on a break

I managed to get myself all wrapped around the axle today for no good reason. I’m taking a break from the social medias for a little while.

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0.0.0.0 reddit.com
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0.0.0.0 twitter.com
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0.0.0.0 facebook.com
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I have the phone so it’s not a complete blockade but I think this will do me some good.

In the mean time, I have completed my self-mandated one month of thrice weekly Physical Therapy Homework. I told myself that once I did a month, and provided I kept doing it. I would allow myself to add some weight training back into my routine. When I first lost the weight I lost back in 2008-2009 I did mostly stuff on my rowing machine and a program based on the 1995 American College of Sports Medicine 1995 Recommendations for Resistance Training Exercise. It advocates work outs consisting of 8-10 exercises covering all of the major groups doing one warm-up set at 50% of the target weight, a short rest, and then one set of 8-12 reps of the target weight. I’m going to ease into a routine like that rather than going back to a 3×5 progression like I’d been doing. Since I did my homework tonight I should be able to try out my plan tomorrow.

I’ve been taking a couple of classes at coursera.org for fun and personal / professional development. One is Interactive Programming with Python and the main draw of that for me was that we make little games as our weekly projects. We made Pong last week. It was pretty fun. I’m also taking an intro to Android programming class because I think I’d like to try to write a simple app and I’m not going to just wade through documentation with no direction. The homework for the second class has been substantial and there have been issues with the grading / test servers not being powerful enough to meet demand so I got a late grade on last week’s labs. I’m kinda mad about that but it was only 5% off so it’s not the end of the world.

Bill and I made a starter with our new magnetic stirrer and Erlenmeyer flask and used it to re-pitch the w00tstout which had managed to get into stuck fermentation territory. It apparently started up again Sunday so it’ll probably finish and be OK. We’re going to transfer to secondary this weekend and start a Winter Warmer as well. That will be two beers going at once for those of you keeping track at home. This weekend is also the Flying Saucer BeerFeast which should be a good time.