I was working out at the gym this morning and the only other people there were the owner and the person he was training. Between sets they started talking about Diablo II characters, how high a level they had reached and what strategies work best against the bosses. I chipped in a couple of comments and we spent the rest of the session talking about games between excercises.
JP, the fitness guy, has pretty good taste in games - he prefers PC games over console, System Shock 2 is the PC game that got him hooked and he needs to upgrade his system almost every year to keep playing games.
The Doctor was very proud of his lvl 99 bowazon. I don’t know how a doctor finds to time to get to lvl 99. I played the hell out of DII and my highest charcater was a lvl 93 javazon.
You never know what a fitness pro, a black orthopedic Doctor and a trying to be fit CPA have in common:-)
For my part, I have lost 30 pounds in the last 6 months, dropped my body fat from 26.6% to 17.5% and actually can run a few miles without dying a painful death. I can’t bench 300+ like Desslock, but I do well for a generally deskbound CPA.
Several of you guys ribbed Tom about his E3 party absence due to an appointment at the gym. Hey brother, I understand your dedication. Keep livin’ the life.
Amen to any and all attempts at fitness: I was in Circuit City this evening looking for the Animatrix DVD/CD set (on sale for $20 but not in stock). As I walked through their joke of a PC games section, I noticed a portly gamer with a weird sheen to his skin. That should have been my warning to turn around and flee. Instead I walked past him as I looked at the games.
Unfortunately, the guy had the worst B.O. it has ever been my displeasure to smell. I literally gagged 4 times as I literally stumbled away from him. I don’t react this strongly to homeless people reeking of their own urine and excrement. What the hell is up with some people? We’ve known how to make soap ever since we starting burning corpses on lakes. How long is it going to take everyone to learn how to use it? Sorry for the disgusting side note, but the odor still lingers in my imagination and I was having an amazingly good day up to that point. And with that off my chest, equilibrium is restored.
ObTopic: I occasionally run into gamers at the gym. They’re usually PS2 sorts, but I’ve ended up talking about Halo, M.A.M.E, Starcraft, The Sims, Sundog, Tribes, Unreal, and 2600 classics on various occasions. You’d be surprised how many people out there play one or two games. What seems to be unusual is people who play a lot of them.
I started working as a system analyst at a bank a year ago. After a couple of months I got to know a guy who helped me some with learning vb. One day he comes to me looks around and asks quietly:
“Do you use your computer at home sometimes?”
I answered: “Yeah, quite a lot”.
Still very quietly - “Do you have anything intereseting?”
“Like what??”
“You know, software…”
“What software? Word, Paintshop?”
"No, " - looking around and lowering voice even more - “You know - any games?”
To my jaded eye, this looks suspiciously like the part of the story where the 70’s porno music kicks in. Bowmp-chika-bow-wow.[/quote]
LOL :lol:
On the fitness topic, I’ve gone from 295 to 202 pounds in the past 26 months by simply balancing my diet–a la no fast food, no pop, I stopped salting everyting I could, including the family cat, less beer & pizza–and getting off my fat ass and going to the gym six mornings per week. I was 36 when I started and couldn’t walk up a flight of stairs without feeling my chest pounding, couldn’t pick something off the floor without a deep knee bend, and couldn’t tell what sex I was while showering. The energy I have now is incredible and I literally feel 15 years younger. For example, I ran 2 miles last night around 11pm, slept till 8, hit the gym and did 30 minutes on the cross country machine, 10 minutes doing various crunches, and then came home and spent over an hour cutting the yard in this summer heat. Two years ago I’d now be in a hospital emergency room if I’d tried this. And I’ll probably run again tonight and then do weights tomorrow morning.
The fact that the wife and I are having our first child this Monday (a scheduled C-section) might change some of this free time for exercising, but we’ll see.
All this talk of exercise makes me jealous. I was doing an intensive jogging routine last year, and had dropped about 30 pounds, when I had to stop because it turned out I have three ruptured discs. Sigh. Haven’t been able to do much of anthing for some time now. Fortunately, surgery soon.
