disconnect

i have found myself staying up later than intended to play a few more rounds of hero academy - my painful lessons at the hands of zenstar and schpat have brought me to crushing random mystery foes with relative ease. the greatest compliment so far (from someone that i actually taunted, i still don't know what that looks like) was "wow - i finally found someone who knows how to play"...

well, i'm glad that my friends keep it entertaining, and i hope i don't bore them :)

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yesterday:

the day began with a march for public transport on weekends. i cannot stress enough how much this would positively impact israel; or how much the current situation negatively impacts us. here's (also hebrew) a very interesting set of points made in a vote of no-confidence.

"the silent majority has awakened," proclaimed the banner, but the place was mostly empty. i wonder how many people have simply gotten so used to needing private cars that they couldn't imagine the freedom (and money- / pollution- / aggravation-saving) that buses can bring if they're run properly (and at fair prices, and all the time). also, on a friday it's quite a sacrifice for people without cars to travel to tel aviv using public transport...

(hebrew) this is an article on not playing the religious marriage game: yep, yesterday was a freedom-of-choice kind of a day*. this is an article i can totally get behind. heck, pg and i are already there.

* not counting the rally protesting animal testing - i agree with them, but i'll only join them when they officially become pro-human-volunteer testing. we need testing to be done. the best testing is on humans. there are plenty of humans who'd happily be experimented on for cash.

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too much sun.

too much arguing on facebook... at some point the facebook app started ignoring my posts and that was when i discovered that we had no internet access at home - it was like that until this morning, and aside from upsetting me greatly it forced me to do nothing all day. this might have been a good thing.

i spent the lazy, post-too-much-sun afternoon watching pumping iron (it's great!) and the muppets (it's also great!), consuming far too much junk food. i was really, really tired, whether from the sun or just general exhaustion i don't know.

later, pg dragged me up to the roof (kicking and screaming, really) to smoke our hookah pipe and play citadels. it was a beautiful evening with a magnificent sunset, and i thoroughly enjoyed myself. except for the bit where i realized that i'd smoked too much, and when i got up i felt horrible. the plans for the evening were cancelled on account of my not being able to move without feeling nauseous (has this happened before? i think so, and i think i should've learned), and we stayed in and watched the scorpion king. not amazing, but fun nonetheless.

it doesn't really live up to the godsmack video, though.

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today:

well, i managed to get up and run, at least. i suspect that trance isn't the best music for running - it made me go slo-mo, and it took being overtaken by a sprinter to get me to kick back into a higher gear. i suspect that the slow running is better exercise for the ankles, it forces me to use my whole foot...

i took the dog for a walk and tied her to my chair while i ate breakfast and continued to read wired (i'm on the current issue, and the cover story about the nsa is really disturbing). one of the mongoose's friends joined me as i was signing the bill, and we sat chatting for half an hour.

i rested for the next half an hour, then strapped on blades to meet up with scrapper and a friend of his on the climbing wall.

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the quote of the day is attributed to a little boy standing with his friends next to a vending machine: "we're not suckers!"
i resisted the urge to correct him. yes, you are. you're a sucker because you've barely begun this whole life thing and already you've learned to spend all your time worrying about whether other people are taking advantage of you.

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the walls were tough, and while i mostly stayed in the shade i think i managed to add more sun damage :(
my fingers and arms hurt in a good way, and now that i've gotten this all down i believe i'm ready to get productive on my seminar paper. unless pg wants dinner somewhere...

ah, weekends. this was a good one, overall.