Having Friday off for July 4th is pretty awesome, except for the fact that I keep thinking it’s Friday on Thursday and Sunday on Friday. When I wake in the morning during this long weekend, I spend a few minutes just trying to figure out what day it is.
Maybe. This humidity is tough
I am a little spoiled since I am outside all of 30 minutes a day but I can tolerate the heat more than the brutal winter that we had.
US vs Belgium was a tough game
In the end, it seems like the US always has the best goal keepers.
He has my vote.
For a minute. It was upper 60 ‘ s low 70 ‘ s then all of a sudden it is 90 degrees at 80% humdity. Argh. I guess that is Maryland waether. In thinking back to the very long winter we had it doesn’t fell too bad. Just need to work on my tan before I head to the beach 🙂
For a few months, I cut back on the bandwidth to save a little coin. Unfortunately, it might have been too much. On a gaming night, streaming Netflix, doing homework, gaming, and voip was just a little too much.
Luckily there was a sale on 75 down and 25 up so I jumped on it. Everything is so much smoother now. I never thought that 15 would not be enough. I guess my memories of 28kbps is throwing things off. 20 years later from those days, I am using 75mbps which is almost 3000 faster.
I guess we are using that much more data these days.
The past few weeks have had a couple of interesting revelations in retrospect.
One is I am not sure I watch enough TV to justify the cost of a cable subscription. We have been watching a few series on Netflix and don’t miss anything on TV. There are a few series we actually try to keep up with like Madmen but they end up on Netflix anyway. We started watching Breaking Bad in season 3 and it was awesome to watch it in large chunks.
Everything looks better in slow motion
Florida is nice this time of the year. Well, it’s nice all the time compared to Maryland.
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Floating Sphere from Benjamin Moses on Vimeo.
2014 Florida Gator Bait from Benjamin Moses on Vimeo.
While on vacation, I made a deal with Deepa that I would toss my sandals that I have had for 14 years if I found something new I liked. Unfortunately we hit the outlets and found something.
The old guys are now gone forever. They have had quite the life. They have been to some amazing places in 14 years.
and it effin’ sexy.
It still amazes me how ingenuity and data can still solve problems that are perceived to be solved. Maybe perception is 9/10ths of the problem.
Finally worked up the courage to sign up for a pistol competition. Found an email from http://silvereaglegroup.com/ The challenge is for a team of 4 to compete in a single elimination. Sine I don’t have any friends, I signed up just myself but would just go 4 times. The entry cost is $80. When I arrived I found out how the course is laid out. It was a pretty good challenge. This is the layout:
Having been a single competitor, we ran the course late in the match. I was really happy with my times, but my accuracy wasn’t on point.
| Run | Time | Miss | Total |
| 1 | 25.72 | 10 | 35.72 |
| 2 | 25.?? | 5 | 30.?? |
| 3 | 25.86 | 10 | 35.86 |
| 4 | 25.68 | 14 | 39.68 |
| Total | 141.63 |
In my group of three I cam in last. The one thing the instructors didn’t go over was the scoring on the regular targets. Head shots were -2 seconds, so these 2 gubers were aiming for all the heads. The 2nd place was ~70 seconds and the 1st place was ~28 seconds. One rounds and done. Unfortunately the drive is 1.5 hours there and 1 back using the toll road. This added another $14 to the total cost plus 2 gallons of gas. As fun as the event was, the juice was not worth the squeeze.