I have mentioned a few times about how different my health is from what it used to be and I have started working on it, but I can’t go full on because I am not in the gym. On the first I started keeping records and worked on eating healthier and it looks like my mass has not gone down, which I am thankful for. I am using the DoD bodyfat calculation to determine these numbers, which is close, but not exact. While it is not as exact as the BodPod or underwater methods it is what I have been using for years so it gives me a great comparison to what I have been in the past. Right now I am sitting at 165-170lbs lean mass, and that is because it is based on measurements and sometimes you can measure different. I have no doubt that when I get back in the gym I can gain another 10 in muscle, if I do that and drop to 200lbs I will be 10% bodyfat and 180lbs lean mass. I was big before, but people could tell I had bulked, right now I think people just think I’m fat because I have a lot more of it.
Yesterday I got a quick run down of just how out of shape I am. I spent a couple hours moving things to storage and cleaning out the shed. I also went to bed at 6pm and woke up at 9:30am this morning. To give you an idea of what I used to do. I would get up at 5am eat a banana and drink a bottle of water, leave at 5:15 and drive 35min to the gym. I would usually begin working out around 6:00 and finish at 7:10. Shower and then leave around 7:30 after taking my supplements. Arrive at work at 20 of 8, eat my breakfast then I would work from 8 to 5 outside in the hot sun on equipment or doing some stuff by hand, but prior to that 1 or 2 days a week I shoveled horse crap from stalls. Think of working out in the gym * 4 then multiply that by 8 hours, it is literally the hardest work I have ever done and I have done a lot of stuff in life. You are basically removing 1ft+ deep shavings + crap from a 8×8 stall, not your standard family farm daily cleaning. Anyway after that I would go home eat and get 8 hours of sleep before starting it all over again. When you compare that to what I do now, you might understand how I could become out of shape. Not really the job for the type of person that can program in a number of languages, but I loved the job. I hated the smell of horse shit and being dirty as hell everyday, but I worked with friends, I was in shape and when I got home I knew I had done something that day. I didn’t come home with a lot of money in my pocket, but that was ok because I know that I earned every single penny I did bring home and I had the sore muscles to prove it.
I remember in California when I was working with mortgages they would say, you work hard don’t cut your fees just so a loan will go through. I thought to myself, well thats California for ya. I have actually worked hard and made a lot less. You call someone, get their information, email it to some brokers, work up deals, pitch it, and do more paperwork. It’s a joke, you make 2k+ per loan and have a lot of stress when you don’t have clients, but it isn’t hard work, just time consuming at times.
I switched my DNS for another domain over to Google Apps last night. This domain, tworaised.com, is going to be my project domain where I will actually store the code for all my public projects. It will have trac and svn environments for people to interact with and probably a blog plugin integrated into trac, but we will see I would almost like to have one blog to cover all projects. I have considered not using the domain because of the name. Tech people will get the 2^ part because everything is 2^x, but I’m sure others will think two raised as in two middle ,,|,, fingers ,,|,, but what can ya do.
I will be detailing my experiences with Solaris in my next post, along with my experience with the user community surrounding it.
