First of all, it’s Monday and I’m not at work. That’s weird enough. And I guess I’m on vacation right now, which is also strange for me. Usually when I took time off from CNET, it meant I was going somewhere. Now I’m just… home.

So far today I’ve cleaned the bathroom, tidied up the bedroom, emptied the dishwasher, organized my Adium contacts, mailed off some bills, thought about travel plans to Santa Monica, thought about travel plans to Connecticut, and got a much-needed coffee.

I really dont know what to do with myself. I’m sure with more time I’ll be dangerously close to driving Ryan insane just by being here (he has his daily routine down to a science), so I need to figure out something for the week. My main plan is to hit the gym a bunch, maybe take some yoga classes, and go climbing more. Get myself out of the house as much as possible.

I also find it weird to not be tethered to Outlook all day. I’m so used to reminders, and my folders, and just the constant influx of corporate mail. It’s very disconcerting to only rely on gmail. I’m trying to decide if I should start using Mail.app for my mail, or if I should stick to the web interface. Now that I don’t have two computers to worry about, should I move all my web based stuff to apps, like my RSS?

/sigh
Relaxing is hard work.

So much has happened in this past week alone, I don’t even know where to start! First of all, as I wrote on the CNET TV blog E3 was a huge letdown. I guess I wasn’t expecting too much, but still! Throw a girl a freakin’ bone, here. Wii Fit was probably the biggest news for me, but we don’t even have our Wii anymore. I guess I need to go back to the gym if I want to stay in shape! How boring.

Friday night, despite being exhausted (and having a long history of being a lameo that never leaves the house) I put on my weekend best (read: jeans other than the Levi’s I wear everyday) and headed over to the Pownce party! It was nice to get out and see everybody, and to fill in Kevin and Leah on my favorite parts about Pownce, as well as some features I’d like to see in the future. So far, I’m really loving the site.

Saturday I was a complete slug, but Sunday was the AIDS Walk! Team CNET Networks raised almost $20,000, and we had a great time walking! My feet and legs are paying for it today, but it was worth it. After the walk, I recorded TWiT #105 with Leo, Jason Calacanis (my soon-to-be boss) and David Spark. If I’m a little low energy on the show, it’s because I just walked over six miles! That’s a lot… for me.

On top of everything, I’m getting ready to shoot my final Prizefight tomorrow! It’s a big one, believe me. Right now it’s so long that I’m going to have to cut about 25% out of it before the shoot. But you know what happens when I cut stuff out? People get mad that I forgot something! You can’t win! Hah, well, no matter what I do, at least half of the people get mad, right?

More slugs found here.

I’ve never done movie reviews of any kind, but I have to say that Transformers was freakin’ awesome. It was funny, had more action sequences than you can shake a robot at, and just enough cheese to make it a worthwhile popcorn movie. It didn’t take itself too seriously, which is probably a good thing when you’re a movie about robots from space that turn into cars.

The product placement was blatant, but hey! It’s not like they can have commercials for sugar-coated cereal dispersed throughout. It was funny seeing the XBox 360 attacking it’s hapless owner, and damned if I don’t want a new Camaro.

But I was wondering - which movie did you anticipate more? Spider-man 3 or Transformers? I think I was looking forward to Spidey more, but I definitely preferred Transformers!

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