It’s another round mission but this time they are vacation missions. That’s right, in after the conclusion of today I’ll be away from work for 16 days. I really cannot believe I’m about to be away for that long. It will be the longest vacation I’ve had since graduating college. But with 16 days of I have things I’d like to accomplish they are listed below in order, as always, descending order from most likely to least likely.
Mission: Complete Fallout 3
Only the game I’ve wanted to play for more than 2 years. I own it, even bought the collectors set because it came with a metal lunch box so if I ever wanted to go goth I’d have one of the key accessories already. I’ve been resisting playing it because I want large chunks of time, like 8 hours uninterrupted, to play it. I need to beat it via the evil route, the one where I murder people after stealing their bible, take food from the poor, and kill some kids. -I’m pretty much the worst type of sociopath if I’m allowed to behave poorly in a game.- I’ll beat it being evil and if I feel like I missed out on a lot of stuff I’ll play it again via the good route.
Mission: Read and finish 3 books, possibly more.
I will need to finish Sometimes a Great Notion which I’m 200 pages from finishing. By the way this book, if you didn’t know, is by Ken Kesey and I’m fairly convinced everyone from Oregon needs to read it. It is brilliant. I’ll then start and hopefully finish The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami before turning my attention to The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellows. All told I’m looking at a reading list that is about 1,300 pages of dense text. I think I’m selling myself short and will probably be midway through The Breaks of the Game the iconic book about the ‘77-‘78 Trail Blazer team that was in many ways superior to the one that one the championship in ‘77 before crumbling because of an injury to Bill Walton.
Mission: Stay at my “playing weight” of 140.5 pounds.
16 days where I plan to ride my bike very little and with multiple Thanksgiving meals would make me think that gaining a few pounds is a possibility if not an inevitability. To off set this I plan on exercising daily per normal only I’ll mix it up a bit. I’ll run and see if I still hate it. I’ll still be marching towards my 100 consecutive push-up goal. I’ll also become either full blown anorexic or, more likely, bulimic. I need to research my options.
Mission: No heat.
The house gets cold, very cold. I’ve been pushing very hard to the housemates to keep the heat off because I’m cheap. I can’t very well be championing for no heat and then also turn it on the moment I wake up because I don’t like playing games in the cold. That would be fairly hypocritical. Luckily I have long underwear this year. Long underwear is awesome.
Mission: Complete LittleBigPlanet, start and get hooked into Valkyria Chronicles.
Why not, I have 16 days to play games.
Mission: Clean garage, make much needed trip to Goodwill, do some pretty easy yet important bike maintenance.
Have you seen my garage lately, it’s a shame. The bike needs new brake pads and I’ve been putting out swapping to a fresh pair of cleats for my shoes for months now. I think if anything my current cleats have cleaned up my form because the tiniest amount of twisting in my foot and ankle will cause my shoe to come out of the peddle. Still I’d feel much better on my sprinting if I wasn’t about a millimeter of twist away from coming unclipped.
Mission: Rip all my CD’s and make all new Mp3s.
OK, quickly now, when I first started ripping my CD’s back in high school I did so without adding an ID3 tag to any of them. I hated ID3 tags because it was like the hidden name behind the file name. Well turns out in 2008 ID3 tags are pretty great. They allow things like Window Media Player and Winamp to automatically sort your Mp3s into the albums they are apart of. Also, in order to stream any Mp3 from a computer to, say, a PS3 that Mp3 needs an ID3 tag. So while I have something like 4000 Mp3’s from some of my favorite bands and albums I cannot stream them anywhere, and playback with WMP or Winamp is less than ideal, this makes me mad. I’ve looked into various programs that will automatically tag my Mp3’s but they either cost money or suck or, most likely, do both. I plan on doing a total computer reorganization of which the final result will be most likely never truly appreciated or utilized by me.
Mission: Take a shower at least every other day.
OK here’s my problem. I don’t plan on getting out much. Once I’ve determined I’m not leaving the house for the day, or if I am I’m not likely to run into anyone I’m looking to impress, I forego showering. It’s a bad tendency. Sometimes I’ll miss a shower Thursday evening and then before I know it due to poor choices I haven’t showered until Sunday evening. This happens, quiet frankly, somewhat frequently. Don’t get me wrong, delaying the showering for that long really makes the shower feel great but at what cost? I’m hoping that with the running and other exercising I’ll be sweaty enough that not showering is out of the question.
Since I’ll be on vacation I won’t be posting blogs of substance (for lack of a better word) I imagine I’ll post some basic stats for each day, which I’m sure will be of no interest to anyone but I’d like to see, at the end of it, how many hours I spent playing games, reading, sleeping, etc.
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