Being a Saturday, I was a bit late weighing in this morning (and, of course, my routine was off), but I think I’ve come to an interesting result.  For the second day in a row, I weigh 149.5 (+/- 0.1 on retry) and have a BF% of 17.0 (down from 18.4 to 17.6 about 2 [...]

As we enter Week 2 of the project, things are back on track.  Sunday marked the second trial of my reduced weight and set sizes. Right now, I’m doing sets of 10 (instead of 12), at 35# (instead of 45#) and I think I’ve finally zeroed in on the proper level of exertion (for me). [...]

Well, I’ve been sort of “off the horse” so to speak, since my last installment.  After over-doing it a bit more than I’d planned on Saturday, I’m finally to a point where I can climb stairs again without my legs aching.  I plan to resume with a reduced lifting session this evening, though I’ve been [...]

I’ve spent the long weekend continuing to read The 4-Hour Body, and have begun to formulate some goals and ideas.  My general purpose, so far ( expect to set some more objective goals soon), isn’t to lose weight or “get buff”, but rather to become “more healthy” and generally recompose some fat as muscle (thus [...]

Last night, I picked up Tim Ferriss’ new book The 4 Hour Body, as I’d been planning to do for a while.  I was a pretty big fan of his first book (The 4 Hour Workweek) and do think that his ideas, if not his particular examples, have really shaped my thinking.  I’m not a [...]

I was finally troubled last weekend to upgrade my main workstation to Windows 7, though not for the reasons you might think.  You might have been reading a year or so ago when I built Phenomenon, my then-new Quad-core AMD Phenom-based PC.  At the time, I just slapped my existing Raptor hard drive in, and [...]

Just a quick photo of all the junk that I replaced tonight with only 2 HDMI cables (and some creative cabling). To be fair, this setup is entirely unfeasible without an activity-based, macroing remote control, like a Creston or  Logitech Harmony (We have a refurb’d Harmony 890 that I picked up for cheap a few [...]

This past week, Becky and I decided to rearrange the living room a bit, as we seem to do every few months.  This time, we shifted the shelf that the TV sits on so that it’s flat against the wall (as opposed to angled out, with stereo gear on a small table behind it).  To [...]