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Free Comic Book Day

My comic book days are long past, but I decided to go to Free Comic Book Day at Soundwave Movies and Music up in Summerville and meet up with fellow Trek and Dragon*Con geek Erika. A bit of a drive but hey, just another excuse to procrastinate, right? And there’s Madra Rua just down the block.

Comics have gotten a lot more expensive since I last bought any.

Soundwave is a little store with about half devoted to comics and the other half to DVDs and CDs. Still bigger than the mall kiosk booths that most comic places were when I was collecting. All of the people there seemed like regulars. Friendly place. Might be a place I’d visit more often if I was closer.

Most of the titles were familiar, and seeing Alpha Flight resurrected made it very tempting to get back into comics again.

I may have to see about getting the two boxes of comics I still have stashed at home shipped to me (I think they’re still there anyway).

After, we went off to Madra Rua and met up with Heather and had a great time hanging out. I can proudly say there was hardcore nerd table action going on.

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Movie marathon epicness

Not since I did the LOTR extended edition DVD marathon a couple years ago has my ass been glued to a seat for so long.

Yesterday’s Marvel/Avengers movie marathon at Cinebarre was pretty awesome. The version of The Incredible Hulk (with Ed Norton) they played and Thor I hadn’t seen before. I liked this version of the Hulk with the tributes it played to the TV series (including a cameo by Lou Ferrigno, who also voiced the Hulk). Thor was pretty cool, and there was much ooo’ing from the women in the theater during shirtless Thor scenes.

The Avengers (in 3D) was, well, pretty freaking awesome, although I might have to go see it again because by then my brain was pretty much on overload and I think I zoned out on a few scenes.

The 30 and 60 minute breaks between movies, comfy seats plus being able to order food made the whole marathon more comfortable than I expected it would be. It was my first time at Cinebarre, and probably won’t be my last now.

Food at Cinebarre was pretty good I thought. Started off with one of their pepperoni pizzas (Italian Job), then snacked on some fried pickles (Big Lebowskies), one of their burgers (Cineburger) and a final snack of potato skins (Body Snatchers). They were all pretty good. Most of the menu items are in the $8-10 range, which makes the appetizers a little on the overpriced side IMO. However, considering you’d spend at least that on just popcorn and a drink in a regular movie theater, dinner and a movie at Cinebarre comes out ahead in that respect.

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Food project

I’ve had this idea for a food-related project for my blog rolling around in my head for a little while. I’m a little bit hesitant to get into it because it could get scary. Well, no, not really. But it could get something.

Still mulling it over and planning out how I might execute it. I also need to come up with a little more material first

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Runkeeper fitness goals

A new feature added not too long ago by Runkeeper is setting fitness goals. You can set distance goals, a goal for a race or a weight goal. Your progess gets posted in a graph on your profile.

It’s a pretty nice feature. So far I have two goals: drop 5 kg by September 1 (4 kg now) and run a total of 800 km between now and the end of the year (which I just set today). Will be interesting tracking the progress of that goal.

Really enjoying using Runkeeper. Being the number junkie that I am, I think it’s another little thing that’s made my return to running more interesting.

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Running craves

I kind of guilted myself into running this morning.

It’s not that I felt like I had to go run. More like I wanted to run, started thinking I didn’t have time and then decided “Ah, what the heck”.

I think I’ve reached that point (again).

Easy 5k pace has gone down to around 5:45/km now and comfortable pace is still around 5:30/km.

Nice cool run this morning. Enjoying it while I can. Although the last couple of days have been unseasonably cool for this time of year, the hot is coming and soon my morning runs will be in 25-30°C weather, which I’m not really looking forward to.

According to Runkeeper, I’ve accumulated 306.1 running kilometers, 41.1 walking kilometers (most of that at the beginning) and burned 29694 calories since I started using it in October last year. My next run will put me over 30k calories burned.

I’ve gone from being able to just manage a 2.5 km jog before having to stop to 10 km in just over an hour in 7 months with what essentially amounted to a 1 month break in between. Total monthly distance has been increasing pretty steadily and this month I should be able to crack 100 km. Pretty pleased with that.