Update #21

So over the weekend I went and saw a play down in Lebanon NH. my friends Uncle is an actor and had comped her some tickets so we went down and saw the mikado. It was pretty funny. it is about japan and this guy who is in love with a girl but she is going to be married. but then the guy turns out to be the emperors son but due to odd laws about flirting has to marry an older woman... its hard to explain there is some stuff about being executed but even that gets complicated by another odd law where someone has to be buried alive. the people that put it on also put in a bunch of jokes about what is going on. there were jokes aimed at stuff that has happened in the last 3 months or so.

Monday I tried and failed at getting homework done and out of the way. It is still not done. its a paper that is due Thursday. but I have not be able to concentrate on it. its for my CORE class that I really don't care about and that is probably why I can't concentrate but so far I have a really good outline that is 2 pages long. Today was kind of productive. I got a lot of the reading done that I needed to for the paper but during that time I also fell asleep.

Today I also went climbing again. I did the 5.10+ again but did not record it so I have nothing to show. Other than that I also finished a V1+ bouldering problem that i had been working on. and I also helped to figure out part of another problem, the last half of a V3. we have still yet to figure out how to start start it. there is an odd grab to start. you move over and then there is a dyno part to it. then the second half. we can do the dyno and the second half just not the start. we will get it eventually.

Our Club has also been informed about a climbing competition that is being put on by UVM's climbing club. well a bouldering competition. its April 17th i think and is being hosted by the place we normally climb at. there is a beginner, intermediate, and advanced bracket. what it is is you climb 5 problems and are scored on that some how. I'm not exactly sure how the scoring works but i think I'll enter it. probably in the beginner bracket since I have been climbing for less than 3 months and normally climb not boulder. but when I heard about it I thought it was pretty cool. I'll like it as long as it is a chill and relaxed kind of competition that is about fun and not the kind where people are really there to beat everyone else. and there are prizes to be won too. not sure what they are but it should be fun. so I think my friends and I will bring going climbing 3 days a week now and I'll set one or more of them to working on bouldering. maybe if I get a lot better by then I'll go into the intermediate group even though I'll stand no chance at getting the prize it would be cool to be in the same bracket as people who are much better than me.

but now I'm off to sleep I need to be into work at 8 tomorrow.

Update #20

Okay so since the last update i've done a few things. I went into work on Friday to fill in a new programmer to our team. I went in and made a schedule with him and showed him what he would be working on. I talked with the project manager and we went over what we would need to get done. Then I went to class and after we went climbing.

As I said before I wasn't in the best shape for climbing but I still went anyway. I tried the 5.10+ that I had worked on but failed to do it twice. Looking at the Video I can see where I messed up. I kept double guessing my footing and then at the end I messed up on the grab when I fell. I will hopefully get a video up here of me actually finishing it at some point. but until then here is my failed attempt. Other than that the climbing club had a lot of new people go that night and the overall fell was really good I think everyone felt like they had accomplished something or had a lot of fun.

Failed 5.10+ Route.

Update # 19

So since the last blog i haven't been up to much. I haven't been up to that much. I went climbing again. but I have to take a temporary break. I went climbing 6 times over the course of 10 days and I am currently paying for it in a way. When you climb to often and don't give yourself a good enough recovery period your antagonist mussels will start to hurt. and that has been happening to my fingers the last 2 days and my arms hurt yesterday. I'm going climbing on friday after a good 60+ hour break but i still prob shouldn't but after that i'm taking the weekend off and wont go climbing again until tuesday at the earliest. the problem with fingers hurting is i can't do too much. typeing or writeing for long periods of time hurts so since my work requires me to type it kinda hurt. other than that it means I can't kill time like i normally do by playing rock band or brawl since i need to use my fingers a lot in those games.

Other than that I finally made the 5.10+ climbing route that I had been working on. I might see if someone will record that next time we go so I can put up a video. that felt great to finally finish it.

the other day out of boredom I set up a live feed looking outside my window at the bus stop. in reality it isn't very useful since if you are trying to catch the bus and you see it out there it is already too late to try and catch it. if I still have it running you can see it here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bus-watch

Other than that because I am bogged down with work and school on wed I haven't really done that much. Watched lost and went to class again today. don't know what I'm going to be doing tonight might play a board game.

Update #18

So since my last post a few weeks have past. before the end of break I went up to UNH and hung out with some of my friends there. Then I got a ride back to school from my roommate. Then I got back and the last week was really nice. I wasn't that busy.

I have adjusted my hours at work so that I have 3 less each week but during that time I am going to be going for help in physics class for most of it. then I also get an hour or so for homework.

Last week i went climbing 4 different times too and made a 5.10+ only falling once after tring it every day I went that week. so I'm hoping about getting it down by the end of this week.

Other than that the climbing clubs numbers have grown so that last week there were 4 or 5 new people that went and this week we are part of an event for East house so that there may be upwards of 30 people going. to deal with this amount of new people who will need belaying lessons a few of the club members are going to get certified to certify people on belaying tonight so that when Friday comes we can help the people that work there on that part of it.

I have also made my schdule for next fall. If it comes out the way I want it to I will have both Tuesdays and Fridays off. that would be nice.

Update #17

Okay today I visited the high school and was shown this link by McRae. He made this in Feb. this is a whole month before the show but it looks cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eJbhLGdXX4

two years after I leave they start using a blue screen technology... What!? I saw the sets too. they look pretty sweet even though the show is still 3 weeks away. complete with trap doors and the flying monkey ropes.

I haven't been up to too much right now I'm watching the rerun of lost and waiting for the new one to watch. trying to figure out what to do until I get back up to school. I've been hunting down different summer jobs/internships. but i'll prob start studying for physics at some point before I get back. well I don't have anything else to add

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Update #16

Okay So I'm now at home... well kinda right now I'm at my brothers school for a visit. we are trying to connect our computers together to play a game of starcraft. But since the last update I've been busy but then I had a chance to relax. Over the weekend I had some friends up form camp to visit me at school. we went climbing friday night then watched to matrix. it was a good time. then on saturday. we played some settlers of catan and apple to apples. and in between we played rockband and brawl. we left early sunday morning and drove back home.

That night I caught up on LOST and watched the last 3 episodes. I ate dinner and basically went to sleep. I fell asleep on the couch and didn't get up for like 16 hours. I woke up and showered and stuff and went to a doctors appointment. then that night I watched King's Rose Red. it is a very long horror kind of movie I guess. it wasn't that bad i would watch it again if I had 5 hours to kill and nothing else to do.

Today I also got a bunch of quick things done that i needed to do. Stuff for my data structures class, Usability class, and other quick things that i've been meaning to do for a while.