A crazy couple of months.

It’s been a crazy couple months since I posted last. My wife and I both have new jobs, we moved, and we’re trying to figure out how to go through the massive amount of stuff we have in the garage into the house.

We’ve got a lot of furniture.

It’s crazy, but it’s overall good. Trying to get the indoor cats used to the outdoor cat (now indoor cat) and the new digs is a process, though, and it’s going to take longer than I particularly want it to. But them’s the breaks. Cats, amirite?

That aside, as you can see by the sidebar, my reading has continued, though my video games have not. I should start up the ol’ Witcher games again since there’s a re-release a-comin’ on those. Maybe I’ll get to it, likely I won’t.

The one thing I did almost right away at the new house was set up the workout equipment. It’s in a room that I call the Dungeon or the Torture Room that holds the home gym and the rowing machine. I think it’s fitting. On the plus side, I’ve used it regularly this week, so hoping I can get back into the swing of things. I am up about 7 pounds in the last few months (since I stopped working at Duluth, really, so 3 months to the day on Monday) and the workout will help me get a handle on that again.

Also, the amount of junk food eaten while we were moving was simply astounding. We’re on a pizza-fast for the next couple of weeks.

Meal planning

I’ve been making breakfast burritos for a while now. It’s very basic, just eggs, chopped veggies, some cheese, and some light mayo, and a few splashes of chipotle tabasco sauce.

The tortillas I use are some carb watching kind from Aldi. I, however, only count carbs when working on engines, which is very very rarely.

I like these tortillas because each one has 14 grams of fiber. I made a decision about a year ago (before starting to exercise a lot) to up my fiber intake. These help a bunch.

I can move in VR!

I can’t tell you how excited I am. It’s not much, just a square and a sphere, but I can walk to them with the Virtuix Omni from 2016. This fills me with joy, as I can start programming actual games/activities now.

View of the unity project dashboard

One of the major reasons why I am trying to get this running is that I’d like an activity that I can do for exercise that tracks steps. The TRAVR Training Ops game that came with the system (really the only one I ever play besides Skyrim VR) has been a 4-5 times a week routine. I can run through the courses in about 25 minutes, and it gets my cardio and heartrate up.

Fit bit graph showing heart rate increasing while using the Virtuix Omni treadmill

THe PROBLEM is that it no longer works with the Omni Connect step tracker is running. It has to do with it trying to access Connect and then the server to track high scores. It is just crashing, and has been for a couple years. The response I got from Virtuix, and I can’t blame them at all, is that the game hasn’t been updated since 2017 and it’s not supported any longer.

I get it…but now I get to create my own course, and track steps. I’d like to hit 1,000,000 steps by the 10 year anniversary of getting the omni. That was in February 2016. I’m at roughly 283k right now. I’ve got my work cut out for me.

Is this thing still on?

I’m embarking on a new project, and want to start writing more…and I want to get away from the social media empires enriching people and companies that I personally do not agree with. .

The last few months I’ve been hitting the exercise hard. I’ve done the entire run of the TRAVR Training Ops game on the Original Virtuix Omni Treadmill (not the Omni One) several days a week, and have also been using a rowing machine.

About a month ago, my wife and I got a home gym machine with the cables and everything, so I’ve been doing that as well.

All this to lead up to my new project: I’m going to be programming a game for the Omni. I spent this evening getting unity installed on my desktop machine and on my handy dandy Chuwi Minibook X. I’ll post more about that later, but it’s basically a 2-in-1 with a form factor of a notebook. I love it.

My goal is to have 1,000,000 steps by the 10 year anniversary of getting the beta version of the Omni. Wish me luck.