Walking, 242, and BSD
After a week of slacking off and not working out at all, I’ve kicked things back into gear and re-committed myself to my goals. A few changes though: Why do I take the bus to the gym? How does this make sense? Instead, I am going to walk to and from the gym, and do my elliptical training there. When I get home, I’ll do all my other exercises with the weights and ball.
I tried that tonight, and it worked out rather well. I looked for the 38 just in case, but all I saw were the “garage” and “not in service” busses from the line starting to go into night-mode. I walked it, though bit of a power walk, and I beat the bus. I didn’t even see it when I reached Van Ness. Geary and Divisadero to Sutter and Van Ness isn’t so bad of a walk with good music on the iPod!
I think I may do part of my work out during my lunch break next week. It is only 20 minutes on the elliptical trainer, and might be a good way to get my heart rate up 5 times a week instead of 3.
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I’m seriously considering going to Front 242 @ DNA on Nov. 6. That is, serious enough to go by myself if I can’t find anyone else to go with me. The problem is, as far as I know, no one in my circle of friends listens to it.
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I tried to put OpenBSD on my Toshiba Portege 3500 tablet PC over the past few days. At first I tried Ubuntu’s Breezy Badger, but something went horribly awry and I ended up with an unbootable machine. I threw my hands up in the air and downloaded the Openbsd snapshot. The poor little laptop doesn’t have a CD or floppy drive, so I had to netboot. x86 netboot really sucks. I could go on forever about how awful it is, but I’ll just say I had to try a little too hard for it to take.
Somewhere in the process of editing the disklabel, blew away my Windows XP partition. I threw my hands up in the air again and decided that maybe I just didn’t need Windows anymore and OpenBSD will be my bread and butter. Mmm… perhaps with some jam too.
It is happily building Firefox as we blog. Now to get to get my Treo 600 to work as a modem with it…