Madness of Swimming

Well, I am back from Florida, settled in in my apartment in Valpo.

Florida was a really fun experience, albeit tough, painful, and cold. One of the days that we were there it was 44 degrees F, and we had to swim outside. Chilly.

Here's the pool that we swam at. 50 meter, 8 lanes, actually fairly warm for intense swimming in. 

On one of the days we actually went to the beach. Imagine that! Being in Florida and only going to the beach once. 

We were training at a gym called the "Institute of Human Performance" or "IHP." It's a really nice facility that trains everyone from UFC fighters to professional Baseball players.

 Speaking of Professional Baseball players, here's a completely different Maserati from the last one, yet still at the same place. I found out that the one in my last post belonged to the catcher for non other than the Colorado Rockies! Really cool.

This was at our hotel. I just thought that it was cool.

Now I'm back in Valpo, getting ready for classes to start tomorrow. I wish that break was a few days/weeks longer, but whatever.

Mainly because I want to play Skyrim... Fantastic game. I can see all of the work that went into it, from the faces and bodies of the people to the little pieces of grass and plants, to insects on the ground and rabbits running around. It sometimes gives me goosebumps when I get to a really awesome part. And that bodes well for a game.

I'll probably review it more when I have more than 5 hours of play on it.

I have a couple more classes this semester than I did last semester, so I'll have to deal with that as well as having swimming until February.

Classes:

ME-376-A  Heat Transfer
ME-374-A  Heat Power Laboratory
ME-362-A  Mechanisms
GEO-102-B  Globalization and Development
GE-301-A  Fin & Eth Decisions in Enginrg
ME-332L-B  Mechatronics Lab
ME-332-A Mechatronics
ME-261-B  Analog Circuits Laboratory

Should be interesting. I have heard that some of these classes are kind of fun.

So that is all for now. I'll probably post more later, but now I'm tired and have class at 8:00 am tomorrow. Lovely...

Kevin

TV: Archer
Movie: City of Ember
Game: Skyrim
Music: Coldplay
Food: My meal card didn't work today...
Book: Barsoom Series

New Years

Well, its another day that just happens to coincide with a new year. I don't really care, as in my brain I still think that it should be sometime in the 90's. I don't know...

Anyways, had a good Christmas, and a really good New Years.

We went to the Great Sand Dunes National Park near Alamosa Colorado. Awesome scenery and it was really fun climbing up the really tall dunes. It was good exercise too, as when I was swimming today I could really feel it.

Here's me flying my brothers acrobatic kite. Really fun, though it kept dragging me across the sand, the wind was so strong.

Now I'm in Boca Raton, Florida with my swim team. Training trip is upon us, the time where we basically get destroyed by our coaches and trainer.

I'll take pictures of the pool and training facility and such and post them later.

Am now sitting in my room, my tablet on one side and my netbook in front of me.

Oh, speaking of which, I got an Asus TF-101 Transformer tablet for Christmas basically, and its awesome. 'Nuff said.

So, meow meow.

Kevin

TV: Top Gear
Movie: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Music: The Script
Game: Angry Birds...
Food: Mongolian Chicken.