I've been holding back on lifting too heavy because it is Lent and I'm not eating much, which makes me weak, which I don't want to discover by being crushed and since I would feel generally crappy. But I was going to go yesterday and lift light when my roommate floated the idea of $MIDDLE_EASTERN_RESTAURANT before having a buddy of his come over to see Tropic Thunder. I was down for it, so I stayed home, played with my medicine ball, took a shower, and then went to dinner. Anyway, I'm coping with the gastric consequences of my bean-heavy dinner today.

Tropic Thunder was fairly amusing. Not the greatest film ever, but Tom Cruise was especially delightful. I like it when people break out into dance numbers.

I just bought a portable pullup bar for the following reasons:

1. When I do pullups at home, it's generally off the deck, which is terribly hard on the hands.
2. I'm doing pullups at home more often these days.
3. I think I should do pullups even more than I already am.
4. There's this program at work which I can use to reimburse me for this one expense.

The last is the one which makes it feasible. There are pipes in the basement storage, but they are either too wide, too hot, or too flimsy to use directly. Some are sturdy enough for the pullup bar and so is the deck.

Ugh. Class today will be dreadful. I also neglected to make plans for the weekend because the mid-week was so busy.

I think I should eat more fat and that it should be a larger part of my diet. I believe the government recommendations about pretty much everything are "educated stupid", to quote Time Cube.

Skim milk is undoubtedly from Satan, the deceiver.

Job application: not selected for the one that's out of my league. Still listed as "considering" for the other. So, I suppose that is a good sign, a development, a whatever. It shows what a negative result looks like and that I have not yet had a negative result in Texas.

I hope it all works out, for certain meanings of "it" and "all". I also hope I can give a damn today. I also wonder if there are good tools around for visualizing the sort of data I want to visualize - it basically involves color-coding nodes on a tree. That would make me look very hip and also help me sort through some hierarchical data efficiently.