2011-04-30 (Saturday)

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Apr 302011
 

Morning at Willow

We had a relaxing morning. Here is my honey making me some kind of surprise breakfast.

Mikie Making Breakfast - 2

And what a tasty surprise it was! Bacon with a fried egg over easy on top of a crab cake…

Amazing Breakfast

Shadow and Dot helped a lot in the whole cleaning cages process.

Shadowbird

Dot!

Trip to the gym

As I was on my way to the gym I spotted some unfortunate citizen pulled over by an Humble cop.

Humble Cop

At Lifetime Fitness I warmed up with 10 minutes on an elliptical machine and then 4 sets of circuit training on various Freemotion machines.

Elliptical Warmup

Stopped by the H.E.B. in Atascocita on the way home. Noticed that they sell various brands of Kombucha. Hadn’t noticed that before. Our daughter Chelsea makes this stuff.

Kombucha

Dinner

Mikie made this amazing dinner – ground beef cooked and seasoned with Mexican spices served over a bed of lettuce with pico de gallo, guacamole, sour cream, red onion, cheese, black olives, and salsa.

Dinner!

Daytum

All day long I played around with some software from Daytum. Pretty interesting. That came about as a result of me reading about Lifelogging.

2011-04-28 (Thursday)

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Apr 282011
 

Physical Therapy

Had my third session of physical therapy at 07:00 this morning. The whole left knee situation is still pretty wonky. I cannot tell if physical therapy is helping or not. It still seems to me that the bulk of it is supervised stretching and weight training. I’m pretty good at doing that type of stuff without supervision, so … not sure how useful this expensive therapy is.

Drive to Work

Taco del Gordo

New Glasses

Mikie picked up our new glasses yesterday from the optical department at the Target’s in Humble. Still getting used to them.

New Glasses

Philip Greenspun Photography

Interesting site that a co-worker told me about: click here

Weird iTunes Error

Got these error dialogs this morning from iTunes. I ended up having to completely wipe and reinstall iTunes as per this Apple technote.

Weird iTunes Error 1

Weird iTunes Error 2

Latest in Paleo

I highly recommend giving a listen to episode 13 of the Latest in Paleo podcast.

Lunchtime workout

Got in a 30 minute cardio workout over at the LA Fitness by the office.

Elliptical

Drive Home

Houston Metro zipping by

2011-02-21 (Thursday)

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Apr 212011
 

Rahab!

Had my first physical therapy session at N.E. Rahab in Humble. My therapist, Mary Jo, had me warm up for 10 minutes on an elliptical. The rest of the session was basically just supervised stretching and exercise. At the end of the session she showed me how to tape my left knee to help keep the kneecap in alignment while exercising. I’m not sure how much actual value there is to be had from these sessions. I think I would get as much value from just being given instructions and then turned loose at the gym.

Lunch

Got in a quick cardio workout at the LA Fitness by work. Did a bit of rowing followed by elliptical.

Rowing

Elliptical

Here are a few pics from the drive home

Harold & Woodhead

Harold and Woodhead

Coco’s Sushi Bar

Coco's Sushi Bar

Allen Parkway

Allen Parkway

Softlayer

Softlayer

Hanging with the birds

I spent some time relaxing with Dutch and Shadow

Dutch 1

Dutch 2

Shadow 1

Dutch 3

Shadow 2

2011-04-20 (Wednesday)

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Apr 202011
 

Driving to Work

Traffic was nasty so I didn’t stay on the freeway any longer than I had to. As a result, I got to see some interesting parts of town.

Old Building

Road Work

Fire Department

I like the paint job at Sacred Heart Studio

Sacred Heart Studio

Errands

Boss needed HDMI video adapter for his mac so made a quick run to Best Buy (over by the Galleria).

Best Buy

Star Jasmine

There is some beautiful star jasmine blooming over by the Starbucks on Westhiemer.

Star Jasmine

2011-04-19 (Tuesday)

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Apr 192011
 

Mac OS X Issue?

I just upgraded my MacBook Pro to OS X version 10.6.7. I have noticed that ever since doing that iCal tends to get itself into a state where it is consuming great gobs of member and is bogging down the entire machine. If you see similar performance issues after installing this OS update you may want to try starting up the Activity Monitor app and checking out iCal.

Lunch

Got in a quick cardio session in during lunch today. Per usual, drove over to the local LA Fitness and did 30 minutes on an elliptical.

Cardio at Lunch

After work

Here is an interesting house I passed by on the way home from work.

Interesting house

I hadn’t realized it but I guess Mary’s went out of business.

Mary's

The Art Car Museum is a very cool place.

Art Car Museum

Stopped by Asia Market on the way home.

Asia Market

Prepared cuttlefish… this is for Travis.

Prepared Cuttlefish

This guy has ears on his helmet.

Helmet with Ears

2011-04-18 (Monday)

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Apr 182011
 

The Morning Commute

Traffic was not bad, but downtown Houston sure was overcast.

Downtown Houston

Lunch

Got in a quick cardio session over at the LA Fitness. Wasn’t crowed at all today.

LF Elliptical

Interesting old convertible in the parking garage at work:

Convertible!

After work

After work I stopped by the gym and got in some strength training. It was really crowded!

Crowded Gym 1

Crowded Gym 2

Had the 4′th session of the Mindfulness class over at Dawn Mountain. The class was really interesting and I did pretty well. Left knee pain was not too bad.

2011-04-17 (Sunday)

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Apr 172011
 

Eyes

Mikie and I both got our eyes checked today at the Target optical dept in Humble. I had some minor tweaks in my prescription and ordered some new glasses. Mikie is getting some new glasses as well, but — and this is very cool — is trying on some contact lenses. Hopefully that will work out OK.

So you all behave. We’ll be keeping an eye on you! :-)

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