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Comic Sans? that's funny!

happy birthday, jsharr! hope you stop in to see these.

I don't think anyone here is going to say a trainer is their first choice, but for now I'm finding that the weight loss and the maintenance of my fitness level is enough to motivate me. It's still quite early in the "offseason" so we'll see if that holds up. though hopefully it's not truly the offseason yet - still hoping to get a few more outdoor rides in.

Something you may not know: in a California motel I broke a glass lamp bell shade on a ceiling fan. with my head. Despite this experience I loved it there. I was lucky enough to visit twice.

When you ride the trainer or the rollers, how do you configure the intensity of your workout? I've been doing a gradual buildup to max resistance over the first half of the session, and intervals the second, with maybe 5-minute warmup and cooldown periods. I think I got this general idea from an exercise bike I used to use at the gym in college. I move through about five cogs on the bike for the warmup and cooldowns, and use the 7 resistance settings on the trainer for the bulk of the workout. When I'm out on the bike I'm riding for the fun of it and the exercise is an added bonus. But for maximizing the impact of an indoor workout I see how an HRM would be helpful. I feel like I've managed to continue losing weight at much the same rate as when I was riding regularly, so I guess whatever I'm doing is working. Actually I have all the data I would need to confirm this. Engineers love data, y'know.

I'm usually awake before the alarm goes off, but I set it just in case. I don't use the snooze because my wife sleeps later.

Alcohol at breakfast? no, I gave that up weeks ago! I probably have close to a pint of milk on my cereal, but my mug is full of coffee.

My favorite track of 2014 (and maybe the entire 2000s). I still can't get enough of this. With the video and captions it's even better. They wrote the up-and-down piano riff (beginning at 1:20) to echo the profile of the city skyline. So cool.

I feel like I'm more in the "jack of all trades" camp. Just like my dad, I have tried lots of things, and I am OK at many of them, but I can't say I ever really worked hard enough at any hobby/skill to become truly talented. I'm OK with that. OK, I can solve a Rubik's Cube in less that two minutes (usually). I memorized some moves from a book when I was a teenager and still remember them. Does that count? I can do the last sequence with my eyes closed. I did turn a childhood fascination with traffic signs/traffic lights into a career in civil/traffic engineering. Therefore I think I'm the only person in the world whose high school guidance counselor was helpful.

It does - having a lot of momentum is helpful. I've been doing it long enough that I'm in a fairly comfortable routine and I'm used to eating less. My dinner plate is generally very heavy on veggies, and protein portions are smaller. Sunday night I didn't even have an entire pork chop, and just one chicken thigh last night. The other rule I've been finding helpful is, once the kids go to bed - maybe have a beer, or a little ice cream, but not both. And now I'm starting to work situps/crunches into the mix.

sorry to hear this, 2Far.

Anyone who wants to bag a deer can just come hang out on our deck, around 6AM. They're out there most mornings. One day last week there were five of them out there, including what appeared to be an 8-pointer.

An hour on the trainer in the basement, in the morning. I was going to ride outside in the afternoon but we ended up going bowling. I bowled the worst game of my adult life (111). The highlight of the afternoon was my 9-yo son picking up a 3-4-7-10 split - he brushed the right side of the 3, only way to do it. At his age and skill level that was at least 99% luck but I'll take it.

I'm sorry you have to go through this, SW.

Monday morning weigh-in was 254. Down 1.5 for the week and down 8 for the challenge. Another sweaty hour on the trainer yesterday. Over the summer I posted about how happy I was to break the 270 barrier. That seems like a long time ago already.

Glad the Pats escaped with a W. Just like the Super Bowl last year, my brain was already dealing with the impending loss. Like every NFC East team the Giants are inconsistent, but when they're good they're very good. Huge win.

"It's too early for a cheeseburger."

Wow, that was almost 21 years ago (it was the beginning of December, 1994). I've lived here nearly half of my life now. I do like it here.

Work today; not sure about plans tonight but I hope it involves staying home. Tomorrow, taking my son on a Scout field trip (daughter is tagging along) then I'm playing music with my friends tomorrow evening. I love these sessions - it's a really fun group of people and we always end up laughing a lot. Sunday I'm hoping to get out for a ride. I suppose I should do something about the leaves in the back yard - I can barely see the grass - but that maple still has most of its brilliant red leaves and I want to wait till that's done. Many times I've waited for them to drop, only to have them all covered with snow first.

Yes - and I would suspect that puts me in the vast majority. I bow to your track-standing skills. She does indeed have a nice set of rollers.

Another brilliant element of that scene is that the woman who said this was director Rob Reiner's mother. Fantastic movie. I've probably seen it 20 times. "Baby fish mouth!"

I have never really been close to a set of rollers. The whole assembly seems to roll back and forth on the floor - is that typical? No, I can't do a track stand either.

I feel the same way. But my wife is pretty nice too.

Word for word, that's what I came in to post, because I have never heard of it.

I can see the site, but not the VPS. Is that bad?