Under 300 - First Milestone Complete
Today I hit the first milestone on my fitness program. I stepped on the scale to do my weigh-in and was under 300! I’m just under two months in and I’ve now dropped just around 25 pounds.
I hit this goal much faster than I expected. I had originally targeted 300 by the end of the year and I did it in about half the time I had allocated. I know that can easily be a bad thing, but I think it’s fine. I’m eating comfortably, and even am having desserts from time to time. I’m not working out crazy. I’m doing my walk with the dogs every morning, and now 2 spin classes a week. I’m feeling great, and the weight has come off pretty quickly.
In addition to the numbers on the scale my belt has notched way down and my jeans are too big. I’m very excited to also be able to put my wedding ring back on.
My 280 goal date is January 31st. I’ve got Thanksgiving, Christmas and my birthday between now and then, which will slow things down some, so 10 weeks for 20 pounds seems aggressive but achievable.
Twitter Down for Database Maintenance
Lately Twitter has actually been reasonably reliable, at least compared to it’s previous daily (hourly?) issues. But can this really be right? I pulled up the page at 10:22 am CT and apparently they are down for database maintenance? First off, you should be able to do maintenance without going down. Secondly, why on earth would you do this during the day when you are swamped with traffic?
Garage Shelves, Awesome
One of the earliest posts on this blog was a celebration of the installation of 6 inch rain gutters on our house. By the way, those rain gutters have rocked. It seems only fitting that I should comment on the very small project that we had done in our garage that made me just giddy yesterday.
We had a row of shelves installed on the back wall of our garage. In a period of 6 hours, including moving stuff, having the shelves built, and then putting everything back away the garage was transformed from a disaster scene to a soothing zen experience.
If you come to my house in the next couple of weeks, expect to get a tour of my garage shelves. 🙂
Watching The Spirit of the Marathon.
Bear pancake for Mazie this morning.
iBrow
Lately Mazie has really been into letters and trying to figure out what letter a word starts with. For example, she’s figured out that “Mazie starts with an M”, “Apple starts with an A”, etc.
Today she declared that “eyebrow starts with an I”. Tammy explained to her that while eyebrow does sound like an i, it is really an e, and that sometimes words are a little tricky. I suggested that if Apple were to describe eyebrows they may in fact start with an i.
iBrow
Happy to report that the Airport Extreme can map internal requests to external port mappings. Whew.
DNS-O-Matic is pretty darn cool. Happy days!
Favorite word for today: metacognition
Dogs and/or Cat pulled the Firewire cable out of the Drobo again. Grrr!
Trying out the new Intense Debate plugin for WordPress. Moving comments off of my blog, even with syncing, scares me. Plus, iframes are just wrong.
Mac users: you ever just run Console while your using your machine? Wow there is a lot of trash programs dump to console.
- Installing Parallels 4.0.
- So great: Vista has decided it is no longer “genuine” in the middle of the Parallels 4.0 upgrade. Vista, I hate you. Really. Hate.
- Windows XP images seem to have upgraded to Parallels 4.0 fine. Windows Vista? BSOD and seems completely SOL.
Just won the Change Game on 36¢. Dime, 4 nickels, 6 pennies!
Any suggestions on what to do with a bunch of old laserdiscs? I’m not going to hook up the player, and capturing them to iTunes is painful.
After more than a year of grinding my espresso at 3, I moved to 1. Finer grind. It’s like discovering a whole new thing. Amazing.
So, when can we get a POTUS Podcast going. Please add that to the list for change.gov.
MobileMe sync is really pathetically bad.
Major GTD action from Tammy and I in the Thingelstad house.