My abs hurt, do I have a six-pack yet?
Yesterday was the first day of lower body workout, which included about a million ab crunches. Now I pretty much hurt all over, and I stepped on the scale to discover that I’ve gained two pounds since Monday. My weight fluctuates by about five pounds normally so this is not unprecedented, but hardly bodes well [...]
Barthelme
Nice blog theme, eh? I’ve been in search of the perfect WordPress theme since I moved this blog to WP, and just discovered Barthelme this morning. Of course, I then spent the rest of the morning customizing it, but since it uses WP widgets, I was able to do a lot in a short period [...]
Flickr geotagging: the best new time suck
I haven’t spent this much time on non-productive work since I discovered RSS readers: Flickr’s new geotagging/mapping feature was released this week, and since a lot of my pictures are from my travels, I felt compelled to map them all. Since I tagged most of my photos with the place name, it was pretty easy: [...]
Working out
Our new exercise regimen started this week on Monday: three days per week on weight training, alternating between upper and lower body, and the alternate three days per week on aerobic exercise. Sunday, we rest. We’re doing the Body for Life plan which requires only about 45 minutes on the weights days and 20 minutes [...]
Chairs!
With the rearranging of the furniture caused by Damir moving in and having to have a bit of office space, my dining table and chairs have gone into storage and we’re currently eating our meals off the coffee table — not my favourite arrangement since it leads to a lot of crumbs on the carpet. [...]
Drag Queen Fashion Tips
Personally, I would never give fashion advice to a drag queen, considering that most of the ones that I’ve met have a much better (or at least wildly different) fashion sense than I do. I was at my friend Pat‘s last night and she was showing me the retro/trendy/tacky shoes that she just bought: a kitten-heel [...]
The Accidental Redhead
I colour my hair. There, I said it, I’m 45 years old (very soon to be 46) and I don’t like the grey streaks, and about once a month I use a colour rinse to cover up the grey. I’ve been using Clairol’s Natural Instincts line because it seems to be pretty easy on my [...]
Window goo
Usually when I write about windows, it’s about the type that runs on my laptop. This time, however, it’s about the window box in which I have a little herb garden. With no balcony, a window box is about the best that I can do for a garden, but it gave me enough space for [...]
Shredding the past
Definitely a weird week. It’s the first full week that Damir’s lived here, so there have been a few mornings of me in my bathrobe saying goodbye to him at the door as he leaves for work in the morning — very suburban! However, since I work at home almost all the time, and he [...]
Post from Windows Live Writer
I’m trying out the beta of Windows Live Writer, which allows offline composition of blog posts — handy for the times when I’m disconnected for some reason, although my usual reason (while on airplanes) is out of whack right now. I was able to set up this blog, which is on WordPress, my business blog, [...]
