Category: Improvements
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One Month Into Full-Stack
As mentioned in my post Reboot, I’ve been working on a Full-Stack development course. Let’s check in after a month? I’ve completed 7 of the 53 lecture hours, reviewing HTML and mostly learning CSS for the first time (the age of CSS is when I stopped “doing” code-based web-dev – I’ve always been capable of […]
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The Leadville Diet
I’m 6’2. My body likes to be right around 172lbs. At my heaviest, I was in the mid-180s. I was super soft, but that was like a decade ago and it’s okay. For two years now, I’ve set a goal of getting to 162 before Leadville. The number was somewhat arbitrary, but it turns out […]
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Eating better
We already ate pretty darned well – hard not to in Portland where everything is about organic and local, and we live down the block from Whole Foods. We don’t do many processed foods and don’t eat too many calories, but I’ve always felt we could stand to put more fresh stuff into our bodies. I […]
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Goal Achieved: Do Less
One of my goals for the year was to be involved in less. As of last night, having stepped down from my four-year post as the VA Director at the DC Road Runners annual banquet, I think I can safely say I have achieved it. While I’m still busy as hell between two jobs and […]
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Bringing The Noise
Last night, following two restless nights caused primarily by NASCAR seeming to run down 66 (we abut the highway through a tiny forest, which is bare and reduces no noise in the winter and really, people lacking proper mufflers blast through at well over 100 late at night), I decided to do something about it. […]
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One Seven Four
First goal of the year: Accomplished. At the start of the year, I set a bunch of goals that weren’t SMART. Knowing myself and how self-motivated I am, I knew I’d still push myself to reach them. As of this morning, I’ve accomplished the first. On January 1st, I weighed 184lbs after having taken a […]