I got in a full cardio workout at lunch today, 40 minutes, burning something like 565 calories and 3.02 miles. It felt pretty good. No knee pain, no headaches.
It rained this morning and so I was pretty certain that our lunchtime softball practice would be canceled. It stopped raining about an hour before practice and would you believe it, it wasn’t canceled. There were five of us that braved the muddy field to throw the ball around and take some batting practice. I…
Early night tonight. I had trouble falling asleep last night, but I intend to make up for it tonight. I’m off to bed as soon as I finish this post, even though it’s still light out and even though there is a rumor that Mars is particularly visible on the east coast tonight. I dropped…
I didn’t get to the gym this morning, but I went at lunch today and got in a half hour cardio workout that was pretty intense. I was up above 80 RPM more most of the workout and got one good sprint in. Heart rate was up high but that should start to come back…
As nice at it was on Saturday, it rained just about all day on Sunday. I had tickets to the Orioles/Nationals game today. It was the second game I went to this season, and the second time it rained, which is a first in the 5 years I’ve had these seats. Kelly and I headed…
Saturday brought us some nearly perfect spring weather. Despite that, I did my best to sleep in. I slept really well Friday night, and wanted it to continue, so I slept in until around 9:30 AM. It felt great. Kelly had the great idea of heading over to Great Falls National Park, which is not…
Paul was in town from Boulder for roughly 36 hours between Friday afternoon and Saturday evening so we arranged to get together for dinner on Friday. Kelly and I met him at the Clarendon metro and then walked over to Tandoori Nights, because Paul was craving ethnic food, and there is apparently a dearth of…
There is something that has always bugged me about the evolution of the measurement of the brightness of a star, also know as it’s apparent magnitude. I understand, in principle, the notion of both apparent and absolute magnitude. What troubles me is the evolution of the idea. As I understand it, Hipparchus was the first…
Work has been getting crazy again. There is no end in sight, but I’m doing my best to keep up. It happens steadily, creeps up on you, and before I know it, I find myself fragmented. Yesterday and today, I was doing 3 things at a time throughout the day. If I was in a…
Busy work day on Wednesday, but that’s really no different than every day has been. I noted that my reimbursement from my trip to Santa Monica was deposited yesterday, $2,060. Just in time for me to pay the bill, too. Early in the afternoon, I heard back from Edmund Schubert at InterGalactic Medicine Show on…