Weekly Update
Jan. 4th, 2010 10:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jamesqTaking a page from other folks, I'm going to do a standardized update for those occasions when I don't have anything noteworthy to say.
Fitness
After losing five pounds prior to Christmas, I suspect that I've now gained five pounds after. I'm afraid to go back to WW this week to confirm. I blame the plethora of rich foods and lack of exercise, but really, I should have found a way.
Starting now, I'm back on the wagon. This includes making trips to the Olympic Oval to run, even though I hate running in the oval (and it's expensive - $6/run). However, I hate being fat even more.
I got into a discussion/argument with some friends over the holidays relating to my goals. Mostly this was a problem with me defining my terms. I said something like "I can't wait to get below 220 again - then I'll merely be overweight, as opposed to obese".
Folks objected to the term obese because they thought I was being too self-critical, whereas I was actually being medically precise (based on the BMI). This led to a discussion about whether or not the BMI was a reasonable standard to use. We fell into the usual BMI argument pattern which boils down to this:
Demons
The demons have been quiet of late, which is good since the last depressive incident was a few weeks ago. I'm almost reluctant to talk about it lest I stir them up. I'll keep it quick.
The reasons behind my depression remain, but I've been decent about keeping everything at bay for the last few weeks. The holidays have not triggered anything too bad and that's good.
Which is not to say that everything is sunlight and butterflies. Evidence suggests that I'm still in an iffy way. That evidence is the fact that I've been very apathetic about numerous projects and deadlines are coming up. I really need to get off my ass and finish them, but it's so easy to just play another game of sudoku, or read another Fark article (or write another long post to LJ). That's a sign of depression. It might not be as obvious a sign as me writing a woe-is-me post to LJ, but it's still there. Fake it until you make it as they say in AA. Which is to say, I need to get off my ass and finish projects - the act of finishing them iw what will bring me out of this whole so that I can finish more projects.
SCA
Chief among the projects I've been avoiding is Montengarde 12th Night. I need to...
All I want to do is show up Saturday morning and shoot some arrows. Sadly I'm chained to the hall (I have to be the first one in and the last one out) so I can't even do that.
God I hope we pull this off. People are still bitching about TD's feast failure from three years ago (which I don't think was at all deserved). I sure as hell don't want to go there.
Also, I just heard that (future) King of An Tir will be attending. Time to tilt at that windmill again and send in my recommendations for awards. Maybe this time there will be deserving folk named to the peerages they so richly deserve.
Travel Plans
After 12th Night I can really dig my teeth into our upcoming trip to the Estrella War (with a side order of Las Vegas).
I'm also pricing out trips to Cuba for the end of March. Most likely I'll be alone, which means I can catch up on my reading. The bad news is going by myself ups the cost by about $500.
Gaming
Skull Island Superheroes continues, I'm hoping to squeeze in a session next weekend. I haven't started my Potter-esque Superhero-school campaign yet, but I remain ever hopeful. BI's Call of Cthulhu campaign continues - sometimes it's nice to just play a mindless thug. It's certainly cathartic, at least up until the point where I try to give some tentacled horror a Glasgow Kiss.
Yesterday we played Bowling for Kobolds. We all played Hobbits and decided to go on a good old fashioned dungeon crawl. Spot the bad guy, roll for initiative!
Archery
I've shot once in the last six weeks. I need to start listening to the training tapes that I got from DJ.
Social Experiments
One continues, another one just started. We shall see how they turn out. Sadly, each will have only the one data point and neither are strictly falsifiable. As experiments go this makes them not so much rigorous as personally entertaining.
Mission 101
I really should look at this again. It's been months since I've updated. I expect there will be a few successes in amongst the apathy. I did want to do 100km in races last year and I think I managed to squeak by with the half-marathon. Weight-loss goals? Not so much.
Miscellaneous
Christmas was meh. I got to visit some members of my family, one of whom does light contract work, so I might have an opportunity to get some repairs done around the house.
New Years Eve was spent at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
halfdane866's place. This was fun, aside from being put into a no means NO situation. As a 6'4", 250 pound guy, that's rather unusual. Or rather, it's unusual to be on the receiving end of unwanted (and pushy) advances. Not that I try to be pushy myself (my default position is that women are not interested in my advances, so don't make them). Happily, as a big guy, the second no, followed by a good hard shove, was effective.
It's got to suck to be in that position and weaker then I though.
Aside from that, I had a great time.
A bunch of us went to Banff and I finally got some hot springs time in. Sadly the pool was super crowded, so I never got to really stretch out and relax, but it was soothing nonetheless. Afterward, we forced some innocent girls to watch Hudson Hawk, possibly one of the greatest movies ever made.
Fitness
After losing five pounds prior to Christmas, I suspect that I've now gained five pounds after. I'm afraid to go back to WW this week to confirm. I blame the plethora of rich foods and lack of exercise, but really, I should have found a way.
Starting now, I'm back on the wagon. This includes making trips to the Olympic Oval to run, even though I hate running in the oval (and it's expensive - $6/run). However, I hate being fat even more.
I got into a discussion/argument with some friends over the holidays relating to my goals. Mostly this was a problem with me defining my terms. I said something like "I can't wait to get below 220 again - then I'll merely be overweight, as opposed to obese".
Folks objected to the term obese because they thought I was being too self-critical, whereas I was actually being medically precise (based on the BMI). This led to a discussion about whether or not the BMI was a reasonable standard to use. We fell into the usual BMI argument pattern which boils down to this:
- The BMI isn't good because it doesn't account for outliers like wirey distance runners or muscle-bound weight-lifters.
- True, but I'm neither of those things.
- But you're healthy despite being overweight.
- Actually my blood pressure is through the roof and my knees and lower back are straining to carry the extra load. Plus my Doctor says I'm average enough that the BMI is a perfectly good measure of obesity.
Demons
The demons have been quiet of late, which is good since the last depressive incident was a few weeks ago. I'm almost reluctant to talk about it lest I stir them up. I'll keep it quick.
The reasons behind my depression remain, but I've been decent about keeping everything at bay for the last few weeks. The holidays have not triggered anything too bad and that's good.
Which is not to say that everything is sunlight and butterflies. Evidence suggests that I'm still in an iffy way. That evidence is the fact that I've been very apathetic about numerous projects and deadlines are coming up. I really need to get off my ass and finish them, but it's so easy to just play another game of sudoku, or read another Fark article (or write another long post to LJ). That's a sign of depression. It might not be as obvious a sign as me writing a woe-is-me post to LJ, but it's still there. Fake it until you make it as they say in AA. Which is to say, I need to get off my ass and finish projects - the act of finishing them iw what will bring me out of this whole so that I can finish more projects.
SCA
Chief among the projects I've been avoiding is Montengarde 12th Night. I need to...
- make sure that all of my bosses are ready.
- post the schedule.
- coordinate with other groups that have decorations we can borrow.
- check with the hall to make sure we're not missing anything.
- Try to get more site tokens made.
All I want to do is show up Saturday morning and shoot some arrows. Sadly I'm chained to the hall (I have to be the first one in and the last one out) so I can't even do that.
God I hope we pull this off. People are still bitching about TD's feast failure from three years ago (which I don't think was at all deserved). I sure as hell don't want to go there.
Also, I just heard that (future) King of An Tir will be attending. Time to tilt at that windmill again and send in my recommendations for awards. Maybe this time there will be deserving folk named to the peerages they so richly deserve.
Travel Plans
After 12th Night I can really dig my teeth into our upcoming trip to the Estrella War (with a side order of Las Vegas).
I'm also pricing out trips to Cuba for the end of March. Most likely I'll be alone, which means I can catch up on my reading. The bad news is going by myself ups the cost by about $500.
Gaming
Skull Island Superheroes continues, I'm hoping to squeeze in a session next weekend. I haven't started my Potter-esque Superhero-school campaign yet, but I remain ever hopeful. BI's Call of Cthulhu campaign continues - sometimes it's nice to just play a mindless thug. It's certainly cathartic, at least up until the point where I try to give some tentacled horror a Glasgow Kiss.
Yesterday we played Bowling for Kobolds. We all played Hobbits and decided to go on a good old fashioned dungeon crawl. Spot the bad guy, roll for initiative!
Archery
I've shot once in the last six weeks. I need to start listening to the training tapes that I got from DJ.
Social Experiments
One continues, another one just started. We shall see how they turn out. Sadly, each will have only the one data point and neither are strictly falsifiable. As experiments go this makes them not so much rigorous as personally entertaining.
Mission 101
I really should look at this again. It's been months since I've updated. I expect there will be a few successes in amongst the apathy. I did want to do 100km in races last year and I think I managed to squeak by with the half-marathon. Weight-loss goals? Not so much.
Miscellaneous
Christmas was meh. I got to visit some members of my family, one of whom does light contract work, so I might have an opportunity to get some repairs done around the house.
New Years Eve was spent at
halfdane866's place. This was fun, aside from being put into a no means NO situation. As a 6'4", 250 pound guy, that's rather unusual. Or rather, it's unusual to be on the receiving end of unwanted (and pushy) advances. Not that I try to be pushy myself (my default position is that women are not interested in my advances, so don't make them). Happily, as a big guy, the second no, followed by a good hard shove, was effective.It's got to suck to be in that position and weaker then I though.
Aside from that, I had a great time.
A bunch of us went to Banff and I finally got some hot springs time in. Sadly the pool was super crowded, so I never got to really stretch out and relax, but it was soothing nonetheless. Afterward, we forced some innocent girls to watch Hudson Hawk, possibly one of the greatest movies ever made.
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