i went out to eat lunch with the netops gang (erik, nguyen, crys, ronise, parrish, claire). they usually always go out when they can. i try to stay at my desk, but today, i felt like eating out so i didn't hesitate. i thought we were going to go to albertos, but we ended up going to flame broiler instead. i got into somewhat of an argument cause erik and crys was arguing about how buying more than one combination of numbers doesn't affect your odds at all. so i basically proved them wrong by simply stating that there are a finite number of combinations, and every ticket you buy, you are increasing your odds just in the slightest...whatever 100 millionth of a fraction it might be, still increasing your odds. another example is that it is sometimes possible to buy out the entire combination of numbers (in the 10's of millions the last time i checked) when the jackpot is greater than the net profit you would get after you have purchased the entire combination of numbers. so with erik and crys' theory, them buying the entire combination of numbers, their odds of winning with the entire combination of numbers doesn't differ with the odds you have with one combination of numbers. just doesn't compute. they were originally trying to argue that it doesn't affect your odds at all when you buy more than one ticket. then they changed their argument to it's "affectiveness" of buying more than one ticket. and it was true, what they were saying. but that's not what they were originally trying to argue.



after work, i went to go work out at rimac. hamstrings were kinda sore, so i skipped on the leg curls. but i chose to do the leg press....big mistake.....i ended up not gradually moving up to the weight i was going to do the 2 sets with, and i think i pulled an adductor muscle in my right leg. doh. only hurts if i move my leg at a certain position. on the brighter side, i didn't fail on any other exercises i had planned. the highlights were i was able to curl a set of 100 lbs on the seated preacher curl machine, 2 sets of skull crushes with 80 lbs, and do 2 sets of calf raises at 500lbs with relative ease. so i'm finally able to take a week break from lifting....its called strategic deconditioning. this is when i let all my muscles and CNS heal....along with all the injured and exhausted components of my body due to high intensity lifting i have been doing for the last 6 weeks. then its back to another 6 week routine of hypertrophy specific training. i'll be looking forward to making more progress.



after the gym, i met up with ray, he demo'd his new phone the motorola T720. it's a pretty sweet phone. nice screen. awesome sounds. good size and weight. and he only paid around $75 after rebate. if i were to get a cell phone now, that would probably be the one i would get. he downloaded prince of persia on it, and that was pretty cool. it lacks a little bit of functionality compared to my v60c, but the positives totally outweigh the negatives. then we went to el cotixan to eat. then we came back to my place to watch the 5 episodes of american idol i have downloaded through turok. we watched most of them, and it was great entertainment for the night. some people were just so bad, but you gotta give them some credit for chasing their dreams...no matter how impossible. and i stress that strongly. i also watched all the video clips from their webite. and there was this video clip of this asian guy who must have been one of those pranksters...who just wanted to be on the show and had no intention of taking it seriously. he just simply wanted to be on TV and do something totally ridiculous to impress his friends. you could totally tell. he said he was going to do michael jackson, and he comes in saying he's gonna do the new kids on the block "the right stuff" instead? that should be a giveaway right there. watching those clips on the american idol website, i decided to upgrade my windows media player to version 9. i have never been impressed with media player at all. but this one sure has potential. it runs real clean. actually has some neato features you can't seem to find anywhere. so i think i'll try to integrate this player into my daily multimedia usage.



i don't have enough time in the day to do everything i want. i haven't been listening to music much, but whenever i put on the headphones and go through my mp3 collection, i always wish i had more time to listen to music in its pure form. i wish could just isolate myself in a dark room and just listen to some mind enhancing music. the only 2 bands/performers i can do that with are select pieces by mozart and most of collective soul. if listening to those songs was an olympic sport, i'd be on the podium. who knew the act of listening to music could be done with so much passion?



this has been one slow moving week, but luckily, tomorrow is friday. i wonder if anyone will be interested in seeing catch me if you can. maybe i'll give jeff a call. i haven't seen him in ages.