This week we went to two Minnesota Aurora matches. The Aurora is our local pre-professional women’s soccer team. We’re season ticket holders, and the games are always a lot of fun. The team is undefeated. And I mean undefeated all-time, but that’s not what makes going to the games great. It’s the crowd, which comes with all the things you’d expect at a soccer match but also the over all inclusivity. When they say “everyone is welcome” they mean it.
I really fell of the exercise wagon this week logging only two rides for the week. The cascade was in full effect this week. I put off my Monday ride, forced myself to ride on Tuesday, and then didn’t ride again until Sunday. I had planned to get that third ride in on Saturday, but that was one of the days we went to an Aurora match which threw off my entire schedule. At least the two rides I did were of higher intensity, but this is a bad pattern I need to break soon.
It comes down to planning. I’m realizing a lot of this does. I made all these plans at the beginning of the year. No, not plans, goals. That’s the rub. I set goals without plans for achieving them. It’s kind of funny kind of sad, really, because this is a thing I’m constantly complaining about at work. Lot’s of big grand initiatives tossed around, never any planning to make those things happen. “All show, no go” as the saying goes.
I need to plan my days, my weeks, my months, etc., but boy am I resistant to that. A plan feels like a constraint to me, which I suppose is exactly the point. I probably need those constraints. Maybe I should think of them as guard rails or like those bumpers you can put up when bowling that prevent the ball from rolling into the gutter.
The comic-book backlog read down continues. In fact I received a whole new stack in the mail this week that contained some issues I was missing from the new Iron Man series. I’m all caught up on it now and am working my way through Absolute Manhunter. Only a few more issues to go there.
Once again another week has gone by without any activity on the board game challenge, social gaming or AT proto fronts(See above about lack of planning).
Things I enjoyed this week
- I made this Chile Tofu recipe as my first foray into eating tofu, and it was excellent. It’s a brand new recipe but it’s already garnered a five star rating.
- Season 2 of Marathon launched this week with an experimental PvP-lite mode that’s been really fun. Bungie, the game’s developer, is on the backfoot right now, and Marathon’s success isn’t guaranteed, but if they keep listening and tweaking I think they can take a game that’s already really special and make it great.