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I’m tired

Yesterday was along day. I went on a nice bike ride, pretty chill, but about three miles uphill. I really need to start picking up the intensity of my training and work out. Running – why can’t it be easier?

Anyway, after the ride I started son work on my car. Nothing big, just four little things that I have been putting off.
1. Recharge my A/C
2. Change a foglight bulb
3. Put on my reg sticker
4. Hook up my sub

1. A/C recharge.
This should have been an easy fifteen minute job that took about an hour. It might have been my inability to understand the directions, but I managed to get it charged. Overfilled at first but I bleed it down to be the right amount.

2. Foglight bulb.
I fixed it, after about fortyfive minutes. There was this little metal twisted thing that I had a hard time with.

3. Reg sticker.
The only easy thing I did. I should have done it back in February when I got the sticker.

4. Sub.
It’s been disconnected since when I had my cars body work done. It’s just been in my trunk sabatoging my gas milage without making my system sound better. The hole somehow got to big for the hole so I wrapped the ground wire around the screw. I only got one trip out of it before it stopped working again. I need to think of a better way to ground it, maybe a bolt and nut.

After all that was done I showered and went to my girlfriend’s sisters’ graduation. One was graduating from eight grade and the other one from high school. Plus a good friend was graduating at the same time. A short graduation, but two nonstop parties from 3 till 10 with more food than anyone could eat. I was so stuffed, tired, and dehydrated when it was all over. I was planning on running this morning before church, but was just too tired.

Today, I’m going to go to a lake and hopefully swim in open water for the first time. Wish me luck.

Tamales suck!

Today was the first time I tried making tamales and I don’t know why, but they just suck.

I probably didn’t soak the husks long enough, they just wouldn’t fold up nicely or even stay folded. And spreading the dough on the husks was crazy hard for me.

And I ended up using only 3/4ths of the dough and about 2/3rds of the meat.

I didn’t have a nice big steamer basket and the one I used was much to small for how many tamales I made. They kept sliding off.

I don’t think I’ll ever make tamales again.

They are steaming and I sure hope that they taste good when they are done.

Cup o’ tea

I’m sitting in the hot sun right now. Listening to a old newsboys song and my computers fan.
This morning I “ran” two and a half miles. I probably only ran a half mile or three-fourths of one. Don’t make fun of me. It has been a long time since I’ve ran. Right now I have that tiredness that comes with working out. The only thing you really want to do is sleep but you aren’t really tired.

Oh crap! I think my computer just over heated and shut off! I got to go!

Sigh

Yet another move for my blog. I’ve decided that I’m going to have my blog on my own domain, separate from the one that is attached to my name and my “business” (Business is a very loose term, I think I’ve only had two or three paying gigs…).

About the name/url/uri/thing-you-type, it’s based on one of the oldest screen names i have. While caldar.com wanted $1000 to be owned, cldar.com was only $15 for 2 years. And it’s shorter to boot. And the fun thing about it, is that since it’s just my blog domain, I can do fun things like say email me @cldar.com. Get it? me @ cldar.com? It’s a new email address (just remove the spaces). It’s fun to say – until you get to the domain name. Cldar. So far i’ve been “sill-dar”, anyone else have any ideas?