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Wed, 30 Apr 2008
B.B. King bar.
A bit more in gallery.
Cool place with interesting people... Although it was a bit loud and not very convenient
to see the band, but nevertheless it was fun.
Wed, 02 Apr 2008
Climbing evening.
That was quite short although quite hard training. After
number of warming traverses I started jumping again - now
I created a 'trace' myself of the huge
horizontal negative slope, so some times I fell to the back
from about meter, which was even fun. Eventually I managed
to complete own jumping holds, which resulted in a very
rubbed fingers both on feet and arms, so essentially rest
of the training was predefined to be something trivial.
Nevertheless I managed to try some old complex start
couple of times, fell of course, but it was worth it.
Usual finish of the training - sauna - today was exceptionally
dry and hot - about 99 degres Centigrade and it was even
hard to breath, since air was so dry.
Anyway, excellent time!
Wed, 26 Mar 2008
Climbing evening.
That was hard training, since I climb once per week (this year so far) only,
I can not get my the best shape, mostly in resistance part, so fingers
were rubbed quite quickly...
Nevertheless I finished my
jumpings
and reached the needed hold. Jump actually was not that high - about 30-40 santimeters,
but it should be done from holds which are about 2 meters below the final hold,
so it was not that simple, especially when holds for arms are only 10 santimeters
higher than that for legs, and main body's chakra (it is a nice name for the ass
in my own public dictionary) really does not like to fly and wants to land.
Then I did number of various starts, some with jumps, others were just usual
complex traces without additional requirements from me...
Evening sauna, shower and great pleasure of the day.
Excellent time!
Wed, 19 Mar 2008
Climbing evening: jumping-jumping-jumping.
That was really cool training today: the most exciting
part was lots of jumps. It was not a new trace, but a special
hold on the balcony, so that it could be gotten from lower positions
with a jump. I spent more than a hour jumping from different holds
to the finish one, although did not succed in the main jumping direction.
Instead I damaged a shoulder, rubbed fingers on feet and arms, tired as
hell and got zillion units of pleasure. Also finished couple of simple
and quite complex old traces to the mix.
That was excellent time!
Wed, 12 Mar 2008
Climbing evening.
That was quite for a while that I did not climb, so today I've reopened
a season. It was surprisingly good training, although I did not that much,
but only couple of warming traverses and three new traces, which I tried before
though. One of them was noticebly complex, but extremely interesting.
For those who visit Skala-city
it is trace over yellow holds in the right corner with 6c+ category.
Complex, and I did not even expect to complete it without falls, but
everything was better than expected - of course I fell, but eventually completed.
At the I moved to the sauna and shower. Excellent finish of the day!
I like it.
Tue, 11 Mar 2008
Do you know what patience mean?
No, its not yoga, I talked with people who did it regulary... It is not talks
with trolls, they are harmless. Trying to understand VFS or ext3, which sources
are encrypted in linux tarball, is interesting. Playing chess and 'go'
is just a warming.
Real patience is checked when you are cooking a ravioli.
That is how I spent a monday:
- half of a hour to make a pastry
- half of a hour to cook up a minced meat
- about 10-15 minutes to roll up small piece of pastry to thin circle
- about 20-30 minutes to make 10 raviolis
That was a theory, in practice pastry for each third or forth 'blank' wanted to run away and pastry did not allowed to 'glue' its parts together, which took 5-10 minutes for each one to 'fix'. In some cases it ended up with smaller examples of 'Resident Evil' creatures, like which you can find at the right part of the above picture.
Looks good? And really tasty.
So, forget yoga and chess - real patience is trained by cooking.
Thu, 06 Mar 2008
Got 4 seasons of "House M.D."
Only completed half of the 4'th season...
And there is fair number of "South Park" unwatched yet.
Work seems to be stopped for a while...
Does anyone know how to watch them all not wasting a time?
Sat, 01 Mar 2008
Celebrating WiJo's birthday.
We had a small chillout in 'The last drop' and at home later (and earlier, since celebration
bagan right at 00:00, although Wijo said he was born at 10:00, that did not matter already).
Besides other interesting presents,
he got a bottle of Hennesy XO (yes, I was lazy enough and presented that simple stuff).
So had a chance to compare (before it was quickly finished) it with other cognacs
I drunk before. Well, my opinion about cognac being untasty coloured vodka was confirmed again.
IMHO Hennesy XO, VS and VSOP (Very Special Oshe Pizdets) all are not that interesting drinks,
as long as other cognacs I had. Next time
I will try Remi Martin, but think that it will be similar. Yep, I'm not a fan, but rum-m-m-m...
Tue, 19 Feb 2008
A doctor's visit.
I first time in my life called a doctor.
Doctor happend to be a nice-looking woman less than 30 years old
we nicely talked about my sickness, and how (un)successfull cure was.
Since it is first time I used some drugs (except aspirine) to cure
(I belive it is a flu) the sick, I managed to miss the point, when getting the drug
should be started, so it was not very useful. After the quick look at me
she found so many possible crappies I would have, so I began to scary.
I always knew that the less one knows the better sleep is, but after
set of questions and 'no, I do not' answers, sky became a bit less cloudy...
She gave me a list of needed drugs to get, described what the heck
it is (flu, which forced some complications: something like
bronchitis), so now I feel a bit better, but will be ill (according
to her prognosis) at least all this week or maybe a bit more.
Modulo themperature I feel not that bad, but when it starts rising
after drug (aspirin) stops working, I start feeling like shit, dejavu.
I actually tried two anti-themperature drugs: aspirine and paracetamol.
The former kicks the themperature in about 30 minutes, but frequently
this results in excessive hyperhidrosis, while the latter acts only in an hour
or so, but without any bad effects.
So, as you might notice, there are no updates about tons of my
projects
because of this fucking sick, but I expect soon to be able to kick
its ass so things would be in a good shape again.
Such (crappily forced) 'vacations' make brain to sleep allmost all the time,
so when this will be ended, I expect even higher rates and more
interesting stuff happens.
Stay tuned!
Mon, 11 Feb 2008
Climbing evening.
That was bloody excellent training, but since it was only third
one this year, I hardly can find a piece of body which is not aching right
now. Maybe ears though...
I started to climb high without usual warming traverses today, so knees were
damaged first (not counting couple of strikes by the wall and holds). Then
fair number of various attempts to finish new (quite complex though) trace
over blue holds in the right central section, which moves over the new
balcony in that area. Eventually I found the solution (although I think there
is another one, which requires a bit more power, but a bit less technique),
but damaged arms, rubbed all 20 fingers, and made arms very tired. Also tried
some interesting old traces, but since I tried them only second time, I failed.
That was ok, legs and back were not aching that time, but then I found a trace,
which made the day! Excellent complex and quite short trace in the right
vertical corner of the climbing area.
Trace requires very interesting technique almost without heavy powerlifting
movements, but good balance and stretching.
I spent more than a half of a hour there, damaged shoulders and fingers,
stretched everything which was not broken before, but completed the trace
(although only piece-by-piece, will finish it cleanly next time), and finally
moved to the shower (even sauna did not work today) as a number of separate pieces
of crap connected to each other essentially by virtue of the mind.
Excellent day, excellent time!
Wed, 06 Feb 2008
Climbing evening.
That was my second training this year - not a very huge progress
as you can see, so this training was hard. There is fair
number of new traces, most of them were quite simple, so I decided
to run several in one go without the rest in-between. Probably that
was not that good decision, since after 7 or so of them completed
after two starts I was very tired and was not able to climb good
over more complex traces. So that will be postponed for the next
training.
I bought myself new climbing shoes, which are a bit large - usually
I wear 3 sizes smaller climbing shoes, this time difference is only
two sizes, but it is my favourite shoes, so I expect very good climbing.
Anyway, tired very noticebly and that's great!
Mon, 04 Feb 2008
Return from the country-side.
We celebrated Grange's
birthday in the small wood cottage somewhere at the coutry-side,
where had a rusian bath there, bathing in an ice-hole, shashlik cooking
on the frost, musical jam (electric guitar, couple of tomtoms and a saxophone),
snow balls and wrestling, and main one: lots of friends.
That was bloody cool days, thanks a lot for organizing that meeting!
Fri, 01 Feb 2008
I officially retired.
That was fun and sometimes very interesting years,
I got lots of experience especially with 32-bit PPC arch
and various hardware.
That was good, but its time for step further.
Thu, 31 Jan 2008
Vodka, martini, absinthe.
All were damn cool. I first time tried vodka with martini,
shaked, but not mixed. Perfect. James Bond knows the things.
I mixed about half vodka nad half martini, so overall it was a bit softer than
pure fire water, and with excellent a bit dry and sweet after-taste of martini.
I recommend.
Absinthe was very good as usual too. Although it is very strong (around 70% of
alchohol) it is very tasty because of thujone (do not know real amount if it,
since usually vendors put wrong specs at bottles). It can be drunk without additional
food or drinks. Better with burnt sugar - resulted caramel adds very interesting
sweet taste.
Fri, 25 Jan 2008
Climbing evening.
That was quite small training, muscles were not tired as usual,
but fingers both on hands and feet were rubbed quite hard.
The former becaue of lack of trainings, the latter because of
huge holes in the shoes. Nevertheless I'm tired enough
to say that tis wa a very good training, which contained
number of new starts, completed without serious problems,
and number of boulderings. At the very end I started to perform
several starts of the same trace on the negative slope
and move down fom about 4-5 meters over different holds,
that was repeated in a hort loop of three rounds, which sucked
the last power and rubbed the last skin on the fingers to feel
myself comfortable. It took about 3 hours including sauna, shower
and climbing, and that was an excellent time.
Thu, 24 Jan 2008
Grange has a birthday!
My congratulations and wishes for better year than ever!
Sat, 19 Jan 2008
Fire in the office.
Not where I'm sitting right now, but couple of floors above. Smell of smoke,
several fire brigades, a lot of water on higher floors...
Crap.
Update: after some talks with security, official version is about development process,
which happend on the 5'th floor (welding of the main support columns), which resulted
in the fire around lagging, which resulted in a more serious fire on the 5'th floor.
As I was told, 4'th floor was heavily flooded (there were 5 fire brigades), but third one,
where I sat, had its electricity on, so likely nothing major happened there.
Mon, 14 Jan 2008
Climbing evening or bringing body in shape with the liver.
It was not that simple training, although I finished number
of very interesting traces including two completely new for me,
one of them I finished on-sight, another one failed since did not
know where correct holds were placed. I was quite surprised, that
I can climb even not that bad after all vacations and related
volume consumptions. I almost killed climbing shoes, so will need to
get new ones, since climbing is not that pleasant, when big finger
looks to the universe and touch the wall via huge hole.
Anyway, it was really good first training in this year!
Sun, 13 Jan 2008
I have a hacker's hat now!
It was presented to me at New Year celebration by Mephody and Irin.
People look strangely at me, fortunately I do not wear it on the streets.
It looks remotely similar to Alan Cox's
one. I do not have such beard though. And brain. But I'm working on the latter.
Abr and Tanya presented me a hugely useful thing - USB IO port system, which has multiple
GPIO and other IO output bits, controlled via USB. And it has to be soldered first. And there
is only Windows application, so this will require bits of reverse engineering (if there is no
open protocol, I did not check that though). Great thanks!
I also have a t-short with my evolution process from the monkey to the Man and then to the computer
geek.
Since I do not have a camera yet to make photos of my presents and developed appartments, but stay tuned,
it should be ready soon too...
