Feeling Blue
Sep. 15th, 2010 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynToday was the opposite of yesterday in terms of how I felt about stuff.
My SO ordered a remote control for the laptop. It's by Lenovo. I ♥ Lenovo. (Mostly because one of their muckymucks wants to stop wasting keyboard space on CapsLock... and seriously, for laptops? there is absolutely no excuse for CapsLock being its own key. The 2 people in the entire country who actually need CapsLock on their laptop can hit Ctrl-Alt-PrtScrn to toggle it. Everyone else can turn on sticky keys or get a fucking macro program. Currently 99.9999999% of people using laptops have to find a macro program to turn the CapsLock key off and most of those don't repurpose it. I hate that key so much. Therefore I ♥ Lenovo for even saying that they're looking into getting rid of it.)
Anyway. The remote control has sat in the shipping envelope for weeks now. Finally I wanted to watch Lie To Me on the bigger screen so while the intro ads (hulu) were playing I read the directions. It was, "remove battery cover. remove USB dongle from battery compartment. install batteries (provided, AAA), plug dongle into any USB port, turn remote on (switch on underside)." I did this. There was a small chime while windows acknowledged the new thing. It magically works. I now have a palm-size keyboard and trackball thingy that is actually more adroit than the laptop keyboard.
AND! The mute button works!
I was so stoked that I went out to Best Buy to look at TV antennas in person. We have one of those laptop-does-TV adapters but it needs an antenna. I found a faster and easier way to get to the store from here (also awesome). I went to lunch. I shopped for antennas. Best Buy doesn't have anything from the most recent 2 years model-wise. And they're hella expensive. So an antenna model from 2005 is $90 at BB, but the 2009 model (same brand, higher ratings) is $40 on Amazon. So even though if I hate the antenna I will have to pay return shipping, I'm getting a much better deal ordering. So I came home and actually ordered it. Free shipping.
My lunch was a club sandwich with fries. Totally awesome. I ate half plus all the fries and took the rest home. Which I ate this evening after going to the gym. It was a slovenly gym day, but I was thinking about skipping. This makes 8 days in a row! (Yesterday was tai chi for an hour.) .6ish miles elliptical, 1 mile biking. (13.5min/5min). Lat pulls: 60 lbs (3 sets: 15, 15, 10); Row: 50 lbs (2 sets: 15,15); tricep underhand: 70lbs (2 sets: 15, 15). Breakfast was an egg scrambled with cheese and cream divided over two warmed corn tortillas. Dinner's going to be ravioli with meat sauce. Total water consumed: 1 glass plus half a liter. I was also outside today because I was laying out the towel with the blocked scarf. (I'd pinned it last night and rolled the towel up, so I took the whole roll out and spread it to dry in the sun.)
My SO ordered a remote control for the laptop. It's by Lenovo. I ♥ Lenovo. (Mostly because one of their muckymucks wants to stop wasting keyboard space on CapsLock... and seriously, for laptops? there is absolutely no excuse for CapsLock being its own key. The 2 people in the entire country who actually need CapsLock on their laptop can hit Ctrl-Alt-PrtScrn to toggle it. Everyone else can turn on sticky keys or get a fucking macro program. Currently 99.9999999% of people using laptops have to find a macro program to turn the CapsLock key off and most of those don't repurpose it. I hate that key so much. Therefore I ♥ Lenovo for even saying that they're looking into getting rid of it.)
Anyway. The remote control has sat in the shipping envelope for weeks now. Finally I wanted to watch Lie To Me on the bigger screen so while the intro ads (hulu) were playing I read the directions. It was, "remove battery cover. remove USB dongle from battery compartment. install batteries (provided, AAA), plug dongle into any USB port, turn remote on (switch on underside)." I did this. There was a small chime while windows acknowledged the new thing. It magically works. I now have a palm-size keyboard and trackball thingy that is actually more adroit than the laptop keyboard.
AND! The mute button works!
I was so stoked that I went out to Best Buy to look at TV antennas in person. We have one of those laptop-does-TV adapters but it needs an antenna. I found a faster and easier way to get to the store from here (also awesome). I went to lunch. I shopped for antennas. Best Buy doesn't have anything from the most recent 2 years model-wise. And they're hella expensive. So an antenna model from 2005 is $90 at BB, but the 2009 model (same brand, higher ratings) is $40 on Amazon. So even though if I hate the antenna I will have to pay return shipping, I'm getting a much better deal ordering. So I came home and actually ordered it. Free shipping.
My lunch was a club sandwich with fries. Totally awesome. I ate half plus all the fries and took the rest home. Which I ate this evening after going to the gym. It was a slovenly gym day, but I was thinking about skipping. This makes 8 days in a row! (Yesterday was tai chi for an hour.) .6ish miles elliptical, 1 mile biking. (13.5min/5min). Lat pulls: 60 lbs (3 sets: 15, 15, 10); Row: 50 lbs (2 sets: 15,15); tricep underhand: 70lbs (2 sets: 15, 15). Breakfast was an egg scrambled with cheese and cream divided over two warmed corn tortillas. Dinner's going to be ravioli with meat sauce. Total water consumed: 1 glass plus half a liter. I was also outside today because I was laying out the towel with the blocked scarf. (I'd pinned it last night and rolled the towel up, so I took the whole roll out and spread it to dry in the sun.)
no subject
Date: 2010-09-17 04:38 am (UTC)Yesterday I was telling myself, "I could spin yarn, that's almost like biking-to-nowhere. And I'd have yarn at the end of it. Plus I wouldn't need to change shoes and bra."
It amused me because I've had homemade catsup and it's hideous.
If you want to know where I started exercising, it was with a 3 pound dumbbell that I kept on the coffee table. Then I realized I could do that for an hour without noticing it (or being sore afterward). So then I bought 5 pound dumbbells. And when I could lift those for an hour without noticing it, I figured I should find more stuff like that... stuff that didn't suck. And my phone has commercial-free TV included in my plan (Sprint, not a huge selection though) so I can watch something I was going to watch anyway. Now I'm to the point where I can bike for 30 minutes without really noticing it, certainly it doesn't make me feel like I have muscle hangover the next morning.
I'd love to encourage you to be more active and to find joy in moving your body, but that's not something that anyone can encourage. I know I thought those people were freaks because all exercise was completely lame.