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There have been no posts on this blog for a while. The fact is that my life is utterly mundane these days. There is no point in rehashing my daily routine (a very basic one at that), so I decided to leave it blank.

That said, I’m thinking about restarting my work out log. My finger is still not healed all the way, which is unfortunate. I climbed a bit when I shouldn’t have and I might have messed it up. I’m still not going to go to the doctor (at least yet)…we’ll hope it heals on its own. (The only thing I can really think of is a tendon tear or something and surgery being needed).

With that said, I’ve been doing a ton of cardio lately. I briefly flirted with the idea of training for a triathlon. In the end, I probably don’t have enough dedication to do so though. I’ve started to swim again and I’ve really enjoyed it. The endurance part is tough, but it’s an incredibly good exercise. I’ve also been doing some yoga and I’ll hopefully go once or twice a week.

As far as options go for my future, hell, your guess is as good as mine. I’ll probably start working part time at the rock wall, which should help out for some park ranger jobs that I could possibly get. Though, the demand for said jobs is pretty insane, so who knows.

I’ll start a work out log. Might as well keep my progress on something.

Injured my hand…

orange — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:09:58 +0000

Sustained the second climbing injury in my climbing career today in my right tendon. The first injury I sustained was a long standing finger sprain which took weeks to heal. It wasn’t until I went to South America and I stopped climbing for a while that it healed. Today I heard a pop and my ring and middle finger both hurt alot right now. I don’t really feel it’s a tear as I can still do some slight movements with it (type/etc)…but I’m in pain when I try to climb or grip things.

My friends have sustained the same injury before and they said it took about a week of recovery time. This is insanely annoying for me, as climbing is my main form of workout. I suppose I’ll have to do treadmill/bike and such for this week break.

Sad part is that I can’t even really type that well right now. I can’t click my mouse that great either, which is a damper on my starcraft 2 play. Maybe this is for the best, and I’ll go and read some books/do other things for the time being.

I’m sure I’ll post some random shit throughout the week. Just really frustrated from my dumb injury. I can’t even imagine having a 6-month + long injury. Ugh…

Weird poker job and other things

orange — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:23:01 +0000

I’m currently a poker software tester and consultant at mindsport5 Poker, a new Facebook app. It’s an app that allows players to play poker for free with the chance to win real money prizes each and every day (with a weekly leaderboard prize as well). I was quite hesitant to take this job and I still am questionable about the success of this company. Not necessarily in the sense that this is a poorly run company, but in the sense that it’s a startup in a heavily saturated market.

Zynga dominates this current market, generating hundreds of millions a year. If mindsport5 can even get a small piece of it, I think that there will be some decent potential. The fact that ms5 pays real money is somewhat appealing to the general population.

So yeah, I’m not really sure about it. I guess I figured that, even with a decent potential of never getting paid, my time is still worth very little right now. So if it turns out that ms5 goes to hell, it won’t be the worst thing in the world.

As for other jobs, I still hope to one day be a park ranger. The process is difficult though and I’m still learning more on how I should format my resume/etc.
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I think I might start doing a workout log again despite not needing any extra motivation for it. I still work out 5x a week on average, mostly climbing stuff with 1-2 cardio days. I’m not really sure what I’ll be doing today given it’s rainy outside. I thought about going to Yoga but we’ll see. I’m fairly happy with how I’ve been climbing lately and I’m getting decently stronger.

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Cool links:

Alex Honnold, a free soloer-

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7383158n

Wingsuit Flying- (closest thing to flying right now, fantastic)-

http://youtu.be/LhmzmOwkRuM