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Leon's blog is dead. Long live Leon's blog!
My blog no longer lives on LiveJournal. Instead, find it here: http://leon.barrettnexus.com/blog/.
This transition means I'll lose track of LJ friends somewhat, but it means I'll own my own data. It's been aching to be free for a while now, and I'm glad I can finally help it achieve its dreams. -
Cholesterol review
I just got my cholesterol, glucose, percent body fat, and all that tested. It's pretty good, but not amazing. I did this once before, and here's the comparison.
Measurements are in mg/dL: type2006-11-202010-09-23 Cholesterol130176 Triglyceride64<45 HDL4145 LDL76not measured because triglycerides were so low glucose92 percent fat16.1% blood ( Read more... ) -
Intense hunger & swimming
I'm doing a medical blood test thing today, and it requires fasting for 10-12 hours before. But I wasn't hungry 12 hours before, so I'm actually fasting for 15 hours, and it's awfully annoying. Man, hunger makes it hard to concentrate ( Read more... ) -
Travel prevents giving blood
I was all set to give blood this morning, but apparently my Argentinian travel makes me ineligible. Most of Argentina is fine, but Iguazu Falls and Corrientes (home of the capybaras) are at risk for malaria, so I need to wait a year.
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Kickstart some open music!
I just donated money to help hire an orchestra to record some out-of-copyright music (Bach, Tchaikovsky, etc.). The scores are old and out of copyright, but any new recording is copyrighted--but these folks will release it under a Creative Commons license, so it'll be free to share!
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Hang gliding with Caely
Caely came on a second hang gliding trip last weekend. She didn't fly with me (I'm not rated for tandem flights), but she got some really good pictures.
She got me preparing for launch.
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Tigre, the end
About the last thing I did in Argentina was to take a bicycle tour of Tigre. We took a train, biked around, and then took a boat ride. On the way, there were some fantastic views of the whole city, whose downtown high-rises look splattered against the shoreline.
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The end in Buenos Aires
After all my sightseeing, I did some sightseeing in Buenos Aires and did a little more tango. I took a few more tango lessons and tried to dance at a milonga, but it was really hard for me to work up the nerve to dance with people. My dance suckiness was compounded by my language barrier, so I only danced with one or two people in both the milongas ( Read more... ) -
Mendoza
Getting to Mendoza sucked. See, I had planned my trip to Ibera at the last minute, because I'd hoped to see capybaras at Iguazu. Then, when it came time to get my bus ticket from Ibera to Mendoza, it turned out that because it was a long weekend for Father's Day and Flag Day, all the buses in that direction were booked. After experiencing some ( Read more... ) -
Iberá: the capybaras
The first glimpse of capybaras we got was from our boat. We saw ones that were far away and active, and close but lazy.
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