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March 30, 2006

Busy and sore

Amanda and I are getting married.

We've been together roughly 6 and a half years now, and we're finally doing the wedding thing. We've been wanting to do this now for quite some time, but we wanted for all of the pieces to be in place prior to the event. With the exception of Amanda's school being completed, everything seems to be in place.

We made the decision around the beginning of the month to do it. We agreed to keep it small and low key. After her mom got ahold of the news, everything began to snowball to the point where it's become a semi-large wedding. This means that there's a wedding dress, brides maids, groomsmen and a best man, a church, music, food and so on and so forth.

We found Amanda a wedding dress last Sunday that she and I both like. Yeah, I've seen the dress. I picked it out. I figured that after almost 7 years, I doubt that there's going to be any kind of bad luck. At this point, we've been "living in sin" for so long that we're doomed to burn in hell anyhow.

After the successful dress hunting, Amanda and I made a decision together that we needed to drop some weight before the big day. We started a diet and joined a gym. Again, this was all on Sunday.

On Monday, we began the diet and had our first visit to the gym. I got on the eliptical machine first and lasted about 7 minutes before I had to give up. After only 3 minutes, my legs were burning so bad that I could barely stand it. After 5 minutes, I was beginning to halucinate. After 6 minutes, I couldn't look straight ahead anymore ... I had to look straight down. When 7 minutes hit, I was short of passing out from the pain and somehow managed to step off of the machine without falling flat on my face.

After that, I knew I needed to work out the pain, so Amanda suggested that we get on the treadmill. I started out slow at first ... the machine was going at about 0.5 mph. I was basically walking so slow that my cat, Mozes, could beat me at a race while walking backwards and stopping to lick his balls every once in a while. It was an embarassingly slow pace.

Eventually, I was able to move up in speed to a neck breaking 1 mph. At this point, I was able to start working out the soreness and started keeping track of my excercise. I entered my age, weight and other things and worked on the fat burning routine. For about 45 minutes or so, I managed to keep my heart rate between 125-140 hbps. According to the meters on the machines, I managed to burn about 300 calories.

The next day, I was hurting, but it wasn't too bad throughout the day. I took some medicine to help with the slight pain I was having and went to sleep. The next day, I woke up in agony. Throughout the day, any time that I had to sit up or sit down, I thought I would die. To make matters worse, I had to go back to the gym that night.

I went back to the gym and exercised once again on the treadmill. This time, I stayed only on the treadmill and did the fat burning routine through the entire time we were there. I was on the machine for 60 minutes even and burned just short of 400 calories and walked 2 miles. I was very happy with my workout and left feeling like I accomplished something.

This morning, I woke up only slightly sore. I was thrilled.

In other news, I finally updated the PC Guru site with the CMS that I've been building for a while now. If you want to see what it looks like, visit the PC Guru Web site. The site was hacked too many times so I had to put the CMS up a little earlier than I had planned, but it's working.

Last, but not least, work.

We're nearing a point where PFS will be opening its doors. We've got a network in place, switches switching, servers serving. There's some conduit that needs to be ran, fiber to be terminated, and boxes to be mounted as of yet ... but we're very close. I've been lucky to see some of the equipment tests, and thus far its VERY impressive.

The IT team that is Marshall, Dave and myself have done a great job thus far. We're have a great time, yet we're doing some great work as well. I can only hope that the other people that we get in IT are as great to work with.

Anyhow, that's all I got for tonight. I wish I had more time to make more daily posts, but I guess a brain dump once in a while will have to do for now.

~out...

Posted by ed at March 30, 2006 08:55 PM

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