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I am a horrible, horrible person. I have deprived my non-Facebook people of baby pictures.
Also I can't figure out how to get the URL of the public albums on Facebook so I can share. So, this is me! If you want to see baby pics you need to be my friend! Or signed in, anyway, I suppose. |
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Thursday is my LSD day - last week was almost 8 miles to the American River Bike Trail and to the 2.5 mile marker, yesterday was 9.3 on the same route. If I keep this up, I'll be running the whole thing in a few months.
Tomorrow I have the day off (and because I didn't check my schedule, this was news to me today), and since I just did a long run yesterday I don't want to do another long run. I also just used the Gmaps Pedometer to figure out a northerly route that'll be a little under 7 miles with no lights unless I'm turning left. Link to route for future reference.
Since tomorrow would normally be M's day with Gabe anyway, she's offered to take him in the morning to let me run on my own (instead of with the stroller). This also throws in the complication that the stroller has a console that holds my water and snacks for longer runs. I might just head to the track and do a workout there - I've never really run a workout on a dirt track before, should be interesting. |
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Jun. 18th, 2009 @ 12:14 pm
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Because there are a limited number of things to do with a 6-month old child, I have started running with him in the mornings on days that I have him or go to work later. Today's route was an experiment in longer distances for both of us. I wasn't sure how he would handle being in the jogging stroller that long, and I haven't run that far in a long time.
Because I am a geek, I installed a cycling computer on the jogger. It is wireless and has been finicky lately, so I replaced the sensor battery last night, and moved the head closer to the sensor this morning. It worked for 1.28 miles. Next step: stronger magnet.
As a result of the computer failure, I don't know my time for the run (somewhere around an hour). Not necessarily a bad thing, but I like my numbers. |
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For playtime, we place the child on the floor, on top of a light blanket. I've started putting his toys just out of reach to teach him to crawl.
So he grabs the blanket and pulls the toy towards him. |
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The wife went back to work, which means I take care of the child three days a week, and get restful times whenever he naps. My babysitting technique is largely based on going for walks. The first one knocks him out for a couple hours, then he stays awake for the second, longer, walk. Later, these will be runs, and then bike rides.
Neat product: Burley's Baby Smuggler - lets you use Burley's trailers (as strollers or joggers) with kids from 3 months old. This and the trailer will be on their way here soon (we hope), so I can get back into running.
In unrelated news: My iBook is slow. Entirely too slow to run OSX well, let alone be all productive-like. So I installed Linux on it a couple days ago. Ubuntu is entirely too easy, and REAL geeks will laugh at my newbness, but it makes the computer much faster, and it's an introduction of sorts for me into the scary world of penguins. |
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Apr. 3rd, 2009 @ 10:02 am
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Feb. 3rd, 2009 @ 05:27 am
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Last night's dinner: Bacon-wrapped apple. (I ate 7/8 of the bacon, and ~15/16 of the apple)
Conclusion: Do not eat any more than that much bacon at one time. But SO WORTH IT. Also, it may be better with cooked bacon and not-cooked apples for more crunch. There were a couple apple slices that plain smooshed easily like apple pie due to cooking process.
Also yesterday, 27 cloth diapers arrived. 12 baby blue that fit the child now, 15 "melon" to grow into. "Melon" turned out to be OMG THE HUMANITY orange. We will get pictures of the latter to embarrass him later. |
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NYE!
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Jan. 1st, 2009 @ 11:23 am
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My night was spent alternately cleaning messy diapers and trying to sleep. I think I spent more time on the former than the latter. This morning (as of ~1 hour ago), things were looking up, however, as I had a baby sleeping on my chest with one arm reaching for the mattress on one side of me, and the opposite foot reaching on the other side. Also the body squishing my organs.
So far dealing with what should turn out to be minor issues, and trying to do as much as I can to keep M resting between feedings. |
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Timeline:
12/28, 4AM false labor starts
12/28, 10AM false labor ends while walking down the street
12/28, 4PM regular labor begins, and progresses with walking and changing positions
12/28, 10PM arrive at hospital
12/29, 12AM arrive at home with baby still in the oven
12/29, 10AM contractions stop and Melanie takes a nap
12/29, 2PM irregular contractions start, very strong
12/29, 7-8PM arrive at hospital and get admitted due to baby not liking labor. Bag of waters is broken by hospital staff in an effort to relieve baby's stress and progress the labor.
12/29, 10PM or so, drugs are given and Melanie finally relaxes. I inform Gabriel that he is grounded for two weeks for putting Mommy through this.
12/30, 12:05AM I note that the baby's coming out on his due date
12/30, 5:20AM pushing starts
12/30, 5:53AM Gabriel Bradford Hall is born, weighing 7.3lbs at 22 inches, with all fingers and toes intact and fully functioning lungs.
12/30, 7PM I arrive home, having been relieved at the hospital so I could get some rest.
So far, we know that he's not overly fussy, and falls asleep very quickly when placed on someone's chest.
Dec. 30th, 2008 @ 07:09 pm
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I can't believe I almost forgot about NORAD Santa! Also not working in Firefox. Poo.
Dec. 24th, 2008 @ 07:24 pm
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The county business license application includes a line for business telephone number. All the other paperwork that is needed to either get a loan or get the physical space requires the business license.
How am I supposed to have a telephone number before I have a place for the phone?*
* Note that I have reason to believe this form pre-dates cell phone ubiquity.
Dec. 11th, 2008 @ 09:46 pm
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Anyone have $120,000 I can borrow?
Dec. 10th, 2008 @ 09:45 pm
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| » Musings, as I write a business plan |
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Including the term "hardcore" in a business plan is probably a bad idea. Right?
Dec. 8th, 2008 @ 04:58 pm
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| » Oddities, or I am Strange |
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Ages ago, when I bought my Dell desktop computer, I purchased a nice USB Logitech mouse. My computer had only PS/2 ports, so I got an adaptor to let me use my mouse. All other computers I've had or seen since then have had USB ports.
My old employer let me have a new-but-basic computer keyboard that had been stored in the upstairs storage room for ages (I was honest and told her about the price tag on the box of the Logitech Uber-keyboard, and she wouldn't let me have it). This keyboard was then put in my box of electronic and computer-related things that might be one day useful, where it has sat ever since.
Fast-forward to a couple weeks ago, when I remembered that I had this keyboard, and so it was decided to throw out the broken Mac-compatible keyboard we'd been using for years (where broken = very very dirty with an arrow key that wouldn't stay on). This is when we learned that the free keyboard had a PS/2 connector and our laptops did not have the right port. Off to the store to buy an adaptor! $20 later we have a dongle that lets us plug in the keyboard to the USB port, leaving one USB port for everything else (the old keyboard had two USB ports).
Last night, in searching for lip balm, I came across the USB-to-PS/2 adaptor I'd bought forever ago. This was plugged into the mouse and the keyboard's adaptor dongle, and I can print again!
Too much backstory, not enough funny. Bah.
Dec. 8th, 2008 @ 09:45 am
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4.1 miles, 34 minutes and change. Schedule said 3 miles, but yesterday I had to cut short, so I added the mile today since I felt okay. Also tomorrow's my rest day. Yesterday was cut short because I started 10 minutes later than planned, and had to go to the hospital for a 9-5 birthing class.
Nov. 16th, 2008 @ 09:36 am
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Woke up, ate banana, ran 3 miles (soooo slow - intentionally, but still), ate Rice Chex, took a shower, ate eggs and a smoothie (mmmm, strawberries and banana), went to work. Currently very tired but not wanting to sleep because it's barely 8:30 and I am not old or pregnant, dammit. I fully expect my longer runs to be much more interesting - the scenery will change! The entrance to the American River trail is ~2 miles from my house, so any run longer than 5 miles or so should be down in that direction.
Tomorrow is a day off from running, but not from work. Boooo work.
Nov. 9th, 2008 @ 08:28 pm
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2-mile run, around the south "block" and ending at the library, ~17 minutes (accidentally reset my timer 8-something minutes in). Easy, felt okay for most of it. Need to wake up earlier than 7AM on these Saturdays - give me time to actually enjoy my food before work. Speaking of which, I'm out! Enjoy your weekend, folks!
Nov. 8th, 2008 @ 08:23 am
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Today's workout ended up being a 16-mile exploratory bike ride through some neighborhoods I don't want to visit at night (data: 15.75 miles, 1h4m). Ultimately it was discovered that yes, there is a way to Bevmo that doesn't involve crossing over the freeway on Truxel; but no, I do not want to use this route (more likely will be the route I discovered a couple weeks ago that got me to my local Golden 1 Office without using major roads, then crossing Truxel from there).
I was trying to find and use a path that Google Maps labelled "E. Levee Rd" but looked an awful lot like a bike path in the satellite imagery. The latter proved correct (the path does end at the intersection of E. Levee Rd and Sotnip Rd - I'm not making that up). The trail was in excellent condition and provided excellent views of a swampy canal and run-down low-income areas of Natomas (with one interlude of fancy-ish houses and a nice looking park).
So probably won't be using this trail again due to it being a rather out of the way means of going through sketchier parts of town than I'd rather travel through.
Nov. 7th, 2008 @ 12:20 pm
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I mentioned I needed a race or event for which to train.
I think I found it. A 10K race from AT&T Park to Candlestick, finishing at the 50-yard line in the stadium. Should be awesome. If all goes well, I'd like to finish around 45 minutes. This goal subject to some modification in the coming months.
I tracked back a training plan to today's date, and I should be able to pull this off without rushing things. Printed up a calendar with daily workouts, though I'll allow myself to use equivalents for meeting the base mileage (10-12 miles on the bike instead of a 3 mile run, for instance). This week concludes with 3 miles tomorrow (actually cycling downtown, 6 miles one-way) and 3 miles on Saturday.
I used this Excel template for my calendar - looks all spiffy, and I didn't have to make it.
I realized when I walked to the polling place on Tuesday that I could totally do workouts before work, time-wise. I might need more clothes (or a treadmill) in order to do it comfortably through the winter, though.
Nov. 6th, 2008 @ 11:12 pm
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| » So many posts... |
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Long time without posting, and now four things on my mind... this'll be two of them:
I was recently diagnosed with Celiac Disease. So I've started to follow a gluten-free diet... which I need to follow for the rest of my life. I don't want to dwell on the foods that I'll miss because I'd rather focus on what I still *can* eat - less depressing that way. As a short list, though: pasta, bread, and beer (beer has barley, and while the gluten proteins are destroyed in the brewing process, the gliadin is still there). So, you know, if you're planning on ever getting me food, keep that in mind.
The pregnancy is coming along, as these things are wont to do. I'm sure I will become a stereotypical parent-blogger when he pops out (after he gets cleaned up, naturally), but right now I'm mostly just trying to keep things under control.
Nov. 5th, 2008 @ 03:25 pm
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