Below are the most recent 23 friends' journal entries.

Thursday, August 21st, 2008
spri	1:38p	балтика:: питерцы, с пятницы до понедельника включительно я у вас (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
josienutter	8:21p	Random Crap Another long, long day.  About 14 hours yesterday and 12 today.  Now Scott knows how I feel-- coming home first, hungry. :p My whole body hurts, but I'm not sure how much of that is due to yesterday's beating, and how much is thanks to the new ickness.  Those assisted pullups were definitely nasty though. Got blood drawn today to make sure the Terbinafine isn't killing my liver.  2 months to real beer. Current Mood: sore (1 Comment |Comment on this)
spri	10:06a	холмы::гурзуф (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
josienutter	7:56p	Bleh Woke up with a suspicious amount of eye gak this morning, and now my throat's been sore for about 2 hours.  I blame it on Marty. ;p Still at work. It's been about 12 hours at this point. Getting my ass beat at the gym today is pretty much the only thing that has kept me sane.  I am gonna hurt tomorrow.  Did 3 tough sets of deadlifts with fantastic form (finishing with 15 reps at 75 lbs), 17.5 lb dumbbell chest presses, and (3x) 5 assisted pullups on the open bar.  It wasn't too long ago that my 1RM for deadlifts was only 80 lbs, and had bad lower back stuff going on because I wasn't activating my core enough.  I must be somewhere over 100 lbs these days.  And I still remember when I could barely do 10 lb presses.  Getting stronger FTW. It's gonna be a while before I can do a single unassisted pullup though. :/ PS.  I started jogging again today.  Sort of a pre-couch-to-5k -- taking it easy with 5 minute warmups before my weight training sessions.  I'll start the actual 20 minute program 3x/week next week if I still feel okay by Monday. Current Mood: sick (1 Comment |Comment on this)
josienutter	10:12a	New Family My mom just called to let me know that my brother's baby and baby-mama are finally here from Wisconsin and are living with her until my brother gets their off-base apartment stuff dealt with.  I can't believe I have a toddler aged niece here now.  They want me to come over on Saturday.  I'm not sure I'll be able to, but I should know my schedule in a few days. I can't wait until this week is over. Stress stress stress. Current Mood: stressed (3 Comments |Comment on this)
spri	9:09a	фоты:: (Comment on this)
Monday, August 18th, 2008
josienutter	12:28p	Huh Did I say "good week"?  I spoke too soon, I think. I am slightly furious at the moment, and trying my hardest to keep it down. Current Mood: angry
josienutter	9:09a	Midwest Beer Since when did Whole Foods start carrying Leinies?  My jaw dropped when I came across a big display of Sunset Wheat this morning. I can already tell this is going to be a good week. (I need to stock up so I can have some in October. :p) Current Mood: shocked (4 Comments |Comment on this)
spri	9:57a	фоты:: (Comment on this)
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
spri	6:23p	граждане москвы и сексуальные террористы сходил в музей ленина там нашел плакат послереволюционных времен, озаглавленный : "ГРАЖДАНЕ МОСКВЫ !!!". Все рассуждения о жизни за МКАД-ом после этого кажутся ерундовыми. еще там был друго плакат - вот такой, к нему приписан английский перевод : "Let's grip sexual terrorists in the vise !". что такое vise - так и не выяснил, но зато теперь знаю, кто такие сексуальные террористы. на следующую неделю забил 4 job interview в питерских компаниях. пока все выглядит радужно. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
josienutter	6:45p	So, who all is at GenCon tomorrow? (and where?) (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
josienutter	10:26a	Mac If I end up with a mac mini with some old ass version of OS X on it, how much of a pain in the ass is it to update to the latest version?  Do I just download it and install it?  Or do I need a proper disc / full legal registration details / etc?  I think I found a seller for my low offer but as far as I can tell, he seems to be less Mac-savvy than even I am. Current Mood: curious (16 Comments |Comment on this)
josienutter	9:13a	Travel I'm gonna need to figure out how to offset all this damn carbon.  Here's our rough schedule for the next 12 months or so-- Christmas: Kansas City New Year's: Tokyo April: Cabo San Lucas Since I'm not technically a game dev anymore, I would have to take vacation time to go to GDC again, and since I can't take 2 weeks off so close to each other, I'd have to make a choice between GDC or the (free) Valve trip.  Sorry fellow CAs, but it's looking like no more GDC for me.  At least not until it wouldn't count as vacation. I am determined to have more fun in Cabo this time around.  That may mean taking a quarter off from school because while sitting around the pool every day on vacation was nice, sitting around the pool every day with my Physics homework was not so nice.  Staying caught up with my class meant I never really got to relax for long.  Hopefully, I'll be taking something a lot easier this time so it won't matter as much. That reminds me.  I need to get our photos up from that trip at some point. --- Started going through all of my crap last night.  Already pulled out 3 (small-ish) boxes of stuff.  Lots more to come.  I know some of you wonder how much I can possibly have left after everything I've sold in the past, but after this, I really will have very little.  (Well, comparatively.) Current Mood: busy (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
josienutter	9:57a	Retirement of Sorts Following up on yesterday - I think I'm pretty much done with the whole modeling thing. I'm going to keep a basic profile over at Model Mayhem in the off chance that I ever start chatting Lip Service up again (it would be cool to do something for them before I quit-quit), and I'll still be open to the occasional collaborative thing with creative teams, but that's about it. My interest has been flagging for a while now.  Too often, I don't even find it fun anymore - and if it's not fun, it's not worth doing.  It also serves no practical purpose for me.  What am I going to do with all of these photos?  Nothing.  I think I have pretty healthy self-esteem and body image without them, and modeling has started to feel like some sort of grotesque exercise in vanity lately.  I don't need it.  I would much rather spend my energy in more useful ways. Whenever I find the time to finally deal with my eBay stuff (hopefully before the end of September), I'll be adding a ton more: high quality custom-styled wigs, dresses, gloves, hairpieces, jewelry, shoes, and all the other random bits and pieces I have been holding onto for years in case they were needed for a shoot sometime down the road.  This is going to be a very relieving late Spring Cleaning, I think.  The clutter is driving me insane. After that's all out of the way, I want to redo my website and center the focus more on things I'm interested in than me personally.  I've been meaning to do that for a long while now. Current Mood: frustrated (25 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
josienutter	9:48p	Priorities Stuff outside of work has been stressing me out lately.  I've been doing a lot of navel gazing (what else is new?) and I decided that I need to make some adjustments. Somewhere along the way, I became more isolated than I really want to be.  I fell out of touch with people whose company I really enjoy-- and I want deeper connections with the ones still in my life.  This whole disconnected trend needs to not continue.  And since I don't intend on giving up school (or steady employment :p), something else has got to go if I'm going to have the available time/energy to devote to changing things. More on this later. For now it's off to bed with an O'Doul's Amber (2 months left of no booze, bah) and Sudoku for me.  I'm on a new schedule at work for the next few weeks until stuff there is under control. PopCap gave me a 3-day pass to PAX today.  (Thanks, Bart!) PS.  Pandora radio is pretty awesome. :) Current Mood: sleepy (10 Comments |Comment on this)
spri	10:14a	холмы::боб марли как оказалось, на холмах я не встретил еще и настоящего олега виденина. впрочем, в дополнение к знакомстве с половиной "серебряной свадьбы" это было бы чересчур (Comment on this)
Monday, August 11th, 2008
josienutter	8:47p	CSA Adventures Needed to do some cooking tonight before stuff starts heading south.  (Had to run to the airport after picking everything up on Thursday.) In the crockpot for the next 8 hours on low: half of a large smoked ham hock, collard greens, onions, chicken broth, water, garlic, spices.  In a bowl waiting to come with me to work tomorrow: chopped red leaf, toasted walnuts, a bit of light italian dressing.  Toasting walnuts in the microwave was a breeze - mixed them with a bit of olive oil, laid out flat in a single layer in a pyrex casserole dish, and cooked on high for 3 minutes, stirring each minute.  Crunchy and tasty. After the crockpot is available again: the rest of the ham hock, squash, green beans, a Walla Walla sweet onion, garlic, and spinach & mushrooms (added towards the end). I'm going to make some pesto out of the parsley and some toasted walnuts I put aside for some sort of chicken pasta. Red Leaf Lettuce Curly Parsley Collard Greens Baby Spinach White Pearl Onions Cremini Mushrooms Cucumbers Dapple Dandy Pluots Rival Apricots Red Grapes Raspberries Farmer's Choice of Summer Squash Green Beans And the rest is stuff I'll eat by itself. Hmm.  Maybe I should be getting a box every week after all. Current Mood: creative (17 Comments |Comment on this)
josienutter	1:18p	Two Questions 1) Does anyone here dual boot between Windows & Mac OS? 2) Is anyone here developing for the iPhone? I have the SDK at home, but no way to run it (because I don't have a Mac).  I want to make myself some highly customized productivity apps, damn it. Hmm.  Maybe my answer is a used Mac Mini.  I'd just need to find the DVI cable for my monitor. Current Mood: frustrated (21 Comments |Comment on this)
spri	4:27p	в рейкьявике, в музее, висел экран с каким-то новостным сайтом в пятницу на нем было фото обстрела цхинвали вчера в поезде заглянул в финскую газету, на которой хэдлайном было что-то о разрушениях в грузии а сегодня утром на работе спросили, не собираются ли меня наконец призвать в россии по случаю начала войны и сказали "хорошо, что ты съездил в абхазию заранее" (прошлой весной они на полном серьезе спрашивали меня о том, где же находится абхазия) на краю света почти не слышен происходящий происходящий на юге звездец (10 Comments |Comment on this)
josienutter	12:34a	C14 Convergence was really mellow for me this year.  I think I'm getting old.  I was in bed by 11pm Saturday night, LOL.  No Scott + no booze = early bedtime for me, apparently.  I wish I would have sunc my iPhone before I left; I watched every single thing on it over the weekend.  (On a side note, Dr Horrible was pretty cute and Tin Man was okay once I got over the fact that the main actress only had two tones of voice - monotone and sarcastic.)  I managed to finish my term paper earlier during the day yesterday in the hotel's business center. Thanks to Wendy for having me in her lovely set in the fashion show, and yay for seeing old buddies and meeting new ("new") folks. :) I have to say, this was the smoothest, least stressful weekend trip I've done in a long time. Yay for portable net access & GPS. :p Tomorrow's my last day of Psych class, and Tuesday's my last EnvSci class (I think).  It's almost time to start studying waves & optics.  I plan on having all of the reading done before school starts up again in 5-6 weeks.  I want something better than a 3.2 in Physics this time, damn it. Current Mood: sleepy (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
spri	7:58p	Исландия - 2008, мысли на тему Исландский звучит как смесь смягченного немецкого и испанского. В меню Iceland Express есть настоящий ёрш - набор "банка пива и микробутылка шнапса (?) Gammel Dansk. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
spri	7:56p	Исландия - 2008, часть 3 День 24-25 Зависаем в Рейкьявике, едим мороженое в огромных количествах и отмокаем в горячих источниках. Я привожу в чувство велик и знакомлюсь с содержимым здешнего музея фотографии. Мои компаньоны улетают обратно.. День 26 Утром, через час после старта, теряю в пригороде Рейкьявика свою куртку (выпала из ботинка, привязанного к рулю вела). 2 часа и 30 км ищу ее, не нахожу, объедаюсь мороженым и отправляюсь дальше в думах о том, как выжить без ветровки в пустыне (пока решил закутываться в тент от палатки). К вечеру обнаруживаю, что в камере залипла кнопка спуска. Остаток отпуска буду учиться ломографии с применением мобилки. Пробег 107 км, суммарный набор высоты, кажется, больше 600м. Впервые за месяц с чем-то ночую в своей палатке. Home, sweet home :) День 27 Покупаю плащ типа "кусок клеенки с прорезью для головы" в сувенирном магазине рядом с Geysir'ом. В нем я должен быть похож на иллюстрацию Туве Янссон к "Мумми-троллю и комете". Болтаю с дядькой, только что приехавшим оттуда, куда я направляюсь. В роли переднего багажника у него пара рогов (!!!). Пробег 77 км, total climb около 500м, усталости в сравнении со вчерашним днем почти нет. F35 - и правда очень оживленная трасса - крайняя машина проходит мимо меня около полуночи. День 28 За два часа езды по дороге-стиральной доске сливки в сумке на руле велика сбиваются в масло. Посреди дня встречаю тройку мотоциклистов из Питера. К вечеру въезжаю в туман и через час приезжаю в Hveravellir с горячими родниками. Отмокаю в них долго и со вкусом. Пробег 74 км, из них 15 с ветром в лицо ("Лучше бы я умер вчера"). День 29 Пробег 70 км, половина - по почти ровной грунтовке и без ветра (правда крайние 10..15 - в облаке). В сравнении со вчерашним почти не устал. День 30 Пробег 107 км. Возвращаюсь на асфальт R1, ловлю ветер в спину и еду почти до полуночи, опять совершенно не устаю, останавливаюсь на ночь только из-за наступающей темноты. День 31 Ветрено с большой буквы. С ветром в спину едешь 25-30 км/ч даже на подъеме (непривычно - гонишь со всех сил, а в ушах ничего не свистит), с ним же в лоб еле одолел 13 км за 2 часа. К вечеру расходится оплетка троса переднего переключателя - прямо как прошлым летом посреди норвежских гор - я лопух, перед следующей дальней поездкой заменю все, что меняется. Еще позже северный ветер стихает, а я в нахожу в очередной деревне открытый супермаркет, страшно удивляюсь и радуюсь этому - сегодня выходной понедельник, утром у меня как раз закончились запасы, взятые в пустыню и я морально приготовился провести ближайшие два дня на двух шоколадках с первой встреченной на пути заправке. Гуляю уже месяц. Об оставшемся времени вспоминаю только когда прикидываю планы на это время, дни до возвращения уже не считаю (хотя ощущения от окружающей идиллии и правда притупились, уже никаких восторгов). Пробег 95 км, опять останавливаюсь из-за того, что темнеет, холодает и надоедает крутить педали (хотя надо бы). День 32 Пробег 98 км, суммарные набор и потеря высоты 850..900 м. Катаюсь неделю, из нее двое суток в седле. Судя по карте, оставшиеся 90 км дорога стелится по берегу фьорда - завтра путь должен быть плоским и спокойным. Ветер приутих и поменял направление (и берега фьордов здорово защищают). Сами фьорды - в сравнении с норвежскими более плоские (сегодня ночую в месте, в которое ухитрились вписать небольшой аэродром) и уютные, и лес на берегах состоит из березок высотой ниже моего роста. Голубика и местами черника уже поспели, во многих местах можно собирать их двумя руками в 3 м от дороги. День 33 Пробег 91 км, набор и потеря высоты 400..450 м. Вторую ночь подряд, примерно в час, на небе показывают обалденные рассветы. Интересный эффект - ноги к вечеру вроде не устают, зато пальцы рук перестают сгибаться, как будто ты теряешь координацию движений пальцев. Покатушкам конец, теперь только между аэропортами, морскими портами и любимым домом. Current Music: радио аэростат (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
josienutter	11:44a	WTF x2 Someone hates me.  Seriously. Well, on the bright side having my annoying girl stuff now means I'll be normal again by GenCon.  Not the most ideal timing, but eh.  What really pisses me off is my skin.  It's freaking out.  Pre- apologies to tomorrow and Saturday's makeup artists. I am so not dressing up this weekend.  Well, okay, I am -- for me -- but I'm not going all out.  It helps reduce the shit I need to bring with me by like HALF.  I refuse to fly with anything more than a single backpack.  One fewer pair of platforms really helps with that. :p --- I suddenly understand why baggy, unflattering mumus are in style with the "kids" these days after trying on a pair of "skinny fit" jeans.  I didn't mind the legs, but I really don't need that much emphasis on my ass.  No thanks.  Pass. --- Some cool stuff going on in our back yard (Washington state)-- http://sapphireenergy.com Produces high-octane gasoline using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and algae. http://www.altarockenergy.com AltaRock develops geothermal technology to produce clean, renewable power. --- Damn. Seattle: Sunny, 76°F, feels like 76°F. ... Tampa: Fair, 91°F, feels like 102°F. Shorts and skimpy clothing it is. Current Mood: annoyed (5 Comments |Comment on this)