Strange things happen when you approach strangers

Had to go to the store and get some stuff... Odds and ends. You know toothpaste, dental floss, cartridges for my razor, sand paper. One of the things I wanted to do was look at the price of weights. I wanted to get an idea of how much a 35lbs one would cost me. I looked at k-mart and the largest they went to were 25lbs for hex style dumb bells. Since there is a Dunham's sports in the same strip, I drove over there.

Spotted a guy looking at one of those iron gym things. The door way pull up bars, that sit on the door, not get screwed into it. He then walked over to another area, and looked at some other ones. At which point I told the guy I'd sell him mine for 15.00 or so less. It needs epoxy on the rubber to hold it to the bar (The one that goes over the door), but it was in decent shape and still worked. He asked why I didn't use it. I told him the truth. The door jams at my old house were too large, and while it fits at my apartment, I have one of free standing pull up bars in the back. He asked me to show him. So I did. He liked it more. We got to talking about some other stuff. He gave me his business card. He's an Assistant US Attorney. Actually I think I've met this guy before. he looked familiar, and I know I met a US Attorney before in a sports store. He was very appreciative of the help, was going to check some things out that I told him about.

Ran back into him like 15 minutes later in the check out (I bought a yoga matt, because it was on sale and need it for Monday's Yoga classes, they have community ones, but I'd rather have my own). He said thanks again for the help. Told him I'd call him later this week and give him my number and stuff, and to let me know if he wanted to come over and get a decent workout (I'll introduce him to kettlebells and AOS, plus let him try my pull up bar in the front room).

Oh and the cool thing. I did a pull up (only to chin over the bar, not the chest), and did the corn cob thing (sliding side to side on the bar, didn't try to to go backwards. I also know the guy in that video) ALL FROM A DEAD HANG with no band.

Oh yeah, and I'm up to 24 pull ups today (not counting the dead hangs) with the 1 3/4 band in sets of 4.

my shoulders hurt

shoulders in the back. I think it's from all the pull ups yesterday. But today I was able to do 4 in the first set of the day. Hands hurt to. Around my callouses.

Final count

12 sets of 3 pull ups through out the day. that's 36 pull ups. That is the most I've done in one day Ever. Now to see if I can get 40 in one day in, sometime this weekend.

kind of a follow up to the pull-up post earlier

Here is how my day has gone:
Got up around 11am.
2 sets of 3 pull ups
walked to the management office (about half a mile round trip)
walked around the complex
2 sets of 3 pull ups
breakfast of corn flakes and pbj (this was around 2pm)
banking stuff
took recycle stuff to the recycle center
grocery shopping
sushi (about 5:30pm)
2 more set of 3 pull ups
10 leg lifts
10 knee lifts
3 sets of 20 32kb 2-hand swings (which turned my hands black)
2 sets of 20 push ups
20 right / left side bends @ 24kg
1 set of 3 pull ups. the last one was hard, and on the way back down, my knee slid out of the band, and the band hit the ceiling.
Cooked dinner (ate at 7:30pm)
Set Number 7 of 3 pull-ups
3 more sets of 3 pull-ups.
Last set of those for the night will be at 9pm for a total of 33 pull ups today. Without counting the jump pull-ups I did. Too bad I had to them all with the 1 3/4 inch band. sucks also that 3 at time is the best I can do.

I feel good.

edit: going to just keep adding things to this list. Added dinner and pull ups.

People that don't know what they're talking about

So there is a show on Detroit Public Television right now. It's called Due Process. They have a couple of people on the tv, that really don't' know what they're talking about, about computers and privacy. One is Susan Crawford, Professor of Internet Law at the University of Michigan. The other is Patrick Corbet Professor of Criminal Law at Thomas ME. Cooley Law School.

They're talking about the person who cracked into Palin's private email. And how her privacy wasn't protected because someone was able to use publicly available information to get past the "security questions". The lady, missed her name, is saying that email should be protected by privacy between her and the provider. If you send it clear text, you have no privacy END OF STORY.

Now they're talking about company acceptable use policies. It seems like the 3 talking heads are all lawyers, but still.

Just annoying, completely. They have little clue on the technology side of things, and trying to explain the INTERNET should be. They're trying to sound like experts. And people will believe them because they're law professors.

Sigh

Edit 1, put their names in, and added information.

edit 2: SCREAMS AT THE TV. Moderator asked if there was a way to completely clean a hard drive. They both said no. They'll always be able to get some of the data back.

I can think of several computer programs that take hard drive as close as possible to out of the box fresh state. I know the NSA uses one of those too.

Sore and tired

I've been working the pull ups lately. 1 3/4 inch band. Lost count of how many I did Wednesday and Thurday. I've done 3 sets of 3 so far today.

My back is sore, and I'm tired.

* Edit: make that 4 sets of 3 so far today.

Lifehacker has a link today to an online site to do a home body fat test.

Did the tape measure. If I hit all the spots right,

43.5 at the widest part of my waist (my belly button). Their directions (Stand up straight, but don't suck in your stomach. Measure the widest circumference.)

45 at the widest part of my hips

13 at the widest part of my forearm

8 around the wrist.

They say with those and my weight that

I have 23.4% body fat.

and

I have 57.3 Pounds of fat and 187.7 Pounds of lean (muscle, bone, body water).

They say on their site that their test is accurate to +/- 2%