Wooh!

One hour and 45 minutes past Ideal Time . . .

Early wake up, internal clock resetting to earlier breakfast, even got a long walk in, all on a Brain Age Day . . . things are certainly coming along! Maybe I'll finally organize my Comic-Con swag . . .

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100 crunches, and 1.6 miles walked . . .

'Til next time . . .

Late-ish Morning, Night Up in the Air . . .

Five hours past Ideal Time . . .

Well, I got up fairly early, in spite of a surprisingly late night, but a whole bunch of update my computer was overdue for ended up taking up a good portion of the morning. Yet another update to iTunes, SP 3 for XP, and Firefox 3. One fixed a bizarre crash report when closing iTunes, one was yet another overdue Microsoft update, and one (in spite of a few crashes on my laptop's test version) seemed ready to go.

What happens tonight, hopefully a long-awaited early turn-in, depends on . . . well, life.

Photo-filled recap of Comic-Con coming . . .

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FOOB-The RetCON Continues . . .

60 crunches today . . .

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5.8!

Six and a half hours past Ideal Time.

5.8 (later downgraded to 5.4, apparently); only in California do you just have to say "5.8," and people know exactly what you're talking about. Yes, after years of quiet, the Los Angeles area had a noticeable earthquake! I could have sworn it was a 4 pointer, maybe a 4.5, though that makes sense as the actual epicenter was to the south.

I can't get the original Gatchaman OP song out of my head; it all started with a screening of the mid-90's OVA at Anime Expo I caught, then that cosplay performance at Comic-Con's Masquerade, and the childhood memories they all brought back.

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I did 60 crunches today.

'Til next time . . .

Convention Hangover - Comic-Con '08

Six hours and twenty minutes past Ideal Time (out of the shower by 8 AM).

To keep it short, I'm still recovering from that four-day party that Comic-Con is, and a Laundry day to boot because of the rescheduling; so worth it!

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No exercise today; just plum forgot, but plan to do the big restart tomorrow . . .

'Til next time . . .

Comic-Con Week Begins!

Three hours past ideal time; feeling better, still knowing the grueling week coming, and the eventual recovery week to come . . .

I recall a saying, though this may not be the exact quote, "I'd rather float on an opportunity, that sink with my principles 'round my neck." I've taken pride in using money from my bank account, no matter how scrounged and scavenged, to fund my convention trips; at least since 2002. Now I'll be accepting a hotel reservation made for me by someone else. Well, so long as I go; a little more hard experience learning should mean I won't be making similar mistakes next year . . .

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No exercise today . . .

'Til next time . . .

What's Done is Done . . .

Six hours past Ideal Time. I know it's highly unlikely I'll be going to Comic-Con this year, though I'm still holding out hope for a last minute cancellation, yet I'm still looking at the big pile of programs that have backed up on my DVR, not to mention my countless backed up RSS Feeds. If I do get cleared for Comic Con, it'll be a messy lead-in, and one heck of a clean-up afterwards. Oh well . . .

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No exercise today . . .

'Til next time . . .

Well, it's not yesterday . . .

Four and a half hours past Ideal Time. Other than a messy start with the laptop, things went fairly well today. Tomorrow should be a better day, but I don't dare be optimistic.

I also might as well say it: though I pre-registered last year, I still have no hotel reservations for Comic-Con. I was late the first time, I passed up some recent openings, and am still to hear about cancellations/opening from the waiting/stand-by list I'm in. Oh well . . .

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No exercise today; I will also list my walks when I do them next time . . .

'Til next time . . .

What Day?

Well, I got to bed at a fairly good time last night (for a Saturday), got up at a pretty good time, but couldn't get moving for a while afterwards. With the conventions coming, things can only get messy for a while, no real recovery until late July; though that depends on getting housing for Comic-Con, without which the real recovery starts early July . . .

Only realizing it's Father's Day this morning, it only helped me realize how crowded the restaurants would be for breakfast; other than that, there wasn't much more for me. The Dodgers lost again, though their coming from behind to nearly reach the lead gave a great glimpse at potential for what might be . . .

Anyway, not much more to say, though I had some of the best chocolate cake I've had in a while today . . .


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