I tried the MadWorld video game. It is beyond gruesome. It is your standard issue "Man against the unending hordes of mindless violence" What really makes it is the in game challenges like "Man Darts" and the running sports commentary that is not safe for work, and I'm not sure if its safe for anyone. The F-Bomb is dropped liberally throughout the sports commentary.
This game is not for the little children, but oh so much fun.
I went out today to try out the variety of winter biking stuff I have. So I biked out to Stuyvesant plaza, dropped off soze's mail, had dinner and biked home. Weather on the way out was high thirties, on the way back it was just below freezing.
I like the new shoes. They are wind proof and water proof as advertised. I do have some tightness on the sides of my pinky toes but I am hoping that breaking the shoes in will help that. I may need to get some Specialized shoe beds for it though. Overall, pretty good.
The ibex tights, damn, those are warm. I did combine them with an out shell, but I was very pleased.
The outshell craft pants are very good. I really appreciate the velcro straps on the calves that keep the pants out of my chain.
I ended out a little warm and sweaty. But happy.
I may not ride tomorrow depending if I move my car tonight to someplace safe and how I feel in the morning.
To our unholy surprise, the damn thing works. and works well.
On its initial test runs in the house: It has managed to get lost and die in the bathroom Get lost while humping a laptop in the living room Get lost having mounted some garbage in the kitchen.
So far we are keeping it out of the office and the bed room. Eventually we will expand its allowed areas to include those.
Today it managed to complete its rounds and make it back to its base station without fault.
I did about 12-13 minutes on the trainer. Just working my way back into it. right now it isn't my legs that get tired first, it is parts of my back. Once it gets tired, my form goes to pot almost immediately.
After my little tumble on the rollers I took at look at the bike.
The rear wheel has some irregularities and will have to go into the shop to be retrued. It should be okay for light work at home until then.
The pedals had to be rebuilt. They were over 2 years old. The rebuild took an hour. I probably could have done it in twenty minutes if I hadn't been distracted by John Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
When I took the tumble, peddling had a weird feeling that was distracting. That may have contributed to the fall.
I managed to user the bike rollers for about 14-15 minutes tonight. Then I hit the wall I was using for support, bounced off of it and took a tumble to the floor. I nicely landed between the kitchen counter and the table. No real injuries as far as I can tell. Just the indication that I was done for the night.
Its a wonderful series on Discovery Channel. Watch it in HD if you can.
Marsellus watched part of an episode with us last night: He watched all of the wolves and bears eating other things but skipped the snow leapord hunt. It is the first time I have seen him enthralled by the television.
