Can I have more soil milk?
(Should be soy milk.)
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Doctor's orders: no spears for the kids
Had lots of follow-ups this week.
Monday: MRI
It's official:
MRIs are boring.
Tuesday: Urologist. Said everything is going reasonably, and I no longer have to manually empty unless I need to (which happens about once in 3 days these days).
Today: Neurosurgeon. Said MRI looks clean, and everything is okay, and he's happy.
I mentioned that it hurts when kids sit on my back. Response: "As it should". I'm concerned about injury to the spinal area with force to the area where I'm missing bones, and he said that there's still enough bone to protect the area against most incoming objects. "Unless you get speared in the back, it's probably fine".
Gotta send back the spears we bought for Christmas.
(Not serious about that last sentence, in case you think I'm demented.)
Monday: MRI
It's official:
MRIs are boring.
Tuesday: Urologist. Said everything is going reasonably, and I no longer have to manually empty unless I need to (which happens about once in 3 days these days).
Today: Neurosurgeon. Said MRI looks clean, and everything is okay, and he's happy.
I mentioned that it hurts when kids sit on my back. Response: "As it should". I'm concerned about injury to the spinal area with force to the area where I'm missing bones, and he said that there's still enough bone to protect the area against most incoming objects. "Unless you get speared in the back, it's probably fine".
Gotta send back the spears we bought for Christmas.
(Not serious about that last sentence, in case you think I'm demented.)
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Mozart's Sonata
My wife challenged me to learn a new piano song this year. I normally like to choose songs that are way beyond my level, like the 3rd movement of "Moonlight Sonata", so this time I chose one that I might be able to finish in less than 5 years: Mozart's Sonata in C. I'm making good progress on.
I snapped a vid of me 2 weeks ago on it, and will do one again soon, (on a camera that has a few megapixels but not a lot of quality), and will post them once I figure out how to edit video, so that I don't bore people to death with long segments of uselessness.
I also tried to play the Sonata on the clarinet. That didn't work out so well at all.
I snapped a vid of me 2 weeks ago on it, and will do one again soon, (on a camera that has a few megapixels but not a lot of quality), and will post them once I figure out how to edit video, so that I don't bore people to death with long segments of uselessness.
I also tried to play the Sonata on the clarinet. That didn't work out so well at all.
Book review
So, my wife and I just started reading this book called "Divergent". So far it's about a teenage girl who makes a Hogwarts-sorting-hat-style choice against her family and the results. We haven't hit the central conflict yet.
Recently I also read the first 2 Beyonders books (my wife bought me the sequel thinking I had read the first, so I figured I'd better read them). They were pretty good. Then my sister told me she thought they were kind of slow, and then I kind of agreed.
Before that, I read the "Ghost of Tatooine", a Star Wars novel taking place after "Jedi" and before the Timothy Zahn trilogy. I only sort of like reading books like this, because sometimes they're just filler novels and don't advance the story. I really enjoyed the Timothy Zahn trilogy a long time ago. I imagine if I had read some other Star Wars trilogy I might have enjoyed that and then in the future had no interest to read the Timothy Zahn one. Does that make any sense?
That being said, it was a pretty good book.
Perhaps I'm at the point where I've (finally) read enough books that I'm now recognizing "Hey, this sounds a lot like 'Book X', and I really don't want to get into that again".
Recently I also read the first 2 Beyonders books (my wife bought me the sequel thinking I had read the first, so I figured I'd better read them). They were pretty good. Then my sister told me she thought they were kind of slow, and then I kind of agreed.
Before that, I read the "Ghost of Tatooine", a Star Wars novel taking place after "Jedi" and before the Timothy Zahn trilogy. I only sort of like reading books like this, because sometimes they're just filler novels and don't advance the story. I really enjoyed the Timothy Zahn trilogy a long time ago. I imagine if I had read some other Star Wars trilogy I might have enjoyed that and then in the future had no interest to read the Timothy Zahn one. Does that make any sense?
That being said, it was a pretty good book.
Perhaps I'm at the point where I've (finally) read enough books that I'm now recognizing "Hey, this sounds a lot like 'Book X', and I really don't want to get into that again".
Gas pumps want zip code
So, when you pay at the pump, a lot of them ask you for your zip code. At first, I thought this was so they could find high population clumps of customers and build one closer to them. But then I learned (possible rumor mongering) that this was a security feature.
What?
Clearly nobody who steals somebody's credit card could know what their zip code is...
What?
Clearly nobody who steals somebody's credit card could know what their zip code is...
3 runs this week
So I have a race next week, the one I sponsor twice a week at work. I'm still a bit slower than before the surgery. (I can do most everything else I used to could (sorry, I had to say it that way), such as pullups, pushups, situps. I guess I can't reach the first knuckle past my toes either...)
Tuesday I wanted to see if I could do it at a 7mph average. I couldn't - I made it 1.5 miles.
Saturday, I wanted to see if I could do it at 9 min/mile. I made it 2 miles, but I ran out of time and had to go to...
... the finish line to watch my daughter finish a "Girls on the Run" race. She's been running for about 2 months, and this was her first 5K.
(I tried to get her into running a few years ago, but she was (and probably still is) more into short sprints).
They finished sometime between 45 and 55. The timer at the finish line had shut off for some reason.
Later in the afternoon, I decided that part of why I'm still slow(er) is that I haven't done anything to strengthen my legs (since muscle strength contributes to oxygen consumption rate or something like that). So I did a hill session on the treadmill, doing each incline level between 2 and 10, running at 5mph at each one and walking at 3mph between each one at the same level. I did 2,3,4,5,9 at 2 minutes and 6,7,8,10 at 1 minute.
Going up the stairs was hard after that.
Tuesday I wanted to see if I could do it at a 7mph average. I couldn't - I made it 1.5 miles.
Saturday, I wanted to see if I could do it at 9 min/mile. I made it 2 miles, but I ran out of time and had to go to...
... the finish line to watch my daughter finish a "Girls on the Run" race. She's been running for about 2 months, and this was her first 5K.
(I tried to get her into running a few years ago, but she was (and probably still is) more into short sprints).
They finished sometime between 45 and 55. The timer at the finish line had shut off for some reason.
Later in the afternoon, I decided that part of why I'm still slow(er) is that I haven't done anything to strengthen my legs (since muscle strength contributes to oxygen consumption rate or something like that). So I did a hill session on the treadmill, doing each incline level between 2 and 10, running at 5mph at each one and walking at 3mph between each one at the same level. I did 2,3,4,5,9 at 2 minutes and 6,7,8,10 at 1 minute.
Going up the stairs was hard after that.
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