Ice Cavern Studios

So it would seem that my Path to Fitness posts have kind of dried up. Which, if I hadn’t gotten myself into a pretty steady workout routine, would have defeated there intended purpose. But yeah, I’m fully into a workout habit.

So have I seen any progress? Yes and no. As I said earlier, I’m definitely feeling the effects. I’m clearly in better shape than I was when I started back in July. I’m sore less often. My joints all hurt less. And I generally feel better.

At the same time, I still don’t look the way I want to. I’m getting there, and I can see the beginings, but I’m still not as cut as I’d like to be. *shrugs*

At least there is progress, so I can’t complain too much.

Path to Fitness

Sorry I haven’t posted more of any substance, but it’s been a busy week. We’re approaching the end of the Dev cycle and I’m exhuasted. It doesn’t hurt that I’ve done a lot of travelling the past couple of weeks. Plus that working out thing has left me pretty drained. I have no plans for this evening and I’m not going to make any. About the only thing I’m going to be up for is someone possibly coming over to my apartment and either watching a movie or playing some games. That’s it. Nothng more. If I have to leave my apartment for anything, I’m not interested.

Yeah…that’s what I’m looking forward to. Doing nothing.

Life and Times

So tonight was the big night for my TV viewing. Here are my thoughts on the shows:

• How I Met Your Mother – So I watched this for the first time in full tonight, and it really is funny. This was a show I found out about via Brian Beck, and I know owe him. It was pretty funny. Plus Neil Patrick Haris is hilarious.
• Heroes – Man! This show is awesome. I seriously enjoy watching this show. I don’t love all of the characters, but most of them, are awesome. I also love how the characters have begun to use their powers. This show gets better and better every week.
• Studio 60 – I liked this week show. It didn’t have all of the funny elements I was expecting, but it definitely had some good lines. I like how they handled the “good” black comedian. Everything D.L. Hughly was saying was what I was thinking. I really like where the show is going, I think this show is going to take some time to get moving. There’s still so much set up to go. I’m also growing to like how they are handling the president, Jordan. They are slowly making her more human. I’m interested to see how this moves forward.

So those are my impressions of this week. Still looking forward to the monday night line-up half way through the season.

TV

I never thought I’d reach a time when I’d have too many games to play/finish. Nor did I ever expect to look at a list of released games coming up and think, “I’m doomed.” Then I saw this. I saw that and noticed I had two games on the list. Now both are fairly short, but I’m also stacking up RPG’s, which is never a good sign. With Children of Mana coming out next week, and Final Fantasy 3 shortly after that, I’m definitely going to be in for it.

Hmm…I’m definitely seeing the holidays as a good chance to catch up on my DS gaming. Yeah, the 360 is going to have to be staying home.

Nintendo DS, RPGs, Video Games, XBox 360

So this past weekend, Nicole and I were down in southern New Jersey for the wedding of our friends Chuck and Rebecca. It was a pretty good time. It did mean there was a lot of driving involved, but hey, it was worth it.

So the trip started Friday afternoon with Nicole picking me up at 4:50. From there, we drove over to Kendal square to pick up two of our friends, Dan and Emily. Once we got moving (Emily was late due to T stupidity), we started to make our way out of Cambridge. Unfortunatly, it would take us about an hour or so to get out of Cambridge/Boston. Traffic was just terrible, but we once we were out of the metro Boston area, things were fine.

The ride down itself was actually pretty nice. I spent a bit of time playing Mario Kart and Tetris on my DS with Dan and Emily. We also talked a lot, and had a good time making our way down. Dan gave us some funny insight into the world of consulting, and we just generally had a pleasant trip. Upon getting to the hotel, we all went to our rooms and passed out.

The next morning Nicole and I got up early so that we could shower and grab some of the free breakfast. While we were down there, we ran into Chuck and the best man. (I realized that I’m probably one of the last people to talk to Chuck as a single man. That’s pretty cool.) After a quick breakfast, we headed back to the elevator and ran into the men’s bridal party as they were getting ready to go. This turns out to be a very fortunate thing, as they colors of the bridal party included maroon, and I was leaning towards wearing a maroon shirt under my suit. (That would have been…awkward)

So Nicole and I headed back up to our room and got ourselves dressed. Well, Nicole got dressed and I tried to iron my shirt. The iron the hotel provided was not very good, and I was having serious issues getting my shirt pressed. (I’m only bringing this up because Nicole likes to get on razz me about my iron, and the two of us along with Pat and Mel were having a good laugh about it) Thankfully, I was able to find a way to overcome this and get myself dressed. Nicole and I got ourselves downstairs and Emily and Dan joined us shortly thereafter.

Soon all four of us found ourselves at the site of the wedding. A rather quaint little ballroom type place. The wedding was outside in a covered area and there were heaters there to thankfully keep us warm. It was a beautiful setting just by a lake, and I was actually very impressed by it. There were quite a few Princetonian’s in attendence, many of them friends from the Band and/or Campus Club, so it was also a bit of a reunions of sorts.

The ceremony itself was a very quick Catholic service. The procession started at just after 11:30 and we were heading to the Cocktail hour at 11:59. I actually joked with Nicole that there must have been some “you’re married in 30 minutes or less or your next one is FREE” deal going on. But it was a very nice ceremony.

After the Ceremony, the guests headed down to the wine cellar for cocktail hour. At first, I thought that it might be a bit…early for a cocktail hour, seeing as how I’m generally against drinking before…oh..say…three in the afternoon. But it turned out that it was really more of a wine and cheese hour, so that was cool. It was actually very nice, I got a chance to catch up with people and eat finger foods, and just generally soak in the moment.

At about one we all went into the Ballroom and awaited the bride and groove to come in and for the reception to really get going. The reception itself was a lot of fun, but for the sake of getting me to bed at a reasonable hour, I’m going to give the highlights in bulletted form:

• The fathers of the couple singing Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler to the couple as their speach
• The groom showing that he was an excellent dancer, only to have me turn to Pat (who’s getting married next year) “Pat, Chuck’s just thrown down.”
• The groom losing to his mother in a best 2/3 thumb wrestling contest
• All of the band alums, including the bride and groom, lobstering during Rock Lobster
• Wayyyy to many people trying to dance the hora in wayyyy to small a space
• Good food and good dancing with old friends
• Watching our friend, Marc ’02, schmooze with at least…5 (we lost track after that) different women
• The Wildcat alums at the wedding perform the dance routine to I Can’t Dance

So yeah, that was the reception in a nutshell. It was a really good time. After that, Nicole and I headed back to the hotel (Dan and Emily hitched a ride with the maid of honor back to Boston) and just kind of…well..vegged.

The next day, Nicole and I headed back up to Princeton. It was a pretty uneventful trip, except for a quick detour to Princeton for a hoagie. We actually came up with the idea indipendently and decided that it was a sign we had to go. We also called Patrick and he joined us which was really great. But other than that, it was an uneventful trip. back. Overall, the trip was great, and I’m really glad we got to share it with Chuck and Rebecca.

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Life and Times, Princeton