Journal of a Sysadmin

Happy Birthday to me!

So, today was my birthday. I turned the ripe age of 37.

To celebrate jhb and I went for a bike ride from our house, down to edworthy park then over to 14th St. W. then back again. It was a great ride and even at our pace was less then an hour and a half long.

For the trip and for my birthday we bought bike computers. These things are cool (jhb has an Echowell F7 and mine is an Echowell F2) and measure speed and distance as well as keeping track of riding time, average speed and maximum speed (the F2 also does cadence as well). Installation is really nice but their tye wraps (otherwise known as zip straps) blow goats. I broke 4 of mine just doing them up with my fingers so now I’m forced to carry extras with me just in case…

At any rate this also means that for my own docs I’m going to start logging on the date, stats, and weather of all or our bike trips (not counting rides to work and back of course). Thought this would be a good thing to keep around and see if I’m improving at all!

Dropped off the kids with their mom (as happens every second weekend) and we went for All-You-Can-Eat Sushi at the Sumo Lounge. Mmmmm, good stuff. One thing I love about living here is all the great food, which of course in other ways is a bad thing.

I’ve started a kind of diet. Just watching what I eat and how much (no, the sushi didn’t help but wasn’t all that bad) and how much exercise I’m getting. I’m hoping to lose about 20 lbs. by December, as all the weight/height charts tell me I’m at least that much over weight for my frame size. This kind of makes sense because I was 190 lbs from the time I was seventeen until I was thirtyfour when I first stopped smoking. I then proceeded to gain 40 lbs and topped out at 230 lbs. At some point after that (I think just after I bought the house) I started biking to work and biked all that fall and winter. I ended up in a lot better shape and had dropped 30 of the 40 lbs I gained but also started smoking again and then lost the biking (just stopped for some stupid reason).

Now with the recent additions to my bike I’ve determined that I have to use it more. jhb and I are going to be biking more this summer anyway and I’ve decided the bike to work is a must again! So, my birthday present to myself is fairly simple. I want to be healthy, fit, and strong.

I’ll report back next year on if it worked or not =)

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