not falling down

Three entries in one day? That’s crazy! But not as crazy as this: JON AND AMANDA GOT ENGAGED!WHOO!

(By “crazy” I mean “good.”)

Managed to sleep for three hours. For me, Mister Doesn’t Nap, that’s fairly hardcore. I feelbetter, if not nearly better enough to do everything I have to do tonight. Onward, men! Bring me mysword and red shirt!

Anyway, music. I recently rediscovered that the soundtrack to Sneakers is excellent walking-around music, especially in winter. I think itwould also be great music for a silent underwater documentary, or a console RPG, and would like totest those theories someday. BrendanCo: Where the music for everything is the soundtrack toSneakers!

Something about providing great semi-rare music illegally, blah blah blah. Listen to this, it’s myfavorite track.

Yesterday I went biking for the first time in years–not on my own bike, alas, which still waitspatiently on the porch for resuscitation, but on David’s. I figured out that you could shift out ofsixth on it at the top of the last hill. I am a genius! Walking afterwards felt like I wasunderwater. I expected to be sore today, legwise, but fortunately I wasn’t. Exactly. (More on thisin a moment.)

This bike trip was actually something of a quest–borrowing a foot-measurement thingy from ShoeSensation for my play. Shoe Sensation: where the shoes are great, the people are friendly, and theylet earnest college students borrow their foot-measurement thingies without even showing ID.

On the way back I rewarded myself with a trip to the comic book store, which appears to be closing.This makes my heart sad, even though I’ve actually been there maybe three times. I did pick up apack of Fluxxfor half price, though, and learned to play it with the Halo Chumps later that night. I found itenormously fun, and now have a burning desire to buy blank cards and make up game-unbalancing rules(”Draw All,” “Keeper Limit 0,” “Brendan Just Wins”).

Anyway, today I woke up feeling not sore in my legs, but rather over the entirety of my body. Ifinally caught whatever everybody else has been battling, I guess, and it’s just in time for myplay and two major Comp Sci projects! I’ve been stuffy and nauseous too, though that went awayafter I slept through Software Engineering. Hmm… maybe my problem isn’t a virus at all!

I have another post to write soon, about music, but I can’t do it from here. Remind me in a couplehours.