poolboy6

Yesterday = Awesome.

9 hours of uninterrupted sleep.
A phone call *AND* IM chat with GlassHeart.
Books from Spica.

Of course, I am spre as fuck from the gym, but I'll be happy about that around the time I get back to the states.

And I am ending the day with pudding. Yummy.

I just watched Children of Men. A bunch of my co-workers said it sucked and was boring, but the premise interested me and I love Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Really. They are among my favorites. Granted, with the exception of the lovely Ms. Moore, they are all character actors, for the most part (Owen the brooding, tortured hero, Caine...
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Watched the UFC fight. Very good. Very good.

Going to the pool shortly. Will take pictures.

Note to self, a whole teaspoon of Redline = bad. Felt like I was on coke. Still, got a good workout in...

45 mins bike
8 sets of 8 dips
8 sets of 8 incline bench
8 sets of 8 bench

Tomorrow - 30 mins on the bike and leg day.

Long, slightly sucky day at work. After work was much better.

My little brother is sending me PDFs of the D&D 4th Edition. I'm skeptical. I pretty much stopped playing D&D once I found Warhammer. It just fits what kind of Fantasy gaming I enjoy more than D&D did. My favorite roleplaying games tend to be Warhammer and Call of Cthulhu--darker, more lethal games with little in the way of video game fireworks.

Everything I've been...
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A truly amazing book which adds considerable perspective to the current War in Iraq is The Shia Revival by Vali Nasr. It deals with the history of the split between the Sunni and Shi'a sects of Islam and how the Shi'a developed the mindset they have today. The book also takes this into modern times, explaining the implications of modern events, most notably the Iranian...
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Apparently, I have found the point at which my leg muscles outstrip my lower back muscles. I upped the leg press a bit and ended up tweaking my lower back. Owie.

So, I saw this GREAT documentary tonight. Heavy Metal in Baghdad follows the lives of Acrassicauda, a heavy metal band trying to find its way in Iraq. It's great to see for the...
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I am trucking along in the Espaol... it's nice that I did have some Spanish in high school, and it's a pretty pervasive language here in the States, so I think I'll have more luck with that than the Serbian and Croatian.

And the gym is still going strong, and continuing to kick my ass. I think I'm supposed to take a PT test in...
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