First Run

I decided to spend yesterday relaxing as much as possible.  The wife was out for the weekend on one of her, ummm, sojourns, and my 16 year old was attending graduation/slumber parties for the weekend, so it was just me and the boys (9 and 2).  This can usually go one of two ways.  The first, and usually most likely way, is that we are fine until the 2 year old HAS A TOTAL AND COMPLETE MENTAL BREAKDOWN.  I'm serious, it's just plain insane.  He'll decide at some point that he has just had it with everyone/everything and there is no consoling him.  He's done until his next nap, as soon as you can convince him to relax.  If you can't...he's just an ever expanding ball of rage.

(2 year old in rage mode)

Luckily, yesterday wasn't like that.  We never devolved into the crazy rage ball.  It was a good day.  I have an old arcade cabinet that I put a computer into that runs classic arcade games in an emulator.  He and I played Pac-Man, Galaga, Dig Dug (a new personal high score for me), Burgertime and Mr. Do.  He did horribly, pretty much limited to left-right movements with an up-down thrown in from time to time.  We alternated turns (I would make sure I would die once he started getting impatient, which was a good decision, I could play Pac-Man and Mr. Do for a loooong time on one guy).  It was fun.  The nine year old was busy destroying Nazi Zombies on the xbox, so we had a fun gaming day.

Later in the afternoon, when the two boys were happily playing outside (a break in the horrible central ny weather!), I decided to finish my hackintosh project.  I had been trying to install Snow Leopard on my PC for quite awhile, with middling success.  I could never get the video card fully recognized.  I finally figured that out, but the fix took out the USB.  After thinking about that for awhile and doing some research, I forgot that bootloader doesn't use the regular com.apple.boot.plist, but uses one in the /Extra folder.  Once I added the USB switches to that, I finally had a fully function OS X install on my intel core2 duo based PC.  Eventually I have to get the OS X/Win7 dual boot working, but I'm happy with this for now.

Me and the boys had some dinner (cheeseburgers and pierogies...awesome), they had a bath then went to bed.  I sat down and thought about things for awhile.  I decided to start this little blog and wrote up the first post.  Then I watched True Blood (a guilty pleasure, although it's losing me, getting a little TOO out there for even me), and waited for the wife to get home from her weekend.  She got back, we talked a little bit about her weekend, and went to bed.

When the alarm went off this morning (after a few snoozes), I got up to do the first run.  A friend at work had agreed to start the program with me, so I got dressed and headed over to her house.  We exchanged pleasantries, and got to running.  Week 1 on the program starts with a 5 min walk, then 60 seconds running/90 seconds walking alternating until we're at 20 minutes total.  It's a gradual 9 week program, and this was a good start.  I evidently still had some runner left in me, as this didn't kill me as much as the first time I started the program.  I never got to the "OMYGODI'MGONNAPUKE" stage, and I even really picked up the pace for the last 15 seconds of the final run.  It felt really pretty good.  My running partner seemed to do very well also.  She made it through just fine.  My calves were on fire, but otherwise, I was none the worse for wear.  Even my back didn't really hurt as much as it had.

A good start to the day, I hope.  I'm in a good mood, although the wife seems pretty down today.  I hope it turns up for her.  Tonight is the 16-year-old's soccer game (we've got snack duty).  Monday is also one of the nights that the wife takes for herself, for some alone time.  She'll probably cut out during the game, but we'll see.  Maybe she'll stay for the whole thing.

I hope this ends up being a good day.