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Today in the weight room a trainer complimented my form on squats. I’ll have to remember that tomorrow when walking up stairs becomes difficult due to microtrauma in my quadriceps; it’ll be my motivating factor. “Damn, I’ll have to drag myself up with my hands just to make it up this flight, but at least my form is good when I do squats!”(Hmm… there’s no Wikipedia article on microtrauma. might have to fix that. And I like the illustration on the quadriceps link.)
And the weather is FINALLY back to the way it should be in St. Louis in August – oppressively hot, oppressively humid, oppressively sunny, and with oppressed winds. Thank God. I thought we had another Ice Age on the way.
Work-wise I’m once again in the throes of Luserdom. blah. I keep thinking up excuses for why I can’t do something that somebody needed Five Minutes Ago <tm> but is just now getting around to asking.
This weekend is the 25th annual YMCA Book Fair, where I’ll be doing something or other. I think I’ve done about every job they have on Opening Night – cashier, stockboy, security guard, photographer, you name it. (Actually, I took those pics on that link. My favorite is this one, taken about 5 minutes after opening. Those people in there are all absolutely fuckin’ pSyChO – they’ll knock old ladies over to get good books – and that isn’t idle hyperbole, I’ve seen them do it.) If you’re in the area, I suggest you stop by – they have about a million books this year (again, no hyperbole) at great prices, and the money supports youth programs in the Carondelet area, literacy programs all over St. Louis, the Washington University Campus Y, and the various international programs of the Y’s Men’s Clubs International.
Tomorrow night I’m going over to R*’s place; he’s making me Trini curry. yay curry!
Last week I tried the tandoori recipe again; I added more chilis, more black pepper, and a little more paprika, but forgot the ginger. All in all, it turned out pretty well, although I really missed the ginger’s contribution. And this time, I didn’t have to get a quart of plain yogurt – I found a 6-ounce cup instead.
There’s a new worm going around, fixing systems susceptible to the MS-026 RPC bug and removing the Blaster worm. While this approach quite clearly loses from an ethical standpoint, it does force some people to patch their computers.
And then there’s the newest take on the Nigerian scam letter – this one a parody of the SCO mess. Funny stuff. (For the record, ‘SCO’ is best remembered as the third syllable of ‘fiasco’.)
OK, enough rambling for now. Back to the grind, working for the xylocephaloids.
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