I feel invigorated

I was having a pretty crappy day today, so I though I'd go to the gym tonight to burn off my aggression. We have a really nice gym in my apartment complex, and it's open late every night until 11pm. That's perfect for me, since I usually stay up until 1am and then roll into work at 10am the next morning. With a 5 minute commute to work, I can sleep until 9:15 and still have time to shower and eat breakfast before leaving my home.

I figured that since I'm paying for the gym through my strata fees, I should start using it. I have to walk past the outdoor pool and hot tub to get to the gym, and even though it's the winter and it was 10:00 at night, it was quite warm at 5 degrees outside and there were a whole bunch of people enjoying the hot tub.

I feel really good now after spending nearly an hour in the gym. Of course, I'm weak and can't lift very much, but that will change. Yes, it will change.

The Roundhouse Community Centre in Yaletown is also just a few blocks away, and they offer Aikido a few nights a week. They have a new program starting in March. Maybe I'll try it out, depending on what happens with the Thailand trip.

Everything is so convenient to get to. I love living downtown.

Planning for the future

I watched some of the baby films with my family earlier tonight. While watching, my mother told a story about how when I was 3 years old, I disappeared from the house and she couldn't find me. When she did, I had been able to walk away from the house and down the street with a lunchbox. Apparently, I told her I was going to work. I always was a career oriented person.

Benefits

Now that my company has been acquired, our benefits package is being increased. Not only is the health and dental plan better, but we also get a ski or health pass benefit with no dollar limit!

I'm a star!

I now have six short films from the first two years of my existence. I managed to get 6 reels of film digitized and onto DVD tonight. This stuff is so fragile, the film falls apart so easily if there is the slightest nick or bend in the film. I left 6 other reels in questionable condition alone after one of them jammed and broke. I'll splice some more lead film to the start of the remaining reels to help prevent them from jamming when loading.

A lot of the films are already a collection of shots spliced together. The splicing is done quite well, my dad must have spent a lot of time putting them together.

Improv

I checked out some live improv with Jer tonight at this little hole in the wall restaurant off Main Street called Wink Cafe. I heard about it back in December and have been looking forward to going for a while.

There were three guys acting, and I'm really impressed with their performance. They went for 90 minutes of improvization and were consistently funny the whole time.

Plus, despite my initial hesitance at it being a vegetarian restaurant, the food was tasty. My vegetarian restaurant experience has primarily been the Naam in Kitsilano, which must be the worst possible place to go for vegetarian food.

I definitely recommend Wink Cafe. Go for dinner and stay for the entertainment afterwards. They have live stand-up on Thursdays with local comedians. I'm going to see if I can convince some friends to check it out with me.

My first baby steps

When I moved to my new apartment a few months ago, I discovered some really old Super 8 film of me when I was a baby. This is the juicy stuff like my first baby steps. I don't think I've ever seen this footage, so I'm really looking forward to watching it to see what is on the film. There are about 1.5 hours of film, and I have no idea what it all is. My sister might even be a star in some of it too. I'm going to get it digitized on DVD so I don't have to worry about the film ever getting damaged.

My parents watched it and said that there were some funny moments in it with me.