Posted on February 9, 2009
Getting Back on Track
So, we went through an uber-short period of insanity there, whereby I signed up to “run” the Kentucky Derby Mini Marathon, and signed my brother up, too, just for fun. I expect you ALL to visit me at the hospital that afternoon.
This is another goal to motivate me to get in shape. My bowling team has a weight-loss bet going for the season, and our office has implemented a weight-loss challenge that just started. Heath and I have been trying to make it to the gym, and while I’m batting zero on morning jaunts (I am NOT a morning person), after work sessions are going promisingly well.
I’m down about seven pounds from my peak a month or so ago, and am feeling MUCH better than I have in quite a while. I’m trying to find a good website that has a good postable weightloss widget, so if you know of any say the word. I could write one, but that would put me in front of the computer just that much more, which is antithesis to the whole idea. 🙂
On top of that, I rejoined the U.S. Chess Federation, so I’m going to try to spend a little more time exercising that part of my mind. Work still has me relegated to doing PowerPoint, so my body AND mind are turning to mush. Hopefully we can turn it around.
Thanks, by the way, to everyone that’s already been inspirational and supportive!
Posted on January 22, 2009
RIP Little Shuttle
Our poor little collection of websites (I think we host 5 of them now), were down for a week and a half due to the poor death-throws of the little Shuttle box that ran the site for many years. I’m really quite proud of it for being up as much as it was for so long, considering it was cobbled together from cast-aside parts ages ago. I’m not sure what actually killed it, but all my resuscitation efforts failed, so it was replaced. Rest In Peace, little Shuttle.
On the up side, once I got another misused desktop to take its place, all I had to do was put the old hard drive in and life was good. High marks for Ubuntu for that one — if you’ve ever tried moving a Windows install to a completely different PC just by swapping the hard drive, you know what I was fearing — driver and update hell. The only config change I needed to make to Ubuntu was the X windows driver, which I ended up killing anyway since I never use X on that box.
So, we’re back up. Feel free to abuse the system as much as you like and we’ll see how long it lasts.
We know you missed us. Sorry.
Posted on December 10, 2008
It’s too cold for this
My brother signed up for a fur-trapping excursion this past weekend, so I met him somewhere out in nowhere, KY for a bizarre sub-freezing camping and trapping experience. I should write more about it — it was quite an experience, but of course I’m lazy and I need to get this up since Joe wants to see the pictures.
It was an enlightening contrast between my pro-animal-rights, pet-loving side (who used to own a pet Skunk, for example), and my live-off-the-land side (that really wants a skunk-fur hat — they’re quite soft and warm, you know).
Pics are here:
Posted on November 1, 2008
Time Sucks
There’s some sort of time-space problem that causes me (and I suspect both of you) to simultaneously have no time to accomplish many of my personal goals and yet to be able to do things that seem completely unproductive (watch TV, surf the web, blog, attend halloween parties)…
Among the things that I expect will either take up most of, or none, of my spare time this November is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). You may remember that when I tried to do this in 2005 I was abruptly interrupted by my car getting smushed within moments of my first words being set on paper.
Bad luck. I’d like to say that this year could hardly go worse, but I imagine the mere thought would cause the fates to try to play with me.
Wish me luck. At the same time, wish Aerin, one of my long-lost high-school friends luck as well, as she’s on the same path for the next month.
Happpy November!
UPDATE: Add “standing in line for four hours on a Saturday waiting for someone ELSE to vote” to the list of time sucks.