Here I am again...

Doctor visit today, every four months.

Results:

    Government goodness has gotten into my checkups with my Doctor. Extra paperwork today, two extra tests, and the final analysis - I will die. And of note I am fat, but we all knew that, it just wasn't being sent to NSA and the Feds officially...

Serously, I lost twenty-five pounds, then leveled off, stopped jogging and walking, and ate too much cheese, snacks and started right back up in weight.  Body Fat was about 30 percent. That is not good. So I need to lock down some stuff. 

Also, I have an eye examination to get, for the glaucoma possibility. I want one for eye glass perscription, but that isn't well covered under my health programs. We will work on it, the cover the eye test really went bad and I have been using reading glasses for books.  

To do lists will help keep me oriented. And turning the computer and television off. Four months to the next check up.

Joined the YMCA for recovery efforts

Since I seem to be breaking free from television and CastleVille gaming, getting back into reading for recreational joy, and my wife has retired. So I have to leave the home and work out, since I am still in recovery from my illness, I will have to take it slow, but the forty minutes on their treadmills, and weight machines is already making me remember that I should get back into better shape slowly. The tragety of the school shootings has convinced me of two things. It isn't the guns, lots of people have guns, but I look at a lot of killers under some medication or lack of one they are supposed to have. The other thing seems to be the shooters are normally suicidal. Nothing the President nor the Congress can do will change the attacks. There was a head doctor telling us that none of this should be on television, since like suicide comes in copycat waves, so do mass shooters. Best ask everyone to pray for the souls of the fallen and support of the families. And Morgan Freeman has one piece about Turn off the NEWS, since they are only in the business of selling advertising time slots and keeping everyone's attention for as long as possible.

Retired? So two non workers in the home...

Joint a health club, get out of the house and away from the television, unless you are on a treadmill knocking out your cardio... being old is so much fun.

Warranty... I found one that works!

My Springfield Armory Micro Compact broke during the last run at the range. I emailed the Repair people, outlining my problem, the SN, and my address. I received a reply that parts were on the way. Sure enough, I got an invoice for zero cost listing all the parts in the mail today, and by the time I returned from my heart walk the parts were under the porch rug where the UPS guy left them with another box with books. The pistol is reassembled, function checked and locked away until the next time I go shooting. Wish my printer, computer, monitor and other things didn't need extended warranty service. But when I think about it, most of my firearms work far longer well without replacement parts needed.

So what am I doing this year?

Seems my wife thinks I need a machine to make me work out enough to keep the feet from swelling. Normally, they don't swell unless I am locked into the motorcycle position or an airplane seat for hours. But she worries, and I know that one must move to get the muscles of the legs to move the fluids from lower to higher. So, MOVE! My mother had major problems but all they did for her was encourage (not demand) her to walk a bit more and take Lasik, which drove her crazy with trips to the bathroom and accidents.

This is the second day of using it, fifteen minutes yesterday, and twenty today, what I found is that it slides and needs stabilized, but it is interesting and does work muscles. And since it also elevates my heart rate and breathing just a bit, I am tempted to try jogging between the rain clouds, if I can't I can still finish walking, right?

So afternoon, I start out with a five minute jog, no staff, and steady walk for a total of one hour and nine minutes. No shortness of breath, not pain in chest, no real faint light headed feeling. Very good. Third day in a row on the route, distance same time dropping but mostly feeling very much better.

Concealed Carry... you just can't hide that weight...

I did this little video to see what I really look like. First there is the image in my mind, and that can't be right since it is stuck at about twenty-five to thirty-five. Then there is the image in my mirror when I shave and clean up for exiting the house - too close and concentrated and backwards of reality, no that isn't me either. So I take a quick video to see what I look like. Sure enough an old man, wearing loose fitting clothes (room to layer or grow into), and still following that bursting belly and breast fat through the door. Sigh.

This mornings weight, 234.2 pounds, blood pressure 152/81 and resting heart rate of 38 bpm. I did go for a heart walk, found I still want more air, but it could be my heart is just not efficient again. I had lots of foggy breath on the exhale. I stopped about two-thirds the way up the big hill and the minor ones, rested a bit at the top of the big one. Had no trouble going down hill. Didn't wear a watch, still thinking I am blessed to be able to meander around the block. Keep on working it.

My wife wanted to seriously talk, and she did...

Mostly about my failings, how our finances are, and that she was going to retire and wouldn't be able to buy groceries any longer. All things I have known about for years, and when I was young I would have been upset about it, I am very calm now. It all doesn't matter, I will be dead soon enough and she will be a widow and will have it all.

So we went over the money, the need for updated wills, and what she would expect to have to live upon when I am dead. She doesn't really understand, her friends have to tell her what she needs to do to get what she should have had me do long ago. The Disability came up again, seems she knows some other women that their husbands get disability payments and why am I not going to the VA to get mine. That was added to my plate, I will check into it.

I ended up going and chopping down the old garden, it will be grass next year, and moving the fence, the bricks I will get later for bordering the new garden. Then I went and got my walk in today, a very nice afternoon for it. Didn't need to stop before the top of the hill, makes me wonder if I should start moving out smarter, but I didn't bring my watch so I didn't even clock how long I was walking, but even if I recorded it, will I ever use that record for anything? Nope, it was the walk that was most important.

Not missed if you aren't there... they think you...

changed your exercise or the drill time. I was walking today, and it isn't as easy as it once was -- the breathing isn't good enough, or the heart doesn't pump enough, and I am resigned to getting worse until I get better. As I walked I waved at a lady from my old church - and I was sure I was visible but she never acknowledged the wave or my existence. Kind of like the Sixth Sense, I am dead and don't know it yet.

But I must keep walking and I must do better about preparing for my wife's widowhood. That will be tough. I can hear her telling me that if I had only listened to her, had checked with my doctor and did exactly what they said I had to do... she will be upset, and that has never been my intent.

The special reading glasses are from my mother, for Y2K and the special day, and I was looking for something in the Yellow Pages, probably a restaurant to go out and eat at. Gosh, I was so much younger then, only eleven years and a few months ago.

19 August 2011 woke 0623
weight 225.0 pounds
Blood pressure 140/67 Hr 44
Jog 42m47s 1 cent, Max 147 Avg 111, Above 5m32s Below 7m50s
INZONE! 29m24s, Calorie burn 557

20 August 2011 woke 0630
weight 226.4 pounds
Blood pressure 148/82 Hr 35
Jog 1h05m06s 3 cents, Max 148 Avg 112, Above 3m45s Below 18m43s
INZONE! 42m39s, Calorie burn 842

22 August 2011 woke 0700
weight 229.2 pounds
Blood pressure 151/72 Hr 38
Jog 46m58s, Max 136 Avg 103, Above 1m56s Below 33m43s
INZONE! 11m18s, Calories 517

24 August 2011 woke 0630
weight 227.6 pounds
Blood pressure 156/83 Hr 37
Jog 44m33s 51cents, Max 148 Avg 107, Above 2m21s Below 20m24s
INZONE! 21m49s, Calorie burn 533

Can't get the government to make me healthy...

13 August 2011 woke 0645
weight 226.8 pounds
Blood pressure 141/81 Hr 36
Jog 42m19s, Max 141 Avg 116, Above 5m51s Below 5m10s
INZONE! 31m18s Calorie burn 587

15 August 2011 woke 0630
weight 222.6 pounds
Blood pressure 147/76 Hr 43
Jog 1h01m57s, Max 137 Avg 115, Above 4m22s Below 6m22s
INZONE! 51m12s Calorie burn 850
Mowed yard

16 August 2011 woke 0745
weight 223.6 pounds
Blood pressure 143/90 Hr 46
Jog 42m00s, Max 135 Avg 109, Above 2m34s Below 9m56s
INZONE! 29m30s Calorie burn 525

17 August 2011 woke 0645
weight 223.6 pounds
Blood pressure 135/76 Hr 38
Jog 1h05m46s, Max 140 Avg 111, Above 3m47s Below 22m09s
INZONE! 39m50s, Calorie burn 847 27cents

18 August 2011 woke 0640
weight 220.4 pounds
Blood pressure 140/85 Hr 38
Jog 1h05m29s, Max 143 Avg 108, Above 5m33s Below 38m47s
INZONE! 21m08s Calorie burn 783 1 cent

Moving to Walk Plus... no longer jogging gently...

5 August 2011 Woke 0655
weight 223.8 pounds
Blood pressure 140/66 Hr 36
Jog 42m33s no heart monitor signal

8 August 2011 woke 0650
weight 224.0 pounds
Blood pressure 144/89 Hr 38
Jog 42m06s 1 cent, Max 143 Avg 114, Above 3m18s below 6m20s
INZONE! 32m28s Calorie burn 570

9 August 2011 woke 0645
weight 226.2 pounds
blood pressure 141/83 Hr 38
Jog 1h04m31s, Max 144 Avg 112, Above 6m19s below 21m38s
INZONE! 36m34s Calorie burn 840

11 August 2011 woke 0750
weight 225.8 pounds
Blood pressure 131/76 Hr 40
Jog (walk plus) 1h12m41s, 1 dime, Max 150 Avg 112, Above 7m34s below 31m12s
INZONE! 33m55s Calorie burn 950

Don't have a heart attack...

I was gently jogging and a woman called out from a bus stop to me, not to have a heart attack. Okay, I gave her a 'thumbs up'. Slow jog today.

1 August, 2011 woke 0630
Weight 223.0 pounds
Blood pressure 144/77 Hr 40
Jog 1h06m30s, Max 130 Avg 99, Above 06s Below 64m20s
INZONE! 02m04s Calorie burn 645 one penny

2 August, 2011 woke 0530
Weight 226.0 pounds
Blood pressure 148/78 Hr 41
Jog 58m42s, Max 154 Avg 122, Above 16m03s Below 1m31s
INZONE! 41m08s Calorie burn 897 one penny

3 August, 2011 woke 0635
Weight 225.6 pounds
Blood pressure 152/86 Hr 41
Jog 1h11m45s, Max 150 Avg 106, Above 2m50s Below 51m29s
INZONE! 17m25s Calorie burn 817 three pennies

I did get a thumbs up on my valient try at jogging today...

First the postman commented on how far I run (part of it is his route) and then a boy on a tricycle with his buddy in the back and his hat on backwards, gave me a thumbs up and a cheerful 'carry on' with his bright smile. I chuckled and thanked him for the encouragement.

28 July 2011 woke 0717
Weight 228.0 pounds
Blood pressure 149/74 Hr 40
Jog 40m16s, Max 142 Avg 119, Above 10m22s Below 5m1s,
INZONE! 24m52s Calorie burn 584
Mowed yards

29 July 2011 woke 0755
Weight 224.0 pounds
Blood pressure Max 143/97 Hr 41
Jog 1h18m53s, Max 125 Avg 106, Above 7s Below 57m59s,
INZONE! 20m48s Calorie burn 915
yard clean up for the weekend of shooting instruction

Gee, don't I look like I need to lose forty more,,,

23 July 2011 woke 0433
Weight 223.6 pounds
Blood pressure 141/90 Hr 39
Jog 1h10m58s Max 150 Avg 108, Above 1m34s Below 47m41s
INZONE! 21m44s Calorie burn 852

24 July 2011 woke 0558
Weight 224.8 pounds
Blood pressure 143/80 Hr 37
Jog 40m37s, Max34 Avg 115, Above 1m54s Below 5m56s
INZONE! 32m46s Calorie burn 557

25 July 2011 woke 0745
Weight 220.4 pounds
Blood pressure 146/81 Hr 38
Jog 1h4m8s, Max 150 Avg 112, Above 5m34s Below 24m20s
INZONE! 34m15s Calorie burn 829
Blood pressure after (3+ min) 126/77 Hr 56

26 July 2011 woke 0445
Weight 228.6 pounds
Blood pressure 138/82 Hr 37
Jog w/HW 40m16s, Max 133 Avg 115, Above 1m35s Below 4m58s
INZONE! 33m43s Calorie burn 550

Took a day...

19 July 2011 woke 0718
Weight 226.8 pounds
Blood pressure 141/88 Hr 37
Jog 57m40s Max 150 Avg 121, Above 9m31s Below 28m46s
INZONE! 19m23s Calorie Burn??? 452!
Edged and mowed back yard

20 July 2011 woke 0605
Weight 226.4 pounds
Blood pressure 148/95 Hr 37
Read all day until 1 in the morning!

21 July 2011 woke 0845
Weight 224.6 pounds
Blood pressure 138/77 Hr 40
Jog 1h10m55s Max 135 Avg 118 Above 2m20s Below 10m15s
INZONE! 58m19s Calorie Burn 946

Foolin' myself... trying to out run the fat old man...

Doesn't work at all, he catches me at the finish line...

16 July 2011 woke 0630
Weight 226.2 Pounds
Blood Pressure 140/78 Hr 37
Potlatch State Park Picnic Bible Study

17 July 2011 woke 0500
Weight 233.0 Pounds (cream filled doughnuts!!)
Blood pressure 146/96 Hr 39
Jog 42m35s, Max 142 Avg 112. Above 1m25s Below 13m21s
INZONE! 27m48s, Calorie burn 547

18 July 2011 woke 0610
Weight 232.0 Pounds
Blood pressure 14982 Hr 37
Jog 40m32s, Max 144 Avg 122, Above 15m32s Below 3m8s
INZONE! 21m52s, Calorie burn 612

Working harder on Empire & Allies than jogging...

13 July 2011 woke 0450
Weight 229.0 Pounds
Blood Pressure 152/73 Hr 36
Motorcycle returned at Service Department

14 July 2011 woke 0635
Weight 227.6 Pounds
Blood Pressure 138/84 Hr 41
Jog 41m42s, Max 145 Avg 121, Above 12m38s Below 4m45s
INZONE! 24m20s Calories burnt 620

15 July 2011 woke 0730
Weight 227.0 Pounds
Blood Pressure 139/84 Hr 38
Jog 42m02s, Max 147 Avg 110, Above 2m43s Below 11m25s
INZONE! 27m54s Calories burnt 528
(a period of 54 bpm during part of jog - impossible?)

Just birds watching me as I jauntly jogging.......

10 July 2011 woke 0650
Weight 232.6 pounds
Blood pressure 136/90 Hr 39
Rest Day, it is Sunday

11 July 2011 woke 0645
Weight 231.6 pounds
Blood pressure 146/89 Hr 38
Jog 1h04m51s, Max 140 Avg 106, Above 1m10s Below 47m44s,
INZONE! 15m57s Calories burnt 730
Did exercises and stretches during commercials !!! Rock on!

12 July 2011 woke 0620
Weight 229.6 pounds
Blood pressure 161/88 Hr 38
Jog 1h12m35s, Max 143 Avg 110, Above 3m54s Below 38m22s,
INZONE! 30m18s 1 penny Calories burnt 904
Motorcycle is in Tacoma somewhere

Falling apart, sigh...

8 July 2011 woke 0520
Weight 229.8 pounds
Blood pressure 144/88 Hr 39
Jog 1h13m28s, Max 137 Avg 101, Above 2m24s Below 57m54s,
INZONE! 13m10s Calories counted 728

9 July 2011 woke 0515
Weight 229.0 pounds
Blood pressure 147/88 Hr 35
Jog 45m21s, Max 142 Avg 113, Above 7m36s Below 18m26s,
INZONE! 19m19s Calories burned 596

Seattle to Portland racers are all faster and thinner than I am.

Time to get back to work.

5 July 2011 woke 0650
Weight 232.0 pounds
Blood pressure 149/94 Hr 38
Rest Day

6 July 2011 woke 0536
Weight 230.8 pounds
Blood pressure 143/95 Hr 38
Too much eating, wife's friend visits
Rest Day

7 July 2011 woke 0830
Weight 235.2
Blood pressure 140/92 Hr 36
Jog 44m12s, Max 150 Avg 117, Above 15m24s Below 11m45s,
INZONE! 17m05s Calories burnt 625