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First session at the gym with Paul (my new PT) went well, apparently my flexibility is above average and I have good posture which is nice to know :)
I'm booked in to have a session with him once a week, although obviously upcoming holidays will make that impossible, so I must maintain my regimen over the EF period, and have scheduled a training session with him once we get back. Hopefully this will speed up my body plans, as although I've shown some fair improvements over the last 2 months, it's not moving particularly quickly.
What I'm really wanting to get out of this is a better understanding of exercise technique and diet. I know I could look all this up on-line, but that could take quite a while and not necessarily give me the best advice, and it's good to have someone knowledgeable you can have a face-to-face conversation with.
I spent last night sewing tails and sculpting teeth (I can never get those bloody things right) with a little finish up work tonight left to do. I'm glad these will be out of the way as they're quite fiddly, although the new core design has worked surprisingly well and gives a nice movement as well as being super posable. I did some stress tests on the wire internals and they took quite a lot of bending before fatigue set in so they should have a pretty long life.
This evening I also need to evaluate the bags we have at home and decide whether or not I need to buy a new one for this trip, as although my personal clothing will be pretty limited, suit stuff is going to take up a lot of space. The hyena for instance takes up a whole case by himself due to all his ridiculous body padding.
At least this year we're not flying. There's no way I'd have managed last year without Kurt's help in lugging stuff around. Although we do have to get up to Crimson's place in London on Sunday, we should hopefully be able to avoid the underground and it's ridiculous stairs by using the buses instead. I must remind myself to get travel details to his place.
Dad's being a godsend and coming over to pick up the rifle parts for Quartermane's gun, turning the vial holders out a little bigger, and returning them on Friday which saves me having to travel over on the Saturday. This means I then get a *whole* extra day to finish stuff up. As I typically only have a few hours in the evenings this is a huge boon.
Work is good, currently having a crash course in WPF control design, such a steep learning curve. I've been taking apart an existing open source control and learning how everything fits together, took a while but once it clicks everything makes sense.
I'm booked in to have a session with him once a week, although obviously upcoming holidays will make that impossible, so I must maintain my regimen over the EF period, and have scheduled a training session with him once we get back. Hopefully this will speed up my body plans, as although I've shown some fair improvements over the last 2 months, it's not moving particularly quickly.
What I'm really wanting to get out of this is a better understanding of exercise technique and diet. I know I could look all this up on-line, but that could take quite a while and not necessarily give me the best advice, and it's good to have someone knowledgeable you can have a face-to-face conversation with.
I spent last night sewing tails and sculpting teeth (I can never get those bloody things right) with a little finish up work tonight left to do. I'm glad these will be out of the way as they're quite fiddly, although the new core design has worked surprisingly well and gives a nice movement as well as being super posable. I did some stress tests on the wire internals and they took quite a lot of bending before fatigue set in so they should have a pretty long life.
This evening I also need to evaluate the bags we have at home and decide whether or not I need to buy a new one for this trip, as although my personal clothing will be pretty limited, suit stuff is going to take up a lot of space. The hyena for instance takes up a whole case by himself due to all his ridiculous body padding.
At least this year we're not flying. There's no way I'd have managed last year without Kurt's help in lugging stuff around. Although we do have to get up to Crimson's place in London on Sunday, we should hopefully be able to avoid the underground and it's ridiculous stairs by using the buses instead. I must remind myself to get travel details to his place.
Dad's being a godsend and coming over to pick up the rifle parts for Quartermane's gun, turning the vial holders out a little bigger, and returning them on Friday which saves me having to travel over on the Saturday. This means I then get a *whole* extra day to finish stuff up. As I typically only have a few hours in the evenings this is a huge boon.
Work is good, currently having a crash course in WPF control design, such a steep learning curve. I've been taking apart an existing open source control and learning how everything fits together, took a while but once it clicks everything makes sense.