It’s that time of year again, when all other creative endeavors get shunted to the sideline, tied off lest they bleed into my unconscious while all my free energies go toward one goal: writing a novel in November. I wrote one last year, coming in just over the 50,000 word marker on November 29th. It [...]

I’ve released version 2.2.2 of Weight Tracker ODS, my open source weight loss spreadsheet for OpenOffice.org. Visit my page The Hacker’s Diet with OpenOffice.org for more information. This is mostly a bugfix release, but it resolves some of the annoying issues that cropped up in the re-write for 2.2.1 (international/metric users should be happier!). Download Weight Tracker ODS v2.2.2 [...]

So today marks the official ninetieth day of of my P90X journey, so I’m done right? Well, not quite… I’ll say first and foremost that I expect that if you follow the system completely and don’t waver, you’ll probably get better results than I did. Not that I’m complaining; I may have cut some corners [...]

Coming in on the final stretch, only a month left! I’m still trying to bring it every day, but I’ve been experiementing with moving my workouts around, doing some out of order or moving them from the morning to the afternoon. It’s not been entirely successful, as I have gottena  little out of sync, but [...]

Another phase down! It’s been a long and hard eight weeks, but I’ve finally finished Phase II of the classic P90X exercise plan. Much like the end of Phase I, the last week of Phase II was a “recovery week”, with a focus on stretching and less intense workouts. That said, I was still a [...]

I’m proud to say that I’ve made it to the half-way point in my P90X experiment! It’s not an official milestone in the program, but I feel it’s enough of an accomplishment to warrant a status update. So far, I’ve only missed one workout, yesterday’s in fact, because I’ve been battling a wicked cold for [...]

It’s been a long four weeks, but I’m still sticking with it. I’ve just finished my “recovery week”, which was mostly a lot of stretching and yoga, with some “core synergistics”, which is P90X for “random exercises we couldn’t put elsewhere”. Easily my least favorite workout. I started Phase II this morning, taking it easy [...]

I survived the first week of P90X! I like that there’s some variability in the intensity of the workouts. Cause that means either parts of my body are doing pretty well, or that at the very least, I’m not exhausted everyday. So far the only workout that seemed disappointing was the Kenpo X. During the [...]

In September of last year, I posted a short story called Pawsgaard, about the mice of the town of Guineawick, and their adventures with the warrior-rabbit Sven Pawsgaard. Since then, I’ve often thought about returning to that world, and so for the past few weeks I’ve taken it upon myself to clean up the story [...]

I started the P90X exercise program this morning, and I must say, I’m a little tuckered out. An hour of pull-ups and push-ups, followed by fifteen minutes of ab exercises. I’ll admit that I wasn’t able to keep up, that I pushed too hard during the first set, so my second set was a little [...]