The gym is working out. I met with the trainer Saturday morning and got a new exercise plan that should do me better than what I’ve been doing. And best of all, I got on the scale this morning and I was down 3.4 pounds. Sweet.
Positive thinking, exercise, and eating right. I can do this.
The long and short of it is, I lost 1.2 pounds this week. Not the results that I was hoping for, but better than gaining.
I have today off and no real plan. Tasha is at work. I drove her in so I’d have the car to pick up a new cable box. But as luck would have it Comcast is closed for the holiday. Should have figured that. Oh well, there’s always tomorrow.
I spent some time working on the website. Nothing that you can see just yet, but I have high hopes for the future. I also put in a little time in City of Heroes fixing up my super group base. All in all I did nothing of note.
Time to go pick up Tasha and then off to the gym. Later.
Today Tasha stayed home and I made the drive back east to visit with my buds. There was no real plan, nothing decided, but I’ve got tomorrow off, so it seemed like a good day to make the trip. Everybody was there; Doug, Denis, Joel, Kevin, Jay, and even Charles was there for a bit. In the end we decided to do a little roleplaying. Labirynth Lord is Doug’s latest rpg d’jour. It’s a bastardization of ‘red book’ Dungeons & Dragons with streamlined rules and what not. Honestly, I don’t know how they’re able to publish it legally. It screams copyright violation to me.
Doug was running it and it’s his second go at this game. We each have two characters, but the second is just a back-up in case the first is incapacitated/killed. That way nobody has to sit out and become a distraction. Doug is running this old school, which means it’s a dungeon crawl. Monsters, traps, treasure, all wrapped in a deep maze in the ground. The idea is sound, but it really goes against everything we’ve gotten used to. And while it was fun, I’ve got to say this one thing. Doug, you’ve got to find a better way to handle mapping. It wasn’t fun in 6th grade. It wasn’t fun in 9th grade. It wasn’t fun in college. And it’s not fun now. Find a better way. Sorry dude. I’m just saying. Mapping doesn’t add anything to the expirence, it sucks.
There was pizza and friendly banter, as well as some banter that seems less than friendly. Which is annoying, but you get used to it. I think it may be a guy thing. I got to discuss with the guys my Xbox 360 vs Playstation 3 dilema, but I’ll save that for another post. And then we finished it up with a bit of Rock Band 2 on the Playstation 3.
It’ was a good visit. Now if I could just get them to come here and save me six hours of driving on icy roads in the snow. Peace.
Had my second of two free personal trainer sessions this morning. The first one was all about the talk; what do I eat, what’s my day like, what are my habits, etc. for an hour. A get to know me meeting and to get an idea what will work for me. This one, the second, was all about the exercise. Body weight and balance exercises to be more precise. I was shown and asked to do something like 10 exercises. To make a sad story short, I’m strong, but I have no sense of balance. i.e., the weight machines are easy, standing on a bosu ball and using dumbells is hard.
I like and am a big fan of the body weight stuff. I was doing a lot of that stuff back at the old house. I’m just horribly out of shape and out of practice. Embarassingly so. I’m good with the first set, not so much with the second, on every exercise. The trainer says it’s all about stamina and that it’ll come with time. My job is all about doing it once and has led to bad habits and muscle memory.
So the plan is to mix these body weight exercises into my routine. One day of weights and one day of body weight exercises, rinse and repeat.
I’ll keep you in the loop. Later.
So Comcast is giving away free HD programing. Only they’re charging 8.95 a month to rent the box to get it. And for just a dollar more you can get the HD box with DVR. That’s a hundred and twenty bucks a year for free HD. Free is expensive.
It was fun to get it activated. The guy on the other end of the phone couldn’t find my account for 20-minutes. Apparently, my phone number doesn’t register with Comcast. Funny, my checks always get cashed. It was fun, in a can we just get this done sort of way.
To make matters better, or rather worse, the remote sensor doesn’t seem to work most of the time on the box I was given. Grrr…
Nice picture though. You can really see the difference when you flip between the HD channel and the appropriate SD channel.