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Blaming The River

July 6, 2010 Friends / Stories / Travel / Videos
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Went on my sec­ond white-​water raft­ing trip on Sat­ur­day. This time, I went with Eddie C, Michow, James S, Joe M, Alice H, and Rachel Loh.

We were pre­pared for more near-​death and lost shoe sto­ries like from our first trip, but it actu­ally went really well. No one was knocked out of the raft this time, no one lost any equip­ment or cloth­ing, we did not get embar­rass­ingly stuck at the photo spot for sev­eral min­utes, and we did not have to hitch­hike to get home.

After a rough start at the early Class IIIs where we got knocked around a bit, we all set­tled down and got a sys­tem going, thanks to a “guardian angel” kayaker who gave us some pro trips as he passed us. Here’s a video of us shortly after that on some smaller rapids:

(There was a bet­ter video later on the river when we hit another Class III, but I’m again hav­ing some prob­lems with my cam­era. I think the bat­tery may not be charg­ing properly.)

Over­all, we did so much bet­ter this time, I think every­one who went on both trips was a lit­tle shocked. I’m a lit­tle sad, since our first raft­ing trip will always have bet­ter sto­ries, but you can’t com­plain about a smooth trip. :) We were say­ing that it’s prob­a­bly a bit of expe­ri­ence on our part, but prob­a­bly has a lot to do with the river’s flow being a lot greater this time. More water means less rocks to give us trouble!

Oh, and the kayaker told us to think about send­ing some­one to guide school so that we can hit higher class rapids, and I’m giv­ing it some thought now. Maybe some­thing to do next summer.

Hacker's Diet Update - Week 14

April 10, 2009 Family / Friends / Health / Money
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Time for another Hacker’s Diet update.

Keep going! 7.8 lbs to go!
Hacker's Diet Week 14
Weekly loss: 2.9 lbs. — Daily deficit: 1429 calo­ries.
You will reach your goal of 155 lbs on 2009-​04-​29. (247 days early!)

So far, I’ve lost 37.6 lbs of mea­sured weight (3.1 lbs in the last week) and 32.3 lbs of “real weight” (3.1 lbs in the last week). When I was doing the fam­ily chal­lenge, I had lost 19 pounds.

The 100 Push-​ups and 200 Sit-​ups Pro­grams are get­ting tougher. I can still squeeze out the sit-​ups, but I’ve been fail­ing on the push-​ups, and have had to fin­ish sets on my knees. Appar­ently I’m get­ting more peo­ple into the pro­grams, though, so that’s cool.

I also men­tioned the Col­orado Exper­i­ment and Cross­Fit to Joe M and Eddie C, and Joe M in par­tic­u­lar seemed very inter­ested. Michow, of course, was inter­est­ing in see­ing us fail at these pro­grams. I don’t have the equip­ment to do these pro­grams, though, and I don’t feel like spend­ing money on a gym mem­ber­ship until I get bet­ter pay­ing job and more free time.

As you can see, I’m within a week or so of get­ting my mea­sured weight to my goal. Start­ing maybe a week or two ago, I could finally see a dif­fer­ence when I looked in the mir­ror. Feels like the real me is get­ting revealed under all the crap I’ve piled on. In fact, since things are going so well, I’m think­ing over low­er­ing my goal. But I’ll wait to hit my cur­rent goal first before mak­ing any final decisions.

As usual, thanks to every­one for your compliments!

Show Me How To Lie

March 5, 2009 Facebook / Friends / Stories
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Wow, I got a lot of hits yes­ter­day. Maybe I should post links within notes on Face­book more often.

Any­way, here’s one of the “lost” sto­ries I was going to link to in my 25 Things post…

I’m gen­er­ally a hor­ri­ble liar. I tend to have a hard time con­trol my facial expres­sions (that research was the basis for a new show that’s pretty good), which always give me away.

How­ever, when I was on a home stay in Japan, my host’s class played a game where we were split into teams and a per­son from each team had to eat one of three iden­ti­cal look­ing pieces of sushi/​onigiri. The fill­ing of two of them would be nor­mal, but the fill­ing on the final one would be a big chunk of some­thing “spe­cial” like natto or wasabi. Turns out I was pretty good at that for some rea­son, and my team won the game.

Flash for­ward to the “Sum­mer of Toy.” It was sum­mer break after Toy class had crossed, and Joe M, Eddie C, and I were drink­ing every night. The game plan was basi­cally that we would alter­nate nights between Joe M’s place and ours, and call up every­one we could think of each night. Since we were drink­ing every night, we couldn’t afford new alco­hol every night, so every so often, we would have a “Scraps Night” where we just try­ing to fin­ish all the rem­nant han­dles we had lying around.

One Scraps Night, it was towards the end of the night, and we had killed every­thing we had left play­ing 7 – 11-​Double. (That game nights the alco­hol go fast!) We had absolutely noth­ing left except for Bac­ardi 151. No one, of course, wanted to do (poten­tially back-​to-​back on end) shots of 151, so we looked around for mix­ers. Unfor­tu­nately, we were basi­cally out of all non-​alcoholic drinks, too. Joe M sac­ri­ficed some of his work­out Gatorade for the cause.

I for­got who was rolling, but I got picked to drink the mix of 151 and orange Gatorade. It was, of course, not the great­est feel­ing in the world. Every­one in the room was watch­ing, and I would like to think that I kept a straight face. I want to think that I had every­one fooled. Until some­one asked how it tasted. I tried to say, “It’s great,” but my voice cracked.

… then every­one knew. Except maybe Clay­ton L. He wanted to go next.

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