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Greetings! It was a tough decision but I have moved my blog to bargelt.com. Thanks for visiting!
Sorry I’m late with the update.
267.2 pounds with 24.7% body fat. Overall I’m happy. I’ll say it again – I don’t care as much about the weight as I do about the body fat percentage. This was a tough week in that I’m home with my new baby girl and not in my normal routine… but I did extremely well. Not too much snacking (which is always a temptation while at home).
Training
- Weights: Friday, Monday and Wednesday – typical workout all three nights. Abdominal and leg work all three nights. Extra bicep work all three nights. Also added lat pull-downs to my extra routine. My shoulder is really acting up again (DAMN!).
- Cardio: Ummm… I’ll take the “F” again for week 4. Next week, I Promise!
Food
Did very well. Hit Trader Joes early in the week and stocked up on protein bars, whole-wheat bread, organic apricot spread (no high-fructose corn syrup or other BS sugars), and I made oat-bran flax seed muffins which are a nice healthy, filling snack.
Stats
Today (1/26/06) 267.2, 24.7% BF
Started (1/1/06) 271, 25.3 BF%
Here are the charts for 2006 (click for larger versions):
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266.0 pounds with 26.6 body fat. I do not care about anything else this week. I have a new baby girl, Zoe!!!
Training
- Weights: Nada.
- Cardio: Yeah. Nada here, too. I ordered my treadmill.
Food
Not too bad considering Brenda’s birthday celebration on Saturday. At one piece of birthday cake (carrot cake) on Sunday and one on Monday).
Stats
Today (1/12/06) 266.0, 26.6% BF
Started (1/1/06) 271, 25.3 BF%
Here are the charts for 2006 (click for larger versions):
[edit 1/25/06 - fixed treadmill link]
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Greetings! It was a tough decision but I have moved my blog to bargelt.com. Thanks for visiting!
I hope this story does not die away without repercussions against Pete Morelli.
Great quote from the Kansas City Star article, “There’s no overstating it: Overturning Troy Polamalu’s diving interception at the Pittsburgh 48 was the worst call since instant replay was introduced. Not only did replay clearly show Polamalu had control of the ball and fumbled when he tried to run with it, but referee Pete Morelli’s explanation was flawed.”
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Denver is next! Yeah baby! The Steelers played an awesome game against the Colts. Simply amazing.
Cheating Referees
Pete Morelli, the referee that overturned the Polamalu interception, should be investigated (like how much did he bet on Indy?). Oh yeah and the non-offside call? WTF? The Colts crossed the neutral zone. Period. They were in the backfield. Period. They were offside. Period. You say that the Steelers offensive lineman moved? Seems to me that Roethlisberger was not under center when he twitched. Have you ever noticed that when Manning does one of his 6000 audibles and flaps his arms like an idiotic dying bird that his linemen are free to move (they point at the DL, turn around to hear him better etc.)? Why is that OK? Because he's pacing the OL like an ADD child. He's not under center. They line can move. Even if you throw that argument out the window the referee admitted that the OL did not move so how could they NOT call offside on the Colts? The Colts were in the Steelers backfield. C’mon try to make your cheating a little less obvious! The officiating crew must have bet some big bucks on the colts.
Joey Porter says:
"I know they wanted Indy to win this game. The whole world loves Peyton Manning, but come on man, don't take the game away from us. I felt they were cheating us. When the interception happened, everybody in the world knew that was an interception. Don't cheat us that bad. When they did that, they really want Peyton Manning and these guys to win the Super Bowl. They are just going to straight take it for them. I felt that they were like 'We don't even care if you know we're cheating. We're cheating for them.' "
Referee Pete Morelli says:
“I had the defender catching the ball. Before he got up, he hit it with his leg with his other leg still on the ground. Therefore, he did not complete the catch. And then he lost the ball. It came out, and so we made the play an incomplete pass.”
Is that really English? This guy is brilliant! More from Morelli:
"(Polamalu) never had possession with his leg up off the ground doing an act common to the game of football. He was losing (the football) while his other leg was still on the ground."
Sounds like the braniac Morelli wanted Polamalu to pee like a male dog! Troy had rolled over completely once. His knees had been on the ground, off the ground and back on the ground after catching the pass. I think rolling around on the ground is an act very common in the game of football. How many times do his knees need to be on and off the ground before it is a catch? Morelli needs to be fired. Period. This was NOT a simple snap judgment that had room for human error. This was a replay that he had plenty of time to review and when all is said and done if it was too close to call the right thing to do is to stay will the call that was made on the field.
My final observation:
This one is about me. Those of you who know me well may not believe this but I did not blow up at the TV at all yesterday during the Steelers / Colts game. Seriously. I guess I've been more and more calm lately about football. I have slowly come to the realization that football is not that important. I guess I was also really getting tired of having a bad day (or week?) if the Steelers lost.
There was more to it yesterday though... I honestly didn't want the Colts to lose. Of course I wanted the Steelers to win. So now I’m talking like the idiot, eh? Well see the Colts are Derek's favorite team and even though I bleed black and gold I didn't want Derek to be disappointed. This being-a-parent stuff is weird. ;-)
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I’m mostly blogging this so I don’t forget it again. I forgot this yesterday. I hope it doesn’t come back to bite me us.
“Never present an estimate that you do not want the customer to pick.”
This always happens. you throw an extra option into a quote or RFP or proposal that you absolutely know that you cannot or will nto deliver. There are many reasons for this – you may need to round out the options, you may need to present a low-end option, you may need to present a high-end option – whatever the reasons you think you have DO NOT DO IT. The customer will always pick the one that you have no intention of ever delivering.
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265.7 pounds with 25.7% body fat. I’m happy with the weight and body fat. This week was tough. I was starving all week and every morning I woke up feeling sick.
Training
- Weights: Friday, Tuesday, Wednesday – typical workout all three nights. Abdominal and leg work all three nights. Extra bicep work Friday and Wednesday nights.
- Cardio: Yeah. Well I’ll just say that I need to improve here. For some reason I woke up feeling sick every day this week. I’ll commit to the cardio again next week. On this subject I think I found the treadmill I want.
Food
I have been hungry non-stop this week. I did a fairly good job of managing that hunger as can be witnessed by the weight drop. I think I need to consider a few more calories daily. I’ll experiment by adding a protein drink to my lunch next week.
Stats
Today (1/12/06) 265.7, 25.7% BF
Started (1/1/06) 271, 25.3 BF%
Here are the charts for 2006 (click for larger versions):
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As if I didn’t think the Jakob was a big enough idiot (he is). He’s now saying that Search Engines are Leeches on the Web becasue the businesses that are found must *gasp* improve themselevs to compete with other businesses who can also be found through search engines. What next, man? A communist web so that all sites can be of the sam
With the recent release of Service Pack 2 for MCMS, it is now possible to develop MCMS applications using Visual Studio 2005. Visual Studio 2005 offers a vastly enhanced design time experience and significantly reduces the time to develop solutions. One of the most useful aspects of Visual Studio 2005 for MCMS developers is the improved des
This is a great post. It occurs to me that Google is running more of a political campaign… creating messaging that only really serves to cause their competitors to react.
Yes Yes I'm sick (and twisted) but I love recursion!
there's nothing hard enough about Java to really weed out the programmers without the part of the brain that does pointers or recursion
Greetings! It was a tough decision but I have moved my blog to bargelt.com. Thanks for visiting!
First weigh-in today. 268.4 pounds with 26.7% body fat. I’m very happy with the weight – considering I really didn’t start eating right until Tuesday. Yeah really happy with that number! Not so happy with the body fat. I think it was a fluke. I did it again and it was lower but I’m taking the first reading – heck it’ll make next week look better, right?!
Training
- Weights: Monday, Wednesday – typical workout both nights. Abs both nights. Extra bicep work both nights. Monday really hurt after 4 weeks off (nursing injury).
- Cardio: Wednesday, 30 minutes on the trainer. Thursday 20 minutes on the trainer. I slacked Tuesday. After 11 days of sleeping in I just could not get on the bike at 5:30AM. Swore I’d do it after work – yeah right - that didn’t happen. I’ll get 3 or 4 in next week.
Food
Monday was a holiday so I started in on the diet (hate that word) on Tuesday. Ate well both Tuesday and Wednesday. No major guffaws. Brenda made cookies Tuesday evening and yes I ate one – but just one! Drank plenty of water both days (1 liter plus). Ate a small bowl of cashews for my final meal Wednesday night. I think I should have gone with a protein shake since it was a weight workout night.
Stats
Today (1/5/06) 268.4, 26.7% BF
Started (1/1/06) 271, 25.3 BF%
Here are the charts for 2006 (click for larger versions):
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Greetings! It was a tough decision but I have moved my blog to bargelt.com. Thanks for visiting!
First of all I’d like to wish everyone out there in the metaverse a prosperous 2006.
2005
Time flies, or does it?. It seems that just yesterday we were ringing in 2005 yet I am hard pressed to remember what happened in 2005. If it was just yesterday shouldn’t I remember it well? Anyway… here is a brief list of my personal hits and misses and keywords of 2005 and a brief list of goals for 2006.
Hits:
- Brenda became pregnant – IVF worked on the first try. Bargelt 4.0 is due to ship on February 14th 2006.
- Derek turned 9. Every day he amazes me. He is so smart and funny and cool. He was also accepted into the gifted program at his school.
- I’m happy with my weight for the second year in a row! Yes I gained weight (roughly 10 pounds) but I’m convinced that I reduced my body fat percentage even though I have no data to back that claim up. There is some anecdotal evidence in that I dropped a pant size and a shirt size (38 waist and XL respectively) from what I wore towards the end of 2004. I received a new scale for Christmas that measures body fat so I will be able to track this in 2006.
- I worked out (weights) three times per week with rare exception for the entire year.
- Brenda and I coached Derek’s baseball team. Tough but fulfilling.
- We managed to take the RV out no less than five times, once for almost an entire week – which is an amazing feat considering all of the hoops we were jumping through with IVF treatments and the resultant pregnancy.
- Brenda took a job and worked for the first time in 5 years. It was cool while it lasted. The best part was that the job was at Derek’s elementary school so no day care for him.
- I finally made my “hanging guy” Halloween decoration this year!
- I built my terabyte server.
- I build a Windows XP Media Center Edition PC.
- I took a development manager position. Actually I’m not sure if this is a hit or a miss quite yet.
- I read no less than 17 books.
Misses:
- I wrote a lot less code that I really wanted to.
- I played computer and console games a lot less than I wanted to.
- I did not go on a single hike or backpacking trip in 2005. This must change in 2006.
- I did not log a single geocache in 2005. I think the Gig Harbor Cache Machine was early in 2005 but I never logged any of the finds. Damn guys… we ever gonna geocache again?
- I wrote zero reviews on the 17+ books that I read in 2005.
My keywords of 2005: Tsunami, Patriots, Janet Jackson, (damned) Steelers, WoW, HDTiVo, San Antonio, Chassel, IVF, injections, ICSI, pregnant, NetFlix, PDC05, Los Angeles, blog, WinFx, WinWF, hurricane, google, gmail, WhiteSox, Agile, Lean, manager, XBox 360, Web 2.0, AJAX, terabyte, Orthanc, Windows XP MCE 2005, AMD, Opteron, 64bit, .Net 2.0, C# 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, Office 12.
2006
- New baby!
- I need to spend more time with friends. I had to bail on a major guy weekend in June 2005 due to IVF treatments. I am also having to bail on a guy weekend in January 2006 – not a good start, eh?
- I want to reduce my body fat percentage by 10%. From 25% to 15% and shed roughly 30 pounds in the process.
- I want to ride the Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic this year.
- I would like to take the RV out for at least 5 weekends / extended weekends and one 4 – 10 day trip. Stretch goal here is 7 weekend trips.
- I will cancel my WoW subscription in 2006. Mostly to make way for other games and eventually an XBox 360.
- I must do no less than 6 day hikes. 10 would be my stretch goal.
- I must do at least one overnight backpacking trip with a stretch goal of two overnight trips.
- I would like to finish up at least two major coding projects outside of my day job. Stretch goal would be four projects.
- I would like to earn a new Microsoft Certification, MCTS Web. Stretch Goal would be MCPD Web. The completion of this goal requires that I become proficient in .Net 2.0, and C# 2.0.
- I want to convince (or help those that are convinced) at least one of the Phatboyz to get in shape. Stretch goal would be three. The impossible would be four. I’m going to dedicate an upcoming post to this one.
My keyword predictions for 2006: Baby!, Colts, (damned) Steelers (again), XBox 360, Boston, TechEd 2005, WinFx, WinWF, google, Agile, Windows XP MCE 2006, Intel, 64bit, .Net 2.0, C# 2.0, MCTS, Office 12, contract-first.
Mark from SysInternals does it again. Awesome article exposing phony antispyware companies. This MUST be illegal.
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Two reasons, really. First is that our infrared remotes will not work through the wood doors. Second, I’m afraid that the components would overheat. My buddy
Johnboy turned me on to the
HotLink IR Extender but for almost a year now I’ve been looking for a cooling solution to jump out at me.
My first thought was to buy six 120mm cooling fans, a PC power supply and
jury-rig a solution based on what I know best, PCs. What I didn’t want was a PC power supply sitting on the floor behind the entertainment center. So last night an epiphany hit - that my entertainment center is really just a wooden component rack so I decided to google for server-rack cooling solutions. I found out that
MiddleAtlantic makes all the parts I wanted but does not sell direct. Another google turned up a number of dealers. A little research and it looks like
Markertek has the best prices.
My first idea was to use the MiddleAtlantic QTFP-2 Dual Fan Assemblies controlled by two
X10 appliance modules. I have a
Logitech Harmony 800 Universal Remote that could be used to turn the fans on and off through my
X10 Infrared Command Center depending on the programmed macro. The only problem with that solution is that my
HDTiVo runs at all hours and if the fans do not have the ability to come on based on thermal reading that the TiVo could burn up while recording some-dumb-show at 3AM.
MiddleAtlantic offers a nice
thermal fan control unit but it is a little more than I wanted to spend (I need two of these, one for each compartment). I found Atlas makes a similar product that is quite a bit cheaper. I must admit that the MiddleAtlantic product does seem to offer more features. Tough call.
So here is what I’m looking at buying to allow us to finally close the front doors of the entertainment center:
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This site is very cool. I think everyone has, by now, heard of Riya (which I’m begging, yes begging to get an invitation to) but until I can play with Riya My Heritage is taking