Great Weather /Sarcasm

So I'm on the first full day of vacation and here's the weather outlook for the next week in Tokyo...Well done weather. Well done...

Sigh...

As expected, after the 10+ days away, I'm still at 210 lbs. I must stop eating all those tortilla chips at mexican restaurants.

In other news, the London 2012 Olympic mascots have been revealed. I just have 'WTF' on my mind when I see them.



They even have their own back story. Metallic one-eyed multi-hued mascot origins!

Updates

Well, I've spent most of the last 30 days working on a job site about 600 miles from home. Travel with this frequency is tough. The hotel staff already know me by face and there isn't much to do in small-town America. At least the weather is getting nicer and night shift doesn't really involve bundling up like a yeti anymore.

Trying to control my diet here is tough. Portion control is really really really hard. I'm not looking forward to weighing-in when I get back home. At least I have maintained the exercise regime. I find it getting easier now that there's some kind of consistency and motivation to not break the trend.

But in any case, I'm glad I'm going on vacation this week. Even though that brings the total 'time not spent at home' time to about 30 days in the last month and a half, I think this break will be very much welcomed indeed.

In other stuff, here's an interesting use of light textures on 3D surfaces. I think it's cool that they can simulate depth by running lights in different thicknesses along a surface.

ENVISION : Step into the sensory box from SUPERBIEN on Vimeo.

Yami to Hikari

Well, after that previous post, I decided to be a little more upbeat. I haven't had the chance to re-weight myself since the last weigh-in as I was traveling and the place I went to didn't have a commercial scale. The ones that they did have would probably treat my body weight as a rounding error.

Anyways, so there's good news and bad news this time round. The bad news is that I have succumbed back to Team Fortress 2, much to my eternal shame. However, this is day 2 and I have only played 45 mins since I reinstalled. That's a promising start.

The Good News is that I'm now 211. 3lbs in 2 weeks isn't much I guess, but it's better than nothing. Finally being able to have some consistent form of exercising seems to be paying off. I have roughly 15 more weeks till show time. Let's see how far I can do this shit.

フアン

なんか不安になった。なんでぼくかってもまける？くやしい。

ぼくはもう日本語あまりれんしゅうしないけど、時々日本語でふあんを表したらちょっとらくになった。

ま、こんどもっとがんばります。あとチャンスがある。きっと。

All things TF2-ish

So I know I said I've uninstalled it but there are still so many crazy things people can do with Team Fortress 2 instead of playing. Here are a couple examples.


The Lion King done TF2. There is great lip-syncing and the conversation matches the context, one of the best TF2 dubs I've seen.


TF2 Man - when Mega Man meets the crew, I wonder how he would fare against the different arsenals of the TF2 screw. More guns!

Musings

The weather up here can be beautiful at times. I like the vast expanse of sky, sun and clouds. It's one of the nice things to see whenever I travel to the less populated areas out here.

It's easy to see why people have the urge to eat ice cream in weather like this.

Another interesting thing to see when I travel is the 'exotic' names that some of these small towns have. I think this is the 'best' name I've yet to see in the 3 years of travel I've had.

I pity any child that has/had to grow up in this town.

Lastly, the weather here is ridiculously windy. Apparently, it gets up to 40 mph in the winter. I can't imagine trying to work in the open fields with that kind of elemental force battering you all the time. I'm glad that I'm here in late spring and not winter.

For metric users, that's about 40 to 50 km/h...