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[digitaldiscipline]

The weekend's trip to Houston was bookended by circuitous drives to the airport (rush hour in TPA, GPS chicanery in HOU) and featured, as a counterpoint to the generally incessant goodness, two stretches of standing around, waiting for a ride. Once was due to technology being a puckish thing, and once was due to the banal evil of Houston's incompetent taxi service dispatching (they want you to do it online; if you are somewhere without a computer, even if you give directions and an address, it took upwards of an hour and a half, and three calls, and still no cab showed; fortunately, friends were able to play clutch-impaired cavalry).

The visiting itself was quite nice; featuring lots of low-key hanging out, a bit of domesticity, some pretty good sushi, and a minor league hockey game. cassandrasimplx' cats apparently approve of my presence, as evidenced by their hissing at me when I would walk towards the door leading outside and generally behaving like large, furry barnacles whenever we'd sit down to watch a movie.

I have been semi-seriously considering building a new rig just to get some more horsepower (SSD boot drive, SLI capability, current-gen CPU), but my old one isn't "outdated" enough to really justify doing so. My recurring hardware weirdness (upon arriving at the Win7 logon screen, my mouse and keyboard are unresponsive) is apparently due to ATI's latest video drivers fucking the dog and trying to commandeer IRQ5, despite my BIOS saying HEY THAT'S FOR ALL MY USB SHIT, FUCKNUTS. Provisional fix: have the BIOS assign IRQ5 to the (wait for it....) LPT parallel port.

Got the new workout program. It is a tad intimidating, but promises greater levels of badassery.

Comments

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Gee, doesn't that fuck up your printing to your Epson FX-80?

[ivy]

Glad that your trip was fun, and that you at least have a workaround for the computer WTFery. What's different about the new workout program?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

The new 12 week block is geared towards raw strength, as opposed to the combo platter of embiggening and enstrongening.

Given that I rated three of the workouts on day one of week one as 12 out of 10 in terms of difficulty... this is definitely a challenge.