Shanghai Yummy

So the question was weather I should spend all the time writing up somewhat meaningful entries, or making the blog look pretty. I've decided to write for now, and we'll worry about how bad this thing looks later.

I went rock climbing yesterday, for the first time in probably two or three years. I knew that I hadn't been doing anything to keep myself remotely in shape, but this manifested itself all too plainly at the rock climbing gym. For one thing, my form was all off, but even that aside, I was just plain weak. I had my brother bring my rollerblades and my volleyball from the States, and I brought my Frisbee with me last time, but I must admit that I haven't used any of the above at all.

The problem is half that I've been so darn busy and lazy at the same time, and half that the weather's been so crummy. Not to mention the lamentable fact that open fields are a pretty rare thing in the heart of the city. I'm pretty determined to find this Ultimate Frisbee club that I keep hearing about, though. They meet on Saturday mornings over on the other side of the river, but I need to find out where exactly.

Aside from that, things have been the same hectic pace since the beginning of the month. The guy that left the company mysteriously at the beginning of the month turned up working for a competitor, and I caught the bastard red-handed trying to hijack my sales team a couple of days ago. The lack of professionalism on his part when he left without telling anyone and just disappeared was appalling enough, but I'm a pretty forgiving and compassionate person... I gave him the benefit of the doubt then. Not now. You fuck with my team, you fuck with me. Unfortunately for him, he's made it personal now. This guy is going down.

Argh. Like I don't have enough fun to deal with without this nonsense. On the interesting but irrelevant side, I seem to be able to read cnn.com without a proxy now... whether this is some configuration mistake by the Big Brother Firewall Central Committee or a change in policy I don't know. Most likely, they realized that ever since the AOL/Time Warner merger, cnn.com is now run by idiots and can be regarded along the same lines as, say, the Onion.