<p>idad, you can use your cell phone or smart phone as an alarm clock in the meantime. That’s what I did for two years while I lived and worked in New jersey during the week.</p>
I remember now what a great workout weeding is, esp. for the glutes & upper thighs, especially if you mostly ignore the little stool you brought outside to sit on… 
I was pulling wild strawberries & other vine things, so one pull leads to another, and it’s just easier to keep moving instead of sitting. Now for my reward–a trip to the garden store for shade-loving plants that deer don’t eat. They DO exist, don’t they??
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<p>Open for input! Thanks.</p>
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<p>I’m not quite there yet. The last few days took a real toll on my plan to put everything away as it came in the place. The movers stacked all the sealed boxes in my “gym” and I’m not touching a moving box today. So, I’ll have to workout around those.</p>
<p>I have a geezer alarm clock, too. Big 3 inch numbers. Easy to read, but it’s actually a little too bright.</p>
<p>Burpees? Burpee fusion? That’s an idea. I’m not sure any of my printed workout sheets survived the move, so I might just have to make something up as I go. I’m going to improvise this week and then get prepared to start New Rules of Lifting for Life next Monday. I want to do some walking and check out the good local routes my landlord told me about, but it looks like tomorrow will be nice and sunny for that.</p>
Turn it to the wall. You don’t need to look at it when you wake up in the middle of the night.
<p>Deborah- especially for the 20 minutes straight, SLOW IT DOWN!!! No rush- a jog is a jog. S L O W. You can do it.</p>
Thanks, MOWC. That number is looking very intimidating.
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I like my hubby’s alarm clock. It’s default state is dark, and it has this long bar across the top which allows a person to fumble around half-awake, whap the thing, and then the clock will light up. The designers were thinking.
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<p>You may consider just burning it all. It’ll go a whole lot faster than shredding and you know it’s gone! We’ve done that before with our patient files and fitness member files. I’m currently trying to clear out some of our office space. We’re finding files that haven’t been touched in 5-6 years… And I was also finding stuff recently that goes back 15+ years. My boss is a pack-rat and it has driven me nuts lately…</p>
<p>One of mine has adjustable brightness. The other has fixed brightness. A sheet of opaque plastic could be used to reduce the brightness.</p>
<p>Yay! Workout. First in over two weeks. </p>
<p>Warmup felt fantastic. I needed some stretching and stuff.</p>
<p>Then, I did two sets of iPod nazi’s little four-exercise core circuit. Loved it, but I was huffin’ and puffin.</p>
<p>For “power”, I did two sets of box jumps up on the weight bench and then went out in the parking area for some overhead med ball slams.</p>
<p>Then three sets of two supersets:</p>
<p>DB squats
Feet elevated pushups</p>
<p>Single leg dead lifts
3-point DB rows</p>
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<p>Tough workout, but it felt fantastic. It’s really noticeable how much benefit I get from just moving the ol’ joints in these workouts. I think not working out has been a part of how stiff I’ve been.</p>
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<p>One way to meet your neighbors, whether you want to or not.</p>
<p>Congrats on finally getting back in the groove. You’ll find it’s like riding a bike.</p>
Ran 1.25 miles again - I ate more today but my run got pushed to late in the afternoon and I was hungry again.
Dropped the two other monitors off at the library after testing them. They already have one of them in use at one of the catalog stations. I think that I finally have enough room to assemble the desk. Once that is up, I will automatically get a lot more room as I can store a lot of stuff under the desk and on top of the desk. Progress should be much better then. I need to sort through cords, cables and wires and package them into the ZipLoc bags I bought last night and then I can go through the bags of stuff from the other apartment and clean those out.
Tomorrow is tennis but we’ll just be hitting. My regular guy’s knee isn’t up to playing matches. My knee needs another day or two before going back to matches. I notice it a little when running too. I did fix up the racquet that was restrung but adding four grams of lead tape - it should be very, very close to identical with the other one that I like that is at the stringers now. I put in a wanted ad for a third that I’m trying to find. If I can’t find a third, then I will try to match my third another way. This would involve taking it apart, getting a smaller pallet, getting it measured at a pro shop with special equipment, maybe removing some silicone from the handle and lead from the head. It would probably cost me about $80 to do these modifications. A used frame would be about $250 but wouldn’t require any labor. The two in the matched set that I have were sold in a group of three so I know that there is at least one more out there. There may be a whole bunch more. I put the player code in the ad - the racquet manufacturer puts a code indicating the player on pro stocks - other frames with the same code should match what I have.
<p>My daughter just posted the following on Twitter: "@(myTwitterName) just sent an email where the main subjects were running and beer. #lovemymom </p>
<p>Love it! We are planning our weekend assault on Charlottesville, VA. The occasion is my stepmother’s 90th birthday party, but we have to get our running in, and there is a GREAT beer store…</p>
<p>Oooh. Charlottesville has some nice hills! 
If I recall, the hill from the highway up the entrance road to Monticello would make for a nice little jog… Heck, I remember getting gassed a couple of times just on the campus tour at UVA.</p>
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<p>One of the things I did was untangle the rats nest of cables in a couple of large cardboard boxes and sort them into four plastic bins:</p>
<p>AUDIO CABLES
VIDEO CABLES
COMPUTER and PHONE CABLES
POWER CABLES and WALL WARTS</p>
<p>As I stripped the house down packing up computers, TVs, and hi fi, the cables all went in the appropriate box. I can probably pare it down a little more (do I really need to keep the SCSI cables?), but at least it’s a start. Actually, you can get pretty good money for copper wire, by the pound, at metal recycling places. I wish I had known because I got rid of many pounds.</p>
<p>One of my handy packing tools was boxes of plastic bags – ziploc freezer bags in quart and gallon sizes, plus plain old sandwich bags. Very handy.</p>
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<p>I’ve already chatted up my neighbors on both sides several times. I’ve got a place in the basement to do med ball slams, but it’s pretty noisy. The firewall between units here must be pretty good, though. I’ve yet to hear so much as a peep from either side.</p>
<p>In any case, I like doing med ball slams outside. It beats the basement when the weather’s nice. And, my cat seemed to get a kick out of watching me through the kitchen window!</p>
<p>Updated list of exercises cats prefer:</p>
<p>squats
planks
push-ups
leg lifts
outdoor med ball slams</p>
I just finished doing this; lots and lots and lots of fun. I tossed all audio and video cables. I saved monitor cables, power cords, power supplies, CAT5 cables, modems, routers (stored the power supplies with the devices), an Apple Airport Express (really nice router), and saved a ton of phone cables. Most of this stuff will never get used. I have monitors which take multiple kinds of inputs - the manufacturer typically ships both DVI and VGA cables so I have lots and lots of extra cables. I can’t imagine needing more phone cables but I have plenty. We are migrating away from landlines - someday they will all be gone.
They are all in one Poland Springs six-gallon box - it’s slightly overflowing. The desktop is belly up on the floor and I’m going to start putting it together. Hopefully will be done tonight and then things start getting better really quickly.
No you don’t. Unless you have a device that’s ten years old that you can’t live without. You don’t need IDE cables either. I even packaged up two Palm chargers. These were from the 1990s. Next time around they get tossed. I’m pretty sure that I already tossed the Palm Pilots.
I cannot believe how many chargers I have. That’s what I love about Apple - consistency in chargers that work from generation to generation of their products.
2 hours later, table assembled, called down wife and daughter to help flip it and move it into place and put lots of stuff to be sorted later underneath and above the table. I now have enough room to workout in the basement but still a lot of work to do to get it to where I want it to including moving the digital piano to my mother’s house if she will take it. She will have grandkids in the area for the next four years attending college and they may want to practice while visiting. So not the end of the moving experience but things are a lot better now. Off to do some celebratory military press reps.
<p>For those of you who think I am so motivated and just love every workout, here is how this morning went (and this is NOT unusual).</p>
<p>Woke up at 4am (Good- 100 minutes left to stay in bad. No problem)</p>
<p>Woke up again at 5:35 (No f’ing way am I getting up. Today is the day I don’t run at all and end the streak and give up on 2000 miles for the year. I can’t face it today. Too tired. Bed feels too good.)</p>
<p>Out the door at 6am for goal of 6.2 miles. (This isn’t happening. I’ll run a mile so the streak continues and then I’ll turn around. I don’t need to do this. No one is making me. My legs are tired. I’m too old to do all this mileage. What’s the point? I could run after work. Oh, wait, I can’t because I have the stupid bone density scan. Who cares? Maybe I’ll go to the 2 mile point and turn around and I’ll have 4 miles.)</p>
<p>At 3 miles. (Well, I made it out here, now I just have to get back. Maybe someone will stop and give me a ride. Ewww-there’s a dead rabbit with vultures eating it. Boy, it sure is a nice morning. The sunrise is pretty. It’s not too hot, either. I’m glad I’m a runner and get to be out here.)</p>
<p>4 miles. (Why did I run THIS course? I didn’t need a hill right now. Ugh. Boy am I slow. Only 2 more miles and I’m home. Pace and heart rate not too bad considering how tired I felt. Not a bad run.)</p>
<p>5 miles. (Almost there. Do I really have to get ready for work after this? I hope those other runners who just passed me going the other way don’t think I’m the slowest person on earth. Well, let’s see how THEY do at my age! Maybe they can’t tell how slow I am! Who cares? I’m out here.)</p>
<p>6.3 miles (Home! No problem. Glad I’m a runner. Can I take a nap at work? )</p>
<p>Well, that happens to me too but I’d stop at paragraph 3.</p>