Jogging #7: Wait, I Can See My Watch, I'm So Confused

Since I work for some combination of the City and State of New York, I do indeed get today off. Therefore I did not get up at stupid o'clock, therefore I just jogged now. It was light. There were other people about. This was mildly distressing; I prefer to hide my shambling mound-self in a blanket of darkness.

Also, it's like 60 degrees out there, which is quite the other end of the spectrum from our last installment. Being me, that's far too warm for comfortable exertion, but I coped.

I'm doing last week's program again, since last week was such a Goddamn shambles. (I did go to the school gym on Friday, in spite of forgetting a sports bra, but I did not use the running devices, so I'm judging it as Not Counting.) Also, I'm still moderately crap at the three-minute run, so I can probably use extra practice before moving on. Particularly since the next step-up involves a five minute run.

Morning was spent on Wii Boxing. Oh my good God is that shit ever fun (though I fear for my rotator cuff). I did better than I expected, but dariodevil was astonishingly good at it from the get-go. There is not yet a second set of controllers, so everyone has to take turns fighting the computer, but it doesn't even matter, it's that much fun.

Rock Band!

Our long national nightmare is over: at last we have an XBox Elite. With the right sort of motherboard, even. (Yes, and a Wii, all at the same time. Life is like that sometimes.)

We buckled down to some serious song unlocking this evening, and then relaxed for a bit of fnu. I knocked the vocals out of the park on "Don't Fear the Reaper"--well, big fucking duh. Steve, however, muffed the guitar solo and nearly got booed off stage. Buck Dharma he is not. (I did slightly less well on "Suffragette City" because I kept getting distracted by the "oh, is *that* what the words are there? Huh." And by the time we got to "Go With The Flow" I'd had enough wine that my voice was doing wacky things.)

Am much looking forward to trying "Dani California".

The guys from Boston have much to answer for. "Foreplay/Long Time" is one of the maybe ten songs that's unlocked from the get-go, and it's listed under "Impossible Songs", and they do not lie; nevertheless it keeps showing up in the random set lists you have to succeed at to unlock more stuff. DOOM DOOM DOOM

Playing drums is really. fucking. hard. Bass and guitar are about the same as in Guitar Hero (go figure), so with me on bass and Steve on guitar we are a tolerably smooth unlocking machine.