Cardio for 5-28-9

Two and a half mile jog today. It’s nice having achieved three miles. I’ve set two miles as my minimum, as I know I can push myself to reach that. Sure, maybe I could have gone longer, but I don’t always need to kill myself. I find I reach my stride after the first mile. By 1.5 miles, it feels the easiest. After two miles, I felt fine so I kept going. Reaching the end of 2.5 miles, I felt like I was starting to get stiff, so that’s why I stopped at 2.5 miles. I am still sore from my two previous workouts. The bloodflow incurred from jogging will be good for it, but I don’t need to overkill myself.

Candi expressed interest in joining me, saying she’d go at her own pace. I made her promise three times that she wouldn’t feel bad if I passed her. I was looking forward to her taking her own steps at her own pace. She had trouble sleeping last night and was exhausted this morning, so she took a pass. Remembering what happened last time I pushed her, I just calmly told her I’d be a bit before I’d go jogging. Before I left I asked if she wanted to come, she declined, and I left it at that.

She bought a new laptop. I’m happy for her. Her old desktop was a POS. Her new laptop unfortunately has Vista on it. She describes Vista as “trying very hard to be like a mac but failing.” She said she could have gotten XP for two hundred dollars more. You know, now that I think about it, my OEM copy of XP Pro only cost around $120. I think. Though, that was in 2004, back before Vista came out and the demand for XP skyrocketed.

We buy the conspiracy theory that Windows must put out a shitty OS to get us excited about the next one. Think about it. Not to shame Windows 3.1, but Windows 95 was, overall, a stable OS. I remember having Windows 98 second edition. It crashed on a daily basis. I remember Windows Millenium. Man, that was horrible. Windows 2000 was a stable OS, and microsoft wisely build the XP kernal on Windows 2000. The joke is that microsoft made the big mistake in creating an OS that worked. Windows 7? Frankly, I probably won’t be building a new computer for many, many years.

Yeah, build. Once you build a computer, you can’t go back to buying a retail assembled computer. No, Roxanne can’t run all the newest games, but who gives a fuck? She’s fast at what she does, and I intend to keep her that way. I could upgrade her GeForce 6600 video card, but I just don’t play enough video games. I built Roxanne to run DOOM3. It does. And that’s why it can run Sims2. Ha ha. Never did finish DOOM3. It just doesn’t have the pick up and play and screw around appeal that DOOM2 did.

An AMD Athlon 64 3200+ processor running at 2.01 GHZ. I’ve tried underclocking it to an even 2 GHZ, but I can’t seem to. 2.75 gigs of RAM, entirely because half of one of my 512 chips is broken, but still running. The aforementioned GeForce 6600 video card. I build her in 2005, mind you. Upgrade? HA! I’m waiting for operating systems to finally be 64 bit. The next computer is going to be a goddamn beast. :: hugs Roxanne Covalent :: I could never canabalize my baby.

If anything, I’m due to retire my old hard drive someday. It’s over four years old. It was originally in Lisa Electron. My OS is installed on my second hard drive. It’s only a matter of time before the old thing hits the dust. Hell, I have a couple more 3.5 slots in Roxanne. Putting in another hard drive isn’t a problem at all. Thing is, space isn’t an issue for me. The largest partition on my second hard drive has over 90 gigs free. Even a complete hard drive crash isn’t a huge deal to me because I have everything critical (mp3s, videos, pictures, porn, etc) backed up on my external hard drive, which also has plenty of space free.

I’m babbling.

I think I’ll play some Sims before I see if Cliff is free.