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conuly stopped by my office this morning to pick up some books that cattitude and I no longer wanted. This after weeks of delay due to such exciting causes as her needing to pick up her nieces, me being out of the office, and missed phone calls. But the books are going to a good home, even an enthusiastic one.It is now astronomical spring, ushered in by extremely mixed precipitation: mostly rain, but I saw snowflakes mixed in, and Conuly mentioned a hailstorm. This is entirely typical of New York in March. I am glad that I grabbed the chance to be outside Friday afternoon, when it was both warm and sunny.
I am thinking about doing a book post, not trying to cover everything I've read in the last $time_period, but mentioning a few things. I am also looking for recommendations of ebooks that I can get in ePub format for my iPod touch. I'm largely looking for information on what's being sold in suitable format (including pointers like "$publisher has an ebook catalog at $link"). I've already been wandering through Project Gutenberg and the Baen Free Library. I'm getting a lot of my paper books from the public library, but the limiting resource here isn't money for books, it's places to put bookshelves, and ebooks take up much less space.
The weekend's main achievement was doing our 2010 income taxes. The process was more straightforward than in the past few years; I'm not sure why, since we are using the same software and neither of us has changed jobs, but I'm not complaining.
I went to the gym after work today. A good workout, including more machines than usual: I decided I wanted to use the leg press machine, instead of the squat-with-ball I've mostly been doing, to get an idea of the current strength of my quads. Not bad in terms of how much I could press; I'll know in the morning if this was a mistake.
Cardio, 18:19, top heart rate 132
Chest press, 50 pounds, 2 sets of 12
Leg press, 200 pounds, 12; 260 pounds, 1; 240 pounds, 12. A year ago I was doing this at over 300, but partway through this rehab 140 was a lot.
Rolled out the IT band (outside, inside, and tops of thighs)
Biceps curls, sitting on ball, 8 pounds each hand, 2 sets of 20
Crunches on ball, feet against wall, 10, 5
Crunches lying on ball, 10. Try a smaller ball next time (this was a very large green one)
Calf raise leaning on ball, 2 sets of 15
Balance standing on roller, some
Lateral raise standing on half roller, 2.5 pounds each hand, 12
Same on the full (cylindrical) roller, 3
Row sitting on ball, using the "freedom trainer" machine, 50 pounds, 15; moved over to my usual machine, 35 pounds, 2 sets of 15
Triceps pulldown, again not my usual machine, 20 pounds, 12, 8
Wrist curl, 30 pounds, 2 sets of 12
Stretches
(I had meant to do a combined journal and links entry, but hit "return" at the wrong time, and posted the links. So, separate entries.)
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We're still doing our own taxes (or letting TurboTax do them, but it doesn't require an appoointment), but you are running a business of your own, whereas I have a salaried job plus a small amount of freelance work, for one client. The IRS calls that a business, but it means the income is all on one 1099 form, and there aren't a lot of deductible expenses, so not a lot of paperwork to collect.