Summer Storm!!!

Fifth day of training straight since Monday. I am afraid I overexerted myself, causing some minor pain to my rear left quadriceps. Nothing really serious, it'll be probably gone by the start of the next week when I'll have to get ready again. After some laps of run I was on a bench, nose pointed to the sky, taking a break from my push ups and I noticed that on the plumbeous background made of solid clouds, there were some scattered and formless ones, looking strangely close to ground and moving remarkably fast. I thought it was weird, but it may have been caused by the wind that was blowing, raising moreover dust and soil.

Some hours later, I was having, as usual, dinner in my garden, this time sharing the meal with some neighbors. I was just done with my hamburgers and drinking some Pepsi when the sky broke into thunders and lightnings. The subtle wind, became a gale. And rain, heavy, thick rain, started to fall down alongside with a concrete hailstorm. Useless to say our dinner ended in a tragi-comic way.

This month's weather has been quite bizarre... The first ten was torridly hot, then halfway it turned mild and windy, and then today it seems someone up there forgot to close the tap. While I enjoyed the refreshing afternoons in the park, I hope this won't ruin the dinner with my friends I organized tomorrow. Nor it will drag till the next week, turning this summer period upside down and making my training impossible (yea yea, even if I don't really like it, I am getting into this training thingie).

Attached to this entry you guys can find some pictures that my colleague Vittorio just shot in the storm.

Training Training Training x_x!!!

And here we are 4 days into my intensive training X_X

I have to say that the hardest (and most painful) day has been the 3rd though.

While the first one, was dedicated to soccer, the successive ones have been run, push ups, sit ups, sprints, chair climbing and the like of this. I've been doing this in the public park, and, considering the season, I've been blessed with a mild weather, a little sunny but with a refreshing wind.

Altough I know it's not the best of the plans to train like this everyday, I realized that for my lazy self, it's better to do the same work (be it a game, a project or... training) everyday, just to keep myself set in that particular state of mind. In fact in the past when I tried training and did it day in / day off, I ended postponing the run indefinitely. I hope I'll survive to the weekend's break.

I also realized I really dislike running without a goal, a purpose. And I hate it a little bit less on a tapis roulant (maybe because in that situation I can disconnect my brain and not think about it, while in the park I have to dodge the other people :X ). Soccer, sports in general and even stair / wall climbing is more affine to me.

I am considering the purchase of a cyclette for the cold and rainy winter period.

Why?

• As just mentioned, in winter the weather isn't that nice, so having it in home make so you can't justify the lack of training with the "I don't want to get drenched" excuse.
• With a cyclette you can do other stuffs while training (ie. watching tv / pc , reading something, etc etc)
• A cyclette doesn't take as much space as a tapis roulant.
• You need to train always, and not just in summer, but during the year there is never enough time.

Wew. Exams done.

It's been about a month since last update. An intense month.

In this period, the works at home finally ended, and I have managed to pass the 4 exams I planned (I completed the last one this friday). Last one was particularly interesting, being a JAVA/Oracle 10g SQL application, and I had my friend Luciano as partner, so the long nights (we worked our butts off till even 5 am) weren't that tiring. Exams went all as expected, with nice scores. I was planning to have another one on September but teachers decided for a strike to block that exam window, so no way.

Now that 'holidays' started, since I am ambitious, I have several plans:

• I'll try to get back my fitness with Bike, Jogging and Soccer.
• I'll develop (with Luciano) some commercial softwares to save up some money for our upcoming trip oversea.
• I'll try to write some new poem, since the lack of time during the year forced me to dilute my activity.
• I'll try to read some new manga and watch some of the heap of movies I downloaded but never opened.
• And if I have some time to spare, I'll try to relax a little. As strange as it can sound, I am really lazy but I can't seem to stay put without doing something big.

Today, this night to be more exact, I had my first soccer match. We chose the only cold / windy / rainy day in the whole month, and started playing at 10.30 pm till after midnight. I am happy that even though it was half an year I didn't play I managed to score 2 times.

In the next days I hope to finally define my pc components, even if the particular period isn't the best as suppliers don't provision their stocks before August. I am afraid it may slip to september... well as long as it's before FFXIV launch it should be fine.

Also I plan to have some BBQ with my friends before everyone leaves the city. Oh yea, I am eating almost every evening / night in my garden, so it's quite a nice diversion.

Anyway, I am a little tired after all that running, so I may just go and hit the pillow now... okay okay I'll play some PSP first :)

Stressing weeks >:|

Oh Phew!

It's been a long long time since the last update eh!

As it's easy to assume it's been a very very busy period, not only because it is exam period (I am half done, well maybe a little more than half done) but also because we're having restructuring works at home, so it's such a mess...

Just think that in the past weeks I've had to live (study and sleep) in like 4 different rooms (including kitchen and living room). Hopefully my room will be operative again in a week (my room's new painted walls look nice, I think I'll share some pictures in the future).

I'm happy this stress will end also because once we're set I'll go get my new pc. Most likely it'll be an Intel i7 930, 3x2 DDRIII Triple channel, not sure yet on the GPU, probably an ATI Radeon HD 5850 (the 5870 costs too effin' much).

Oh and guys did you hear? Final Fantasy XIV is scheduled to be released the 22th of September!

I am so hyped about it :) I am excited thinking I'll finally play again with my DODF guys.

Too bad just the PS3 version is scheduled for 30th March >=| Oh well...