Back to the gym

Some combination of feeling better and impatience took me back to the gym. I lowered the weights or repetitions on a few things, and cut the cardio way down: but that was partly because I got there and discovered I didn't have an exercise top, so worked out in the long-sleeved jersey I was wearing.

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I still had to pause some to catch my breath and stuff, but I did what feels like a good workout, and it's very good to be back to it.

Afterwards I went down to Chinatown for lunch, and picked up asparagus from a street stand (two generous bundles of thin stalks for a dollar!), chicken, and pickled ginger. A cold morning has turned into a perfect Fall afternoon.

Back to the gym

Some combination of feeling better and impatience took me back to the gym. I lowered the weights or repetitions on a few things, and cut the cardio way down: but that was partly because I got there and discovered I didn't have an exercise top, so worked out in the long-sleeved jersey I was wearing.

( the details )

I still had to pause some to catch my breath and stuff, but I did what feels like a good workout, and it's very good to be back to it.

Afterwards I went down to Chinatown for lunch, and picked up asparagus from a street stand (two generous bundles of thin stalks for a dollar!), chicken, and pickled ginger. A cold morning has turned into a perfect Fall afternoon.

*blink*

I was just looking at the past Ig Nobel Prize winners and skimming the peace prize entries. 1998, jointly to the prime ministers of India and Pakistan for "their aggressively peaceful explosions of atomic bombs." It's been five years. Amazing what we can get used to. I miss the window when I didn't expect to see a nuclear bomb used in a war again.

*blink*

I was just looking at the past Ig Nobel Prize winners and skimming the peace prize entries. 1998, jointly to the prime ministers of India and Pakistan for "their aggressively peaceful explosions of atomic bombs." It's been five years. Amazing what we can get used to. I miss the window when I didn't expect to see a nuclear bomb used in a war again.

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The radiators are hissing, softly and comfortingly.

This is a help, but doesn't entirely make up for the ache in my thighs (I pushed too hard at the gym).

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The radiators are hissing, softly and comfortingly.

This is a help, but doesn't entirely make up for the ache in my thighs (I pushed too hard at the gym).

spare brain damage

My PalmPilot, the device I refer to as my spare brain, seems to be seriously broken.

It's had a bad habit for a while of losing the screen mapping: that is, where I tapped wasn't where it would read the input as coming from. This is more than annoying when the area needed has been mapped off the edge of the screen. I'd been dealing with this by keeping a close eye on it, and redoing it every day or two whether it seemed to need it or not. And, when that failed, a hard reset would fix it. (Once, dropping it on the floor fixed it.)

Today the hard reset didn't solve the problem: in fact, it left me with a machine that believes the date to be 2 October, and I can't get to the part of the screen that should tell it to set the date to today. Running a Q-tip around the edge didn't help, though it picked up significant dirt. Dropping the thing didn't work.

I think I'm going to be spending more money I don't have, to replace this: but I'll be getting the cheapest usable solution (I want a PalmOS device, and while I'll accept low-end--I'm not using the 8 MB I have on this Vx, and I don't have color now and thus won't miss it--under the circumstances I don't want to go on Ebay or any such and pick up someone else's used machine, lest I find myself where I am now except poorer).

There's a paper address book around here somewhere, and all the data are safely backed up on my hard drive.

spare brain damage

My PalmPilot, the device I refer to as my spare brain, seems to be seriously broken.

It's had a bad habit for a while of losing the screen mapping: that is, where I tapped wasn't where it would read the input as coming from. This is more than annoying when the area needed has been mapped off the edge of the screen. I'd been dealing with this by keeping a close eye on it, and redoing it every day or two whether it seemed to need it or not. And, when that failed, a hard reset would fix it. (Once, dropping it on the floor fixed it.)

Today the hard reset didn't solve the problem: in fact, it left me with a machine that believes the date to be 2 October, and I can't get to the part of the screen that should tell it to set the date to today. Running a Q-tip around the edge didn't help, though it picked up significant dirt. Dropping the thing didn't work.

I think I'm going to be spending more money I don't have, to replace this: but I'll be getting the cheapest usable solution (I want a PalmOS device, and while I'll accept low-end--I'm not using the 8 MB I have on this Vx, and I don't have color now and thus won't miss it--under the circumstances I don't want to go on Ebay or any such and pick up someone else's used machine, lest I find myself where I am now except poorer).

There's a paper address book around here somewhere, and all the data are safely backed up on my hard drive.