Friday – 11 April 2008
Greetings from southern Utah. I got special dispensation to work from home today… so I decided that since I had everything that I needed for today’s work on Defiant, I would beat Friday afternoon/evening traffic by leaving Thursday night. It seemed to work pretty well.

Today, I’ve been working on my database front end and I found a/the error in coding that’s kept one section from working properly. One small, simple thing. It’s been dancing at the edge of my awareness for the past day or so – I’ve been tinkering with things around it, but not that one item – but I finally found it, changed it, and now it’s working. Now I can move on to the next piece of the puzzle. This whole project – warts and all – has been a fun challenge.

I went to the gym before going to lunch. Details below.

SaraRules got in from work, picked me up and we met some of the other MFAs – and Matt, director of their program – for lunch at a place called “Grumpy Joes.” The restaurant is a small, very unassuming place in a little strip of shops. If you blinked while driving by it, you’d miss it. Literally. We did, in fact.

It’s run by an older couple; the gentleman, known only by his (last) name: Farina, is a riot. Seriously. He was taking our orders and would stop to tell a story or a joke/funny comment. And did he ever take a shine to SaraRules. She walked in the door and he walked over and hugged her. She also got special attention from him throughout the meal.

The food was pretty good. It wasn’t Spago or Tavern on the Green, but neither did it purport itself as such. It was more like home-cooking. I think that we’ll have to go there again before SaraRules leaves Cedar.

Workout
A little before lunch, I headed to the Gold’s Gym to get in a workout. I needed it; I’ve been slacking a bit on my exercising. The Gold’s here is kind of… small. But, it’s a gym. And I was able to get in a decent workout:

  • Recumbent Bike: 1.6 miles, ~100 rpm (roughly 7 minutes)
  • Decline Bench Press: 3 sets/10 reps, 155 lbs
  • Curls (dumbbell, Hammer grip): 3 sets/10 reps, 30 lbs
  • Lateral Raises (forward rotation): 3 sets/10 reps, 10 lbs
  • Rows: 3 sets/10 reps, 120 lbs
  • Tricep Extension (dumbbell, overhead, standing): 3 sets/10 reps, 45 lbs
  • Tricep Press: 3 sets/10 reps, 80 lbs
  • Core: 4 sets – 2 sets/full extension, 45 secs.; 2 sets/elbows, 30 secs.

Post-workout weight: 171.0 lbs

I forgot to weigh myself at the gym. In fact, I completely spaced it off until I was just about to step in to the shower. So, today’s weight, while accurate, doesn’t reflect the added weight of gym clothes.

Stray Toasters

  • I am beginning to grok:
    • CSS layout > HTML tables

    …and how to implement them.

  • After seeing Kevin Cronin on Don’t Forget the Lyrics a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been more apt to listen to the various and sundry REO Speedwagon selections in my iTunes folder.
  • Firefox Logo Spied in Deep Space
  • Someone in SaraRules’ apartment has a copy of the April 2008 issue of Cosmpolitan. In it is an article entitled: “21 Things Every Guy Wants to Hear” Laughing, SaraRules pointed out the following, saying that she saw it and thought of me:

    #19: “A man wearing anything dressier than jeans and a tee shirt is trying too hard.

    *blink blink*

    Fortunately, I also know her sense of style and fashion, so I know that she doesn’t agree with this. For laughs, I read the other twenty items. Given that Rocky is her favorite movie, I told her the following reminded me of her:

    #21: “I want to march down the aisle to the theme from Rocky.”

    …to which she retorted: “The theme? Can you see me marching down the aisle to that? No. Now, the slow, romantic theme, maybe. But not really.”

  • For :

  • Discuss among yourselves: Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone
  • Coldfinger….
    She’s the girl, the girl with the polar touch
    A penguin’s touch
    Such a cold finger
    Beckons you to enter her cave, frozen
    But don’t go in….
  • Mother saw warning signs in son who planned shooting spree
  • tomarrow != tomorrow
  • Murdered Pregnant Women: The Racial Divide
  • From the “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” file: Mom Brings Baby Along to Candy Store Robbery

Time to get on with the weekend… in the words of .

Namaste.