today is going to be a little more unpleasant than the norm. i was supposed to get up and get to rimac at 7:55 am. woke up at 7, then i just couldn't resist lying down again. i slept later than i planned. so i finally make it to rimac at 9:30am, waited in line for an hour, then i finally turned in the wellness forms for erik, me and claire. i know diem turned in hers. still waiting the word from chuck. all in all, the process is just a little more complicated than it should be, but worth the hassle of signing up.



the weekend was half slacking off, and half active. i played hours of GT3, while managing to spend 24 hours in Torrance, see family and friends. i was going to be back by 9 so that i have time to work out, but it just wasn't meant to be. i figured that my body needed a good time to recover and even though it's not for a full week, 3 days is plenty. and i can make up the workout by working out all of my upper body on wednesday. today is my cardio day, but i haven't got enough sleep. at lunch, i might opt to drive home and take a nap. the problem with that is that it has been extremely warm the last 3 days, and it might not be a pleasant experience, or it might be a longer nap than i'm anticipating because of the heat. just walking to rimac in the morning from the rimac parking lot felt like i was running on fumes. other than feeling like crap, it was mostly a success at rimac this morning.



i'm gonna go back on creatine today. i'm not sure how much caffine hydroxycut has, but i'm gonna guess that there is not much. other than the first 2 days i took hydroxycut, the jitters haven't come back, and i've doubled dose (as the bottle recommends) since i started. so i think as long as i follow my supplement intake, if there is any antagonistic effects going on, it should be at it's minimum. loading starts today.



back to my weekend. saturday, i woke up pretty late, and without a hangover...it was about 12-16 ounces of beer anyway. was gonna try to play tennis, but couldn't get a game lined up, so i just played GT3 all day (i'm 77.6% complete now). i left for Torrance at about 7:30, an hour later than i was hoping to leave. ran into a bit of traffic, and got there at about 10pm. had dinner with folks. watched tv till really late because i wasn't tired at all, then my dad came down started talking to me from about 3 to 4:30. we talked about buying property, my brother's progress in school, etc. he ate a whole bunch of junkfood at the middle of the night. he's racked up a lot of weight in the last 6 months alone. he also mentioned that he was thinking of selling off a lot of his property in LA and moving to SD. at first i was delighted at the idea, because it would give me a chance of moving back in with my parents. i feel like i have seen all that i can living away from home in the last 6 years, and i could easily save $1000 a month, easily buy an M3, or do something smarter, like . now i'm having second thoughts. a part of the reason being people looking down on people who live with home with their parents. i always considered moving away from home a milestone in one's life. but now i think differently because i know that the benefits outweight the drawbacks. but not everyone sees it that way. i guess i'll have to talk to my friends and get a second opinion. the ones who aren't still living with their parents. : ) another reason is that my dad is a little hard to live with. i want to be a good son and listen to all of their demands, but most of the demands from my dads are just downright unreasonable or silly that i'll have to straight out refuse it. he respects my decision without having to give him a reason, but i just don't like the fact that i'll probably have to deal with this on a daily basis. on the other hand, my mom would be fine to live with. she does everything right, and is a perfect example of what a parent should be to their kids.



after a birthday lunch with family on monday, i went to Tommy's place, checked out his LCD projector he's testing for his work, went to best buy to help him buy some audio cables so that he could use his receiver and not listen to the movies like it was coming off an internet feed through a modem connection the way he had it set up previously. his speakers are the Acoustic brand.....aka....2 guys in a white van. i know 2 victims of the 2 guys in a white van scam. Tommy and my current roommate Wei. And you guessed it, they both bought it from 2 guys in a white van. here is the scam. these guys will approach you at a parking lot, and they'll introduce themselves and say they have a overstock of speakers, and they're just trying to sell it below cost because they don't have room in the warehouse or some crap like that. and they'll turn on the speakers and they'll sound great. and when you bring the speakers back home, either they sound really crappy, or they'll have a block of cement inside. tommy's speakers didn't sound too bad. we had it turned up pretty loud and they sounded descent. click on the link below for some hilarious 2 guys in a white stories:

2 guys in a white van



so after we got the cable, we got some boba, and at his place we saw toy story 2 (wanted to test a digital movie on the LCD projector). then i had to take off. i ate dinner with my family, and took off. got back at 11pm. slept at like 3am......i'll have to fix that.