- I've not been sick for 10/30 days like I was in January.
- I don't have a second gig away from my normal 40-hour work-week that eats 3 days out of town (pleasant though they were).
- I don't have to catch up on math homework grading for the 15 days that I was sick or out of town.
- Most of my daughter's gymnastics competitions are done for the season.
- I've finished updating a side-gig updating someone else's software for a friend. Had to remember a bunch of old school VBA 6 MS Access nonsense.
In practice, I'm not free because I'm:
- writing an algebra-intuition-pump for Android devices. Iterations 1-12 are finished, and starting up with 3 more iterative features. Hopefully releaseable by April.
- preparing a book (Agile software development re-foundationalized as a feedback systems problem), with partners, mostly via presentation, filming the presentation, and sending off to co-author's friends for ghostwriting. These smart people. All by mid-March
- working extra hours at work to support some of my folks who've gone offshore, for a month, provided I can get my organization to pay for my extra hours.
- trying to get caught up on necessary reading in my field (I've got a dozen books stacked),
- preparing presentations for Agile 2013 (I signed up for 4, with most/all of them being co-presentations)
- keeping up with homeschool math homework. Saxon demands that the student remember everything they've ever done...anyone approaching this via a normal homework mentality of do and forget loses badly. As a homeschooler, we do, and then mark for correctness, and then redo until it is correct. Saxon for 16yo, Singapore for the 2 littler ones.
- teaching the 16yo to drive -- scary -- too close to the curb!
- helping the 7yo with bicycle riding -- out of breath!
- driving back and forth to a different city (in the Texas triangle 1.5-4.5 hours away) every other weekend for one reason or another -- Friends all over the state, Family mostly in Houston with Birthdays, etc. Gymnastics for kid -- girl has one left this season. Started level 4 competition in December. Level 5 as of early this month. Boy should start competing later.
- trying to keep the wife sane by holding the baby when I'm at home. Hume is 3mo a week ago. And fatter than your baby. No one is willing to believe he's 3 months old. Too active, alert, coordinated, and big. 8lbs @ birth. 11lbs @ 1 month. 14lbs @ 2 months. Hasn't stopped growing. Didn't weigh him yet at 3mo. Outweighs all the 5-6 month babies from our birthing center.
- doing Superslow weekly, which is fast, but the recovery time isn't. Legs press up to 8 reps @ 510 (2:40). Started overhead press this week, and not only am I weak at it, but also, it impacts my chest press. oddly, 1:45 pulldown, 1:20 overhead press, 2:40 leg press, and 1:30 chest press all in the course of 15 minutes has me massively overheated (lay down on the floor after with nausea, hearing impairment, heavy sweat, dizziness). Now that the glove is available for only $900, I desperately want to try it, but my heart-surgeon trainer is more careful than I am. This ate Sunday this week as my brain melted around my muscles.
- Worrying about kicking off a more serious training business with a friend/business acquaintance/ long term partner. I don't have the time to do all or even most of the training, but I can get it set up. Will only take 5x the amount of time that I actually have free.
- trying to set up a Feedback Systems-based corporate consulting practice through a marketing consultant...starting to lean into the Feedback Systems in life book as well.
- trying to take diet more seriously than I have this last 3 months (Seth Roberts: Shangri-La + Fermentation / Paleo: PaNu + Cordain / IF: Leangains + etc.) , all of which substantially hit the "sleep a decent number of hours" button, which I don't normally do. Now all I need is someone to play fatbet (or similar, what's the good one?) with me, and I might be in good shape.
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Why is it odd that overhead press affects chest press? They use most of the same muscles, just Chest gives more emphasis to the pecs (and admittedly some lats on the starting position).
Dr. Pat,
Sorry, forgot to put sarcasm alert on.
D'oh! Maybe I should have a coffee before commenting. It seems fairly clear now that I read it again.
Still doing the icepack thing? I got out of the habit over Christmas because I didn't have a freezer available. I must start again.
I switched trainers to a more cautious trainer when my old trainer objected to my icewater. I didn't like the icepacks. Trying to go back to icewater now that I've stabilized my weights. Or maybe even buy the glove, and try that.
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