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Exercise log for June Wed 6/1: Thu 6/2: Fri 6/3: Sat 6/4: Sun 6/5: Mon 6/6: Tue 6/7: Wed 6/8: Thu 6/9: Fri 6/10: Sat 6/11: Sun 6/12: Mon 6/13: Tue 6/14: Wed 6/15: Thu 6/16: Fri 6/17: Sat 6/18: Sun 6/19: Mon 6/20: walking 10 min, chest dumbell 25# 3x10, chest press 85# 3x10, jack, flutter, dolly, crunches 15 min Tue 6/21: Wed 6/22: elliptical 6m, treadmill 10m, bicep dumbell 20# 3x10, bicep ezbar 55# x15, tricep dumbell 10# 2x10, tricep rope pulldown 60# 3x8, overhead rope pulldown 60# 3x8, jack, flutter, dolly, mixed crunches. wt 256. Thu 6/23: Fri 6/24: treadmill, free weights (shoulders and back), calisthenics Sat 6/25: Sun 6/26: Mon 6/27: treadmill, free weights (chest), calisthenics Tue 6/28: Wed 6/29: treadmill, free weights (bicep/tricep), calisthenics Thu 6/30:

Are any of you interested in the following deals? \* Orlando: 3 nights for $69 \* Las Vegas: 2 nights for $89 \* Waikiki: 4 nights for $699 Fair warning: The catch is that you have to attend a timeshare sales presentation (2 hours). The timeshare is a nice one, M and I have been happy with ours, it’s very flexible and tradeable and the rooms are very high-quality. Email me if you’re interested…

[Note: as of this writing, Greg is still unable to kill selected Wisconsin residents with the power of his mind.] Monday More information on this outage. According to the log, it looks like the dhcp service stopped running about 21:37. I think I figured out why the service stopped. The logs show a login as “root” from “maintain” at 21:30, a few minutes before the outage. This root session is still open as of this email. Additionally, there is a log file in /home/[username redacted] showing whether the daemon is running and who is logged in once per minute, and that file starts at the same time as the outage. ...

As mentioned before, Miche and I are hosting an Ice Cream Social here at our place today between 2pm and 6pm. If you are in the area, please feel free to come by. Drop in any time in that range, stay as short or as long as you want. Directions are here: click me. (Posting this for folks on my friends list who I believe I have actually met in person at least once. If you are reading this, you’re invited!) ...

OK, I have gone a bit crazy with the new Ice Cream Machine and have made far more ice cream than I think I can eat. As a result, Miche and I would like to throw an Ice Cream Social here at our place this coming Saturday. If you are in the area (or might be on Saturday) feel free to come by. I’m thinking it will probably be Saturday afternoon between 2pm and 6pm. Drop in any time in that range, stay as short or as long as you want. Watch this space for directions: OK directions are here: click me. ...

Total number of books I’ve owned? Probably fewer than 50, most of them game books. Count comics and I’m pushing close to 100. But Miche’s collection, that’s another story, probably 1000+. I don’t tend to collect books unless they were especially meaningful. The last book I bought? I think it was First Things First, an audiobook in the Seven Habits series. The last book I read?Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey. It is an excellent read, and I recommend it for anyone and everyone. It combines the best of getting organized, self-help, and having rewarding interpersonal relationships. It combines a lot of stuff I already knew, and a few things I didn’t, and makes a lot of great ideas work well together/complement each other. If it’s true that there is nothing new under the sun, this is at least a new way of looking at and organizing a number of timeless and valuable principles. 5 books that mean a lot to me: Split Infinity by Piers Anthony: Read this when I was in high school, and the main character Stile became my hero for many years, and still is in many ways. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey: see above :) Perl for System Administration by Blank/Edelman via O’Reilly Dungeon Master’s Guide and Players Handbook by Gygax et al 5) Tag 5 people and have them fill this out on their ljs I’m choosing 5 random users who are unlikely to ever read this: weejay, cflam, meddle_84, sofawawayfromu, and baby_cakes24. Is that cheating? I don’t know :)

We made a modified version of Alton’s Melon Sorbet on Sunday. It turned out wonderfully. This sorbet meets with the misty_shadows seal of approval. Our modified version contained: 1 lb 10 oz diced melon 10 oz sugar 2 Tbs peach schnapps All ingrdients into bar blender. Pulse until visible chunks are gone, then blend low for about 30 more seconds. Chill mixture for about 30-60 min in fridge. Process in ice cream machine (with our machine we broke it into 2 batches at about 20 min each) until it is slushy and holds its shape. Relocate the mixture to the freezer for 2 hours. ...

OK, here is something to try if you’re bored and happen to be in front of a browser. I was clicking around on the Netflix site and I was looking at the Jim Carrey page, and I thought to myself, gee, I would like to get to the John Cleese page, I wonder if I can get there just by clicking links? Here’s what I came up with on the first try (without using the Back button at all): Jim Carrey, Batman Forever, Nicole Kidman, Eyes Wide Shut, Tom Cruise, Mission Impossible, Ving Rhames, Lilo and Stitch, David Ogden Stiers, Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki, Princess Mononoke, Billy Crudup, Big Fish, Danny DeVito, Get Shorty, Gene Hackman, Antz, Danny Akroyd, Trading Places, Jamie Lee Curtis, A Fish Called Wanda, and finally John Cleese. That’s 11 degrees of separation, so that means I kind of suck at this. I probably would have done better if I had allowed myself to use the Back button, but c’est la vie. ...

Exercise log for May Sun 5/1: Mon 5/2: Tue 5/3: Wed 5/4: Thu 5/5: Fri 5/6: Sat 5/7: Sun 5/8: Mon 5/9: Tue 5/10: Wed 5/11: Thu 5/12: Fri 5/13: Sat 5/14: Sun 5/15: Mon 5/16: Tue 5/17: Wed 5/18: Thu 5/19: Fri 5/20: Sat 5/21: Sun 5/22: Mon 5/23: Tue 5/24: Wed 5/25: Thu 5/26: Fri 5/27: Sat 5/28: Sun 5/29: Mon 5/30: Tue 5/31:

M and I have joined NetFlix again, so we will soon have movies mailed to our house. I notice that NetFlix now has a “Friends” feature where your friends’ ratings, recommendations, and short reviews show up when you are browsing for new movies. So, if any of you fine folks also use Netflix, let me know and I will add you as a friend. (No, I’m not going to just enter someone else’s email address and click Invite without their permission - *I* have a privacy policy too :) Speaking of which, if you want to enter me as a friend on Netflix, I approve… they already have my email address at this point - the nekodojo.org one) ...