Good intentions, bad execution...

12/02/08 Weight 213.0 pounds, bp 154/100 Hr 37 bpm
W2D and that was all the exercise for the day, I am not working hard enough.

Okay, I have been hiding and I am not going to ...

catch up, I have fallen off the wagon and am wallowing around in my lusts (if only I were, I would make a finer pig).

12/01/08 weight 212.0 pounds, bp 135/96 Hr 35 bpm
50x3 TMw/5# DB, 346 calories, 45% fat, Hr 114, Zone 29m55s, Exercised 40m04s

W2D Not a bad day at work, on my feet the whole time, napped on the ferry boat home, watched wrestling while reclining, not enough motivation for more exercises nor rifle work - get some!

Gotta start some time...

11/17/08 weight 213.5 pounds bp 176/115 or 145/90 Hr 35
50 reps x 3 exercises, Jog 331 calories, 55 % fat ones, Average Hr 110, Zone 24m22s, Exercised 40m42s found two worn pennies foot feels fine, foggy day

Catch up

11/12/08 wt 209.5 bp 148/92 Hr 42

11/13/08 wt 213.0 bp 163/104 Hr 42

11/14/08 wt 210.5 bp 167/92 Hr 39 W2D

11/15/08 wt 208.5 bp 151/99 Hr 39

11/16/08 wt 210.0

Veterans Day Run

11/11/08 Jog 433 calories, 50% fat ones, Hr 106, Zone 32m01s, Exercised 57m14s

Okay, I am a slug

11/07/08 Wt. 211.5 pounds, bp 168/96 Hr 42
W2D

11/10/08 Wt. 211.0 pounds, bp 144/102 Hr 40
30x3 TM 134 cal. 50% fat, Hr 94, Zone 10m02s Ex 30m17s
W2D Lockdown searched Library

Getting to better than before? not yet...

11/04/08 Wt. 212.5 pounds, bp ????
W2D
11/05/08 Wt. 213.0 pounds, bp 175/108, Hr 39 bpm
W2D
11/06/08 Wt. 211.0 pounds, bp 128/97, Hr 37 bpm
W2D RAIN!

Catch up, nothing really changed, still waiting...

10/28/08 Wt. 211.0 bp 164/102 Hr 42 W2D

10/29/08 Wt. 210.0 bp 157/97 Hr 42 W2D

10/30/08 Wt. 211.5 bp 168/102 Hr 39 W2D

10/31/08 Wt. 210.0 bp 164/99 Hr 41 W2D

11/01/08 Wt. 209.0 bp 155/105 Hr 44

11/02/08 Wt. 210.5 bp 170/94 Hr 39

11/03/08 Wt. 212.5 bp 158/88 Hr 38
50x3 TM 376 cal. 40% fat, Hr 118, Zone 28m42s Exercise 40m8s
W2D Evening dryfire M1, change sling, prone and sitting positions

Publish Post

Starting all over, get it right...

10/27/08 weight 209.5 pounds, blood pressure 163/97, heart rate 38 bpm

50x3 basic exercises, Treadmill Program 216 calories, 50% fat, Hr 106, Zone 18m12s Exercise 30m W2D

Oiled the leather sling on the M1 yesterday, will have to work on positions and dry fire tonight, more exercises, lighter meals and no flour, rice or potatoes - no cakes and cookies and candies. Goal weight is 180 pounds, strong and flexible and getting there is going to take turning off the noise.

Catch up as I fall apart faster...

10/13/08 wt 210.5 bp 162/91 Hr 35 bpm
30x3 TM 180 cal. 45% fat Hr 119 Zone 15m7s Exercise 30m

10/14/08 wt 210.0 bp 164/97 Hr 39 bpm W2D

10/15/08 wt 208.0 bp 152/94 Hr 43 bpm

10/16/08 wt 211.0 W2D

10/17/08 wt 211.0 bp 161/91 Hr 40 W2D

10/20/08 wt 206.5 bp 141/97 Hr 45
30x3 TM 242 cal. 45% fat, Hr 110 Zone 19m29s Exercise 30m6s
W2D standing up at work again

10/21/08 wt 209.0 bp 140/104 Hr 46 HDTV set up

10/22/08 wt 209.0 bp 140/89 Hr 38 W2D

10/23/08 wt 209.0 bp 164/102 Hr 46

10/24/08 wt 208.5 bp 148/96 Hr 37 W2D

10/25/08 wt 208.0 bp 143/97 Hr 49

weekend wasted, but restful...

10/11/08 weight 207.0 pounds, blood pressure 150/89, Heart rate 33
walked with wife in Spanaway Park

10/12/08 weight 208.5 pounds, blood pressure 156/94, Heart rate 37
shoot M1 walk range twice - fun but not really exercise

So sad lack of discipline is going to kill me, best shape up and turn off the television and computers.

Updated but not uplifted... back sliding again?

10/05/08 weight 207.0 pounds bp 139/84 Hr 40 bpm

10/06/08 weight 208.0 pounds bp 125/80 Hr 42 bpm
40x3 W2D

10/07/08 weight 208.0 pounds bp 143/89 Hr 35 bpm
Jog 378calories 45% fat, Zone 35m5s, Exercise 41m29s W2D

10/08/08 weight 208.0 pounds bp 141/89 Hr 40 bpm
40x3 W2D

10/09/08 weight 209.0 pounds bp 115/89 Hr 35 bpm
W2D

10/10/08 weight 205.5 pounds bp 129/94 Hr 37 bpm
W2D

October starts

10/01/08 weight 208.5 bp 141/92 Hr 40
W2D 40x3 3HU

10/02/08 weight 207.0 bp 144/88 Hr 37
W2D

10/03/08 weight 204.5 bp 139/92 Hr 36
Olympia WALE Conference Presentation

10/04/08 weight 206.0 bp 154/80 Hr 33
YMCA Rowing 5K 26min Stepping wildly 30 min

Finish up September, please...

09/23/08 Wt 206.5 bp 157/96 Hr 43
W2D

09/24/08 Wt 208.0 bp 144/97 Hr 39
W2D

09/25/08 Wt 208.0 bp 127/81 Hr 240 ?
W2D bp 134/85 Hr 41

09/26/08 Wt 207.5 bp 131/91 Hr 36
W2D

09/27/08 Wt 209.0 bp 146/92 Hr 37

09/28/08 Wt 209.5 bp 135/91 Hr 42

09/29/08 Wt 208.5 bp 136/89 Hr 35

09/30/08 Wt 207.5 bp 152/91 Hr 41
jog 369 cal. 45%m Hr116 Zone 33m2s Exercise 38m38s
W2D

Things are getting better, or so I think...

09/20/08 Weigh 205.5 pounds, blood pressure 143/98, heart rate 39 bpm.

09/21/08 Weigh 208.5 pounds, blood pressure 132/76, heart rate 38 bpm.

09/22/08 weigh 208.0 pounds, blood pressure 157/89, heart rate 37 bpm.
Jog 365 calories, 45% fat, Hr 117 bpm, Zone 31m57s, Exercise 37m50s.

I think stopping the medication is having an effect, and my body seems to be going through adjustments, I am not exercising, stretching nor doing enough but I have started on the Procrastination Pile, so some stresses should disappear - not as fast as my money seems to have flown, but I am making progress.

Good Start

09/19/08 weight 204.0 pounds, blood pressure 139/80, heart rate 39 bpm. 2 1/2 CU 40 x 3

Walked to dock, walked park with wife.

Did not turn computer nor television on until after breakfast gruel and exercises, priorities straight this morning. I expect my M1 Garand today, FedEx says by 10:30 AM. I took the Statistics counter off my Just the Library Keeper site - just distracting. I write for me. Practicing the sitting position showed me that I need to stretch much more - way too tight.

Strawberries after my jog, should do it more often...

9/15/08 weigh 211.0 pounds, blood pressure 150/99, heart rate 41 bpm, dumb bells in evening.

9/16/08 weigh 211.0 pounds, blood pressure 175/89, heart rate 41 bpm.

9/17/08 weigh 207.5 pounds, blood pressure 136/86, heart rate 41 bpm.

9/18/08 weigh 206.0 pounds, blood pressure 144/92, heart rate 41 bpm.
2 1/2 CU 2 1/2 CU Jog 548 calories, 45% fat, Hr 119 bpm, Zone 51m45s, Exercise 54m18s.

Why fit in that box? who is doing the research?

09/14/08 weigh 209.5 pounds, blood pressure 140/96, heart rate 43 bpm.

Jog: 352 calories, 50% fat, Hr 116, in Zone 32m, Exercised 37m20s. Passed the front entrance work crew making our lives prettier and increasing the value of our properties, feel guilty but don't that I am not there with them, since I spent years cutting grass where no one else would and not one minded my efforts not applauded them.

Thoughts: I am out of blood pressure medicine, have to cancel my doctor's appointment on the sixteenth at nine in the morning, jury duty. Wonder how many sixty year old men have the exercise schedule that I do, and if I am doing more why do I have to try and fit in a box of the general population, since I am only a lowly sergeant not one of the generals. Seriously, the Cooper Institute says that exercise is more important than LDL and other measurements. I have to work on that thought.

I quit, no more trying to be what I ain't & never were

I would have used 'would' instead of were, but I do quit just can't get it all on the title of this post. I have been hanging around the internet too long, and I am falling behind, so one hour a day at home in the evening and if I miss it, it will be there if I need it later.

Sexy, don't know how much stuff is sold to make me sexy, I don't buy any of it - the motorcycle doesn't feel sexy, it feels like my machine but sexy isn't there. I can feel a woman's sexy and if I am polite I will remark on it, but mostly she will never know. Young, I am older but I am never going to be young again - and I have a certainty that I wouldn't want to have to make the same stupid mistakes the second time around if it happened. I am me, and being old and underestimated is just fine. Rich, no one out there is going to make me rich and I am sure I am programmed to spend beyond my earnings to keep me from becoming rich. All those that offer me an opportunity to become financially independent - depend on a bunch of folks believing their story and program to keep themselves rich, don't support co-dependency! Thin, was once as a young boy, and again as a warrior wanna-be in Vietnam, it wasn't very healthy and seems to be caused by poor adjustment to adverse environment. Dangerous, only seems to be a power thing, the problem with it is that once in a while you must kill something or someone to prove the dangerous - and the dead and the death really stink, if you aren't afraid of it and aren't going to eat it - dangerous is not useful in polite company, children don't grow well in its shadows. Perfect, I will not fit inside the box my doctor thinks I should, my life isn't common and what made me must be part of the plan, don't adjust for the general standard - everyone has a chance to be what they are and hope that it works as things change.

9/10/08 weigh 206.0 pounds, blood pressure is 131/86, heart rate is 43 bpm.

9/13/08 weigh 210.0 pounds, blood pressure is 157/89, heart rate is 41 bpm.

All weight isn't gain, just all mine...

09/09/08 weigh 208.5 pounds, blood pressure 113/76, heart rate 50 bpm.
Jog 385 calories, 445% fat ones, Heart rate 117 bpm, in Zone 32m, Exercised 39m10s.

Such a slug, so slow...

09/07/08 weight 204.0 pounds, no BP, no exercises, no excuses

09/08/08 weigh 207.0 pounds (!) no excuses don't burn calories do they? neither does no exercises, sigh. BP 115/86 heart rate of 76 bpm (sex is good for BP). 3 chin ups. Eat and run

Jog 418 calories, 40% of them fat, Average Heart Rate 124 bpm, in Zone 35m6s, exercised 38m5s

Think I will concentrate on posting on this blog, with some exercised muscles, sweat dripping from my face and the beginning of bad smell - not that I would ever care, I know where the hot shower is with the Irish Spring and Pert with conditioners - like I have enough hair for conditioners? A beautiful girl was running to the bus stop this morning, she is half Asian and that is always exotic to me. Her hair was flowing and I thought that the shampoo folks would want that picture, long glowing and flowing hair - and she runs much faster and happier than I, for I was worn and going to work and she was fresh and going to be with her friends and teachers. May her school years be blest and the best, preparing her for all the rest.

I walk to the dock and I feel fine, Summer is still here.

Walking the dog...

I am following Wyatt and feel his disappointment in gaining pounds after working forty of them off, but he is aware of it and will address the issue. So as I commented to him, I am a lost cause and want to blame everything and one except me, but I am so much smarter than that and after weighing this morning I go and jog, a long one for an hour and fifteen minutes. As I run, I think and look for money (found three bright pennies and rescued them). I notice a long legged red head and she is walking with a chubby fella that is walking their (?) Chow Chow, whose red hair almost matches the lanky lady's. But as I think, people with dogs get out once a day to walk the dog, twice if the dog and they are really lucky and the dog thrives on the walk, the new stuff to sniff and the joy of the pack prowl. So I wonder why the rest of modern America isn't out walking or jogging their heart - it needs the same care and concern one gives the favorite pet, exercise, time together and adventures in what is on the way, the smells of bakeries and pretty women and the smiles of children - it all does better for the heart than the constant pounding while piled on the recliner in front of the TV with remote in hand... take the heart out for a walk or a jog, you both deserve it.

09/04/08 Weigh 205.5 pounds, blood pressure 150/86, heart rate 28 bpm. Walk to dock.

09/05/08 Weigh 204.5 pounds, blood pressure 146/83, heart rate 62 bpm. Walk to dock.

09/06/08 Weigh 203.5 pounds, blood pressure 134/89, heart rate 40 bpm. Go for a gentle jog.
768 calories, 40% fat ones, Heart rate average 120 bpm, in Zone 54m28s, Exercised 1h14m53s.

If I want to win, the electronic haze must die...

09/01/08 Weight 207.0 pounds, blood pressure 156/91, heart rate 37 bpm.

09/02/08 Weight 207.5 pounds, blood pressure 143/89, heart rate 39 bpm.

09/03/08 Weight 206.0 pounds, blood pressure 127/86, heart rate 38 bpm.
Walk to the dock, thirty plus minutes about two miles.

End this August stuff and get on with September!

08/30/08 weigh 206.5 pounds, blood pressure is 131/80 heart rate is 40 bpm. Spend the afternoon at a wedding and reception, lovely bride and party, hulking grooms men, although the groom looked okay.

08/31/08 weigh 206.5 pounds, blood pressure is 160/88, heart rate 44 bpm. Jog for 371 calories, 45% fat ones, Heart rate average is 118 bpm, in Zone 33m27s, Exercised 37m59s, found four pennies when thinking good thoughts about Federal Medical Organization, my Mother and winning the Lottery. 2 1/2 Chin Ups then late for church.

Went to the range after to fire FASTER! one day late and still too slow, but the top two targets are from my 9mm, all on the paper at seven yards (21 feet) and all deadly only the ones on black count five points apiece.

The lower targets are with my Colt Model IV Series 70, Government Model, .45 APC, and you can see I do much better with the single action, although not perfection, I can claim more dead bodies. Sequence was five right target, reload, 5 left target, reload, 5 right target, reload, 5 left target. Higher scoring than the ones I turned in on the 30th, but that is okay, I only have myself to satisfy - no sponsors, accolades nor living enemies that I know about.

I went off to the rifle side of the range, checked my single shot .22 at the fifty yard line - high and centered - so I moved the target to the hundred yard line and I get the black, then I went and fired ten rounds of 30-06 with the Model 70, first time I have loaded five in the magazine, emptied it twice. Is the deer, bear, lion or skulking terrorist dead - yes, but I am not happy, I want tighter groups and that means I need to practice all the stuff I know but have forgotten to practice frequently. I am so not dangerous (enough for me anyway - best get to that practice stuff.

Paved with good intentions, the road to Hell, sigh...

08/30/08 weigh 206.5 pounds, blood pressure 131/80, heart rate 40 bpm.

08/29/08 weigh 206.5 pounds, blood pressure 140/84, heart rate 40 bpm. W2D

08/28/08 weigh 206.0 pounds, blood pressure 129/91, heart rate 40 bpm. W2D

08/27/08 weigh 207.5 pounds, Coffee Stop from 10 AM to 2 PM no work.

08/26/08 weigh 204.0 pounds, blood pressure 148/68, heart rate 38 bpm.

Sad to feel like I am not in the training cycle I should be - weather has been beautiful, seems my electronic distractions are holding my attention and devouring my time and I should be in control of that. Like now

Record it for the motivation of what one's done...

08/25/08 weigh 207.5 pounds, blood pressure 124/76, heart rate 40 bpm.

3 CU, 2 1/2 CU, 50x3, Jog 705 calories, 40% fat ones, Hr 123, Zone 45.33, Exercised 1h04m59s found one penny

=== Walk down to the dock

Just for the Record,

08/20/08 weight 208.5 pounds, blood pressure 115/84, heart rate 35 bpm

08/21/08 weight 210.0 pounds, blood pressure 138/84, heart rate 55 bpm

08/22/08 weight 205.0 pounds

08/23/08 weight 204.0 pounds motorcycling to Lincoln City, Oregon

08/24/08 motorcycling back from Lincoln City, Oregon

Wife tells me not to trust the scales, I need to start to exercise and jog again and get the Computer Cave organized, the end of September looms large.

Catching up and finding fallen behind...

081108 weigh 204.0 pounds blood pressure 143/78, heart rate 60 bpm. Almost fainting several times that morning, wondering if the blood pressure weren't too low, cut medications in half, go to work.

081208 weigh 206.5 pounds blood pressure 146/88, heart rate 37 bpm. Walk to Dock

081308 weigh 206.0 pounds blood pressure 143/81, heart rate 40 bpm. Walk to Dock

081408 weigh 207.5 pounds blood pressure 120/64, heart rate 36 bpm. Walk to Dock

081508 weigh 203.5 pounds blood pressure 139/96, heart rate 42 bpm.

081608 weigh 203.5 pounds blood pressure 129/80, heart rate 32 bpm.

08/17/08 weigh 206.5 pounds 50x3 3HU

08/18/08 weigh 206.5 pounds blood pressure 133/80, heart rate 38 bpm.
Jog 382 cal 45% Hr 119 Zone 31.59 Exercise 38.30

08/19/08 weigh 208.0 pounds 138/81, heart rate 37 bpm.

Time flys but the weight doesn't

08/03/08 weigh 205.5 pounds, blood pressure 128/80, heart rate 37 bpm.

08/04/08 weigh 208.5 pounds, blood pressure 132/80, heart rate 35 bpm.
Jog 649 calories 40% fat, Hr 123, Zone 54m03s, exercise 1h08s W2D

08/05/08 weigh 204.5 pounds, blood pressure 147/81, heart rate 34 bpm. W2D

08/06/08 weigh 207.0 pounds, blood pressure 108/81, heart rate 38 bpm. W2D

08/07/08 weigh 206.5 pounds, blood pressure 116/76, heart rate 37 bpm. W2D

08/08/08 weigh 204.5 pounds, blood pressure 141/88, heart rate 38 bpm. W2D

08/09/08 weigh 205.0 pounds, blood pressure 145/91, heart rate 41 bpm.
YMCA rowing 5K 25 min, step/striding 20 min

08/10/08 Sunday, Motorcycle, Church, Shooting

Can we do everything in just one day?

I had plans today to become a better me, so I got up early, took my medicines, weighed and measured, had devotions, breakfast and exercised and jogged and was prepared to get my wife to the YMCA and go shoot my pistol and rifle. A better plan would have been to exercise at the YMCA with my wife, have lunch and then go shoot in the afternoon. I wasn't perfect but I was closer than normal.

Weight 205.0 pounds, blood pressure 130/80 and heart rate was 37 bpm. I did 30 reps of the basic 3 exercises, Jogged for 340 calories, 50% fat, Heart rate average 114 bpm, in Zone 29m42s, Exercised 37m17s.

I ate pho for lunch and beef, peas and some rice for dinner. Strange, I have had two comments left on this blog, and I was only doing this for my record - it is boring.

Stomach is quiverin' like jello,,

07/30/08 weigh 204.5 pounds, went to work, left early went to ALL STAFF DAY PICNIC! lovely ladies everywhere and I got lots of motorcycle riding in to and from and they will give me travel pay for it! Yahoo!

07/31/08 weigh 206.5 pounds, blood pressure is 117/92 with a heart rate of 31 bpm. W2D

08/01/08 weigh 203.5 pounds, blood pressure is 137/80 heart rate is 37 bpm. W2D in the very light rain.

Wife thinks I am getting a pot belly, best figure out where all my motivation and discipline went, it is sadly lacking. I must motivate and get off the electronic death cycle - do I need to check email that often?

Oh, I don't think so and I do think I can do better.

Such an old man I am...

07/28/08 weigh 205.5 pounds, blood pressure is 118/80, heart rate 38 bpm. 2 1/2 CU
Jog 344 calories, 50% fat, Heart rate 113, Zone 29m 11s, Exercise 338m 58s I walk to dock
felt like an old broken man jogging today, just sluggin' it out because...

07/29/08 weigh 207.0 pounds, blood pressure 119/88, heart rate 47 bpm. 3 CU
Jog 357 calories, 45% fat, Heart rate 117, Zone 33m 20s, Exercise 36m 51s did 30 reps of the basic three, no break between, 3 HU. No motorcycle today, I will walk to dock. I did take out the .22 rifles today and fired a couple of dry rounds, sitting position, have to get some good sling instructions for the target rifle. Postal match from SailorCurt to shoot early Saturday and email results to him quickly. Deadline is midnight in another time zone or so. Still, it is time for rifle shooting.

For the record...

07/23/08 weigh 203.5 pounds, blood pressure 110/76, heart rate is 37 bpm. W2D

07/24/08 weigh 203.5 pounds, blood pressure 134/80, heart rate is 37 bpm. W2D

07/25/08 weigh 203.0 pounds, blood pressure 137/70, heart rate is 36 bpm. W2D

07/26/08 weigh 202.5 pounds, blood pressure 116/76, heart rate is 45 bpm. Picnic

07/27/08 weigh 203.5 pounds, rest day, movie DARK KNIGHT.

Don't turn on the computer...

Because if you do you will go looking at Tam, Breda or Brigit for entertainment. Sigh, I am so weak. Well, temptations come in various packages, I read Frank and Kim, too. Then I did stop and comment on The Sandbox. So my first hour plus of life was enriched and such by my time there, or I really am just a receiver, so sad.

My dreams were strange, Ligonier kind of, motorcycles watching my brother take off and wreck on mine because I was distracted by some secret meeting or message to my girl friend which was one of two in my life but neither. A dream about youth that hardly seems possible. I warn my brother in email, he will laugh it off if he is smart and watch his riding.

I do the medications, weigh and measure, 203.5 pounds and blood pressure is 129/75 with a heart rate of 43 bpm. I finally break away from the computer and have breakfast gruel and do three strong slow chin ups, then a pull up hang. Out the door for my gentle jog, anything is better than nothing - remember that and work it, talk doesn't exercise anything save tongue and lips. I have put the trash out, water the front lawn while I sweat and the jog was cool and good. 331 calories 50% fat, Hr 111 bpm, Zone 25.58, Exercise 38.19. Will have to do more later.

Checked the Lotto tickets...

Two winners for my wife.

Friday, 07/18, weigh 204.0 pounds, blood pressure 148/75, heart rate 37 bpm, walked to dock.

Saturday, 07/19, weigh 204.5 pounds, blood pressure 134/75, heart rate 37 bpm, 3 CU, 50x3, 4 HU, jog 329 calories 50% fat, Hr 114 Zone 30.01 Exercise 35.27, YMCA rowing 5K 25min, step-strider 30min, cut lawn.

Sunday, weigh 203.0 pounds, Church, motorcycling with wife hanging on my jacket, rest day.

Monday, weigh 203.0 pounds, blood pressure 136/59, heart rate 35 bpm. After breakfast I do the 50 reps of the basic three, then jog 491 calories 50% fat, Heart rate 113 bpm, Zone 31.58 Exercise 55.05. Daydreaming, but still on the road, two pennies found.

Blame it on the Thyroid lack and compensation...

Sunday, 07/13 weight 206.5 United Methodist Men's breakfast, Church, home

Monday, 07/14 weight a bulging 208.5 pounds, blood pressure 134/83, heart rate 37 bpm. Jog for 302 calories, 55% Fat, Hr 108, Zone 17m48s, Exercise 38m01s two pennies found. Van and walk to dock. So sluggish and slow.

Tuesday, 07/15 weight 207.0 pounds, blood pressure 120/80, heart rate 41 bpm, 2 1/2 CU, Jog for 475 calories, 50% Fat, Hr 110, Zone 16m04s, Exercise 57m47s one penny picked up. 50x3, walk to dock.

Wednesday, 07/16, weight 206.5 pounds, blood pressure 124/84, heart rate 40 bpm, walk to dock.

Thursday, 07/17, weight 203.5 pounds, blood pressure 127/88, heart rate 39 bpm.

Catch up and start over...

I turned on the electronics again. And without exercise in its place I ate flour products and became a fat fellow again. Turn off the electronix.

Wednesday weight 203.0 pounds, blood pressure 139/72, heart rate 43 bpm. 3 CU, 2 1/2 CU

Thursday weight 208.0 pounds, blood pressure 135/72, heart rate 41 bpm.

Friday weight 207.5 pounds, blood pressure 142/94 or 116/78, heart rates 77 or 39 bpm.

Saturday weight 206.0 pounds, blood pressure 127/76, heart rate 41 bpm. I heat then eat my gruel, turn the cable on Bluegrass and go do 2 full chin ups and a half a hang. Then I am out to jog, gently 301 calories burnt, 55% of them fat, average heart rate 109 bpm, Zone 19m25s, Exercised 38m02s. Such a slug, watched the start of the STP bicycle race go by on 156th, every year they are looking good, and I am just slugging along. I do my fifty reps of the basic three exercises befor I go shooting with my wife on Fort Lewis.

Today is nice enough to sweat and share...

Weight today is 203.5 pounds, blood pressure is 135/81, pulse is 83 (cut it in half). I do 2 1/2 chin ups twice around my breakfast gruel - I cheated myself and went on the blogs and looked around a bit. I went out to jog, the day is wonderfully perfect. 606 calories burnt, 45% fat ones, average heart rate was 117 bpm, Zone for 55m33s, Exercised for 1h2m40s. Got glass of fruit juice from wife when I returned, flattened two mole hills in the front yard, did my 50 reps of the basic three exercises and hung for three on the chin up bar. Will walk to the dock this morning, the day is that beautiful.

Catching up on the first part of July 2008

Tuesday weight 203.5 pounds, blood pressure 132/86, heart rate 39 bpm. Jog over 40 minutes but don't turn on the heart rate monitor until late. 219 calories, 55% fat, heart rate 109, Zone 10m07s Exercise 27m57s. I walk to dock. Coming back on ferry I forget my backpack.
Wednesday weight 205.5 pounds, blood pressure 146/91, heart rate 41 bpm. Walk to Dock.
Thursday weight 207.5 pounds, blood pressure is 157/89, heart rate 37 bpm. Walk to Dock.
Friday, the Fourth of July, weight 205.5 pounds, blood pressure 116/75, heart rate 45 bpm.
Saturday, weight 206.5 pounds, blood pressure 140/88, heart rate 35 bpm. Go to YMCA after shooting pistol, 5K rowing 25m09s, 30 minutes on stride-stepper.
Sunday weight 208.0 pounds, blood pressure 123/84, heart rate unknown. Jog for 325 calories, 55% fat, Hr 110, Zone 22m44s, Exercise 38m06s.
Monday, turning the electronics off in the morning, weight 204.5 pounds, blood pressure 142/76, heart rate 37 bpm, 3CU, 3CU, 3x50 reps, 632 calories, 45% fat, Hr 120, Zone 53m06s, Exercise 1h1m31s, 3HU. Walk to Dock.

Been busy, fatter and lazier and bellied out...

Don't you hate it when motorcyclists seem to have a big fat spare tire proceeding them on the bike? Well, I do, sigh, will have to work on it.

Most of the week weighed in at around 206.0 pounds, blood pressure around 125/84, heart rate around 44 bpm. Not enough exercising and not working on healthier life style except in my medications, fruit and vegetable smoothies and getting sleep and riding my motorcycle for my mind.

Monday I weigh 203.5 pounds, blood pressure is 124/75, and my heart rate is 45 bpm, and I have written up the weekend and by 6:15 am have forgotten it is Monday and that I need to get ready for the new week and new month tomorrow. No wonder my blood pressure is so good, thank you Lord.

Determined that I need to get to 180 pounds and lose the gut fat - spare tire and love handles - and have room for concealing weapons and being dangerous but meek, I eat breakfast, do three solid chin ups, knock out fifty reps of the basice three exercises and go out for my heart rate jog. I burn 517 calories, 40% of them fat, average heart rate is 123 bpm, in Zone 51 minutes 2 seconds, exercised 53 minutes 2 seconds, found two pennies, waved to one 'fatter than I' heart walker - but folks he was out there and that is half the battle. Now to the work day. My wife brings me pulped fruit iced and juiced, cool and refreshing and we discuss my pictures on the bike and how fat I look... she still loves me, must be for my mind. I go do two and a half more chin ups.

Motivation! How does that work?

Sunday weight 207.5 pounds, bicycle to church and back, that is different.

Monday weight 207.5 pounds, blood pressure 115/92, heart rate 32 bpm. Do 25 reps of the basic three, a couple of chin ups and hangs, go jog the shortest course 326 calories burnt, 50% of them Fat, Hr 111, Zone 25 minutes 3 seconds, Exercise 38 minutes 25 seconds, walk to the dock.

Tuesday son is home, weight 206.0 pounds, blood pressure 133/83, heart rate 41 bpm. Do 2 Chin ups, 30 reps of the basic three, two more chin ups. Go jog with son. 410 calories burnt, 30% Fat, Hr 131 bpm, Zone 21 minutes 27 seconds, Exercised 34 minutes 14 seconds, only because he was doing it so easily and I was so old and trying to prove I could keep up. Barely, just barely.

I am sure it is the medicine for Thyroid lack...

Wednesday weight 207.0 pounds, blood pressure 127/84, heart rate 46 bpm.
Thursday weight 208.5 pounds
Friday weight 209.0 pounds
Saturday weight 206.0 pounds, blood pressure is 121/76, heart rate 36 bpm.

I mostly motorcycle around today, but plan on exercising this evening. Seattle has the Race for the Cure, and I wonder if a friend is running in it, and if she ran in last week's Sound to Narrows - she always mentioned maybe next year but it didn't happen while I was there. I do feel very fat and have to get dressed for the day, eat my breakfast gruel and out the door, enough typing.

Tuesday was a bit light...

Garbage day and I weighed 206.0 pounds, blood pressure was 152/86 and my heart rate was 41 bpm. I talked myself into waiting until evening for my basic fifty reps and the bar - and only spent time eating some great dinner and sitting like a sack of slump gazing at the television and I couldn't tell you what was on - but it wasn't Oprah, who was covering the joys of polygamy with a blonde babe, twenty-two children for the husband and his three sister-wives. He wins!

I did jog for my heart finally, too much computer time, 561 calories, 50% fat, Heart rate 114 bpm, Zoned for 50 minutes 40 seconds, Exercised 1 hour 1 minute 4 seconds. Very dull, but good to get out and do it, found a penny. I want to blame my thyroid medicine on my weight and sluggishness. Any excuse but me. The red headed bus driver with the chinese letter tattoo up her neck didn't get to take me to the dock, I walked, my foot still feels funny, the limp is light but the day was spent on my feet except for a long list of ILLs entered.

The rides on the motorcycle to and from work are great, the weather is cool but dry and I seem to get more mileage, one hundred and sixty miles without going to reserve. Maybe my riding is better, maybe I just stuffed fuel in there last time, still I am happy.

Yesterday, I wasn't hard enough...

Monday and I weighed 207.5 pounds (uhg!) blood pressure was 134/68 and my heart rate was 37 bpm. I went to jog joyfully, 528 calories burned, 5o% of them Fat, average heart rate 116 bpm, in Zone 48 minutes 47 seconds, Exercised 55 minutes 4 seconds. I did my fifty reps of the basic three, went to strain on chin ups, pull ups and mix ups - but straining was all I achieved. I did walk to the dock, still a nice exercise for my mind. In the evening I used the ten pound dumb bells to work a little more while I mostly acted like a fat slug in the recliner. Half a glass of wine and good night!

During the jog I scared a rabbit out, and couldn't catch him I am so old, and I did find a penny. So all is not lost, yet.

Preaching Sermons, not listening to self...

Friday the 13th, weight 204.5 pounds, blood pressure 127/86, heart rate 43 bpm.
Saturday, weight 205.0 pounds, blood pressure 131/88, heart rate 41 bpm.
Sunday, weight 207.0 pounds, blood pressure 154/89, heart rate 43 bpm.

Friday evening I watched a neighbor put four spoons of sugar in his coffee with a drop of milk. It bothered me, I had been like that and I started my sermon on cutting sugar and other refined carbohydrates. Others pitched in, talking about their medical problems some of which could have been addressed by better living and studying food and nurishment - which might not be the same thing. I got to the Biblical points of "Love thy neighbor as thy Self" and concentrate on the love of self (which many people ignore) and remembering that the body is a temple for the Lord, and one should not profane the temple. I was on a roll, but two days later I haven't done any exercising for my health and my weight is back up. Time to get serious about Self and knock off those pounds and get stronger and healthier. I was riding motorcycles on Saturday instead of the Annual Sound to Narrows Road Race.

Check up with doctor

Sunday weight 206.0 pounds.
Monday weight 203.5 pounds, blood pressure 116/76, heart rate 40 bpm.
2 1/2 Chin ups, Jog 404 calories, 35% Fat, 122 Hr, Zone 29 minutes Exercise 40 minutes
Tuesday weight 205.5 pounds, blood pressure 119/92m, heart rate 41 bpm, fasting for Doctor
Wednesday weight 205.5 pounds, blood pressure 149/89, heart rate 38 bpm
Doctor is fine except with 177 LDL, new medication Crestor - $22 for thirty units,
new level of Levothyroxine.
Thursday weight 207.0 pounds, blood pressure 114/83, heart rate 41 bpm.

Trying to do it without numbers... but...

Tuesday weight 204.5 pounds
Wednesday weight 205.0 pounds
Thursday weight 204.5 pounds, blood pressure 119/94, heart rate of 38 bpm.
Friday weight 204.5 pounds, blood pressure 148/80, heart rate of 39 bpm.
Saturday weight 202.0 pounds, blood pressure 130/76, heart rate of 47 bpm.

Going to the YMCA with my wife, going to second welcome of 4th Brigade 2nd Inf Division at 2:30 local, was at this mornings at 12:30 am - 240 returned after fourteen months. I was with the PGRs, and wasn't chilled nor wet until I got home and tried to sleep. Good stuff is really great!

Sweating profusly...

Today I weigh 203.5 pounds - no carbs yesterday to count - blood pressure is 155/84 or 150/90 and heart rate of 63 or 30 bpm. I start to distrust digital measuring machines, so I wake my wife and go gently jogging. 555 calories burnt, 55% of them FAT, average heart rate 109 bpm, Zone 33 minutes 19 seconds, Exercise 1 hour 7 minutes 50 seconds, I rescued eight pennies, talked to one barking dog and was greated by one jogger and one walker. Cool gray morning, 50 degrees outside.

Happy Birthday, Son!

If you want to change your life....

Just head out five minutes earlier than you usually start your commute to work - the traffic isn't the same and the day is now different. I weighed 207.0 pounds on Friday, I weigh 206.5 pounds on Saturday and blood pressure is 132/92 with a heart rate of 101 bpm, which I don't believe since I haven't done anything to get it moving that fast. Better buy a new blood pressure checker.

I check emails and find my sister and my mother and answer Mom, I am glad that North Carolina suited my brother-in-law. Some noise about the house and climate, but I think the visit with daughter and watching grandchildren is much better than the Spring in North Carolina. My wife had a strange dream she had to share, and she did, and during breakfast she starts to unload all her worries and her guilts and needs more than my cold stern disapproval of real feelings and emotions. Where would I ever get more than cold stern old man at? Ugly truth.

I need to get serious about losing weight, she wants me to stick around in our older age. I need the twenty pounds off so the pistol hides better in more places. I stuck it behind my belt and walked the local park with my wife, don't think we bothered anyone so it wasn't seen. Duckling herds go from eight to five to three with the passing of days and the predators, a few will make it to maturity.

Mired in muck of muddle....

Tuesday weigh 204.0 pounds, 129/99 blood pressure, 39 heart rate, check again 124/84 bp with 42 heart rate, do three chin ups, then two.
Wednesday, weigh 204.5 pounds, 135/96 blood pressure, 42 heart rate. Three chin ups.
Thursday, weigh 207.0 pounds, 132/81 blood pressure, 36 heart rate.

Memorial Day wrap up...

Sunday I weighed 205.5 pounds, blood pressure of 137/84 with a heart rate of 43 bpm. I go jog, longer and do intervals a bit, 595 calories burned, 50% of them fat, average heart rate 116, in Zone 58 minutes 3 seconds, Exercised 1 hour 1 minute and 43 seconds, two pennies found. Church and Indiana Jones followed shopping for half sleeved shirts and underwear.

Monday I weigh 207.0 pounds, and I take the flag out to fly at half staff for the morning, or until I return from the National Cemetery at Mt Tahoma. I go jog a relaxed mostly longer route, thinking about Memorial Day and funeral details from the Vietnam Era of my memories. 670 calories burned, 50% of them fat, average heart rate 114 bpm, in Zone 1 hour 3 minutes 42 seconds, Exercised 1 hour 13 minutes 17 seconds and saved a nickel and a penny. A couple of walkers out and a good day for the exercise. I had to motorcycle to the cemetery for enough flags to seem flown. When I find out later that this three day weekend is an economic stimulus scam for Summer sales and starting vacations and Congress had to mandate a minute at three for a real moment of silent remembrance of the War Dead, I come to the conclusion that I must have missed another shift in American culture. One day it won't even be: Lest we forget.

Starting my life again, today, repeat the best...

Only have one life, and some things work and others don't. I weigh 206.5 pounds today, blood pressure is 112/78 with a heart rate of 25 bpm, not believing that I do it again and get 108/71 with a heart rate of 34 bpm. I give up do devotions, mindlessly wander my favorite blogs which I checked about eight hours earlier, not much has changed, time to load - I would do better with feeds, or not checking. Kim has lots of his pictures of their trip to Germany, so cool, I was there once. My wife wakes and I do my fifty reps while she sips coffee and gets ready to start the day.

When my wife is ready we go to the YMCA, I do twenty-five minutes on rowing 5K, 20 minutes on some strange stepper strider, ten minutes on another and then a couple minutes on a bicycle. Done for today. Back home we get lunch, too much rice, but everything else is perfect. I go off to shoot, and lucky I brought a box of ammunition, for they had sold all the 9mm before I arrived. So I put up my target on the seven yard line, twenty-one feet and find that my first shot touched the x, and it was down hill from there. Still for forty-two bullets, fired six at a time, one magazine to reload while resting, not too many missed the black. Next time I will just go to the tweny yard pistol line.

Back home after picking up fuel and I cut the grass, my wife washes the cars - she wasn't supposed to do mine, but it was there and she did while I finished the cutting and putting stuff away in the shed.

TGIF, or any day this good, Thank Him!

Wednesday weight 205.5 pounds, blood pressure 122/83, heart rate 39.
Thursday weight 206.0 pounds, blood pressure 125/83, heart rate 40.
Friday weight 206.0 pounds, blood pressure 123/88, heart rate 59.

Chin ups getting better, time on the computer getting worse, time for road work again, foot feels much better. The daily walk to the dock is fine and although I haven't thought of it as exercise before it must be something, helps maintain my overall fitness and my mind/spirit.

Rains gently return, greening grasses

I weigh 205.0 (pounds like yesterday), blood pressure is 127/83 and resting heart rate is 41 bpm. I sneak up on myself and knock out three good strong chin ups as the coffee heats, then off to blog checks, changes and devotions. I call my mother and talk, then knock out the fifty reps of the basic three exercises - feeling good about it, but a bit worried about the creaks and snaps and pops on the left shoulder side - nothing worries me more than visiting a doctor, so I stop worrying about it. Denial is a helpful fool thing. Since it is raining and I am not the immortal stud I was forty years ago (only in my mind, mind you) I decide to do an interval workout on the treadmill in the garage, while listening to Country Western music, and some plastic surgeon... could have done without the plastic surgeon. 337 calories, 45% of them FAT (you do know how many calories in a pound of FAT), Average Heart rate 112 bpm, in Zone 27 minutes 25 seconds, Exercised 41 minutes 38 seconds. So I remain alive, I will walk to the dock and work on my feet most of the day, and I encourage y'all to do the same, or some plastic surgeon may want to pay for his education by giving you several of his procedures to restore your natural health and beauty. Trust me, the picture is up just because it will never be seen by polite society, just remind me of how fat I am - I need to drop those spare tire rolls for more room for packing pistols, or money belts or cell phones (NOT!).

Found Resolutions! now where is that resolve?

I did find my resolutions for the year (no, I don't know which year but they look good). I check my blog and find my Resolution Run but no mention of the Resolutions. Yesterday I walked Spanaway Lake Park with my wife, for her exercise and my love, the first ducklings were moving in the reeds close to their mother outside, lots of people enjoying the beautiful day, picnics and fishing and swimming. I also spend considerable time on the edging the front and re-mowing the backyard so it looks like it should before the promised returning rains.

Today, I weigh 205.0 pounds (working out!), blood pressure is 141/72 and my heart rate was 27 (so the machine missed a few beats, change the batteries). I knocked out three good chin ups before my coffee was ready, did fifty reps of the basic three exercises after devotions and then went to do a heart rate run, 355 calories burned, 45% of them FAT, Heart rate average of 116, time in Zone 28 minutes 43 seconds and total exercise time 36 minutes and 44 seconds. The jog wasn't gentle, I attacked the hills and sprinted like I could when I thought about it, I saved one penny. I wore shorts and sleeveless shirt for the Vitamin D, and there aren't enough really awake people to scare with my pasty white legs and bouncing blubber. Or so I hope, my wife laughing at me will always be enough.

Face one's fears

Early rising, six o'clock and the Sunshine is waiting for lazybones. I weigh 208.0 pounds (blaming my reluctance to run or jog on my foot) my blood pressure is 119/70 (!!!!) with a heart rate of 37 bpm. I sip on my coffee, look at the blogs and decide I have no reason not to go jog. So I put on the heart rate monitor chest strap and get my shoes on, sweat pants and sleeveless yellow shirt. I won't hurt many people's eyes - there really aren't a lot of folks out watching me. Only one jogger who was dashing down the drive, a walker that could have been a lightweight boxer once, and two bicyclists out for their health.

Well, the foot isn't that much pain, but the fear is foolish but constantly trying to build my excuse for not going far enough. Well, I do the longer route, and think I have forgotten how far the distances were - no longer a very familiar distance and friend. I find three pennies and one of them when I was thinking about carrying a pistol today, a sign! Well the numbers are 524 calories, 50% of them FAT ones!, Hr average 117, in Zone 49 minutes 39 seconds, Exercising for 54 minutes and 34 seconds. I worked on what Doubletapper had encouraged me to do - sprint then jog when I couldn't, then sprint again. Now I remember dimly that the purpose of Fartlek was to put play back into tough training for better racing, but going back and forth was refreshing and allowed me to increase stride and pace knowing that I could back off when I became a heart attack waiting to happen. It was a good run work out and the foot feels fine, funny but fine. Look at the lady flying over the bridge, lovely morning.

What color of sunburnt does me justice?

Lovely beautiful Summer day here, and I weigh 205.5 pounds, blood pressure is 129/83, and heart rate is 42 bpm. After breakfast I go with my wife to walk Ruston Way and marvel at the motorcycles, custom cars and herds of people. It was great, families having fun, people stretching their legs and smile and dogs panting for more water as they heat up. Temperature is over eighty until you hit the water, then you are back at fifty-something. The retrievers going after sticks and balls in the water have the best of both worlds.

I buy KFC/A&W lunch and go home for nap, all the windows are open and I have work that I want to do, but my wife tells me to save it for the later afternoon. I wake from the nap a just lovely lobster red color - they used to talk about the "pink and red" Dungey boys - my father's farming generations, we don't tan well, although I came close in Vietnam.

Record breaking ninety degree temperature at SeaTac Airport, with all the asphalt and concrete soaking up the Sun, what would they expect?

Stillness, not exercising enough...

Wednesday weight 206.0 pounds, blood pressure 162/89, heart rate 40.
Thursday weight 209.0 pounds, blood pressure 131/80, heart rate 37.
Friday weight 208.0 pounds, blood pressure 130/75, heart rate 43.

Not a great record, cutting grass and walking to the dock only mean that I have moved not improved.

I am a loser, and darkness comes with lights out...

Monday weight 208.5 pounds, blood pressure 129/83, heart rate 51 beats per minute.
Tuesday weight 208.0 pounds, blood pressure 155/89, heart rate 37 beats per minute.

I need to exercise and return to physical imperfections unknown now. I can't help my mother, I can't help my son and his wife, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan won't be won by me for no one wants my help there. I can't insure that the proper person will become President, and who becomes one will not worry about the little guy - none of them ever saw we existed. I guess, since the grass needs trimming and mowing, that is what I will affect tomorrow, I can handle that. All the bigger problems I will have to give to God, in His own time...

Posting measurements....

Friday weight 204.5 pounds, blood pressure 146/93, heart rate 56 bpm. Saturday weight of 203.0 pounds and I took my wife to the YMCA for our workouts, 24 minutes rowing 5,000 meters, ten minutes stair stepping, ten minutes elliptical trainer, ten minute on a swing trainer and five minutes on the arm peddler.... whatever that was.

Iron Man was a great movie, I cried again at all the appropriate points of Cinderella Man, the movie and liked the extra information in the book, and the skill of the movie makers to keep the essence of the story. Ate out tonight and will have ice cream during King Sejong's Historic Drama.

Suggestions and results...

I weigh 205.5 pounds on Wednesday, blood pressure of 138/80 and heart rate of 45 bpm. I did some exercises around breakfast, walked to the dock and cut the front yard in the evening need to do the trimming. Today I weigh 204.5 pounds, blood pressure is 132/89 and 38 bpm of heart rate.

Gov't doesn't love me but for my own good health...

I went to the grocery early to get a couple things for my wife's birthday, and I picked up two bottles of wine, went to the checkout and got everything except the wine. In Washington between two am and six-thirty they allow no alcohol sales. Duh, they still have drunks, DUI, DWI and terrible fatal automobile wrecks by drunken drivers - but because they have that law - I won't be one of those statistics that once were human, thank you, thank you, thank you. Stupid people in power, sigh. I can live without it, probably only would have had a half a glass that evening with my wife while watching television or talking. But I have been saved. Nanny government, anyone?

Monday weight 205.5 pounds, blood pressure 131/70, heart rate 59 bpm, or 138/84 with a heart rate of 30 bpm. Walk to dock and rode motorcycle after paying bills. Tuesday weight 205.5 pounds, blood pressure 146/83 with a heart rate of 37 bpm. Devotions, breakfast and then out the door for my heart jogged. Calories burnt 391, 45% fat ones, average heart rate 119 bpm, in Zone 35 minutes 47 seconds, Exercised 38 minutes 35 seconds - done with 3.5 pounds of hand weights, found one penny, day is cool and gray and foot feels fine mostly - periodic painful reminders that it isn't 100%, but dull pain so I endure.

Sunday shines

I weigh 204.5 pounds today, my blood pressure is 115/68 or 119/73 with a consistant heart rate of 37 beats per minute sitting down. I am reading Cinderella Man, by Jeremy Schaap, better than the movie, which I have and love - because it speaks to the people, the country and the times of the events. Best History lesson on America of the period.

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I started blogging because the Institutional Library System was going to build a blog for the public and I was supposed to be one of the blog writers, and so I started Just the Library Keeper and I wrote and posted and posted. Then I told my family and friends about it and sent them links to check it out. Some looked but never returned, but I kept churning out words and didn't have to bother the family any longer. Then I decided to stop worrying about the calendar and posting my measurements and exercises on it, I built another blog Physical Fitness for Foold so I can see what I thought when, what I weighed and measured, and my general health and a bit of what was happening. Just think of all the trees I have saved by not sending letters, think of all the cyberspace left for important commercial announcements about Viagra or variations of get me rich schemes. Hit that DELETE key, folks.

Well, the Institutional Library Services blog site will be closely monitored for political correctness and comment, of course the ones monitoring it don't want to write it, they just want to control it and the public image. I find my blogs helpful, I get to write and whine and wonder, I have my favorite places to check for thoughts from other folks - some close to my thoughts but the most interesting are from people doing their lives well, writing it, and I get to peek and become a lurker - although when I feel important and wise and sharing I do drop a note, most not too worthy. It would depend on the subject I am commenting on. There are people that visit my site and drop comments or just read, I am not counting visits nor comments and more than anything I write because I want to say something and that will be enough.

My sister wrote a wonderful letter, and sent it email, and I have her last two from before but then I wonder if she or her husband check my blog to see how I am. Probably not, my teaching sister said she liked the blog idea and thought she could build one, but then she is very busy and I don't think she got around to it, she didn't say she had - and she still writes letters. My brother is doing stuff in Denver, with music and sound, and supporting the current Presidential Primary conflict (oops, it is only a contest not a conflict).

Well, I do need to get started on this Sunday, Communion Sunday in my chuch, working in the choir (can't really sing, so work at it), and riding my motorcycle to the girl friends (like I ever had any - I am just out for the ride without rain). I do have a round Mount Rainier ride on 14 June with some sunshine riders from DOC, has a barbeque and poker run with it. No, I don't have any idea what to do with a poker run, nor the social barbeque - but I want to ride around Mount Rainier. Seems sometimes like I don't get out enough. This Friday, the 9th, the 191st Infantry Brigade from Fort Lewis has a motorcycle safety ride, two hundred and fifty miles in six hours, they asked the Patriot Guard Riders for assistance and I don't feel 9120 miles on my Triumph enough to make me a mentor, but I would like to try and keep up with those young folks and have a great Friday. I ought to for my Community Service, not given for breaking the peace but just because I can relate.

Well, my wife has a birthday tomorrow, so I had best figure out how to help celebrate it - kiss and a hug minimum, jello birthday cake?

Saturday calls to me..

I wake early enough, take the medicine and then turn on the computer. I go weigh, 204.5 pounds this morning, blood pressure is 132/72 with a resting heart rate of 44 beat per minute. Off to get some coffee and breakfast and read blogs and write comments and remember that I should be a quiet lurker unless there is something truly worth mentioning. I finally wake my wife so she can prepare herself for the day. We drive off to Fort Lewis, where they had a big bomb scare yesterday, and find out that her records are completely posted and her ID is very current, she will have to get another in five years but then when she turns seventy-five they will give her one without an expiration date. A few more years.

We decide to go to the YMCA, since it is raining, for our workout and walking. I think I should stop at the Triumph dealer and look into getting a sissy bar for the motorcycle. She agrees and we do, lot of lovely machines on the floor and I ask for and get a sissy bar kit, and my wife sees some gloves she would like to wear - she has boots, gloves and a helmet. As I pay for the purchases she quietly asks if they service mounting the sissy bar, just in case I can't do it. They do, but the salesman and I laugh at me not being able to mount this - he doesn't know how bad I can be on mechanical stuff.

At the YMCA I do five thousand on the rowing machine, she walks laps and then we use different machines for different things. Exercise time was fifty-one minutes for me, but forget the zone and calorie burn, I was just moving. I would do some chin ups at home after I mounted the sissy bar and cleaned then greased the chain on the motorcycle. It was still raining, I am hoping for Sunshine tomorrow so I can ride and pose on my fine, improved for female companionship, motorcycle. I won't have any female companion ship, but it is like preparing for rain, it could happen.

Restless and troubled...

.. I get up early and write. I was dreaming of military, Europe and the field. Wednesday I weighed 209.5 pound, blood pressure 137/92 with a heart rate of 40 bpm. Thursday I weighed 208.0 pounds, blood pressure of 133/91 and a heart rate of 41 bpm. Today I weigh 205.0 pounds, blood pressure is 159/87 with a heart rate of 41 bpm. Except for going to the chin up bar for some feeble but very needed attempts to get my head above the bar I have not been exercising, and yesterday I didn't even walk to the dock. The pain in my foot has really gone down and almost away, and the swelling is fading into nothing -- my feet are still ugly but functioning very well and I think I will start training again on Saturday -- trying to look seventy when I am only sixty.

The restless worry is about yesterday at the library. I was giving the time sheets to the inmate workers for them to check and then sign. One worker refused to sign it and said he wasn't going to since I had shorted him for the last two months. I was shocked but was sure I had mis-understood what he said, for I would have no reason to short him or any of the workers. Still it bothered me and after he came back from lunch I asked him if he had really meant that I had shorted him, he said yes that he had kept his own time sheet and that I had. Then I asked him if he wanted me to leave, and I think the question bothered him but he said no, that we could just forget about it. Wrong answer, I didn't forget and contacted my supervisors and then his Corrections supervisor since his counselor wasn't in. He sent me the form to fill out for a lay-in until the problem is resolved. Which means the inmate clerk that can't trust me isn't coming back to work for a supervisor that shorts him on his hours and pay.

I didn't short him, but he was the second of the last two workers to say that about my time sheets, the problem is that the time sheets don't allow one to be that creative with time, it is or it isn't the time and the total hours. And if I had made a mistake the workers just point it out and I fix it immediately, I have done that before. So I get two of my last two workers to decide I am crooked, which means to me that they are basically crooked and look at the world as the same. Anyway, I am very testy about my honor - having been treasurer of several different organizations and handling library fines and deposits for two of the libraries I worked at, I really hate being thought of as dishonest and a liar. My blood pressure was sailing right up there yesterday and I felt miserable until my supervisor and the institution said okay to laying him in until he got terminated. Maybe I should pray for us all, I certainly need it.

Tuesday, get moving...

I weigh 207.5 pounds, blood pressure of 138/89 and heart rate of 31 bpm. I had strange dreams, military, I was a Major, had a jeep, was in Europe and trying to stop a female suicide bomber, getting her not to blow herself up wasn't the tough part, but getting the vest off of her without setting it off, and doing this all before her controller set the vest off by electric signal. And I have NO training in any of this so I woke without resolution. Lucky that it is only a dream.

Monday morning blues...

I weigh 206.0 pounds (better), blood pressure is 141/76 with a heart rate of 51 bpm, seems my wife woke at three and was determined to flip the mattress for better sleep in her future and so we did, then remade the bed. Breakfast of blueberry pancakes and syrup, slice tomato and coffee. I check on the rain - yes, rain. No motorcycling today, get the new post stickers tomorrow and so I sit and go through the procrastination pile, paying the bills and recording the ATM and Debit card payments, I also check the Lotto, Hit 5 and Mega Millions, none hit this time, sigh. Our recycle can is on the curb and it rains. Did I mention that it rains?

Sunday, start of good and for goodness intentions

I weigh 207.5 pounds (same as yesterday) blood pressure is 124/83 and heart rate is 40 bpm. I do too much on the blog, watching the wrong television (no television is the right kind). I have two bacon, egg and green stuff on toast sandwiches with my coffee. I then get dressed and go for the heart jog, gently. I burn 410 calories, 40% from fats, average heart rate was 121 bpm, in Zone 30 minutes 40 seconds, Exercise time 39 minutes. Rapid heart rate during first mile 167 bpm, fluke or real, settled back down when warmed up.

I clean up for church, and then return home after stopping for an American Iron magazine for June, wanted to see what they reported on the Cross Bones from HD. I picked up some food for the pot luck and then choir members and off to spent the afternoon working the lungs and vocal chords for a performance at seven in the evening. It went better than we had practiced, the evening was worthy, small rural churches and small choirs but uplifting. Home to wife and King Sejong.

Sunshine on my shoulder, makes me happy...

Friday weight 209.5 pounds, blood pressure of 137/84 with a heart rate of 36 bpm. Today I have a weigh-in of 207.5 pounds, blood pressure of 126/78 with a heart rate of 33 bpm. I don't worry about the very slow heart rate, I just pretend that my large heart is pushing lots of blood through my body at a rate needed - since I haven't fainted nor passed away. We plan to go to Range Control to re-new the Koh-sa-ri hunting permit (taking very young wood fern sprouts) and then walk around Spanaway Lake, which we haven't for awhile. I will save all my good intentions to work out until later tonight, I have a lot of work to do on the yard and grounds, ironing and such and there is a home owners meeting today to attend with good ideas a so... it will be a good day to lose some more weight. I did get the majority of the knives out of the storage shed - it is too damp there for maintaining them, I will have much work to do to bring them back up.

No pain in my foot, swelling is continuing to go down, color is getting better, old damage needs kneading and encouragement to move to the body recycling stations. I make French toast for our breakfast, with Sweet Oatmeal bread, my wife cuts and mixes blueberries and stawberries for the fruit portion, good breakfast. Lunch will be steak burger, fish for her, french fries and Coke. Motorcycles on trucks and trailers, but the real riders are on their bikes, rubber on the road, great day now to work so I can ride!

Well, I did get fifty miles in on the motorcycle, and noticed that those women riding without a sissy bar behind them are over exposed and almost leaving the ride for the road burn - I will put a sissy bar on for my wife and all my girl friends. If they want to hug me tight anyway I won't object - as long as they don't pull on my one arm like Mrs. Henry did when I gave her a ride back from her mail box, in 1966.

Heal thyself, physician...

Well, I am not a physician but working on me anyway. Wednesday I weigh 210.0 pounds, blood pressure is 127/88 with a heart rate of 43. Today I weigh 210.0 pounds, blood pressure of 129/96 or 147/91 and heart rates of 68 or 33 bpm respectively. I haven't been exercising, but yesterday woke up to no pain in the right foot/ankle and the swelling much reduced. Managed to walk faily normal - except for the limp from memory response in my legs, but still I sat at the reference desk another day as we worked. I probably can start working on walking and other exercises tonight, don't think I have choir rehearsal tonight.

Piles of Procrastination, papers placed perfectly...

I weigh 210.0 pounds!!!! and am so wrong. Blood pressure is 138/84 with a heart rate of 33 beats per minute. I am in pain on the right foot, it seems to be better, but it hurts and I don't know why. I will blame it on the reaction from taking my medications, not healing completely, and adding the hormones for the thyroid function just tipped the entire body into failure. I was only going to die of heart problems or stroke and now will just melt into a quivering mass of medium pain and sluggish fat. Now the blame has been properly assigned I will start to heal by cutting back on the blood pressure and cholesterol medications. Well, the shoulder holster has been adjusted, pistol, bullets and magazines in place and tested with jacket worn over. It is much better than belt carry, humans do better with back and shoulders lifting loads than trying to sling something around their waist.

Among symptoms of my failing physique is the swelling discoloration on the right ankle and above the heel, and the sudden sensitivity of the moles along the neck - they are always placed where the collars bother them. Keep remembering to think healing! and pray for better and miracles for those that truly need.

Disrespect of self, no tattoos but globs of fat...

Sunday I weigh 207.0 pounds, blood pressure is 115/77 with a heart rate of 42 bpm, so I did well on the YMCA visit on Saturday. I then eat at church, not a problem, and take home two loaves of bread, which will become a problem, I am only one man eating for three or more when I consume one of the loaves. And I am not exercising during the day - for no good reason. So today I weigh 209.5 pounds, blood pressure is 124/91 and heart rate of 40 bpm. I read about tattoos on beautifyl women that don't understand they didn't need it. Well, tomorrow I could be a better person, or I could start as soon as I turn this computer off and start my life.

Patriots' Day, 1775 remembered

The shot heard round the world. And President Clinton orders the attack on the Branch Davidians, to protect the children. No sense of History. I weigh 208.5 pounds, blood pressure is 128/72 and my heart rate is 38 beats per minute. My ankle feels better, my sinus problem remains and SNOW is falling on our home, yard and road - is Al Gore in hiding yet? This will be the hottest Summer on record, just you watch.

My wife cooks me oatmeal with and egg under it, and we decide to visit the YMCA for exercise after answering the telephone and calling my mother in West Virginia. The snow has melted and there are Sun patches in the gray quilted sky. I try walking on the outside edge of my right foot, no pain and I begin to think I will need to see a pediatrist for orthodonic inserts or funny shoes. At the Y I hit the rowing machine, first for five thousand meters then for another two thousand. I wear my heart rate monitor strap, 288 calories and 25% fat, average heart rate 127 bpm, in zone 8 minutes 8 seconds, exercise time is 38 minutes 25 seconds. I think the exercise was confusing my watch - at times I was 143 to 175 bpm and that doesn't sound like me, does it? I went and did eight more minutes on a bicycle machine just for the exercise. Back home for dinner and rest and reading.

Missed BAG day, sigh, I have enough already...

So we woke late, I have a doctor's appointment at 10:45 AM, I weigh 208.5 pounds, blood pressure is 130/78 with a heart rate of 37 bpm, resting waiting for the rev'n up. I knock out 3 half chin ups, and do the fifty reps of the basic three. Then I wander the internet, looking for shoulder holsters and current blog thoughts.

At the doctor's I get the big American nurse, she isn't gentle and the needle gets the blood anyway - when I really hurt I will be asking for my favorite nurse. The doctor comes, chats checks my blood pressure twice, his nurse has already done it once. Wonders if there have been any reactions to the medication - I tell him I am blaming everything on it - especially the weight gain, but he knows I am kidding. He does expect it will make my heart rate faster, and he expected the night sweats that first week - but he never told me.

I stop and look at shoulder holsters at the gun shop, find something that would work well, but don't buy it this time. Measurements are very important, and I want to be a skinny kid again but a slimmer old fellow is about all my future holds. Home to watch Marvin and Bronson in "Death Hunt" which makes me want to take my old body out on the road. Since the Sun has broken through I could overdose on Vitamin D!!! Yeah! 454 calories 35% fat ones, Heart rate 128 bpm, Zone 19 minutes 38 seconds, Exercise 40 minutes 33 seconds. Seems my heart was racing or the monitor was hearing echoes when I started jogging. But the forty minutes is more important than the Zone. My foot was limping for a bit, but settled well and painlessly into the jog about the time my heart got right in rhythm...

I had an interesting 'hot' spot yesterday on the way to work, thought I had been lased on my left arm/elbow. I ignored it, but later in the Library I had that warm feeling same spot again - nothing I could see nor understand - just another mystery in my universe - like women, I won't ignore them but will never understand them either.

You're limping... Yes, and I am OLD...

Yesterday a corrections officer noticed my limp and commented on it. I figure I am lucky, still not having had that first heart attack or stroke - or mine are so minor I wouldn't notice. I was 209.5 pounds in weight, blood pressure 157/89 and a heart rate of 40 bpm. I knocked out my fifty reps of the basic three, did some chin up moves on the bar - couldn't call them chin ups, cause they didn't get that high - but I was hanging and struggling. I went jogging 393 calories burned 45% of the fat, average heart rate was 118, in Zone for 37 minutes and 20 seconds, exercising for 39 minutes and 45 seconds. I went to the Credit Union and then walked to the dock, and to work. I was caught limping, and I like to think I limp because of my motorcycle accident last August (NOT!), the medicines my doctor gives me cause my muscles and bones to fall apart, or that I am old and I am falling apart with or without medication.

Today my wife has had problems sleeping, but I didn't, and I knock out my fifty reps after breakfast gruel, then go and do a real chin up and several well intentioned struggles and hangs for more pressure on those good looking upper body muscles. I do notice that the whole core gets to flex and tense along with the working muscles while hanging. I dress for a jog outside, start and then think it is too cold, windy and my right foot is still foolish from the bicycle riding on Saturday - need to do it more. I return home and get on the treadmill and it doesn't feel any better than the road except for the lack of wind. I stop 42 calories, 50% of them fat, average heart rate 99 bpm, in Zone 3 minutes, 8 seconds, exercised (????) 9 minutes and 15 seconds - will have to work on that later today.

So I forgot to give you my weight 208.0 pounds, blood pressure 132/78 and heart rate of 43 bpm. I took the time not spent on exercise and printed out a long letter of my blogs for the week for my mother and my aunt - adding the extra parade pictures and such - the links don't work with print on paper and some of the writing depends on those links but they will ask if they need to. Off to work and walk to the dock, dropping the mail at the post office. Slow train blocking the track but no problem in the long run. Work well all day come home and go to sleep early after dinner - seems my wife had an opportunity to back her car into a truck = damage to her car slight, she says she really hurt the truck, so that is on her mind and she isn't happy. I laugh at her, because she moved the car because she thought it was in a bad parking space and her break was earlier than normal and she knew something was going to happen and hadn't slept well and I can't make it right immediately - but it will happen.

What is the Sunday for...

I wake too early, weigh 208.5 pounds, blood pressure is 137/84 and heart rate of 40 bpm. Take my medications, drink coffee and get on the motorcycle to go to the Methodist Men's Breakfast, where the best part is making, then eating the breakfast - get to tell stories and today we had Chris, just turned eighteen, and we honored (?) him with our attention and gave him a bit of the lore of being a man they don't give you in high school (all tall tales and lies, of course). He took it all in good humor and he told about his recent motorcycle accident, his grandfather mentioned that Chris's father was against his interest in firearms (although there are lots of shooters in the Men's group; hunters and fishermen, too). He helped clean up after - I always seem to get the washing of the dishes and he dried.

I rode the motorcycle home after, it was turning cloudy and cold, and yesterday's wonderful weather is History, sigh, this is the Great Northwest, nine months of rain, three months of Sunshine. I put the clean machine away and take the bicycle down and get it ready to ride, and I ride it back the two miles to church, relearning the gear pattern and such - it has been a long time. I sing with the choir, pay attention to the Sermon story and have coffee with Hal after, I get a truly wonderful beautiful smile from a mother that thinks I am watching her little girl - I was actually staring into space but the smile brought me back and I am so undeserving of that, but WOW! you don't forget beautiful deep smiles into one's tomorrows. I ride the bicycle back home and laugh at trying to keep the pace on the hills up and down - and although similar, leaning on a bicycle isn't half as much fun as it is on a motorcycle - but that may be the pumping action - different muscles.

The rains return, scattered and light, but enough to slow me down, I do work more on getting lights working on the bicycle again, and I will have to find my bicycle helmet if I am going to cruise around. All one's exercises should be fun and frolic.

Fooled Again! or is that "Foiled Again, curses..."

I wake from a dream of riding my motorcycle through a red light and it all went black. End of ride, end of dream. I wake and take medication, weigh 206.5 pounds, blood pressure is 124/78 with a heart rate of 46 bpm. I start my devotions and my wife thinks I am cheating on her on the computer when she has a hot breakfast ready - she calls three times, each getting louder before I answer asking if I could just finish praying... silence from the kitchen. Scrambled eggs and toast wait for me. Seems I am adding to her stress, my girl friend is on the computer or my wife doesn't know I am waiting for her to be my girl friend again.

We putter around and then dress for the Daffodil Parade in Tacoma, perfect timing, parking and watching area by the Museum and UW. It was a good parade, three more towns to go for the marchers, but the day is perfect for sunburns and smiles. I watched carefully for pretty girls, but too many of them are still straightening their teeth, but they will be lovely later... I watch the drummers, very few of them are girls, boys seem to like the drums more. Finally one perfect teenage girl, beautiful and beating on a drum, if I were only forty-five years younger. Then I remember that at that age I didn't speak the same language as the girls, didn't have a clue that I was doing better than I knew and they were never going to tell me either. Having been a teen once, is enough. I wish them all well but I know it will be hard to figure themselves and the world out. The parade was good, and I loved the BMX bike boys bunny hopping over their adult coach sponsor laying on the ground in front of us, every eighty feet he would lay down again and they would start hopping over him - what are they going to do when someone gives them engines? Pirates abounded, and shot a cannon off for thrills and noise and just because they was pirates == my wife said they looked like motorcycle riders and I said the motorcycle riders try to look and act like pirates. Pirates was first, ar-r-rghh!.

After the parade lunch on me at A&W, new management lack of crew and customers. Then stopped at the Market for fruits and vegetables, and my wife reminded me to buy Lotto tickets. Then home to work, washing the cars, my motorcycle, inflating the tires on the bicycle and cleaning it up, then my wife started on cleaning the porch and the garage, I moved into the garage and took all gardening stuff out - it will go in the shed in the back. I moved the chin up bar and the health rider, moved tools and hung the bicycle up on the wall. Rolled the motorcycle back into its place in the garage. Closed and locked the door and was called to dinner. I mentioned to my wife on my test rides on the bicycle I had hurt my ankle because pedalling is an up and down motion that lumbering along isn't. After a quick look to see that there aren't any new candidates for President, Bush is still hiding in Texas, and that tax time is almost up I go back outside to cut the lawn. Which I did so well, I am just amazed and amazing.

I put everything away for the day, close the garage and my wife says I have done a good job and worked hard, she wanted a kiss and got one for acting like my mother all day. I get a hot shower, a chance to find out that no one emailed me, now coffee and sleep.

Good Morning, what a slug!

I wake to news not wanted but it had to be shared, God has called another to Him. Reminding me that I have little time and must make better use of it. I turned off the television last night for dinner with my wife, and we talked. It is good not to be dominated by electronic noise, to have a conversation at a pace my mind will work with. Very nice. I also got on my motorcycle and rode off to the ATM to check cash flow and then church for choir practice. The practice went well - says the almost tone deaf fellow that may be missing his mark, as many times as I had to go over it again.

Wednesday 209.5 pounds, blood pressure 132/85 with heart rate of 39.
Thursday 208.0 pounds, blood pressure 129/86 with heart rate of 44.
Friday 206.5 pounds, blood pressure of 133/73 with heart rate of 38. Devotions and then prayers, email check and start the blog wandering, I am a slug - the electronic static of television only differs from the blog sphere by commercial content. I never see the commercials on the internet.

tuesday, garbage day and it goes out...

I wake from dreams of being a Command Sergeant Major at a major parade function where I know none of the officers, my wife is there and then ignored and off as I move out to give commands to the Division (pretty impressive), I stop and look at my weapons, I seem to have two - an M16 and some super black and plastic almost spaceage rifle with slim silver colored cartridges. I am cleaning it and the ammunition. I find nothing strange about having weapons and ammunition at a parade - I had it when I was younger, old man's dreams feel the same.

I wake and take my medications, resupplied on the run to Fort Lewis yesterday, I was 210 pounds then, blood pressure was 138/78 and heart rate of 42 bpm. Today I am 208.5 pounds with a blood pressure of 155/132 and a heart rate of 28 bpm, so I take it again and get 149/91 with a heart rate of 39 bpm. I am alive. The garbage is gathered and put out and I have devotions, there are many people in nursing and hospitals that need God's touch and support for the families, every prayer helps. I have gruel and my wife has rice soup with her half of the banana and English muffin. We aren't cutting costs by halving the food, just sharing it for the space it will leave in the bellies, stuffed is for teddy bears. I write three checks and put them and the bills into envelopes and delay just a bit my exercises for the morning and the treadmill, the constant rain is going to keep me off the motorcycle today and the jogging joyously on the road... but I must adapt or become a fatter old man.

I found last night that my left foot is developing a mirror pain to the one in my right foot, which to me means it probably isn't due to the motorcycle crushing it, but could be aging badly - only whiskey and cheese seems to improve with age. I am not either... nor improving I knock out forty repetitions of the basic three, because I can and am determined to be less than I should be. One is hardest on oneself when being critical. So I go to jog on the treadmill looking about the wall, unfinished, for fifteen minutes for my heart and the children. 152 calories, 40% fat ones, average heart rate 122 bpm, in Zone 12 minutes 55 seconds, Exercised 15minutes 3 seconds. I am a little better man for that, thank the Lord.