Several random things make a post
Jul. 13th, 2009 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrjWandering through Toys R Us is a very depressing experience. Wandering through Michaels craft store is similarly depressing. Whatever happened to providing the simple, basic building blocks of play and creativity? Why is everything so over-packaged and over-promoted and over-determined? All I wanted was a doll-sized bicycle helmet (for the Deathraven mascot). Dolls, evidently, do not ride bicycles. However, I did find something that will be a lot more fun to ... well, you'll see.
I've been trying out an iPhone app called "Nutrition Menu" that performs a lot of the same functions as my from-scratch nutrition and fitness spreadsheets. (I decided I needed to do some re-calibration, so I've started detailed tracking again for a while.) Back when I did detailed tracking before, I tallied food and exercise separately: each had their targets, but I didn't integrate the numbers. This app keeps a running balance for the day incorporating both numbers. I don't think I'm fudging the inputs, but I find it hard to believe that, entirely ignoring basal metabolism, I have burnt more calories than I consumed today. (That is, the exercise numbers alone outbalance the food numbers.) To be sure, I maxed out on the exercise options for the day (bike commute, 10 mi. bike ride at lunch, 500+ cal elliptical routine, full weightlifting routine -- I don't usually do them all on the same day). But still. I'll do a full review of the app sometime soon.
Near-constant web access is a Good Thing when you're standing there in the fabric paint section of Jo-Anns trying to remember which colors you need to match for the Death Ride logo.
Have I mentioned that my DSL access is working again? I finally got around to calling AT&T on Friday, they sent someone out the same day, he fixed a bunch of corroded wires, and it's All Good.
I've been trying out an iPhone app called "Nutrition Menu" that performs a lot of the same functions as my from-scratch nutrition and fitness spreadsheets. (I decided I needed to do some re-calibration, so I've started detailed tracking again for a while.) Back when I did detailed tracking before, I tallied food and exercise separately: each had their targets, but I didn't integrate the numbers. This app keeps a running balance for the day incorporating both numbers. I don't think I'm fudging the inputs, but I find it hard to believe that, entirely ignoring basal metabolism, I have burnt more calories than I consumed today. (That is, the exercise numbers alone outbalance the food numbers.) To be sure, I maxed out on the exercise options for the day (bike commute, 10 mi. bike ride at lunch, 500+ cal elliptical routine, full weightlifting routine -- I don't usually do them all on the same day). But still. I'll do a full review of the app sometime soon.
Near-constant web access is a Good Thing when you're standing there in the fabric paint section of Jo-Anns trying to remember which colors you need to match for the Death Ride logo.
Have I mentioned that my DSL access is working again? I finally got around to calling AT&T on Friday, they sent someone out the same day, he fixed a bunch of corroded wires, and it's All Good.
