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I didn’t do much this weekend. I worked and stayed home and watched the CSI shows that I recorded. Everyone else seems to be on vacation of some sort. The weather is warm which is nice hopefully it stays like that when I get my days off.

Summer has been quite eventful, and now it looks like its winding down. So what’s next for me? Well, I’ve been getting back to my running routine. I’ve been running at least 3-4 times a week for the past year up until a few weeks ago. I got sick and had to put it off for 13 days to be exact. Many of my friends ask me why I like to workout much. The truth is I don’t workout much at all. I just run mostly. I rarely lift weights or do any kind of resistance training and when I do it’s usually a light workout. The funny thing is when I was younger I hated running. I was fine with sprinting, and I was pretty good at it. Running for longer than 30 seconds wasn’t my cup of tea. I hated long distance. Now, running 4-5 miles a day is pretty much a usual thing for me. As for sprinting, it’s almost non-existent.

So why do I like running? I like it because its relaxing. Other people like to meditate, paint, or write poetry. I treat it like a hobby; like a collection of stamps or comics. Mine is just a collection of miles.

Update: (As of 11/03/05 the web game section has been removed)

I just added a Flash game to my blog. The link is located under the ‘About Me’ called ‘Game of the Moment’. I will be changing it up from time to time. At this moment, the game is Tetris. Who remembers this game? Unless you lived in a cave for the past 18 years, everyone should know what it is. The game is about 100kb so it may take a few seconds to load. To make it competitive, I’ve got a high score you can try to beat. Below is a screenshot of my high score.

The sixth installment of the Harry Potter series hit the shelves midnight Friday. Kids and their parents waited in line for the midnight opening of bookstores around town just to get the book. I’ve read the first book only and seen the three movies. I must say, I don’t remember the book, but the movies were great.

Any books that can get people to enjoy reading is fine by me. But I’ve been seeing people in the media claiming that Harry Potter books represents the anti-Christian teaching of Christianity. These hardcore religious people are attacking the book and using it’s popularity to make the issue notable.

One anti-Harry Potter activists says the books promotes the wrong message to children. He says these books displays, ‘revenge, violence, and death’. Well, I know another book that displays the same thing. It’s called “The Bible”. So why Harry Potter and not other books? I don’t know for sure. It seems anything that is popular or has a high profile status always endures some kind of criticism whether it makes sense or not.

It’s scorchin’ hot outside and its almost too warm to do anything except going swimming or going to the beach. It’s about time we got weather like thiis. I won’t have a weekend off till the end of July, so hopefully it’ll still be hot. I’m sitting here thinking, how to beat the heat on a blistering hot day like this? So I came up with a top-five list:

5: Jump into your neighbor’s pool, and swim till they come home.
4: Turn on the sprinklers and run around in the grass till you passout.
3: Find someone fat and stay in their shadow, its 10 degrees cooler in the shade.
2: Take all the frozen meat out of the freezer and try to squeeze in.
1: Take a stroll through a car wash.

What a great Saturday. I went rafting with friends on the American River. We were seperated into three groups with three rafts carrying food, drinks, water guns, and a 160 lbs keg of Samuel Adams. There were countless water gun battles as we floated down the river, and we met tons of people floating by in tubes, canoes, and other rafts.

There were a few injuries from people falling off rafts hitting some rocks on the river bottom, but nothing serious, in fact, it makes a great story to tell. There was also the few who attempted and successfully did keg-stands floating down river in the raft. What a bunch of alcoholics. When one person fell off the boat and need help it wasn’t much of a concern, but when the keg was in jeopordy it became so crucial that we would of sacraficed a member just to save the keg. What do you expect, it was Samuel Adams.

There were plenty of girls on the raft as well. They were the ones putting in all the effort into paddling the boats because the guys were too inuberated with alcohol. You’d expect the girls to be more civilized than the guys and we had to the dock the boat everytime, so the guys could pee behind the bushes and shrubs. Whereas the girls, they’d cling off the side of the raft to relieve themselves. What a bunch of savages.

Five hours of drinking, playing, peeing, and floating equates to nothing more than fun for everyone. I’d definately do it again. But this time I won’t fall off the raft as often.

Chinese ignorant about sex? But the population of over a billion disputes that claim.

I’ve had a Rubik’s cube for a couple of years now and I’ve never been able to solve it. I’ve come really close several times but was unable to complete it. This will be one of my goals for the summer; to finally solve the Rubik’s cube. It’s tough and I’ve read manuals and looked at website examples, but it’s still difficult. I’ve been at it for a couple of days now…it’s only a matter of time.

It’s Independence Day and its time for BBQs and fireworks. Too bad I’m stuck at work. It’s alright, I had a great 3-day weekend full of partying and hanging out with friends so, this will be my recovery period. For me 4th of July means the half way point of the year. Up next is Thanksgiving and the winter Holidays. That’s a long way to go for another Holiday.

I haven’t been adding pictures to the gallery. Too lazy to carry my camera along. I got a rafting trip next weekend and hopefully I’ll be adding some pictures of that.