Ren Faire, Excercise, Got My Camera Back

Here's the people I went to the Ren Faire with. . . left is Anna, dressed as Dagger from FFIX (great game -- great costume, too). . . center is Stacey (e or no e?), and then Patti, dressed as. . . . purple, with dragons. Then there's half of Chibi Chris. Sorry, dude, ladies take preference. Not pictured are me, Joe, Bob, and Bobbie.

Got my camera back! It was under warranty, and they fixed it for free. Now it works all perfectly and stuff. Here's a pic of crashed Stinky Cat to celebrate.

I went to the Ren Faire with some friends on sunday. I haven't been there in 20 years. It wasn't a bad day for it. . . after it warmed up a bit. It was very cool to see it again. . . as with many things seen a long time ago, it didn't seem as big as before. There were some new things built, but for the most part, it was the same as I remember it. The best part of the day was the Tartan Terrors, a group of comedians from Toronto, Scotland (har). They play Scottish music and do filthy comedy routines. . . and they have a guy named Sean McKeowen (sp?), two-time world champion bagpiper. I saw all 4 of their shows, they were great every time. www.tartanterrors.com if you want more info. Also saw lots of neat crafts, and lots of ladies running around in their skimpy period outfits, freezing their boobies off. Meh, guess if you gotta flaunt it, you have to be willing to make sacrifices, like body heat.

I've been getting excercise lately. I'm tired of being fat. Well, fatter than I want to be. I've been going to the local YMCA during lunch breaks, a few times a week. . . um, and sorta been keeping with it. Last week I made it out three times -- M, W, F -- and I want to keep that up. Today I made it a quickie, just used a rowing machine for 15 minutes. Rowing is killer! It uses your whole body, if you do it right. If you ever use a rowing machine with the electronics on it, look at the calorie display. . . usually, it will tell you that you will use up 800 to 900 calories per hour of rowing. That's twice, almost three times the amount for an hour of just bicycling. Eegads, it's easy to overdo it with the rower, though. . . if you hurt all over the next day, you over-did it. Ouch.

Nothing else to add for now. . . I'll be putting more pictures in now that my camera is fixed. Hell, maybe I'll even have more pictures of me! What fun! K, then. . . later on, y'all.