Got in an hour walk first thing this morning. By the time I got back to the house it was already hot outside!

Just finished reading a really interesting book called Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. It was written by Joshua Foer and published in March, 2011 by Penguin Press.

Joshua — a man with an average memory — went on to win the U.S. Memory Championship. This book chronicles his path in an entertaining and informative way. Highly recommended.

Cardio at Lifetime Fitness

Mikie and I got in 30 minutes of cardio at the Lifetime Fitness in Atascocita. We used the Octane Fitness elliptical machines. Good workout!

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

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

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

Trip to the gym

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

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.

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.

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.

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

New Glasses

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

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.

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.

Drive Home

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.

Here are a few pics from the drive home

Harold & Woodhead

Coco’s Sushi Bar

Allen Parkway

Softlayer

Hanging with the birds

I spent some time relaxing with Dutch and Shadow

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.

After work

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

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

The Art Car Museum is a very cool place.

Stopped by Asia Market on the way home.

Prepared cuttlefish… this is for Travis.

This guy has ears on his helmet.

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

Lunch

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

Interesting old convertible in the parking garage at work:

After work

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

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.

OK, had an appointment for an evaluation at this Cole Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy place. Filled out a bunch of paperwork, paid a $40 deductible (ouch!) and then was measured and tested. I was given 4 basic exercises that I’m supposed to do daily and will be going back regularly over the next several weeks.

Here is a view of this place from the front:

This is part of the area where you do your rehab exercises.

Morning Commute

A Harris County hazardous materials unit came screaming by on 59:

Do you like Shipleys Do-Nuts? I’m a huge fan of their spicy kolaches. I did not know there was a Shipleys vehicle tooling around in Houston, but here it is:

Lunchtime

Did a 30-minute cardio session on a Life Fitness elliptical machine and followed that up with the exercises that the rehab place assigned.

This was the view as I approached downtown Houston this morning:

Apple Storage Order

I read here this morning that Apple just ordered 12 PB (Petabytes!) of storage from Isilon Systems, a division of EMC. Folks, a petabyte is a lot of storage. It is 10 ^ 15 bytes or 2 ^ 50 bytes, depending upon usage. The latter form is typically used in computer science circles, like when talking about RAM. To put it another way:

1 petabyte = 1000 terabytes
1 terabyte = 1000 gigabytes
1 gigabyte = 1000 megabytes
1 megabyte  = 1000 kilobytes
1 kilobyte = 1000 bytes

Untethered Jailbreak for IOS 4.3.1

Hooray! There is an untethered jailbreak for IOS 4.3.1. It works great!. I’m very happy to see this available now.

Cardio at Lunchtime

Got in a 1600 m swim workout over lunch at the LA Fitness near the office.

bulletproof node.js coding

Just ran across this excellent post from Stella Laurenzo’s blog.

Homeward Bound

Picked up some supper from Cafe Express on the way home.

Allen Parkway

Had to wait for a train in Humble