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From Hellas to Olympus – Zen and the art of bullet hell shooters

I’ve recently gotten into the Touhou project series of games, and I have to admit, I’m enjoying them. Now I just need to figure out a way to order them so that the one-man team gets his pay. The reason I bring up zen is three fold. First, the person who creates these games goes [...]

From Hellas to Olympus – Rolling STAAAAART!

From things I never expected to say volume twelve: “I really missed working out these past few weeks.”

From Hellas to Olympus – Flesh is weak!

So, an interesting thing happened Saturday morning. My kneecap began to make a painful popping sensation around 40 minutes in. And when I tried again on Sunday, the pain started about ten minutes in. So, yeah, I’m going to take two weeks off the cycle to give my knee a chance to heal. In the [...]

From Hellas to Olympus: Ain’t no road too long

I’m pretty sure that it’s going to take much longer than three hours to pedal to Olympus Mons, but hey, that’s what there’s music for. ‘Cause there ain’t no mountain you can’t climb If you hang on tight and just make up your mind

From Hellas to Olympus – The journey begins

And so, it begins:

I had an idea back in November

And it’s taken me a while to go forward with it. It was based off of the Eowyn Challenge, but I made a few changes. Mainly because I hate walking. So, I’ve switched out the bike. And frankly, I’m tired of fantasy. But how does one cross interstellar distances on a bike? So that’s out. [...]

Weight Watching Wednesday – A week of vacation later…

At the beginning of August, I was down from 270 to 257. Fists were pumped, cheers were made… And while I settled in to my new apartment, I ate out every day for the first week.