I can’t sleep, so I’m reading the Boston travel guide we bought today and checking out hotels. Hotel@MIT, except for the stupid name, looks marvelous. Good location, T1 in every room(!!!@!). 179$ per night, though… that’s a bit high, I think? still, I like to live large when traveling abroad 🙂
If any .boston.ma.us’ians are reading this, we’d love to meet you! we’re going to be in Boston from July 15th to July 20th, and then we’re heading to OLS2004.
Yesterday, I worked from home. Working from home led to doing a gym session in the morning, a 3km walk on foot in the afternoon, and then 1km at the pool. My whole body aches now. I’m happy. My weight is stable, and I’m semi-happy about that. I’d like to lose another 0.6kgs this week, which should be doable with gym-walk-pool tomorrow and tennis on Saturday, provided I watch what I eat. I’ve been eating a little too much this week, and what’s worse, not eating enough vegetables.
This morning I did a short gym session, 30 minutes on the cross-trainer, then chest and pull-ups, then abs.
That’s it for today’s update. Now it’s time to do some work..
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– Orna bought me tons of stuff from thinkgeek, seeing as my birthday is coming up. Loot include /dev/mug, “got root” bucket hat, the quintessential stuffed tux and a tux golf shirt. Have I mentioned I have the best SO?
– My order from the free software foundation arrived this morning. Two tshirts with the GPL on them (I am now a walking license!), and a GNU travel mug.
– I bought new running shoes yesterday. Exactly the same (New Balance 991) as the old running shoes, which have served me faithfully in the last few years.
– I also bought a new backpack, an Eagle Creek Work Space 30L pack, with a special nest for one’s faithful companion, the laptop. Now I can lug my laptop on hikes! (I can hear you Orna, yes, I know I will actually have to actually go on hikes!)
– I bought new shoe pads (no idea what these are called in English..) for my flat feet. This is something that my health insurance should have covered, but the sales person convinced me to get new and improved ones, to the tune of 1400 NIS(!) (310$). The selling points were the fact that I should feel absolutely no foot pain with these, and a money-back guarantee if I am not happy with them. I should get them in two weeks, and we’ll see.
– I bought new earrings. I’ve been wearing the same pair of earrings for a few years, but one of them got lost last week. The old ones cost me around 10 NIS (some unknown metal) – the new ones 400 NIS (18 karat “white gold”). I have expensive tastes.
The good news: As predicted yesterday, I am at the lowest ever weight since starting. This means I have already achieved my goal for this week. Not sure if I should revise the goal, or just enjoy the achievement and take the rest of the week easy. Probably the former, taking things easy is a slippery slope…
The bad news: I didn’t make it to the pool this morning. I woke up after five hours of sleep, considered very briefly going to the pool, and went back to sleep. I am ashamed of myself for this flagrant SEAL-unworthy behavior. I did do abs and push-ups in the morning before heading to work, so it wasn’t a complete waste, but still… I should have gone to the pool. There is no excuse.
I have just listened (if one uses this term freely enough) to an hour long sales pitch by a Gartner person. As the presentation was winding down, it struck me that an analyst (or at least this particular analyst…) is a modern day fortune teller. Both leave you happy for having spent the money to hear what you already thought in the first place.
I’ve been reading this massive tome on and off for the last year. Last night I finally sat down and finished it. Overall, I’m in awe of the breadth of this book, and less than thrilled with the execution. I think it could’ve been a much better book, had it stepped back from the details and gave the big picture first. I’m very glad I read it, though, and plan on reading some of Keegan‘s other works.
Last week sucked PNS-wise; I was all bent out of motivation by a couple of bad days at the beginning of the week, and it took the rest of the week to recuperate.
This week, however, started off great. Standard workout yesterday afternoon, followed by abs at night at home in front of Hero, followed by a phenomenal workout this morning. My whole body hurts, but in a GOOD way.
Plan for tonight is abs again, then maybe swimming pool tomorrow morning.
On the weight front, I’m 200 grams from my lowest weight ever since starting PNS training. I look forward to tomorrow. I want to be 4 kgs less by the time we leave for Boston and OLS.
Just finished Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor, which was riveting, and am now reading Chaitin’s latest work, META MATH.
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