Vicissitudes

I'm back now - I've actually been home since Sunday - from two weeks in Portland for school. I had been hoping to make updates while I was gone. Unfortunately, the hard drive of my PowerBook more-or-less crashed on the train ride up to Porland, rendering the machine unusable. I had very little Internet access while I was gone, and blogging had to take a back seat.

The good news is that I had made a full backup just two nights before departing, and that when I got home I was able to get the PowerBook to limp along well enough to copy the relative handful of files that had been modified since then. I've set up the files I need to get things done on the Spicejar server, and taken the laptop in to the Apple Store to have the hard drive replaced. It will be away for something like a week.

Now I'm getting along with using a FreeBSD box as an office machine. There are learning curve issues - cutting and pasting in X11 is ... different. But I'm coping.

Meanwhile, I had been planning on returning to the gym and getting back on the exercise wagon. It's been two years or so since I was working out regularly, and I've gained a bit of weight, gotten a bit soft. I had been telling myself, "I'll get to it after this ... once that is out of the way. ..." The latest "this" was my trip to Portland. On Monday, I got my ducks in a row and went to the 24 Hour Fitness to start out by working my legs, abs, and back. It felt good, although I seem to be appallingly out of shape. I felt a little stiff on Tuesday, but returned to the gym to work on my upper body.

Wednesday my legs were terribly stiff and sore, and my arms started to feel it. Today my legs are mostly recovered, but my upper body, particularly my triceps, are in agony. Getting back to working out after a break is always a bit of a trial, but this is the worst it has ever been for me. I'll get over it, though, and I have the good feeling of working out regularly to look forward to.