So, I’ve been working on exercising lately, because I gained about 30 pounds or so in the past 5 years, and I noticed that it’s harder to breathe when I sleep (I started to snore), etc. So my goal has been “lose 10 pounds by the end of 2005. Lose 20 more next year”. By 2007 I plan to be back down to 180 or so.

Anyway, to meet those goals I’ve been getting back into exercising: Walks a few times a week, riding my bike more, playign badminton, and tonight I joined Orie in doing Power Yoga (following along to a 3-DVD set). We try to go through the first DVD (we haven’t tried the other teo yet) about once every three days, and am planning to next go to once every other day, and finally once a day for maximum impact. All in all, it’s about 40 minutes long, and MAN. It is rough. By section two (of three) I’m sweating as if I had been doing Tae Kwan Do opening combos (front kick, side kick, roundhouse kick). Good stuff, and I feel refreshed. I just want to get used to it a little more so I can step it up.

Next week, I also plan on signing up at the local gym near work- it comes out to about 10 bucks a month, and they’re open until midnight most nights. I’m looking forward to doing some light, repetitive weight training to supplement the rest.

Finally, I’ve all but given up on doing it tomorrow (bad weather, and I won’t be getting a lot of sleep tonight), but this Saturday I’ll begin riding my bike to work. I’m probably only going to do it on Saturdays… but in August, my office building will move a little closer to my house, and on safer streets, and when that happens I plan on jumping in there 100%, every day if possible.

Anyway, here’s some pics that I’ve had on my camera for a bit but never posted online:


Orie bought a small pillow online, and this is the box it came in.


Subaru is “hiding” in the bubble-bag wrap the pillow came with.

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Back when I worked at CISCO, Steve and I were called to bring our PCs and phones home, and connect into the network via VPN 3002 routers and continue working through a Hurricane. So instead of doing it seperately, we decided to do it together at my house, using his fatter Internet pipe with Roadrunner. So that was our mini call center.


Here’s a pic of when Drew rolled into town, about 2 weeks back.


All three of us, and Yuki.

I’ll be posting more pics later, probably the next update will be “all cats”.