At 4 PM, I headed up to the local Bally’s to do some cardio before Dad gets here. I did 40 minutes on the elliptical, and it felt really good. In fact, I am beginning to notice a difference, not directly, but indirectly. My target heart rate for cardio is 149. When I started this…
Well, the front and back yards have been mowed, I trimmed ivy and bushes and bamboo and branches. I’ve vacuumed the house, cleaned the dishes, done three loads of laundry, and emptied all of the trash. I still have to clean up the kitchen, dust the furniture, and mop the floors. I also have some…
Today is a big cleaning day, a chance for me to catch up on chores that have been blatently ignored for too long now. Fortunately, I managed to get a pretty good night’s sleep last night, and woke up this morning feeling better than I felt after that horrible allergy attack yesterday. Among the things…
Every few years, I go through the stories that I’ve written and have failed to sell, and ultimately retire them. Since I’ve been doing this, I’ve gone through a few rounds of this, and each round represents a generation of my stories. Each round, also, I like to thing, represents a better and better set…
I got the October ANALOG in the mail today, and I’ve been waiting for this one in particular because it’s got the first of a four-part serial by Robert J. Sawyer called “Rollback”. I’ve only read a few of Sawyer’s books, but I have completely enjoyed each one that I have read. The appearance of…
I’m in the midst of the worst allergy attack that I can ever remember. Eyes and nose were itching like crazy, all the way home on the train. It was all I could do to avoid tearing my eyes out! As soon I got in the house, I downed a couple of Benedryl. That was…
At lunch today, I finally made it to India. Ancient India, anyway. I finished “book 1” of Our Oriental Heritage and am now into “book 2”, which covers India. It is the shortest of the three “books” within the overall book. At the rate I’ve been going, lately, it’ll take me a little while before…
In the mall above which I work, there used to be a store that sold videos (DVDs, etc.) right between Haagen Daas and Johnny Rockets. A few weeks ago, that store closed up. In it’s place, opened a new store called Itz a Puzzle, which is a retail store that sells, you guessed it, puzzles.…
When I got home from work this evening, I wolfed down my chicken and veggies (no more bad carbs after 7 PM–trainers orders), and turned on the TV. On HBO Signature, Field of Dreams was just starting. I was wiped out from the workout and so I figured what the heck, even though I have…
This afternoon was another workout with Bernard. My knee was fine throughout the whole thing, but it’s still slightly uncomfortable on the stairs. In any event, today was a chest and abdominal workout day. And it was one of the toughest workouts yet (I felt particularly weak!)