Healthy eating and exercise

I like how being up before 12 makes Harj the apartment’s early riser.

Current group schedule seems to go like this: Get up 11 to half 12ish. Check email, dress and eat breakfast in that order. Lunch at 5ish. Dinner generally consists of pizza, Harj’s cooking or 2 bowls of Lucky Charms (muesli for me) at 11ish. I should probably put in a note about Lucky Charms here. It’s a really popular American cereal, especially in this apartment. It features Cheerio-like sugary wheat things and various “Lucky Charms” - coloured marshmallow pieces resembling green clovers, pink hearts, blue moons etc. A lot of the people assume that it’s a really popular Irish cereal because the mascot’s a leprechaun called Lucky and it’s marketed as such. The guys are a bit crazy for it.

I went for a run this evening along the Embarcadero. The views are absolutely amazing. I was running beside the sea the whole time, with beautiful buildings all around and fantastic views over the bay. Tommy, you should recognise some of the views from Driver 1. The atmosphere was amazing. Tram bells clanged around me on my left, and on my right I would see a quaint smelly trawler on a rotting wooden pier right beside a shiny full length cruise ship. I passed a young businessman in a suit riding home on a skateboard, a 90-year-old woman powerwalking with great enthusiasm at 2 mph and many other joggers. I passed a warehouse full of old streetcars, many stretch limos (what’s up with the number of them in this city?) and some stretch Humvees too. I passed clubs, a dodgy looking circus, tackle-shops-turned-bars, ferry terminals and hawks flogging tickets for the Giants game. Needless to say, the surroundings make for an interesting run.

The corporate culture at Auctomatic is great too. We put an airbed up against one of the walls as a soccer goal and use Kul’s kickboxing handwrap as a ball. It’s a common occurrence for someone to be working away and this little cloth blur to fly past their monitor or hit them on the head. Yesterday 2 of our servers arrived and reside now on the floor next to the football goal. We find it funny to be playing soccer next to our fragile $6k worth of servers, but we play on anyway. Our other 3 servers have just arrived today though so we might have to revise this.

We’re heading out to eat now so I’ll have to wrap this up. It’s Harj’s 22nd birthday so we’re having a wee celebration. Talkcha.