Starting weight: 264.2
Weight last week: 258.5
Current weight: 255.0
Lost this week: 3.5
Total lost to date: 9.2 pounds
Goal for this week: 1 pound (just to pass the 10 pound mark!)
Goal Weight: 180
Weight remaining to lose: 75
THAT’S RIGHT!
It’s not record breaking, it’s not earth shaking, it’s not even the most I have lost in 1 week, but it’s down so there you go. I am happy. By next week I am hoping to be back in the 10 pound club, and after that, well the sky is the limit, isn’t it?
OK, really 75 more pounds or so is the actual limit.
I’m pretty pleased. I’m trying desperately to get used to being up early again and exercising and it’s been tough, but we* shall overcome.
If you’re looking for an MP3 Player for the gym or jogging you could really do a hell of a lot worse than this. We have the 1GB model that we put our son’s music on to play in the car (through the radio! We’re not putting headphones on him so hang up the calls to DYFS) and it’s terrific. It’s probably the best sounding MP3 player I have ever heard, and I have heard plenty. It’s as good if not better then my wife’s old Rio Carbon, which ruled, but was stolen by the day laborers at the car wash. That was a 4GB and it was on a tiny hard drive. The Sansa players are solid state, so even if you run like Phoebe on Friends, no skippage!
http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/11/sandisks-sansa-clip-upgrades-to-8gb-stays-tiny/
One of these days, when my Dell gives up the ghost, I will try and install a 32 GB Compact Flash card in place of the 20 GB laptop drive that’s in there. I don’t know if that will even work, but I’d love a 32GB solid state MP3 player.
*”we” meaning “me!”
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
Why is the music at the gym so Goddamned annoying? (Sort-of a post about MP3 players, kinda)
Seriously.
I get to the gym sometime between the unholy times of 6 and 6:30 AM and let me tell you, that’s too damn early for this awful shite these people refer to as "music." I realize it is supposed to energize you or whatever, but 90% of the people there are listening to Ipods (or whatever equivalent they may have) anyway and most of the time, the dreck being sloshed out of the speakers is just too loud, not to mention it being tripe.
The Headphones Crowd:
This includes me, naturally. I have gone to the gym without headphones, and it’s a test of will not to march behind the reception desk and break the stereo. Many people have tiny little Ipods strapped to their arm or belt. Me? No, I have a Dell 20GB DJ. It’s not so huge that I can’t use it, but compared to the positively minute options available in today’s MP3 player market, it’s a veritable leviathan. I mean, really, it ought to have at least five commandments chiseled into it. There's not arm band option and it frequently begins to drag my shorts ever downwards. Fortunately, (for everyone concerned) I am hyper-vigilant about making sure that doesn't happen, let the glare from my lilly-white buttocks blind the gals on the stationary bikes behind me!
I’m thinking of getting one of those Sandisk ones m'self, because :
1) they are small
2) I hear great things about them
3) They are sold state
4) They are not Apple.
5) They are much less money.
We got one for our son and it’s 1 1GB Clip model. It’s a terrific sounding player, with a good battery life and it’s the size of an airmail stamp. Seriously, it’s minute. Dare I say “wee?” I think I should get one for the Missus to replace her Memorex one, which sounds awesome, but only lasts like 3 hours and occasionally you just can’t load anything on it…. Certainly unacceptable.
I may be the only person there using their MP3 player to listen to audio books or Old Time Radio shows. Yes, seriously. I find time on the ol’ treadmill or elliptical (which I am still a spaz on) goes must faster listening to Nero Wolfe, Sherlock Holmes or Harry Potter. I'm not really concerned looking like an ass when I laugh out loud to something either. The Doctor Who audios are great as well. If I could find a 4 or 8 gb player on the cheap, I’d load it up with just this stuff, and save it for the gym.
Currently rocking:
The Adventures of Phillip Marlowe
Smoking Popes- Stay Down
Buzzcocks- S/T & Flat Pack Philosophy
I get to the gym sometime between the unholy times of 6 and 6:30 AM and let me tell you, that’s too damn early for this awful shite these people refer to as "music." I realize it is supposed to energize you or whatever, but 90% of the people there are listening to Ipods (or whatever equivalent they may have) anyway and most of the time, the dreck being sloshed out of the speakers is just too loud, not to mention it being tripe.
The Headphones Crowd:
This includes me, naturally. I have gone to the gym without headphones, and it’s a test of will not to march behind the reception desk and break the stereo. Many people have tiny little Ipods strapped to their arm or belt. Me? No, I have a Dell 20GB DJ. It’s not so huge that I can’t use it, but compared to the positively minute options available in today’s MP3 player market, it’s a veritable leviathan. I mean, really, it ought to have at least five commandments chiseled into it. There's not arm band option and it frequently begins to drag my shorts ever downwards. Fortunately, (for everyone concerned) I am hyper-vigilant about making sure that doesn't happen, let the glare from my lilly-white buttocks blind the gals on the stationary bikes behind me!
I’m thinking of getting one of those Sandisk ones m'self, because :
1) they are small
2) I hear great things about them
3) They are sold state
4) They are not Apple.
5) They are much less money.
We got one for our son and it’s 1 1GB Clip model. It’s a terrific sounding player, with a good battery life and it’s the size of an airmail stamp. Seriously, it’s minute. Dare I say “wee?” I think I should get one for the Missus to replace her Memorex one, which sounds awesome, but only lasts like 3 hours and occasionally you just can’t load anything on it…. Certainly unacceptable.
I may be the only person there using their MP3 player to listen to audio books or Old Time Radio shows. Yes, seriously. I find time on the ol’ treadmill or elliptical (which I am still a spaz on) goes must faster listening to Nero Wolfe, Sherlock Holmes or Harry Potter. I'm not really concerned looking like an ass when I laugh out loud to something either. The Doctor Who audios are great as well. If I could find a 4 or 8 gb player on the cheap, I’d load it up with just this stuff, and save it for the gym.
Currently rocking:
The Adventures of Phillip Marlowe
Smoking Popes- Stay Down
Buzzcocks- S/T & Flat Pack Philosophy
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