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.

A great 5-part series of Google Code videos from the summer of 2007 is available here.

Vim Essential Plugins

Found a cool set of screencasts at this website.

Easy Motion

Surround

Sparkup

Vulture

As I was driving to the gym today I saw a vulture trying to drag the carcass of a dead raccoon out of the middle of the lane on Will Clayton Parkway. I turned on the emergency flashers and stopped just before him. As I walked over to the raccoon he hopped a safe distance away and watched as I relocated his prize to a safe spot off of the road.

Gym

Lifetime Fitness in Atascocita is probably my very favorite gym.

Mikie and I got in a good cardio workout today at Lifetime Fitness. We did 35 minutes on some weird combination elliptical/stair-stepping machine, then did about 10 minutes of stretching followed by some time in the Jacuzzi. Nice!

Got in a strength workout today at the Lifetime Fitness in Atascocita.

Details

Warmup: Rowing x 00:10
Strength Training:
1. LF leg ext: 40/12, 40/20, 40/20 - still have left knee pain
2. TG leg curl: 50/20, 50/20, 50/20
3. FM chest: 50/20, 60/13, 50/12
4. FM lat: 60/20, 70/20, 70/20
5. CY st calf: 90/20, 90/15, 80/19
6. FM shoulder: 50/15, 45/11, 40/7
Stretch: 00:06
Jacuzzi: 00:10

A friend of mine at work just told me about the free WordPress App for both the iPhone and iPad. I’m composing this using the app from my iPad. Was very easy to set-up. Seems to run fine. One glitch I have noticed – the area that you type in to compose your post seems to have a sizing issue because text doesn’t wrap properly. You can be typing away and the cursor will go several characters past the right edge of the screen before the line wraps.

Update: I’ve quit using this app as I have found it to be really buggy. Hopefully all that will get sorted out in future updates.

Did the Strength 1/B workout from New Rules of Lifting. Just for fun I stopped at the gym that Lifetime Fitness bought over on W. Lake Houston in Kingwood. This used to be QLS. It is most definitely not up to the standards of a LTF. The weight room was a mess and they don’t have towel service yet. I think their one interesting feature is their pool. They have a saltwater swimming pool. Next time I’m due for a swim workout and I’m in that area I’ll check it out.

And this is what it looked like outside as I left the gym:

Beautiful, no? And with a temperature somewhere in the 70′s, still pleasant outside. But not for long my friends. Remember, today is the first day of summer! Here is a great pseudo-commercial for the new iPhone 4:

This morning had an excellent spinning class at the Houston City Center Lifetime Fitness. Nice place.