quick update

Still not working out much.

Had a 30+ hour day at work last week. (30 hours for one part. Started on Saturday 7:30am. Left Sunday 11:30 am. Called back in 2x during the day).

Trying to study for the Security+ exam. I'm not doing well. I started in October, got about 20 pages in, and other than carry the book around, didn't get any further. Re-read those 20 pages, up to page 23 now, this week. I'm understanding it, but I don't think I'd be able to recall it to pass the test. I'm taking notes while I'm reading and they're not helping.

I think the only day off in the Month of November, where I wasn't doing something work related during my awake time was Thanksgiving day. I've been in the office all Thanksgiving weekend.

I'm even dreaming of work every night. I need to get away, but doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon.

slip and burn

Woke up early (early for me), and worked out. I remember why I don't work out in the morning. body is slow, and things don't really work right.

I did The Furnace again. I like it. But my numbers were not as good as they were last time. I had my foot slide out from under me a few times. It's fun (sarcasm) having to drop back down in a TGU to reset your leg and hand because they're sliding across the carpet.

It was a nice workout though. I enjoyed it. Feel a little better for doing it.

Holy FRAK!

I haven't been working out much lately. Partly because I've been a slacker, partly because I had tons of other crap to do (12+ hours at work are not rare. Nor is working 6 to 7 days a week).

Earlier today Dave "The Iron Tamer" Whitley posted The Furnace to his blog.

I liked it. It was 12 minutes (plus because I messed up setting my Gym Boss right) of fun.

I said in twitter it sounded like the workout I needed to kick me back in to Kettlebell training... I don't think I was wrong on that one.

it's been 8 days of disappointment

my laptop (only working computer at home) is still down. multiple installs, and still having problems with it. best I've been able to do so far, is use Gnome on Debian Testing, but having some issues with it dealing with my Laptop and the External Monitor.

KDE or Gnome, the mouse pointer disappears when using 1280x1024 resolution. At least with Gnome, I can get the pointer working after messing around for a few minutes.

well it's decided

So for the last few weeks I've been thinking about rebuilding my laptop with Debian. I wanted to do a reinstall to make some chages.

While trying to upgrade the system today, I broke it. I'm at least backing up some important data by using this walk through to mount my encrypted hard drive.

After the back up is done I'll probably end up taking the thing to work, or waiting until tomorrow do the install.

Kind of sucks. But at least I'm not going to be losing data (like my Keypass password file so I can log into thing).

Saturday Morning

I went shopping today. I was out of soap, and low on toothpaste. Got a Cd case for my OS cds. In the same strip mall is a Dunham's Discount sports. I was going to get another dumb bell (but I forgot what weight I needed). While in the weights area, they had a couple of different kinds of kettlebells, even one that was 36lbs.

However, I was looking at plates. I picked up a 25 pound plate, and figured what the heck see how low I can go. I ended up doing a right leg pistol. Needless to say I was surprised. I tried the left leg but muscle across the front of the leg said no. Felt like it popped. Like a knuckle cracking, but in the muscle.

I've been having problems with my left side lately. For some reason, weights I can do on my right no problem, are huge problems on my left (that's what led to my left shoulder injury earlier this year while doing Turkish Get Ups). I've noticed problems with that muscle on the leg during my round house kicks. It doesn't hurt, but told me I need to strengthen it up some on the left.

I'm going to pick up the 25lbs plate in a few weeks, but more likely few months, just to do the pistols.

not dead yet

lots of work stuff going on to move. trying to figure out moving again. lots of stress no time to blog.