Happy Birthday Elliott

I normally don't make happy birthday posts, but I'll make an exception because Elliott's going away for a while.

I hope you've had a great birthday, whatever you're doing. I don't know if you remember making those graham crackers with reese's cups melted on them last year around your birthday, but I thought of those today....what the hell were we thinking? .....we did weird stuff like that almost every day...

Gentoo

I've been installing Gentoo on my laptop lately. It's a Linux distro built around a pretty neat concept: everything is compiled on my machine...most distros use binaries to install packages, which means they are generalized to work on the most machines...I've noticed a very large performance gain from using this...it's just a lot harder to set up.

I learned on Sunday that I can apparently do a backflip off of a rock into the water...also learned why frontflips are done much less....you wind up with welts on your back =\ Meh...whatever, it was a lot of fun. I somehow wound up with some pretty ridiculous bruises on both shins...I don't know how that happened. While we were riding some rapids in some inflatable boats, I capsized and smashed my hip on a rock...that's a pretty rough bruise too...fuck that.

I've been working out lately...apparently I weigh about 175, which isn't too bad. I'd like to get in slightly better shape (just really burn some of the fat) but that's such a tedious process...we'll see if I lose my motivation or not.

Other than that stuff, I haven't been up to much at all...just around. Playing some guitar here and there...hoping to get better at that. Kerstan and I are entertaining the thought of trying to record an album and play some shows afterward...I don't know when we'd start that or anything, though.