight n shiny pony to check out. I guess we'll see how things are going in a few months.
And on the car front, haven't done much since it's winter and it's fricken cold here! I did decide to try out the video feature in my camera though and shoot a quick vid of the 89 now that I've got the Flowmasters and dumps on it. Enjoy boring car vid! http://vid53.photobucket.com/albums.....psa0a3ok6t.mp4
Wildfox34
~wildfox34
You can have your own Winter Classic whenever you want!
Crosscheck
~crosscheck
OP
After doing that I can totally get why players at the Winter Classic wanted to wear sun glasses. Toward the end of the session, the glare gets so bad we keep losing the puck out there!
Wildfox34
~wildfox34
Yeah, that's why sometimes they make the teams switch sides during the period too. That way there wasn't a huge disadvantage to anybody. Home ice advantage don't include the sun!
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