01.97 - The Unknown
Carl wants us to move to Tampa. I'm thinking about it.
Tampa really is a great place. Relative to St. Louis living, its a damned utopia. Drive twenty miles one way, you're in a metropolis with food, drinks, entertainment. Drive twenty miles the other way and you're on the beach, enjoying yourself, letting the work blues melt away. And its March. It almost never gets below 65 in Tampa.
And its different, which is something I think Trina and I can really enjoy together.
The negative side to that idea is that my sister is five months pregs, and we're really looking forward to spending some time with baby Will before he gets old enough to remember it.
In St. Petersburg, we went to the Salvidor Dali Museum, and it was totally kick ass. If you ever liked art in a hidden message, hidden symbolism, hidden picture kind of way, Dali should be your cup of tea. At SDM, the paintings were right there, in front of our faces, and the mysteries were big enough to step into.
The aquarium was an aquarium - full of jellyfish and children. I'm not really fond of either, but at least the jellyfish are cool to look at.
Being at SDM really made me want to pick up a pencil and a sketch book again, but I haven't done it yet. I'm getting a bit worried about my FE exam in October. Haven't even started studying yet...
I'll start this weekend.
Yesterday, we finished up Act II of our fitness competition. I ran the mile and did pretty damned well on the situps, and also retained the weight loss I have accomplished over 2007. I still weigh a constant 217. But there's another real push coming, and the target will be 210 before February 2008.
I really want to play some poker.
I signed Stegs and I up for a basketball league. I have no idea about when it starts or how much we're going to suck, but I'm thinking we're probably going to need a lot of practice and conditioning. Quick. At least the idea is exciting.
I'm starting to feel like a real loser checking this day after day with no reward...