I'm back with a workout update.

Been a while. Way too long.

I'm going through the hundred push-up challenge again. But because I'm trying to lose weight and fat, I'm using the same numbers for all big 4 movements. Push, Pull, Squat, Hip Hinge. In the past, I was in good enough shape that I could do use column 3, starting week 3 for the first week. More than 25 pushups weren't a problem.

But it's been a while since I worked out consistently and steadily. Last few months, during quarantine, I'd work out a little and then do something else, no real plan. I don't know why I grabbed the Hundred Pushup challenge again.

This time around, I hit enough to do week 1 in column 3, but at the start of this week's round, I was feeling a little worn out.  May have been the less than 4 hours of sleep that day. I was also worried about volume after not working out in so long. So I started in column 2.

Week 1, Day 1:

Push-up	Squat	Inverted Row on TRX	Two-hand 24kg Kettlebell swing
6	6	6	6
6	6	6	6
4	4	4	4
4	4	4	4
7	10	8	10

Totals: 27, 30, 28, 30
Problems: squat round 4, timer problem, extra rest. I-row feet round 2 slid across the floor, changing the angle to harder. Swing round 1, left hand slipped off kettlebell.

Week 1, Day 2:

Push-up	Squat	I-Row on TRX	Two-hand 24kg KB swing
6	6	6	6
8	8	8	8
6	6	6	6
6	6	6	6
8	14	9	20

Totals: 34, 40, 35, 46

Week 1, Day 3:

Push-up	Squat	I-Row on TRX	Two-hand 24kg KB swing
8	8	8	8
10	10	10	10
7	7	7	7
7	7	7	7
11	12	10	20

Totals: 43, 44, 42, 52

Now to rest until Tuesday and start week 2. 

Last Night's workout and other thoughts

So here I am again, back to where I was in 2006. Just before Christmas and weighing 265lbs. Unlike the last time which was a slow road from 170 in 2003 to 265 in 2006, this one was shorter. Probably because 245 is the lightest I've been i the last couple of years.

I've ran 2 Tough Mudders. 1 in 2012, and one in 2013. I didn't run any this year. I haven't done much training in anything other than my mind in the last 2 years. Thanks to taking 9+ credits at term, and working full time. In fact I've gone to school year round (at least 1 class every term) for the last 2 years. I have my Bachelor of Science now, well... maybe / kind of. Graduation is Thursday, commencement Saturday, Final Grades next Tuesday. No idea when the actual paper will arrive.

But the not training has taken it's toll. I've tried. I had a small gym set up in my garage,  but lost it due to the basement flooding. I have no where else to put my power tower, or my heavy bag right now.

Last night was the first workout I've done in a while.

3 sets of 5:
5 push ups
1 arm rows, R/L @16kg kettlebell
goblet squats @16kg. kettlebell

10 2hand kettlebell swigns @ 16kg. The floor didn't like that.
10 R/L slow front kicks, toes above eye level. again, floor didn't like that.

I might grab some mats or something on the way home tonight.

Tonight's plan:
couch to 5k (even though used to be able to run 5k)
5-4-3-2-1 per side Turkish Get-ups (if I can find a stable spot in the house with a high enough ceiling).

Changes

If you're looking for my Computer / Information Security / Physcial Security stuff, you can go to www.rattis.net. That's where I'm writing that stuff at. Not that I've been writing as much as I'd like.

This site is going to be more more a workout and food journal.

Driver Problem

So after the last post, an going out to dinner, I started reading up on the Yahoo Group for the BaoFeng UV-5R series, they point to a site I found last night and read through.

Turns out that with the chip in the USB to serial cable (chip built in to USB Plug), you have to use the right driver. I had the newer driver 3.4 something, and it would transmit at random. I down graded to the 3.2.0.0 driver, and I haven't had it try to transmit yet.

So if you're having problems with random transmitting when you're trying to program your BaoFeng UV-5R or other, check your driver make sure you're using the right one.

When they said RF burns hurt they meant it.

So I recently got my Amateur Radio License, in the class they before the exam, they said RF burns really hurt. I can say they do.

Here's the details:

I have a Technician Class License. KD8VPJ.

I bought a BaoFeng UV-5R+. I'm using Chirp to program it.

When I have the HT plugged in to the computer, at random the transmit light starts. No idea why it's doing that. So I pulled the antenna off, and happened to pick the device up while the screen was Orange (transmit). I hit the spot where the antenna connects, while orange. Got a nice little RF burn on my middle finger. Man that hurts.

Apple Account part 2

So quick recap. I got an email saying a new iphone 5 has logged in to my imessage account. Problem is, I don't own an iphone, I don't know what imessage is, and the email in the salutation isn't mine. The account has someone else's name and contact information, someone from Finland, but MY EMAIL ADDRESS as the verified account.

I've gone through the find my apple id, and all the info is right when I log in that way, using MY EMAIL ADDRESS for the recovery. When I log in with the apple id it emailed me, I get my stuff in English. When I use my email address as the apple id, nothing is right.

So after I got home, I did some more digging. I found out how to at least "disable" the account even though I couldn't permanently delete it.

Going through itunes, yes I had to install it, I could see that person's information. Not all of it, but some of it. Name, address etc. Same stuff I could see via the apple site.

More checking between the two accounts, I note that my email apple ID is verified, my other one is not. But both accounts have the same email address. Ok, I'll verify it on the account where everything is in English. Only the site won't let me. It's already been verified elsewhere and in use.

WTF...

The best I can figure out, Apple is using email addresses as their primary keys for the accounts now. Something they were not doing when I first signed up in 2005. Since I first signed up they are verifying accounts as well. Once verified that becomes another account  key, secondary, or primary in a second table. The problem is, someone not me was able to get my address listed as their verified address and their account.

I ended up un-associated MY ADDRESS With the account, and sent it off in to never land. I hope they have good luck getting their information and account back. I've verified my email address, and have now set it as my account name, with a 30 character password. I'd turn on two factor auth, but I don't own an apple device and that's required.

So the short version of the story. Someone got their Apple account associated with my email address. Claimed my address as their own and got it verified somehow. I got a notification when they used a new phone to log in to the account. Took control of the account, because they had used my email address, de-associated the account with my email address, and then made sure that my account was verified with my email address.

Apple Account part 1

So today, I got a strange email. I chalked it up to a phishing attempt at first, but it actually turned out to be something way more interesting.

The way it started:

Dear Paula,Your Apple ID (my email address) was used to sign in to iMessage on an iPhone 5 named “iPhone (Paula)”If you have not recently set up an iPhone with your Apple ID, then you should change your Apple ID password. Learn more.Apple Support

Well that's odd, my name isn't Puala, and while I own an IPod Color from 2005, I don't use apple products. In fact I have no idea where that IPod is.

Wait a tick, didn't I get an email a few months ago asking to to verify my apple id? The other email I thought was a phishing spam... (it's been more than 30 days and I deleted it when it came in).

Well no way this is right. I know, I'll prove it's spam. I'm not going to click shit. I'm going to go to apple.com and try to log in.

So I go there, try logging in with my email address, and told invalid password. WTF, okay lets try reset password. And Lo I get an email with the steps to reset my password, and I follow suit.

Go to the account page, some one in Finland, with a UK phone number. WTF. Well this can't be right. Someone set up an account, with a verified email address of MY EMAIL ADDRESS, but that's not me. So thinking someone popped my un-used account.

After not being able to get past the Finish security questions, I decide to call Apple Support. I open a case, and talk to a guy. He tried to help, but in the end, without my IPod or some other way to prove my account (the credit card number wasn't mine either). There was little he could do for me. I will say this for Apple, they do try to take your account security seriously, even if they won't let you delete your account.

The Apple Guy did think of one thing he could do. He walked me through the find my apple id part of the stie. It asked for my name, email address, other possible email address, home address, etc. The next page my DOB (month and day) and then the next page that asked for my security question. A question I wasn't expecting, but knew it was mine. One that only I would know the answer to. And then I was able to change my password.

Then I get an email. Saying my id, yet another one, has had it's password changed. Talk about more confusion. But it was time to leave for ISSA, and I was on my marry way, knowing that both accounts had 30 character random passwords.

to be contenuied