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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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6 June 2003 - 1:07 am
Gosh, what a tiring, tiring night. Charlie, michael, Chris, Joe and I spent about four hour at Spring Swing Fun Time Town (or something like that) where we raced go-carts (twice), played 18 holes of mini golf, played a trampoline-based basketball game, played some air hockey, and played a number of other arcade games. The thing about these new-fangled arcade games is that they are all aerobic exercises. I played a boxing game where you held some heavy plastic boxing gloves and swung at a virtual opponent on the screen and ducked out of the way of his punches, and in addition to tracking my movements, it calculated the number of calories that I burned with each punch. And the jumpshot basketball, where you and an opponent bounce on a trampoline and try to score baskets over each others' heads takes a lot more energy than you'd think it would take. So my legs and my arms feel very weak right now.
But the best part of this is that we spent about four hours there and I only ended up spending about $15. Of course, I used three entertainment book coupons, but it was still a very cheap and fun way to spend the evening.
Posted by on 8 June 2003 at 1:07 AM
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