Benfalk Blog

Today was descent for a Monday.  Coming into work with a clean cubicle and a better list of things I need to get done this week really helped a lot.  I worked on a couple minor code segments to a web display system for most of the morning.  After lunch I fought phone calls and did some miscellaneous gopher work.

Strait from work I headed to WalMart to get some week supplies of tuna, veggies, and pasta.  When I got home I changed into running gear and did some speed work on my treadmill.  I started out doing a quarter of a mile at 5mph pace to warm up my muscles then did quarter miles runs from paces varying between 8 - 10 mph.  After 2.75 miles of speed treadmill work work threw on a sweatshirt, sock hat, and light gloves to do some real speed work outside =) .

My outside speed work consisted of all out sprints which totalled distances of about an 1/8 of a mile or so, followed by a minute walk, 3 minutes of jogging, stretching, repeat.  After my legs were jello-fied I ducked into the apartment workout room and did some leg lifts to help break apart my leg muscles some more to hopefully bulk them up a bit more to get some more distance speed under me.

Since my run I have been working on my seemingly never ending user library project haha.  I’m going to try my best to finish up the library tonight with the aid of some of the best green tea three dollars can buy =) .

$3.00 Green Tea!

I’m not sure where the day went =\ .  I woke up at 7:30 this morning and was hoping to get a run in, but the rainy weather with temperatures in the mid thirties all day kept me from doing any such thing =( .  I ended up watched Lucas play Warhammer for about a half hour or so, then we went down to our parents house to take a vent fan out of their attic for the winter.  That was pretty much an in and out operation; we where back in Fort Wayne by about 12:30 .  I spent the next couple hours finishing up the base of my user library !!  I am still going through it to do some bug checking and probably over lunch tomorrow I’ll post it up.  Then, in a couple days I’ll through up a back-end admin interface to it.

I tried to finish chapter seven of my C++ book today, as I did not finish it on Friday like I was hoping to… but again I have failed.  I fell asleep for about 3 hours while Lucas and Vince continued to venture through the world of Warhammer.  When I woke back up I skimmed through my user library code and put in some extra functions to automate some common tasks and then found myself skimming through YouTubes.

After Lucas packed up his computer and left for home Mason and I played a couple rounds of “Magic The Gathering,” a strategy card game that I used to be into BIG TIME.

Blue & Black Lockdown Deck

Here is snapshot of the cards in my favorite blue and black deck I built back in college.  If you know any mechanics to the game, this deck locked down an opponent and won by take away their card pile hehe. The cards from left to right, top to bottom :  Scalpelexis, Polluted Delta, Isochron Scepter, Obsessive Search, Volrath’s Stronghold, Circular Logic, Boomerang, Counterspell, Merfolk Looter, Careful Study, Tainted Isle, Planar Void, Propaganda, Web of Inertia, Mist of Stagnation, Sapphire Medallion, Tormod’s Crypt, Island, Swamp.