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Back to running – friends included

steve — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:30:31 +0000

So now that I’ve started playing WoW and quit again, I’m back to running and P90X. When I attempted this before, I only had Ryan as someone to challenge. I’m not sure what happened between now and then, but I now have several people I know who have the kit. This makes our challenges alot more fun and interesting and we can actually start doing teams. Hopefully this time I can stick with it.

RIP Mike

steve — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:35:19 +0000

Michael Murray, 30 years old and a sheriff deputy, died yesterday in his home. Mike was one of my best friends all through grammar school. We went on each other’s family vacations, stayed up late and had plenty of good times. We grew apart a bit in high school, although we still hung out occasionally and we never met up again after but it’s still hard to think that one of my childhood friends is now gone.

My heart goes out to his family and friends. Mike was a great guy, always laughing and being thoughtful of others. The world is a lesser place without him in it.

Wine Wonderland

steve — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:57:43 +0000

Jen and Garett hosted a wine party for Jen’s 30th birthday.

These are some older photos that I’m posting up now that I’ve got some decent galleries going.

3rd of July

steve — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:01:12 +0000

A pre-celebration of the 4th.

My brother and his family go to a local park in Moorpark that celebrates the 4th of July one day early for those of us who are working that day. So this year I tagged along and snagged a few pics with my crappy point and shoot camera.

bowling for beer

steve — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:31:47 +0000

Didn’t do as well with bowling this time – didn’t even get over a 200. at least my handicap will drop.

Tattoo Aritst + Technology = Dali Rău

steve — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:53:58 +0000

My brother recently started getting some new tattoos and it got me to thinking that I should get mine re-done and maybe get some new ones. ( I know my girlfriend is cringing at this point. ). If you haven’t seen my tattoos yet, I’m sure there are some pictures in my gallery somewhere of them but in order to save you the browsing time – I like tribals. I like the clean, artistic design of them. I like how they stay nice and bold, even as the tattoo gets older. And if you know me at all, I do not simply like dragons, I love them. I collect them. Hell, the Tiger calls me the Dragon.

The problem with tribal designs is that they are everywhere and when they are everywhere, it means you get some really crappy ones and some really good ones. After about 3 weeks of scouring the web, I found Dali Rău. This guy is just amazing. And the best part, he’s into computers and technology. Hell, he has his own wordpress 2.5 blog. I mean, c’mon, how cool is that? Most tattoo artists around here are just into bikes and skulls and crap. Here’s a dude who actually knows what XHTML is and is pissed when his site doesn’t validate. ( FYI, my site doesn’t validate, due to some issues with how Wordpress displays the link categories.. ). The only downfall? He lives in Japan.

So, me and the Tiger are thinking of planning an excursion for sometime later this year to make the trip to Japan, drink lots of sake, eat lots of sushi and get ourselves some tattoos from the venerable Dali.

If you’re into tattoos at all, check his site out.

P90X Updates

steve — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:38:21 +0000

Ok, so I skipped a few days of updating the site, got a little busy. I rocked it up this week, with my only failure being a missed Kenpo session. I went golfing on Saturday and was sun-burnt and exhausted afterwards and promptly took a nap. So, with the decision of Kenpo vs Yoga, I chose to do Yoga. My reasons behind this being that Yoga, for me, is much harder than Kenpo, provides alot more flexibility and burns calories, while Kenpo is pretty much a cardio workout, which I can get from running.

I’ve updated my P90X log with a bunch more data for this week. Also, I want to congratulate the Tiger on his completed 50 miles! He made it the way through, lost some weight and got more stamina. He crushed me in the challenge, but never fear, for Revenge of Chan is our new challenge with a higher mile rate and I WILL NOT BE DEFEATED AGAIN! Also, check out Mardagan’s P90X blog, he’s making some great progress.

More fun and back on track.

steve — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:25:36 +0000

So you may have noticed that the theme on this site kept changing. The basic reason being that I couldn’t find a damn theme that I was entirely happy with. Redoable was nice, but had bugs due to it no longer being developed. I fixed a few but more just seemed to keep popping up. Hemingway had it’s issues, as did Foilage. I went back to Emire, which has no bugs, but I had that theme for a lonnnnnnnnnnnng time. Finally, I found this one, called dreamplace. I think it looks cool, it doesn’t have any bugs, scales well and has the calendar that I wanted, although it doesn’t highlight the days, which is something I’ll have to fix.

As for other things, I finished my first week of P90X ( again ). Thanks to all who have left comments, I really appreciate them. I ended up missing Friday due to work issues ( I had to go in at 4 AM, left at 2 and fell asleep ), so I did Legs and Back on Saturday and Kenpo today and I’ve got Chest and Back tomorrow. I’m down to 190 lbs and 20% body fat at the moment, so from here I’ll start the blog pages back up again. Everyone is alot further ahead of me in the program, which sucks but at least it keeps the motivation going for me.

I totally flailed on my challenges with the Tiger, due to my sickness and recent work issues. I won’t be making my goals either, so I’ll have to reset them. At least I got the Tiger running though and hopefully we can start another BeerChan challenge back up.

Anyways, I have to head off to go bowling in a sec ( no more beer. ), but keep checking the site for more updates!

jeremy gets online

steve — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:26:08 +0000

My buddie Jeremy has started his own site over at mardagan.wordpress.com. It is his own P90X blog, even though he’s well ahead of me in the program. So please, take a moment to visit there and leave some encouraging words for him!

Eye of the Tiger..

steve — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:11:44 +0000

That’s what I’ll be having for dinner if the Tiger doesn’t shape up, hurry up and get his nano with his Nike+ kit. I’ve already got a headstart on him! Maybe posting the challenge here so all the world can see his failure will make him hurry up…

That’s right Bond. I just threw the glove.