My feet hurt, but I will endeavor to blog anyway.
Jess and I just got back from a pretty long run/rollerblade, a good 5 miles or so, which is pretty long for me, especially when running barefoot. I’ll probably have to get some better barefoot shoes soon, I’m starting to wear out the old ones, and there isn’t a whole lot of them to wear. Jess was on wheels, and was kind enough to slow down for me, I got pretty slow near the end.
We had a pretty relaxing week, overall. We spent a few days at home watching movies and cuddling on the couch, which is always nice. I started to feel bad about not going to Judo right up until the point where Jess grabbed my arm, cuddled my shoulder, and made a contented noise. Then I didn’t feel so bad about anything, really.
There’s a decided lull in new video game releases during the summer, or at least ones I care about, which has the nice effect of making me do other stuff for a while. I’ve been working on music and reading a LOT of books. I’ve gone through a significant percentage of our previous book splurge, and so I got to buy some of the sequels to the books I’ve already worked through. Books like:
Hyperion: A Hugo Award-winning book. Really good, very atmospheric and interesting. I got the sequel today.
Mistborn: Written by Brandon Sanderson, an author I’d been hearing a lot about (he’s writing the last books in the wheel of time series). Quite good, he writes books with really interesting magic systems, totally different than anything you’re used to and quite intriguing.
The Cobra Trilogy: Written by Timothy Zahn, and pretty much anything by him, I will read. Not a bad series, either, full of interesting ideas and good twists that you usually don’t see coming. I always like when a book does that successfully.
Tomorrow I get to go eat lunch with an old friend from Juneau who lives here in Austin now. So exciting! And then next week I get to head up to Dallas to get a polygraph taken. Significantly less exciting!
-N
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Woah!! Just your usual polygraph or some special post European exploration of your patriotism??? Does this happen often?? I'll testify if you need character witness, OK??
Nope. Just a periodic thing. When you get your clearance they have you fill out a form that says they're allowed to do a (limited scope) polygraph on you anytime they want. They're supposed to do it every 5 years or so, but it's been 7 for me. Polygraphs are junk science, though.
-N
Ok, so just a "fishing trip" to see if any Russkies have been buying you drinks, or chinese have you on a Christmas card list. Junk science can be particularly troublesome if you choose that day to try out some new Yoga breathing techniques or have Jalepenos for lunch. Try to think good thoughts....Dad
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