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Dodge and weave
I skipped the weight-lifting workout today on account of mild illness and major laziness. I’ve also eaten a little badly the past couple of days. Yesterday I indulged in a sundae from DQ, which wasn’t a problem since somehow, even after eating dinner, I’d only consumed on the low end of 1200 calories for the day. But when I got home, I ate popcorn while watching Scrubs. Yay Scrubs. Boo lack of restraint from buttery, salty, yummy popcorn. Today it was Cheese Balls. Like Cheetos, but in spherical form. With the recent drastic increase in protein, I’m actually finding it rather difficult to get in the number of calories I…
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Oh, the lungs!
The wonderful, joy-inspiring, heart-lifting thing about today’s run was that it was my lungs that were the limiting factor. Over the course of a slow 5 km (40 minutes), I constantly fought my lungs–not my legs. The stretching, the weight-lifting, the slow and steady going… it’s working. It’s like I’m over the hump of rehap and back into basic training. I ran alone and on the outdoor track today because WO has caught a chest cold that’s making him feel miserable. Now I just have to keep fixing my shoulders… Weight-lifting is my friend.
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“Snow Day”
“Snow Day, by Jennifer Pelland. At that link, you can download an EscapePod reading of the story (which is also wonderfully done). Definitely worth a download and listen. I mean, who doesn’t like robot sex? If you’re into podcasting, you may want to subscribe to the EscapePod ‘cast, because it’s a good one. Short stories, flash fiction, all science fiction. Updated 7/19/2005 to add links to the author’s website and EscapePod.
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Yay for lunch.
Things are coming together a little better on the redesign. I installed WordPress in such a way as it’s managing all my content now, even though I haven’t moved all my content into the database yet. I decided to keep the purple. Note that I moved off the posts from the Physical Matters category–most people aren’t going to care about that stuff. It’s not out of the RSS feed yet, but it won’t show up here. See Physical Matters for that. That’ll be polished off later today, most likely. Everything in the design is still a little rough, but I wanted to finally just get something up, because I’ve been…
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Weightlifting and rowing
Weightlifting yesterday (weights do not include the weight of the machine): Leg press: 15/15 @ 45 lb (+10) Bench press: 13/6 @20 lb (-5) Lat pulldown: 13/12 @ 144 lb Shoulder press: 15/8 @ 5 lb Anterior tibialis: 13 all/8 all @ 10 lb Also did 17 minutes on the rowing machine. Don’t know *why* 17 precisely, but it sounded like a good medium. It was surprisingly easy, which creeps me out a little. Next time I think I’ll do a round 20 minutes.