Cata4 pastebin monday for no reason

My first "pastebin monday"...

Enjoying watching the FF4 tournament.  I'm supposed to be an admin but I haven't really been able to contribute. Internet issues are keeping me from restreaming (and streaming in general). Additionally, my computer is in the living room and having all that noise around me makes me unable to perform commentary (unless everyone wants to hear three older teenagers playing video games and watching anime). I feel like shit about it as elmagus and neerrm have pretty much been executing the whole tournament by themselves. I want to say "I'm sorry" to all the admins and participants who I've let down.

As far as speedruns go, I learned the first dungeon of Oracle of Seasons, and also have been trying to shake off the rust from ESJ. I also did a few LOVE runs and I feel like that run is one where I can top 3 with a little practice, as it's right up my alley. As far as FF4 goes, my FF4 career is all but over. I enjoy contributing and adding to the discussion, but the likelihood that I grind out no64 runs or PSP runs is very low, outside of occasional races. The only run I can potentially see me working on is JP Any%. Having said that, never say never. In general, however, I'm doing very little speedrunning (probably an hour or two a week, during a good week).

Work has been busy, I've had 7 or 8 internal cases this month, and some of those have dragged on for weeks. Being short staffed in one of my stores also isn't helping. I have another case to resolve today, and then will get started on 3-4 more cases that came to light during one of the dishonesty interviews. Busy busy times. It'll get better though.

Broke some concrete for the first time in 9 years. Doing it was definitely a rush that's hard to replicate any other way. I did 8 blocks twice, and I'll be looking to try 10 to 12 sometime within the next year. My arm is a little sore but not nearly as badly as I thought it would be, which adds to my confidence.

Been gaining weight in all the wrong places. Yesterday, I started a 60 day "no fast-food, no regular soda, no over indulging, 1800 calories per day max" commitment to myself. I weighed in at 279 yesterday, 276.7 today. However, over the last few years I changed my eating habits some and dropped from 330+ (PogChamp) to 275, so I'll still take that as a win. I'm looking to buy an elliptical to start working on cardio and to get the blood flowing (in which case I'd probaby bump my calorie limit to 2000ish). Ultimately I'd like to drop 20-30 lbs in this 60 day period, which I think is feasible as I'll probably start out dropping 5 lbs of easy water weight.

I guess that's it.

--Steven
"Cata4"