Relocating to Blogspot

Everyone I know who is blogging now is blogging on blogspot.com. I thought about setting up a blog there about six months ago, and keeping up the copy-paste thing I've been doing with MySpace and Xanga, and decided it was too much trouble to add a third.

Now, I've finally decided to cut back to just one. And that one is going to be http://aaronpogue.blogspot.com

I've got my journal going again (who knows how long that will last), and I may even end up doing some kind of revival of the Sleeping Kings project, but that will probably be with blogger, too.

Thanks to everyone who has read and commented. I invite you to continue to do so, at the new site.

I took a nap when I got home from work yesterday, and didn't wake up after the half hour I'd allotted myself. By the time I got up, we were running out of daycare time at the gym. Ugh.

Still, we were both able to finish our strength training, and then I did a fifteen minute sprint on the elliptical which is the hardest cardio workout I've done so far. It felt good to be able to accomplish it, though.

Afterward, we gave N-- a ride home (K-- had dropped her off then headed to my sister's place to help install a new TV), and then picked up Taco Bell on the way home. It's frustrating to go to the gym, get disappointed by the weight on the scale, work really hard, and then pick up junk food for dinner. On the other hand, that late in the day and as exhausted as I am after a workout, I never feel like doing anything other than just grabbing fast food. I'll have to get over that, I know, but it's tough.

Anyway, we watched all the Thursday night sitcoms on NBC and I finished Little Myth Marker, which is probably my favorite book in the series. Then I discovered I don't actuall have the next two books in the series, so I'm switching over to another of his books while I try to dig those up.

I've got a scheduled lunch with D-- today, but no real plans for the evening. K-- and N-- are going to a baseball game. I keep forgetting that and coming up with things to do with them, and then remembering and feeling stupid. It's pretty pathetic.

Anyway, I'm glad it's Friday, but I've got at least one Tulsa trip in store for the weekend, so I'm not super looking forward to it. Sleeping past six for a couple days will be nice, though.

I couldn't get it done.

I even left work early to make sure I had time to pick up all my supplies and get started before dinner.

I got home from Lowe's 4:00, thinking, "Wow, I'll have time to get the whole project done before dinner!"

I was wrong. I spent the whole evening working on it, and when K-- and N-- came over after church, I had just made my first real breakthrough since I'd started at 4:00. K-- and I together made a second discovery, which gave me most of the information I need to finish the job. I think.

I also spent about $85 on the project so far, and all of that is completely useless to me. Much of it can be returned (I hope), but that gives you an idea how much I thought I knew I was doing, and how many trips to Lowe's I ended up making. The whole project, finished, should cost less than $30, and right now I still have to go buy all the parts I'll actually need.

We did manage to get the pieces put back together, though, so I was able to turn the water back on last night. Small mercy, that. I'll take another stab at fixing it over the weekend sometime.

After I'd gotten done with that, D-- came by and asked if I could go out for a couple drinks. He'd had a worse day than I did (by far). We both needed it. So we dropped over to The Dugout and had beers and talked until about midnight. I was up for another hour after that, taking care of things that I hadn't had a chance to do in the afternoon with all my focus on the plumbing problems, so I was totally beat by the time I crawled into bed.

And, y'know, I always hate that alarm clock going off at 5:45, but today was worse than most. Ugh.

Tonight I've got a trip to the gym, and then I think I'l probably go home and crash. I've been dragging all day, but I've got to get in my reps and sets. That's just how it goes.

Stupid Thursdays....

Last night I went back to the gym. As I mentioned, I've been going regularly three times a week since January, and I've seen a lot of strength and endurance improvement, but not a lot of weight loss.

When I started in January I had a goal for June that wasn't terribly aggressive, but at this point I'm nowhere close to making it. So I'm thinknig I'll switch to five days a week, and see if that helps any. I'll devote the extra two days to cardio.

When the weather improves (and if I feel like I'm getting enough benefit from it) I'll probably just jog the neighborhood for those two days, more often than not. For now, though, I'm going to stick with the gym. Adding Tuesday nad Sunday to my other three.

Anyway, I got home at five and the gym took two hours (with drive time). I dropped by the B-- and E--'s to pick up some tools I'd lent them, that I'm going to need for my plumbing project tonight. Then I got home around 7:30 and T-- had dinner waiting for me.

We watched the finale of Biggest Loser and she watched a Law and Order while I read. I finished another of the Myth books last night, and another one over lunch today. They're short books.

I forgot my laptop when I came to work today, and it's a thirty-minute drive, easy, so I'm just getting by without it. I have a desktop that is still "officially" my work computer, so I can still get some stuff done, but it's really thrown me off, having to work on it.

I'm not sure how tonight will go. I'm just changing out a leaky faucet (with valve stem replacement), but I've had enough bad experiences with plumbing I expect there to be major problems. I don't know what they'll be yet, but that just adds to the excitement.

Ugh. If I can get it done, though, that'll be a major improvement that's been in need for a really long time. Here's hoping it goes smoothly.

Amazingly enough, there has been more going on in my life than just the mess with the Tulsa house. I'm not sure how I keep up with it all, but I do.

I'm making slow but steady progress on Sleeping Kings: Golden Age. The characters are at 50 Penn Place now, which means I'm into the cilmax of the story. The whole second half of the book is handwritten so far -- I haven't started transcribing any of it -- but I'm nearing completion of the draft and then I'll start typing.

I quit playing WoW about a month and a half ago. My account officially ended on the first of April, but I was done playing at the beginning of March. I'm anxious for a new MMO for me to waste massive portions of my life on, but it's just not here yet. WoW can't hold my attention anymore, thuogh.

I started programming a game, and that's been pretty fun. I also started reading again. In the last week I've finished Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman, Everything Bad is Good for You by some neuroscientist dude, Grammar Snobs are Great Big Meanies by the grammar lady, Born Standing Up by Steve Martin, and the first three books of the Myth series by Robert Asprin.

I've done some work around the house, too. It's frustrating to me going up to Tulsa over and over again and putting in all the effort for a house we don't even live in. We can't afford to redo a bathroom or put in new carpets, but I've been motivated to fix some little things that have been nagging. I worked on our garage door opener (loose wire), finally replaced the bulbs in our garage overhead light (flourescent, and they'd been dead for over a year), started getting our lawn treated to kill off bugs and weeds, and swapped out our broken kitchen sink faucet for one that will actually work (and, as it happens, is really nice). I'm going to take a shot at fixing the bathtub faucet again, even though last time I tried was a miserable, devastating failure. Who knows? Maybe this time it'll turn out better.

There's not a lot to report on the baby front. She's making more use of her words, but not really talking yet. She nods when she means yes, and if you hold up two objects (books, toys, pairs of pajamas, whatever) she can pick which one she wants. She got four molars at once (well, "is getting"), and that's a little bit brutal on everyone living in the house, but once it's done she can stop chewing all her food at the front of her mouth, and that should be better for everyone.

We refinanced our mortgage on the Oklahoma City house, and caught some good breaks on that. It'll definitely help us out financially, especially with everything going on in Tulsa.

Oh. I'm still going to the gym regularly. I guess I wasn't blogging in January when we started, but we joined a gym January 20th, and I'm going three days a week ever since. I've missed more than a handful, but I'm pretty well set in my routine. I've only lost 9 pounds at best, but I'm definitely seeing improvements in my endurance and strength training, so hopefully I'll see more weight loss in the coming months.

I think that gets you all caught up. I haven't blogged any since November, but not a lot has happened, either. So there you go.