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 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!