My Room

When I first moved to college 3 years ago, my younger brother (well, only 2 years younger) moved into my room at home.  Which was really stinky, because I spend the summers at home, and because his room is tiny -- literally half the size of mine.  So for the past 2 summers, and now this summer, I’ve been in his room, and I have way more stuff than he does... computers, electronics, tools, bike stuff, books, camping/hiking gear, photo and camera gear, not to mention clothes and shoes and boots... so that tiny room is way over-packed.

Well, my brother recently got an apartment a few miles away, in town, near the skate shop he owns.  So this weekend, I reclaimed my room.  It feels so much better to actually have a little bit of space to move around, and plus his room is just really depressing.  Also, his room gets ridiculously hot in the summer (and we don’t have air conditioning), but my room doesn’t, because it’s in the back of the house and is shaded by trees.

So, I didn’t get done any of the 2 or 3 programming projects that I planned to, but that’s OK.  The next ~7 weeks of the summer will be way better being in my room again.  But I do hope to get one of those projects done in the next couple days, because someone is waiting for it.

Also, last Thursday I biked a 6.4 mile loop from my house, onto some back-roads, and back a different way to my house.  I plan on doing it every day, so I get into a little better shape, so that when I go mountain biking I’m not so easily worn out.  In the 4 days I’ve done it, I’ve gone from 30 minutes down to 28 minutes, or about 12.5 MPH to about 13.8 MPH average.  I hope to bring it down to 20 minutes / 18 MPH.