Rolling On

I appear to be back to something approximating good health...my fatigue probably has more to do with me staying up too late in the piano practice rooms than anything else. But I seem to be having minor successes with recording, so that's something.

In the meantime, I've gotten this longboarding thing working pretty well. Having borrowed a friend's longboard on a whim last week, I'm pleased to say that I can now actually get from Sontag to work with reasonable dexterity and not too much falling over. I am now somewhat more motivated to work out this unicycling thing starting this weekend, now that I have reinforced my faith in my balance and my ability to learn how to deal with wheeled man-powered transport.

Work has gotten somewhat more interesting since I stopped being too scared to actually try to solve any problems in which there was a greater than 1% chance of me breaking the system. I think I have yet to do anything particularly clever, but I'm beyond monkey levels of competency with UNIX, which is more than I could say some weeks ago, so good for me.

I did manage to check off one of the things I meant to do this summer yesterday. A few of us went to the Libra Complex (the hallways connecting all the buildings at the basement level of the academic end of campus) late-ish last night, borrowed some wheeled office chairs from one of the CS labs, and went "chairing". This primarily involves finding the gently sloped portions of the hallways, sitting in an office chair and rolling down said hallway, being careful to perform some basic steering to avoid collisions with walls or other chair-ers. Much fun was had.

It does now occur to me that I seem to be at around the halfway mark on the 10 weeks of summer hereabouts (well, 9 weeks...one week was elsewhere) and I'm still not entirely sure what I'm doing when I get back home. I mean, I'll have a month of...chill time. How bizarre. I mean, it will be nice...but bizarre nonetheless.