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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
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6:18 pm - It says "Good"
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I've been waiting to receive my diploma since last week. As nothing happened, a friend decided to go on the minitel (the internet ancestor) to check out for me. I didn't know I'd be listed there as it is a GED stuff and not a big High School Diploma.
So he found my name and if I passed or failed.
So I passed!
And in France there are 'honours' given to students depending on their marks. Mine was "Good" (wikipedia ranks it as High Honour, the others being Fair 'enough to pass', Good Enough 'honours' and Very Good 'highest honours'); That correspond to a mark between 14 and 15.99 out of 20 (which is roughly equivalent to B in USA).
I have yet to know my exact mark.
I iz happy ^^
EDIT: I just found out the diploma I got is quite different from the US GED as the exams were exactly the same as HSD (math exam even included Integration), just less matters to pass. No offense to anyone having a GED.
current mood:  crazy
current music: J'ai Dix Ans - Alain Souchon
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| Saturday, June 27th, 2009
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11:44 pm - Stolen from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) orcinus
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Your result for The Mind Self Control Test...
MasterMaster Mind! 
Well what can I say! You probably don't need any advice about any of this. You are active in your own thought process. You are probably well focused. You are self conscious and take action consciously. You are aware of the nature of cause and effect (at least as this applies in a temporal environment... B). You know what your goals are. You don't allow your strengths to dominate your weaknesses. You cultivate balance and harmony in your thought process. You strive to maintain objectivity. You realize the difficulties involved in doing so. You understand that there are always different perspectives other than your own.
Take The Mind Self Control Test at HelloQuizzy
Yeah... so they say...
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| Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
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11:12 pm - stolen from selth
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| Sunday, May 31st, 2009
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8:29 pm - News
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I haven't updated my LJ this last few days, so let's start with thursday:
After a correct sleep, i get a normal breakfast which I'll find too heavy for a day-long scuba diving. Will have to be careful with that next time. Fill up the car tank since I don't want to go in someone else's car, not that i don't want to but I don't have money to pay for the travel. On other hand I don't push others to pay me back when they ride with me.
The guy I drove to the diving place was really nice and we talked for a while, first time I meet a professional helicopter pilot.
Somehow we are late because we expected someone else to come with us and in fact, this person went there already, so we had to hurry to change of clothes and wear diving gears, they are cool but really tight around the ankles and wrists. There was much wind and the first diving site was abandonned because there was no way to stabilised the boat with the strong currents, so we go to another place. All is good but I start to feel seasick, I know it will pass as soon as I'm in the water. So we start diving, as usual I'm slightly underweighted, my fault, but not by much. Fortunately I'm not as stressed as a few dives ago when I used half my tank just to dive down to 20 meters. This time I used only 10 bars, which is just ten times less. I'm a lousy diver, I'm not fit and I spend a whole tank while others spend only half of it. I showed the director when I was half and when I was in the red. I knew I could have confidence in him but for no apparent reason I had a panic attack underwater. I wanted to remove the mask and the breather from my mouth, I wanted to throw everything and just dive up to the surface as fast as possible. My old teacher told me about it when i first started to dive, not sure if it's a common stuff though but I managed to control myself. I guess my will is strong enough, cause after we landed, and I told my director about it, he said there was nothing visible in my acts underwater that showed any problem. Although I thought it was good to tell them.
Anyway, we finally reach the surface after this first dive and my tank shows less than 20 bars. And we surfaced like 200 or 300 yards from the boat with opposite currents. At least, the waves helped some and I swam more with each wave to gain from them, it took quite a while to get to the boat, but it was good not to be alone, then we had to remove stuff while holding the boat with one hand, my weight belt turned and I didnt thought of turning it underwater, so my director helped me, I turned facing the water, with my arm twisted and holding the boat, fighting to stay still as he asked me to :p.
From now on, my strenght was limited to the minimum, but I still had to get back into the boat, thanks to my fellow co-divers, it went easily but I was feeling pretty bad, a mixture of seasickness, dizzy head from too much effort, empty stomach and reminiscent of fear from underwater, or rather trying to understand it. I laid down on the boat floor until we arrive, I was cold and shaky (not visibly so though), of course I covered myself but the wind didnt help. We ate and I told the boss, I won't go to the next dive, he said ok but my dive director talked me into it, since I started to feel better after a small sandwich.
The second was rather uneventful; there was no current there, my tank went down as fast as before but we saw lots of interesting animals, like lobsters, tiny sharks, crabs, spider crabs, lots of fishes and even a torpedo ray, first time I ever saw one live.
Then it was time to drive home, I drove the guy back to his car and he gave me 10 bucks for the ride (I don't ask for those but it's the second time and the first guy calculated that's what my car costed me for the ride, so heh.).
Had enough time to shower and even rest a bit in it. Tiredness started to fit in but managed to go to school, and spend the two hours of course without a problem, thanks to the talented teacher. (One of them is so boring, he'd put me asleep even if I was on high-level cafeine). She told me something I heard when I was in school twelve years ago and which is still true:
I have the knowledge, I have the brain but I lack the way to explain it on paper in a scientific way (developping an explanation with details down to the conclusion).
Then comes friday, not much happened then, I tried to ride my bike but everyone decided to go on weekend at the same time, I drove like 40 miles in 2h30. Ordered two pizza, a special IE8 (yes the shop makes a internet explorer 8 pizza!) and a nutella one. The IE8 is really good but the other one is just a pasta fold in two with the nutella in it, the pasta was already getting hard as I got it, havent touched it since, will see if I can get it softer.
Saturday: naught.
Sunday: that is today. I went for a long ride, everything went well, 2h30 of ride, my ass just couldnt handle more, so I stopped under the sun for half an hour, no one to bother me it was really cool and then rode again, for almost another hour. It could have been the perfect if not 500 yards before my house, at a traffic light, I encountered a problem:
My light turned green, so I start, I got my sign to turn left, which means everyone coming in front has the right of way, in front there are two separate lanes with one light each, one lane goes straight or left (from their pov), the other goes right, ie: my right.
No car on the first lane, but one at the second, I start slow, cross the street slowly waiting for the car to move since I'm not sure if her light has turned green or not, I still go slow waiting for it to go then decide she might be red and starts to accelerate
...And so she does...
I was relatively far (not 100 yards though) from her, I braked hard, my rear tire slid a bit (might have been on the crossing lines). And I yelled at her.
The old person on the wheel was just not realising her light was green and she realised it as I came to her. Nothing wrong happened but it still pisses me off that people are not concentrated on their driving. If anything had happened I'd have been responsible because she had the right of way..
Oh well, it's over now and it's time to rest a bit waiting for mick to connect.
current mood:  content
current music: Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf
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| Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
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4:29 pm - Those dinos...
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2:59 pm - Prices and money
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The more it goes and the more I am careful at the prices when shopping, looking for promotions, checking if the prix per kg is really cheaper for a larger quantity or money going to the shop-card. I am even more careful as I am running low on money. I'll be happy to go back working this summer even if it's truck driving, it will bring good money (and allows myself to buy my nerdy N97 :p).
Although, I still try to buy food I like, I dont really want to eat shit because it's cheaper, ham is a good example, cheap ham is nothing but water and plastic-like pink stuff.
I got myself the last Lucky Luke comic, as I like to get myself a few things from time to time. It looks like in france, comics are considered as "collectors items" because they really arent cheap: 8€50 for that one.
Got 1€00 on my card today for 59€00 spent.
On other note, good apple is good.
current mood:  curious
current music: Chuck WhiteHorse - It Can't Come Soon Enough
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| Monday, May 25th, 2009
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12:45 pm - random thoughts
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Packing for the last two weeks of school, then there will be another week off (called week of rehearsal) then the exams.
Mom said we are going to Tai-Shi together after school.
XL sweating t-shirt (special "breathing" fibers) is just a bit too large for me.
In two weeks, I'll drive the bike home: 110 miles or so. Not that I might but I just have too long legs to seat correctly on it, and a special forward foot rest (5" further than normal forward controls) is 600€ without installation, no longer seat exists.
I haven't drawn in a long time, two commissions are overdue, I shall repair that very soon.
I might try to record myself singing one day, SingStar is just a game but it gave me enough confidence and so did DJ PonyHard.
I wonder if I can get my ferret to travel with my to US with the correct papers and vaccines.
If I get good grades at the final exam, mom wants to offer me a big gift.
Live long and prosper \\//.
current mood:  random
current music: The Final Countdown
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| Sunday, May 17th, 2009
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8:28 am - In search
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..of a job.
Really want to work with horses but there's always a slight problem:
I need a riding level, a sort of sport diploma to show you get enough skills...
Each riding level is roughly a year of riding for a normal rider. And I'm required level 7. In other words it's the level that allows you to train for being a riding teacher. Until then no problem.
Two facts:
1: I've seen level 7 riders falling from a horse who avoided a jump, while I, with my pity level 2 at the time, I could stand still on said horse. I was even given level 5 horses at the time when their dedicaded riders didnt come. I even rode stallions in shows for years and international-class dressage horses. (a tiny lil 10 years in all). And yet I can't get a job because I don't have the official level. Which leads to our...
2nd fact: Horse riding is like any sports considered as a hobby for employment company, so I need to pay from my pocket to get official riding levels, that is a minimum of a day riding every week for 4 years since I have level 3 and I need level 7, although I might be able to get them a bit faster, I can't afford it right now and despite a new stuff now in place called "valorisation of experiences" which transforms your experience into a paper (duh!), there's nothing about 1: horses, 2: sports levels.
I visited someone lately who would have been more than happy to hire me, BUT:
1: For hiring me, he needs to get his whole farm "upgraded" to reflect the new laws about security and work-comfort (my ass! I've worked 10 years with horses and I never cared that a tractor had to have power steering). Which means hundreds of thousands of euro to get someone working with him.
2: the Veterinary State Services are on his back waiting for anything, they visited him lately, his horses are the most gentle I ever saw but this asshole from the services just was too afraid to go close to the horses alone to "chip" them so she wrote in her papers that she wasnt allowed to check the horses... So they are a bit pissed off, and hoping for him to make a mistake. If he ever hires illegally, which personally I don't care, the country isn't making things worth being hired*, and I ever have an accident they'll make him close his farm. And he doesn't need that.
*If I don't work I get money from the unemployement (right now a whooping great 1200€/month because I worked at 2500 for a long period); If I go to school, I don't get money anymore because "I'm not looking for a job anymore" (so I claim I'm doing evening classes, which is not a lie); If I work 1 day a month, as I had to do for my mutual insurance in November, I get 200€ less on my unemployment pay, unfortunately, I'm not paid 200€ a day at work, which means : unemployment + work = less than not working...
In 12 years, the unemployment called me twice for a job... while I was working... for apples...
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current music: Pink Panther theme
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8:09 am
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8:03am Back from the bakery
8:04am Cleaning my coffee bowl
8:05am Making morning breakfast... damn already 8:07am gotta do all this now.
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| Saturday, May 16th, 2009
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1:36 pm - Seen in the news today
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Obama changes his mind and Russia violently arrests and molests 20 homosexuals (who asked for the same rights as others) in front of molested journalist the day of the eurovision final (which occurs in Russia).
current mood: pensive
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| Friday, May 15th, 2009
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8:47 pm - Movie night
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That wasn't today, it was wednesday.
Last time I went to cinema was with Shetty, so that makes it maybe two years ago or so and as such I decided it was time to try and go to cinema even if alone.
Star Trek XI had me decided, not because I'm a trekkie but because I like movies with lots of special effects. So I looked online and found a pre-release movie "Là-Haut" (Up) in 3D.
I run to the cinema, or rather take the bus to it and arrives just in time for it, the cinema only uses electronic posts to get tickets, a rather unpersonal mean. On the screen it reads "ticket for Up in 3D with the opening ceremony of Cannes Festival live". 12€.
Ok then, let's go.
It was really nice to see live from Cannes, we were given special 3D glasses for the movie and that's when the fun started.
Up is the new Pixar movie (second Pixar movie to be PG rated), release date: May 29.
It is both funny and sad, like a real movie I'd say, although it keeps what makes animation picture interesting. It is bright and full of colors, it's really fun and 3D do add a lot to the movie. But also it made me think.
The story of a 80 years old guy who swore he'd go where his hero went when he was a kid and never fulfilled his vow ...until now. The comic sidekick being a little scout boy trying to get another medal by helping an old person and a dog with... something special ;).
I found the movie really cool and funny, a breath of fresh air in a not-so-easy life. And a proof that there's always hope even after 80 years of waiting.
The movie is PG rated for some peril and action (filmratings.com).
In the end, the movie was applauded.
I got out of the cinema thinking of watching another movie and decided for it, the pizzeria next to the cinema offered 20% off if you showed a movie ticket, so I got there, ate a goat cheese, honey and raw ham pizza (you can't understand what's good you american burgers!).
Ran out of the restaurant as I was 5 minutes late for the movie but in fact only the commercials were running so I had time to undress and sit correctly for Star Trek.
Totally different movie from the first one but also very interesting. Despite not being a Star Trek fan, I'm old enough to have seen the original series several times on tv. And I had a bit of apprehension about new actors for canon characters. But I was happy with the result. I guess I was more controversial with Kirk but it's more from the fact that he is always on screen and I have enough time to see the difference than the other actors who have less screen time. I must say my favorite was McCoy, there's no one like him and I knew it was him as soon as I heard his voice. The only point I would be splitted for is the plot. It's a modified space-time reality, not the original one and thus, is it really how it started?
All in all, the movie was really interested and the Enterprise is cool to look at when being built. I'm not sure the bridge looked like that in the original series though :p.
The movie ended 20 minutes after the last bus so I had to walk 45 minutes back home but it was worth it.
current music: Star Trek theme
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| Friday, April 10th, 2009
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2:48 am - stolen from shadowtxhorse
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Your result for The Kink Spectrum Analysis Test... Blue (450 nm)
Wow! You have quite a big repertoire when it comes to kinky sex. And you're probably also willing to play on either side of the fence. You should look for another Blue, or an Ultraviolet if you want to broaden your horizon. Greens may be okay as well but will probably bore you after a while. Reds are too vanilla for you. But I promised you a more detailed analysis, so here it is. Note that most scales are twofold: There are separate values for giving (active) and receiving (passive). If you scored high on one of them, you should look for a partner who scored high on the other. If you scored high on both of them, go for someone who is similar (or for multiple partners if you're into that). If you scored low on both, this probably is not your kind of kink. You scored 92% giving and 54% receiving on oral. You scored 67% giving and 100% receiving on anal. You scored 31% giving and 86% receiving on bondage. You scored 41% giving and 57% receiving on humiliation. You scored 17% giving and 95% receiving on pain. You scored 42% dominance and 60% submission. You scored 54% voyeurism and 40% exhibitionism. Besides that, you're 19% into fetishism and 84% polysexual (i.e. interested in sex with multiple partners, whether at the same time or not). You'll probably want a partner who is similar, whether you scored high or low in these categories. Finally, you scored 35% on autoerotic - a scale that measures your ability and/or willingness to have kinky fun without a partner. It's not exactly a matching criterion, but it's good for you if your score is high. Keep it up! Take The Kink Spectrum Analysis Test at HelloQuizzy
Oooooh kinky me ;>
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| Sunday, April 5th, 2009
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10:06 pm - How Open Minded Are You? (stolen from avon_deer)
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| You Are 80% Open Minded |  You are so open minded that your brain may have fallen out!
Well, not really. But you may be confused on where you stand.
You don't have a judgmental bone in your body, and you're very accepting.
You enjoy the best of every life philosophy, even if you sometimes contradict yourself. |
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| Friday, April 3rd, 2009
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8:09 pm - On other news
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The G20 decided to set a grey and a black list of the tax heavens...
Thank you Sarkozy and Obama, now I know where to go when I win the lottery.
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| Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
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9:20 pm - We are not amused.
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*Ranting mood*
As some of you know, I give courses to reta... students with problems in maths and so on. Last week, one guy asked me if I could come for him only as no one else wanted to meet before the exams. So I said yes to his request.
He called me yesterday asking if we could start earlier because he had to go at 4:30pm to pick his kids, he even wanted me to get there in the morning which I refused so we decided to meet at 1:30pm in class.
Today, he sent me an sms at noon claiming he'd be late which I replied by asking how late he would be.
No answer.
I decide then to take a bit more time and leave later imagining he'll be saying I'm half an hour late, in fact, I arrived by 1:45pm. Asked for a class key and then proceeded to do a few chemistry homework before he arrives.
2pm comes and goes.
Received a phone call at 2:45pm "is it still ok? when will you be there?", "well I'm already there." I say. "Ok, I'm coming."
3pm comes and goes.
He arrived somewhere between 3:30 and 3:45pm, time at which I was randomly looking online and playing windows games (yes, there are computers and internet in the class).
We started an exercise on ln (neperian logarithm) to which he seemed to understand nuts and his attention span was just close to ln (1).
Things then on went much faster as 20 minutes later he went out to smoke a cigarette, to which I followed, because I needed some time after all this wait.
He told me someone else is coming, and I though the other was coming for lessons too.
As soon as we are back in the class, the other shows up, they both leave the room and I'm alone again.
They show up half an hour later. We go on with an exercise, while other students for the chemistry evening course arrive. I don't remember the exact timeframe but we did only one exercise at that time before he vanished for the day...
And so the chemistry course started 45' later, with me pissed off.
As for the reason he arrived late, he said separation is hard, and why he didn't answer my sms, he said he couldn't...
It's the last time I ever help one guy.
current mood:  pissed off
current music: none
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| Saturday, March 28th, 2009
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3:57 pm - Bloggering
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Got school again this morning, four hours of biology. It's not so bad cause the teacher is great, showing us pics of his last trip to Indonesia and such, we started the hormones process today and so we talked about male and female sexes, which made me teach something to my teacher. He was sure that all mammals except humans had penile bones (baculum), which I firmly disagreed and said that horses don't have penile bones, it took me google (and wikipedia) to show him I was right -yes we have internet in class- and also to find out that most mammals do have penile bones except a list that includes equines and cetaceans :p. (Does that count for an A+? ;) )
Then after school, I went shopping some and found a rarity: a Canson comic book cover sheets block. So I got one. Then I learnt that my art supply shop (not so much) will soon have Copics to sell (by September, but I won't be there anymore, bad luck :D). And then found a (cheap) multi-zone dvd player (that still need to be tested for multi zone).
And then I got back home and wrote this, so this is now and you are reading this in real time (Wow!)
current mood: crazy
current music: Animusic - Resonant Chamber
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| Friday, March 27th, 2009
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10:52 am - Earth Hour or the new yearly joke
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So I heard on tv that tomorrow everyone in the world should turn the light bulbs off for one hour at 8:30pm local time (wherever you are). Then I take a peek in the website:
"Turn your light off and take pictures, film it; blog or twitter about it"
Shuuuuuuure thing, Charlie!
After all, everyone knows computers and cameras don't use electricity to run. Neither do cellphone phones or TV sets for those who want to listen to channels speaking on how people have followed those.
Tell you what, I'll turn off my whole electricity system if TV channels do the same for the earth hour, otherwise fuck that.
You want to do something for the earth? Ok, then, throw your car and walk your kids to school, one mile on feet will burn your fat ass instead of buying shit from infomercials.
I'll accept to recognize the utility of Earth Hour the day you make everyone on Earth stop using their cars for a full day a year.
current mood: pissed off
current music: On peuplu rien dire - Didier Bourdon
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| Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
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9:33 pm - News
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I drove my bike here at my flat where I live while I'm in school. It wasn't a pleasant experience cause my backpack was heavy, the road was long and the weather was grey and cold, plus I was stressed over such a long trip, 2h30 is already long for me, never rode that long before or maybe just once. But I had to do it or the bike would stay at my home and not being used at all unless during holidays which is limited time. Now it is here and I can ride whenever the need arises.
On other news I finally lost weight, after spending several month around and above 200 Lbs, I'm now at 195 Lbs, not a big loss but it is very important for my sanity. Hope it will continue to go on. Diving sessions start again next month. As I'm thinking of it comes the problem of money, how will I pay for diving, then Level 2 then flight to see my mate? I actually don't know and I don't any good outcome yet. Time will tell.
current mood: mixed
current music: Bénabar - L'effet papillon
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| Monday, February 2nd, 2009
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2:53 pm - Bleh
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I'm pretty pissed off now.
Saturday I decided to buy an elliptical bike, the kind that goes in a room and you stand up on pedals to get fit/loose weight.
I took the second cheapest model for 150€ which is still some money. 86 lbs to bring home and build up myself which I though was good since a fully built one would never fit in my car.
So I built it, sweat, continued building, sweat, tried it for 2 minutes then went to bed. Everything was ok imho.
Next day, I go for the real stuff, 20 minutes of training, not so much but I aint fit. Then today I go for 30' during which i notice a problem.
The front arm which holds the computer and the swinging arms is swinging left and right with each movements, I think of it as a light stuff that I will take care of after my training is finished. So I go to check and I see screws unscrewed, metal dust around each of them and the ring joint cut all around the arm based on which is should be resting... -.-;
I followed the building manual exactly as I should, I screwed tight enough but not like crazy, it is not supposed to be anyway, especially with the tiny tools they give us. And it's already breaking down, not even after 1 whole hour of use...
Bleh.. MADE IN CHINA...
(will answer previous comments later.)
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| Sunday, February 1st, 2009
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5:05 pm - FC post-con non-review
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Dear FC,
Why were you so damn short?
Yours truely,
Delphine :p
current mood: crazy
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