Lunges Hurt the Next Day
Day 4: Running – 15:05 = 1.18 miles 2×12 push-ups = 24 push-ups 2×30 second planks = 60 seconds plank Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! I am so wiped out from yesterday's lunges and squats, I think I may have overdid it …
Trying out some Lunges and Squats
Day 3: Running – 15:02 = 1.12 miles 2×12 push-ups = 24 push-ups 2×15 second planks = 30 seconds plank 20 Lunges 20 Squats Day 3 and I added in some lunges and squats for today. These were tough though, …
Where is the Save Game Feature?
Sid Meier's Civilization series has been one of my favorite franchises in video games. I started playing with Civ II and have spent hundreds if not thousands of hours in the many variations of the series. Civilization V is the …
Up to 15 minutes
The second day of my journey to get into shape and I am already seeing some progress. Day 2 Running 15:11 minutes = 1.16 miles 2 sets of 10 push-ups and 15 second planks 10 jumping-jacks, 10 cross-jacks, 10 high …
A Journey of a Thousand Miles
I used to run marathons and was in pretty good shape, but after a series of illnesses, injuries, and overwork, I fell off. Other priorities took over (including gaming) and I stopped working out. Now that it's been a few …
The Angels Start 2014 Right
The Angels finished up their first winning month of 2014 with a blowout of the Chicago Cubs on Friday, February 28. The 15-3 victory was the first in what I hope will be a successful 2014 campaign. With the sad …
First Steps…
I've let this blog set for a while and have found myself unsatisfied. While I've been gaming – tried out some new and some old MMOs, single player, and online team games – I haven't been exploring and writing about …
Gilgamesh Character Creation Quest
No sooner than I had a character on my guild's backup server, I was able to get in and create a Conjurer on Gilgamesh. The server fix that Square Enix put in place, that required a shut down 9/3 to …
FFXIV: The Login Saga Continues
After many attempts and many days trying to get on a server I am interested in, I was finally able to get a character created on a server I care about. I decided on a Miqo'te Conjurer – my intention …
10:30 on a Sunday Night
Why after all these years of MMO and video game rollouts, do companies still suffer so many issues when people start logging in for real? New games go through alphas, closed betas, and open betas, and still there are problems …