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Me Talk Pretty One Day | David Sedaris
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Ava's Man | Rick Bragg
Affluenza | John DeGraaf, et al
sed & awk | Dougherty, Robbins
The Unix-hater's Handbook | Simson Garfinkel, et al
XML/RPC | Simon St. Laurent, et al
Core J2EE Patterns | John Krupi, et al
eXtreme Programming Explored | Wake
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XML-RPC | St. Laurent, et al
Mastering Regular Expressions | Friedl
Programming Ruby | Thomas, Hunt
Slack | DeMarco
Advanced JavaServer Pages | David Geary
Effective Java | Jeremy Bloch
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Geeks | John Katz
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar | Eric S. Raymond
Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert Heinlein
Several Books on Solaris and Unix Admin
It's Not About the Bike | Lance Armstrong
The Humane Interface | Jef Raskin
The Pragmatic Programmer | Andrew Hunt
The Water-method Man | John Irving
The Nudist on the Late Shift | Po Bronson
Does the Center Hold?: An Introduction to Western Philosophy | Donald Palmer
Principles of Transaction Processing | Philip Bernstein
In the Beginning Was the Command Line | Neal Stephenson
The Tomb | HP Lovecraft
The Lurking Fear | HP Lovecraft
Secrets, Lies, and Democracy | Chomsky/Barsamian
Hannibal | Thomas Harris
eXtreme Programming eXplained | Kent Beck
Philosophy for Dummies | Tom Morris
Sophie's World | Jostein Gaarder
Clear Thinking | Hy Ruchlis
Chomsky for Beginners | David Cogswell
Philosophy, the Basics | Nigel Warburton
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! | Richard Feynman
The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien
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Monday, March 19, 2001

I got to work today at 6:30am, did a bit of coding to remove some stuff that was found to be unnecessary in my design review, attended another team member's design review, and left at 12:30. Too damn nice to be at work!

I went for a great bike ride. I took my mountain bike all around the park trails. It was a relaxing ride. I didn't push too hard, but felt that I was very strong. I wore my HRM, and averaged 145bpm (about 75% max, for me) for the duration of the ride, which was about an hour and ten minutes. I'm so glad I left work early to do it. Ahhhhhhh.

muttered around 4:37 PM

Tuesday, March 06, 2001

I've finally gotten my new Sun Ultra 10 set up the way I like with GNOME and a bunch of other toys and niceties. Read all about it in This Old SPARC.

muttered around 6:41 AM

I rode outside again yesterday, rather than spinning. It promised to be a great ride. The sun was out, and it was around 65 degrees at lunchtime. However, by the time I left work it was cloudy. Still, it was warm enough to ride very comfortably in shorts. Regardless of the weather, this was one of those rides doomed to be the ride from hell. I decided to ride out to the Chatfield Reservoir and back on the C470 trail. Unfortunately, about 7 miles into it, after a mad downhill thru mud and some gravel from the road, I got a flat. I fixed the flat, and felt around in my tire for the cause. Nothing seemed to be stuck in the casing, so I remounted everything (I hate doing this when I have mud and gravel on my tires). I pumped the tire up good and hard and started riding back home because I was afraid it would get dark on me. Well, long story short, I ended up pumping up that tire about 5 more times on the 7-mile return trip. Talk about frustrating.

I wore my HRM again during the ride, and it clearly indicates that I work at least as hard during an outdoor bike ride as I do on a spinning bike. So much for the "intensity" of a spinning ride.

muttered around 6:38 AM

Sunday, March 04, 2001

Finally, a Ride
I finally rode my bike outside on Saturday. It has been months. I think the last ride I did outside was in early December. The ride went well, but I wasn't as Lance-like as I expected. I wore my heart rate monitor (HRM) and was pleasantly surprised to see that when I ride I basically ride in or near the zone(s) in which I stay when spinning (my average HR was around 154, which is around 80% of max). I had assumed that spinning was much more intense than normal road riding, but apparently that's not really true. The downside, on this ride, is that a normal bike ride for me is much longer than a spinning workout, so spinning hadn't prepared me as well as I expected. Also, I'd done some pretty heavy leg excercies on Thursday and my legs were still a bit sore from that.

Weight Worries
Well, I gained some poundage over the winter. That's no surprise to me, it's just kind of a bummer. I'm up, on average, about 10 pounds from my lightest weight last summer. However, I'm thinking that some of the gain has to be in muscle. I've been lifting fairly faithfully since November, after not having lifted since July due to a forearm injury (that's still bothering me). My legs, which were never skinny, per-se, have definitely grown a bit. I wish now that I'd been measuring my thighs along with the other measurements I take. Regardless, once the weather cheers up a bit I intend to commute to work, which should help bring things back into line.

muttered around 8:59 PM

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