I finally got the office/guest room tidied up and moved the Total Gym in there. It’s real easy to fold up and roll out of the way if we have to open the hide-a-bed. Yesterday I was tidying up the living room and found I could even put our spare power wheelchair in the office – it’s in front of a bookcase but easily moved, and I can still open the closet door with it there. More good news: I've had this wheelchair on eBay and I think I have a buyer! We've been discussing her making payments rather than come up with the whole price at once and she sounds serious, so cross your fingers.
Anyway, with that done I could set my Lionel back up in the living room which I did last night. Wheee! I picked up a half dozen pieces of track at this local hobby shop that was closing, sad to say. The owner is an older gentleman who was retiring and didn’t want to go to the trouble of selling the shop to someone else; so he just put everything on sale. I dropped by the last day he was open and got some FasTrack at half price. I love hobby shops and it saddened me to see this one go – they’re a lot more scarce now than when I was a kid. Today they have to be pretty big to make a profit. I guess the days of the small neighborhood hobby shop are gone. More and more of them are online now. I know Mary Lynn got my Polar Express at InternetHobbies.com! Oh well, I have a nice dog-bone loop now under the picture window. Sweet!
Saturday, May 21, 2005
Friday, May 20, 2005
Two steps forward; half a step back...
Jobwise things are still looking promising. I have half-dozen recruiters who’ve contacted me from my Monster.com posting and I’ve been submitted for two jobs right now, so we’ll see what happens. Also, I got a call from the job placement company that Sara Lee retained to help their laid off employees get new positions. I have a meeting with my personal consultant next Monday and then an orientation after that. Should be helpful!
Health habits are still progressing well. I had to give up giving up diet-Coke for now. Once I get the eating and exercise habits changed I’ll address that. We went out to dinner a couple weeks after I started this and Mary Lynn just ordered me one while I was in the restroom (I haven’t discussed the new program with her so I can focus on it myself without her worrying if I’m doing it or not). It was very tasty and a bit of a relief! So I am using d-C again for now, but much less than I was drinking a month ago. We found a nifty water jug at Jewel a few weeks ago – it’s called a Bubba KEG® 52 and looks like a little barrel with a handle on the side. It’s insulated with a leak-proof lid, a sealable drinking lip, and it holds two liters. I keep it filled with iced water and drink that instead of d-C most of the day.
I have discovered the wonders of exercise! Who? Keith? Exercise? Naaaw!
No, it’s true. You’ll recall I was walking laps around the center court of our apartments – a distance of about 1/3 of a mile – but I kept popping my right knee out and had to wear my patella strap for about three days before I could to the circuit again. So, a couple weeks ago Mary Lynn suggested I use her Total Gym; I said it does just the kind of knee workout I can’t do; she said then wear your knee straps ‘cause they’re supposed to help with that. So I did, and it worked great! The first time I did 50 reps with no knee pain and after just three days of doing this I find my pain is way less and I can do stairs with much less hassle. While I do the knee pushes I also do crunches and upper body work. And it makes me more efficient. For instance, the night I did my all-niter homework I had to get some sleep at 3:30; got up at 6:00 to finish and was dragging around so decided to exercise. I did a full set of 60 and went back to word much more alert. And here’s the weird part: all the following day and into the evening I felt no affects of the lack of sleep the night before. Went to sleep Tuesday night and didn’t have to make up for it by sleeping late. It’s great!
If you’re not execising – just do it! And to all of you who’ve been telling me about this for years now (and you know who you are), I’d just like to say you were right all along, and thanks!
Consistency.
Health habits are still progressing well. I had to give up giving up diet-Coke for now. Once I get the eating and exercise habits changed I’ll address that. We went out to dinner a couple weeks after I started this and Mary Lynn just ordered me one while I was in the restroom (I haven’t discussed the new program with her so I can focus on it myself without her worrying if I’m doing it or not). It was very tasty and a bit of a relief! So I am using d-C again for now, but much less than I was drinking a month ago. We found a nifty water jug at Jewel a few weeks ago – it’s called a Bubba KEG® 52 and looks like a little barrel with a handle on the side. It’s insulated with a leak-proof lid, a sealable drinking lip, and it holds two liters. I keep it filled with iced water and drink that instead of d-C most of the day.
I have discovered the wonders of exercise! Who? Keith? Exercise? Naaaw!
No, it’s true. You’ll recall I was walking laps around the center court of our apartments – a distance of about 1/3 of a mile – but I kept popping my right knee out and had to wear my patella strap for about three days before I could to the circuit again. So, a couple weeks ago Mary Lynn suggested I use her Total Gym; I said it does just the kind of knee workout I can’t do; she said then wear your knee straps ‘cause they’re supposed to help with that. So I did, and it worked great! The first time I did 50 reps with no knee pain and after just three days of doing this I find my pain is way less and I can do stairs with much less hassle. While I do the knee pushes I also do crunches and upper body work. And it makes me more efficient. For instance, the night I did my all-niter homework I had to get some sleep at 3:30; got up at 6:00 to finish and was dragging around so decided to exercise. I did a full set of 60 and went back to word much more alert. And here’s the weird part: all the following day and into the evening I felt no affects of the lack of sleep the night before. Went to sleep Tuesday night and didn’t have to make up for it by sleeping late. It’s great!
If you’re not execising – just do it! And to all of you who’ve been telling me about this for years now (and you know who you are), I’d just like to say you were right all along, and thanks!
Consistency.
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Off to Boston!
Boston, you say? Yep! My daughter Kelly is graduating from Boston College Law School! We’re both graduating the same time – cool huh? ‘Course, this is her third (technically fourth) college degree and my first, but I got started late okay? Anyway, I am extremely proud of her needless to say. She is a very together and capable person. At this time her plans are to move to D.C. so she can get to working in her preferred field of Health Law & Policy. Maybe she’ll fix Medicare one day! ;-) So we’re off next Wednesday to see the event and lots of family are coming too. My dad (George) and sister (Vicki) from Tucson and Mary Lynn’s mom and step dad (Marilyn & Dave) from Florida. We’ll have a mini-reunion!
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Back from the Shadows Again!
Whew! It’s been a few weeks, but all is going well.
I finished college – Yea! (33 years late, but, hey, stuff happens!
I missed a class in Psych Statistics and so missed a quiz, but my instructor was kind enough to meet me at the college library this Monday (a week after the last class) and give me the quiz – I think I did pretty well on it. Also, she had checked her grade tally and found I had not turned in two of the homeworks! One I just forgot about and the other had been assigned the day I missed class. She said if I did them tonight and faxed them to her before 11:00am she would include them in my grade. Really a nice professor! So I went home and stayed up all night to finish them – eight problems in statistics in both of them, sixteen all together. And these weren’t just figure the mean of a list of scores; no, these were figuring the relationship between two groups of variables and doing probabilities and stuff like that. Again, Whew! But I got them done too, so as of Tuesday morning, 10:05 a.m., May 17th I am allllll done!
I need to go online and order some announcements, I guess, just to prove to everyone I did it. The announcement company has a package that will include a nifty frame for the sheepskin, but it’s a little pricey right now what with the trip to Boston coming up and all. Guess I’ll get the frame later.
I finished college – Yea! (33 years late, but, hey, stuff happens!
I missed a class in Psych Statistics and so missed a quiz, but my instructor was kind enough to meet me at the college library this Monday (a week after the last class) and give me the quiz – I think I did pretty well on it. Also, she had checked her grade tally and found I had not turned in two of the homeworks! One I just forgot about and the other had been assigned the day I missed class. She said if I did them tonight and faxed them to her before 11:00am she would include them in my grade. Really a nice professor! So I went home and stayed up all night to finish them – eight problems in statistics in both of them, sixteen all together. And these weren’t just figure the mean of a list of scores; no, these were figuring the relationship between two groups of variables and doing probabilities and stuff like that. Again, Whew! But I got them done too, so as of Tuesday morning, 10:05 a.m., May 17th I am allllll done!
I need to go online and order some announcements, I guess, just to prove to everyone I did it. The announcement company has a package that will include a nifty frame for the sheepskin, but it’s a little pricey right now what with the trip to Boston coming up and all. Guess I’ll get the frame later.
Deep, cleansing breath...
Saturday, May 07, 2005
Exqueeze Me? Baking Powder?
So, I'm getting hassled about not posting. Well, hey, I've been busy. No, really. I have my last week of class coming up with three finals. I have been studying hard, looking for work, and my days just fly by!
Anyway, I have been tracking my diet and exercise efforts for my Health Psych class and I will post a synopsis when I am finished with classes.
I would like to refer anyone interested to my very first post in which I said "I promise to post any comments, observations or personal news on an inconsistent schedule. No need to check back daily as there probably won't be anything new."
I don't want to get committed to posting regularly because I could become real compulsive about that to the detriment of stuff I really need to do.
So, let's say after next Thursday I'll put some time in to catch up the news.
'K?
Anyway, I have been tracking my diet and exercise efforts for my Health Psych class and I will post a synopsis when I am finished with classes.
I would like to refer anyone interested to my very first post in which I said "I promise to post any comments, observations or personal news on an inconsistent schedule. No need to check back daily as there probably won't be anything new."
I don't want to get committed to posting regularly because I could become real compulsive about that to the detriment of stuff I really need to do.
So, let's say after next Thursday I'll put some time in to catch up the news.
'K?
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