Four Topics in One

My back hurts... but in a good way. Did a "few" deadlifts yesterday, and the back knows it today!!
Started with 15 reps at 30 kilos (including the barbell), and before you ask, no, I am not a big dude with muscles the size of basketballs. Then I worked myself up to 50 kilos through a total of 5 sets. Last set was 6 reps.
But I already know, that I will be increasin this amount, with at the very least 5 to 10 kilos, say start at 35, and end on maybe 55 or 60.

Now all I need, is someone to film me doing it, so I can see from more angles how I'm doing, and for fun... any volunteers?

On a different subject. After paying my bills this month, i payed a website close to 900 bucks, for membership for the next 6 months.
Match.com ... yep, another dating site. this time, the most popular one. So cross your finger everyone" and pray I find someone this time around. I would hate to find I wasted 894 bucks, without atleast getting shagged ^^

Then I bought more comics! Luckily they are kind enough to send an email when ever I start to get a few comics in my "box", and they then send a messege about how many I have waiting for me, and how much it will cost me to have em sent to me.
So big hugs to A Comics Heaven in Stockholm!

What else is going on? Well, it's a party this weekend, a birthday/new job/new home/welcome home party... should I get the girl a bottle of wine as well as a warm hug? And what should I wear * goes all girlie * I got nothing to wear, oh my oh my what ever shall I
wear!!

Cya

Hobby Sunday

The vote is in... and the winner, of the 3 choice poll is... * drum roll *

WOODWORK!!!

But you ain’t getting any.

I am sorry. Not that I won't be giving you any woodworking stuff, but because I am putting that project on hiatus. Maybe forever.

Now I know, you were all looking forward to seeing some of the work I was planing on doing, and the gods know, I was looking forward to it as well. But when push comes to shove... I won't be able too, and one of the reasons is that the interest in it, is too low to learn all the things I need to know, in order to make it anywhere close to the way I want to make it.

Here's the deal. I suck. Plain and simple.

I have too few skills, and so far, every little thing I've done, has turned out wrong, crooked, broken or simply failed. Just sawing a piece of wooden stick, fucks up in my hands.

In order to succeed in this project, I need guidance and a teacher. And I have none of it. Not only don't I have a teacher and their knowledge to learn. I also don't really have the time. I have another thing I'm working on. The writing.

And I would rather try and make that better, as it is far more interesting to me then making a cage, a table or what ever else I had planned.

So again, sorry to disappoint, but you won't be getting any woodworking updates.

Now if you would like any kind of writer updates, I'd be more then happy to give that to you. Otherwise... well... we'll see what the future of the “Hobby Sundays” will entail.

Until then... as always.

Cya

Weekend Poll

My weekend has begun! As soon as I left work tonight, I considered my weekend to start, and boy do I have plans! Gonna be busy busy busy... I hope. Cause otherwise, I got jack shit planned.

So what am I going to do? Well one thing, is get some stuff and some things and some wood, so that maybe my ratcage project can continue, also wash some cloths and try to write some, something I usually do at work, but I want to get that going at home too, but usually, my big computer, the one I'm infront now, steals my attention, which I am growing more annoyed at.

Also going to try and get my old dishwasher out of the apartment. It's been a loyal and good friend for ages now, I do believe I got it as a birthday gift when I turned 30, so its been around now for 7 years, but now a days, every time I use it, I have to wash all the dishes due to a thin skin of residue that is still on all the utencils, plates and what not.
So I'm going to go back to basics, get a drying rack to place pots, pans, plates and utencils in after I washed them. Might be better, but true, more time away from what ever I'm doing. But since my dishwasher is now crap, it's better. Far better.
Just have to get the damn thing to the recycling place... and that  thing is big enough, to be a hassle to carry.

Also going to go back to a girl I started flirting with a bit, but as she's actaully in a relationship, I first gave up.. but no! I'm gonna see if she wont find me to be an "upgrade", and change "hardware"... yes, I am a geek.

What else did I have planned?

Well lets see now, I have to figure out what to post on sunday... and I'm at a bit of an impasse here, I don't really know what to post. So let's see what you want to see? I have 3 ideas. And you, yes YOU... get to pick which it is. Let's see if there will be a war between the people on facebook, or maybe even here. Who knows.

Here are your options.
1. Something about gaming. You know, a screen shot of one of the many games I play with something written about it, what has happened, or will happen in the screen shot presented.
2. A picture or two about my woodworking project (if I get the things and stuff for a good and reasonable price that is), and I talk about what I've done and what the next step is and what not.
3. I talk about the book I'm currently writing, with maybe a taste of what I've written, a passage somewhere in the book, and talk about the difficulties, the idea's and what not.

Or maybe option number 4.. what ever you guys are just burning to know...

If noone says anything... I'll just post what ever I feel like at the time.

Cya

Blood and Ice

Since I have still have to get the items needed to continue my woodworking project, I'll just have to give you some gaming shit again... sorry.

The last weekend I was free from work, I was so busy, I never had time to buy the things I needed, and this week, well I've only been off one day, and I spent that day getting other things.. like ... food.
But this next weekend, will be better. And hopefully, I can buy the stuff I need then, if the saw and saw thingy, isn't too expensive that is.

So what are the screenies of then? Well, it's Tomb Raider.

This screen shot, is just the best, hidding in a pool of blood and dead bodies. Lovely.

Lara, the silent killer, lining up a shot with her bow, right in the spine of an unsuspecting badguy.

Climbing a tower of ice and stone, to stop the leader of the badguys she's been killing all over the iland.

I've almost completed the game to 100%, not many enemies to kill thou, just searching for GPS caches, maps, books and the odd treasure.
This also means, that the game is getting boring, and the multiplayer, is mainly PVP, and I'm not that fond of PVP unless the game is centered around it... which this isn't.

But the game as a whole then? I've completed the main story, and I have to say, I'm looking forward to the next Tomb Raider game if they make it even remotly like this one. Cause this one, was gold.

Cya

Expensive Day Off

The one and only free day this week. Working all the other days... so what do I do? I spend money!!!
Some on food, some on stuff for my flowers, a little on candy, and then alot on a new keyboard.
I was going to spend 500 bucks on a keyboard, but ended up spending 1200 on a Razer Blackwidow Ultimate.

After testing it for a few minutes, a friend of mine said the ultimate line for how it sounds; like a horse on steroids.
If you are wondering why, it's because it's a mechanical keyboard. And finally, I have a keyboard that has a spacebar that works where ever you press it... so no more failed jumping puzzles or the likes.
But now I have to spend more money to get a new mouse too, cause this keyboard is green.. the mouse is blue (the lights that is). They clash... can't have that now can we?

What else happened on this free day? Well I had a sliding bit today, on the bike. Was going over an area that was not meant to be a crossing for anyone, but people still use it, so it's smooth and full of.. ice. No gravel, no open ground. Just ice.
So I set my foot down when realizing this, to try and not fall... the bike and my foot started sliding.. and did not stop for around 5 meters.
So I don't need any more excitment today :P

Before that I meet a cute little guy and his family. Always nice when you leave the house, and meet good friends. So here's to you friends! *cheers with an imaginary glas*

Also asked a girl out for coffee, but she was taken... all thou, by the sound of it, I should see her more, for when, or if, her relatonship goes down in flame. Sounded like it could go that way when we continued to speak.

Anyway...

Cya

Shipwrecked Lara

I bought the latest Tomb Raider on a steam sale. 5,99 euro. Included in the prize, 20 DLC's, mostly weapons and outfits, but lots of multiplayer maps and new areas for single player gameplay.

I am here to tell you, and show you, what I think about this game.

Here we go...

I... freakin love it. OH MY GOD do I love it.
I play on easy, cause I suck at games like this, but the environment alone, kills me dead several times an hour or so. I forgot about time last night and did not stop playing til well after 6 in the morning.
The game is run on "normal" settings, so no high defenition shit, just what my computer can take, and so far, it's one of the most beautiful games I've ever played.

Lots of wonderful details too, like in the begining, when I got dirty and bloody, but after I had a bit of a swim, most of the blood and dirt was gone. Just that little detail made me fall in love with the game.

I know I know, you want a screenie... I'll do you one up, I'll give you a few.

She's seen better days.

That's Lara shorty after being shipwrecked on an unknown iland, having to solve puzzles on how to get away from some captors that strung her up upside down along with a shitload of corpses.

Scaning the suroundings.

Finally found a weapon, a handmade bow. So then I needed to use said bow, to hunt and get some food. One arrow, was not enough to take down a deer, and then after that first kill, she was very sad of having to kill the animal to feed herself. I can imagen that most would have the same reaction when faced with an animal you just hunted, and then have to deliver the killing blow, with nothing but the head of an arrow.

In a dark tunnel, under a bunker.

Depending on where I have the camera, she holds torches in different directions. This little detail, makes the game even better, like she is lighting the way not just for her, but for me, the player, as well.

Ouch...

As I said, I have the game set to easy. But that doesn't stop the environment from killing me alot. Missing a turn, not reacting fast enough... will get you killed by wolves biting your neck, trees making holes in your stomach, or like here, an iton bar impaling your skull when you don't turn quickly enough in a water rapid.

This game, was the best spent 6 euro in a long time.

Cya

Mending Heart

I finally told a woman that I've been interested in for a long time, that I am in fact, interested in her.

Long before I told her, I knew what the answer would be, but now, I have it confirmed. I told her that unless she specifically tells me that no, she does not want me to ”court” her, I would try and win her heart over the months or so it would possibly take, but in the end, she said no.

But now I know. For sure.

So now, I can start to put her out of my mind.

But I'm sick of being alone all the time, and seeing as how “easy” it is to find a woman to cuddle with, I think I should just go on the offensive, and ask any girl I find attractive and nice, out on a date or cup of coffee or something.

Change my presentation on the dating sites I haven't been on for ages, to just indicate I want sex, and nothing else... as looking for love, got me jack shit.

I'm going to try and be aggressive, be confident and just ask straight out: Hey, wanna fuck? Or: Hey wanna grab a cup of coffee? Or: Date?

What ever pick up line I'll use, I'll use em on anyone I find appealing.

Wish me luck.

Cya

The 5th Day

Today is the 5th day of constant snowing. Now, it's lovely. It's all white and beautiful and the forrests looks absolutly fantastic.

But enough is enough!! I mean, come on! In the north of Sweden, it has fallen a full 110 cm, here, in the middle, it's more like 20 cm... but let it go already! I can't bike to work like this! Have to take the damn bus. Now it's warmer to take the bus, and far easier, but it also costs a shitload more.
So stop it! Stupid weather gods.
I miss summer today, as you can probably guess.
But according to the weather reports.. it's suppose to stop by tomorrow.... but weathermen, they've been wrong before. It's basically, the only job you can have, where it's okay if you are wrong every single day of the year, for years and years, and noone says anything about it.
I want a job like that. Being payed to be wrong :P

Cya

Ships Be Going Down

Been murdering aliens again. But do to my own bad skills and rare times I actually play games like these FPS shooters, I had to start from scratch, on the easiest setting.
And for me, it's still not an easy task.
Specially the Boneratlers... I think that's what they're called, they are fast, jumpy and usually... around a hundred of them. They don't die east, and due to their speed, they are easy to miss unless they are coming straight for you, which they generally do... AFTER taking their sweet time to find a good spot to start from. Beyond that, most aliens are easy enough... just requires a shitload of lead.

But once in a while, you get to shoot at bigger things... things that produce enemies for me to slaughter... giant fuckin alien ships.

One such thing, came in to my game last night.

This is what happened after it tried to escape.

Not so easy to run away with no working engiens huh?

Oh good, you found a parking spot.

Sam just have to give his perfect 80's one liners.

After that thou.. shit got real, and the aliens called Sam to tell him, he had already lost. Sam did not like the aliens to be such douchbags. And told them what he had in store for them.

Yea you tell em Sam!!

More murdering will be done after work today...

Cya