Overwhelming boredom

I'm supposed to be home in a week to enjoy a nice couple of days off. I can hardly wait because I'm fairly sure being out here with no leisure activities is steadily driving me insane. Few people chat with me when I'm online from my phone (not that many do when I'm on a laptop) and most of the websites I frequent don't work properly on a mobile device so I'm left feeling mostly isolated.

I may not necessarily be on my computer to chat all the time once I get it anyway. I may just disappear into a game or something since it at least distracts me for a whle.

Exercise - the old fashioned way

As a few of you may already know, I'm trying to get into the habit of exercising again. There's little hope of me improving my diet so I need to balance out my intake with a much greater output. This week, between running errands while stuck waiting on a load and running on a treadnill while waiting on my laundry, I burned nearly 1,900 calories and over a hundred grams of fat. Granted, an estimate by a heart-rate monitoring wrist watch probably is not the most authoritative source for such numbers - it seemed to be considerably higher in its estimates than the treadmill - but it does at least keep me from hurting myself by going way too hard.

For this upcoming week, my goal is 3500 calories burned. That's traditionally considered to be equal to a pound of body weight and I certainly could stand to lose a pound or thirty. I'll be trying for 600 calories a day, every day, but I know I'll probably miss one day and be too tired to reach 600 on another. I'll likely do more than that tomorrow, for want of activity and to help offset some of the extra food I had for dinner.

Maybe, just maybe, it won't be painful to wear these jeans by the time fall rolls around. >_>

RNC Chairman Steele is a fucking moron

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090516/ap_on_bi_ge/us_steele_republicans/print

I fail to see a rational argument in there at all. Half of what he says is utter nonsense and the other half applies equally to heterosexual couples. What's bad for small business is discrimination; telling a significant portion of potential employees or customers they are unwanted is an extremely bad business model. I seriously can't wait for some of these mentally backwards old farts to die off so we can stop doing what's "moral" - a word which only means what the majority want it to - and start doing what's right.

No more computer

I just broke my laptop charger trying to get the thing working. As such, I have less than half an hour of charge left in this thing then I'll probably be condemned to use nothing but my phone for the next month. If anyone wants to get a hold of me, look me up on AIM, Yahoo, or Twitter; I now go by shinyminidrake on all three services. Alternatively, leave me an e-mail, call me, or anything like that.

If I can somehow get this thing repaired, I might be back online sooner; otherwise, I'm ordering a replacement soon as this post goes through and likely will not be on a PC again until at least June 3.

Mentally stalled

I know I keep saying that I'm going to write more things here, but generally I just haven't been able to motivate myself lately. I can feel something changing to try get the gears turning again, even though I can't put my finger on it, so perhaps I'll at least begin posting here more regularly if not actually start writing new fiction. Perhaps it's just that being forced into a vaguely nocturnal schedule by work again has changed my perception of things. In any case, I just hope I actually do something with this likely brief wave of creative energy before it slides back out to sea.