First thing this morning, I lugged the boxes of floorboards that arrived yesterday into the house. I didn't want them out in the sunshine all day, and I also didn't want to deal with heavy physical labor during the hottest part of the day. It went quickly, and was pretty good exercise. Their shipping weight is 46 pounds (about 21 kg) for 16  ( Read more... )

My main task today was a hard-labor marathon: eight hours of moving furniture, stripping away old carpet and carpet padding, and vacuuming up over 40 years of dirt off the subfloor. (The house was built in 1985, and I never replaced the carpet.) I didn't actually remove the carpet; after removing enough furniture to make room, I rolled it back to ( Read more... )

Today "J" and I went to an art supply store, to buy a gift for my brother's birthday. It has already passed, but the celebration was deferred, so we had extra time to find a gift. We got him an art canvas; he can always use more of those.
This evening, we went to the gym. As I've been doing lately, I did the stair machine. This time I went for 31: ( Read more... )

This morning, "J" and I went to the gym, after a couple of weeks of failing to find time for it. It was an aerobics-only day for us; I did 31:19 minutes:seconds on the stair machine, climbed 105 "floors", 1685 steps, 54 steps per minute average, 249 kcal (estimated), and an average heart rate of 136.
Today I got around to depositing the refund ( Read more... )

After slacking on exercise for a while, "J" and I made it to the gym this morning. We didn't want to wear ourselves out to the point that it would preclude her gardening or my home improvement work, so we just did aerobics. She did exercise bicycle, and I did stair machine.
I did only 28:22 minutes:seconds on the machine, but I had the speed up ( Read more... )

This morning, "J" and I went to the gym. Since the details are mostly notes to myself, I'll lj-cut them and put them at the end.

Later, I bought a renewal of my Crashplan subscription. Unfortunately, they discontinued Crashplan Home, which was about $150 per year for all of our computers. They replaced it with their small business service, which ( Read more... )

This afternoon, I bought a set of countersink drill bits at Harbor Freight. I have a philosophy about buying things there: it's an OK place to buy stuff when "good enough" is good enough.

Earlier in the day (and mostly notes to myself), we went to the gym.
I started out with a work-out on the stair machine, about the same amount of stairs, but ( Read more... )

I didn't do any more music composition today; instead I did a lot of studies for inspiration and just because it's interesting to study.
Meanwhile, "J" made an assortment of yummies for us, which I appreciate a lot.
We started the day with a trip to the gym, but since it's mostly notes to myself I put it at the end. Rather than the usual mix of ( Read more... )

Although "J" and I generally get a fair amount of exercise from ordinary physical work around the house, and sometimes walks, we've been slackers about formal exercise. This morning we finally got around to going to the gym to work out some areas that routine activity doesn't exercise very well.
These details are mostly notes to myself:
I started ( Read more... )

This morning after dropping off "T" at school, "J" and I went to an appointment she had today. Unfortunately, we went to the wrong location. But all was not lost; the place we went said that they could try to fit her in there, and instead of the location where she had originally been scheduled. Looking at their schedule, they thought they could fit ( Read more... )