picture every up-day-te

Lately I have been forced to use my laptop to take the pictures for my picture every day challenge.

This is because I lost the charger for my camera, and it's now out of batteries.

There will be a noticeable sudden sucking of the photos, towards the end of the challenge. Because now I usually just end up taking a picture of the room that I happen to be in, because I'm not carrying my laptop around to take pictures with. That's weird.

I'm gonna have to do something about this.

Boston

My last time in Boston was exactly 2 years ago, right before I left for Korea.

Oh, how things don't really change!

I went into the Shaw's where I used to shop, and bought some groceries just like how I used to.

It is more fun to buy groceries in America than in Korea. The main reason for this is that in America, people are not shouting at you to buy the meat. I never bought any meat from the store in Korea. If I'm going to buy meat, I'd like to do it in my own time, and not with someone yelling into a megaphone about how great and cheap the meat is every 10 seconds.

long car ride thoughts

people in the back seats of convertibles look like they're having a much better time than everyone else on the road.

it would be easy to steal people's money near a toll booth if you dressed like an official and walked around the queued cars and asked them to pay in advance.

rode from saranac lake to boston today, in the car with a couple of good old pals. and if you're reading this kyle, i will never apologize for choosing "telephone pole" in twenty questions. it's a legitimate choice.

tree with an eye

push upsdate

doing 100 push ups a day is not that hard, especially when broken up into smaller sets.

I've been mixing it up between 5x20 and 4x25, depending on how I feel.

I've also been mixing them into my daily runs. Run about a mile, then do 20 push ups. That can be pretty hard.

Is it effective exercise? I don't know. I probably should be giving myself a break every other day so that my body, which almost never has to do push ups, has a chance to recover.

But "do a 100 push ups every OTHER day" is a pretty lame sounding 30 day challenge.

a tennis ball and some trees

The Khan Academy

The Khan Academy is a free education site. You can watch videos of all those things you learned about in school, especially if it's about math. And it has fun, addictive quizzes with an "achievement" based reward system.

If this was around when I was trying to learn math, then I'd probably be able to figure out my taxes.