Pondside Planner – Page 22

3×30: Day 13 of 30 days of change – Website, reading and meal planning

September 14 2021

Quick run-down for today, a Monday…

Item 13.1 was about my website. I’ve been pushing the host to make some changes, and to answer some of my outstanding questions, which they have done. Until I noticed tonight the one site went offline with their latest change, and they didn’t even notice. Sigh.

Item 13.2 was reading the first part of two new books I picked up today based on reviews/recommendations from others. One is fiction about a zoo in China with dragons (think Jurassic Park with a different type of apex predator) and other non-fiction about the power of habit. It was a nice break.

Item 13.3 is planning ahead to next weekend for some meals. Andrea will be away and she’s taking the car with her, so Jacob and I will be at home by ourselves. Normally we do a grocery run on the weekend, or pick up stuff as we go, but since we won’t have a vehicle, I did a grocery run today with some planning ahead to the weekend with Jacob as to what he wants to nosh on. Nothing amazing or anything, just a bit of planning to ease our lives later.

Onward…

3×30: Day 12 of 30 days of change – Exercise, health and websites

September 13 2021

Quick run-down for today, a Sunday…

Item 12.1 was my first workout with the BowFlex. I posted about it too: Workout attempt #21-001 Stretching, chest exercises, cool-down and errors.

Item 12.2 was the establishment of my new fitness / health baseline. Some of the photos may be gag-inducing, but well, not much I can do about that. No photos, no accountability. And another post: Changing my body – Baseline 21-001.

Item 12.3 is back to my website. I have five questions outstanding after the recent changes, and most of the responses from tech support have been lacklustre responses. So, while I’m trying not to get stressed, I do want them answered in order. So I’ve been chasing them one at a time, and making sure I get the full answer before moving on.

Onward…

3×30: Day 11 of 30 days of change

September 12 2021

Quick run-down for today, a Saturday…

Item 11.1 was getting better organized for tracking my workouts and measurements. I did most of the hard work earlier this week to figure out what I was going to measure, but I went through a bunch of apps this morning on my phone to figure out how I’m going to record the data. I want something that is easy to copy or share, and I don’t want to be continually grabbing a pen and a clipboard. So I’m going with apps on my phone. I have a decent one I like for tracking my weight which I will do several times a week probably, I’ve done that in the past, and a minimum of at least once a week. I like having a specific type of app for that, relatively uncluttered with all the other health stuff. For my measurements, as I outlined yesterday, I’m going to do those measurements on a monthly basis and I have two apps that I’ve set up for this. One is quite tight and efficient but lets me also do photos; the other is more versatile/robust but not sure I need that extra power. I’ll use them both for a while. And then I have one that I will use for tracking my actual workouts, and I went through and input up to 26 different exercises that are designed for the BowFlex.

Item 11.2 was an expansion on the workout stuff. I could have kept it in the previous one, an element of the app stuff, but this was bigger than that. I did my first set of measurements for weighing in, measuring physical size of various parts of my body, and taking photos. I’ll do a monthly checkin, as I said above, but this was “month 0” so to speak to get me started. After this, I’m planning on doing them at the start of each month.

Item 11.3 was a simple small treat for myself. I love serialized storytelling and season 6 of Lucifer just dropped on NetFlix. I’m going to limit myself to a couple of episodes at a time, mainly as it is the final season. I don’t want to binge and be done, but take a bit more time to savour the flavour.

Onward…

3×30: Day 10 of 30 days of change

September 11 2021

Quick run-down for today so I can go to bed. I stayed up WAY too late last night reading.

Item 10.1 was getting organized for my workouts and tracking. I don’t know which exercises I’m doing yet (I have a set of 26 possible ones), I don’t know which ones I will like or sets/reps/weight. I haven’t even done my initial weigh-in and measurements yet. That’s all scheduled for tomorrow. But I organized my thinking at least, updating from 2018’s initial planning.

Item 10.2 was an evening about astronomy. I have been skipping the RASC meetings of late, just not interested enough in the topics, and they’re available for later viewing on YouTube if I want to watch. But this month’s topic was different — I’m the one who suggested the speaker! There’s a member in Toronto who has done some amazing astrophotography while travelling to Australia, including of objects we never get to see in the North. It was a great presentation, well-presented and well-organized. Very enjoyable.

Item 10.3 was a small restaurant treat for ourselves. Andrea had a Toastmasters meeting, I had RASC, the schedules weren’t meshing very well, so we decided we’d do take-out tonight. It ended up that we had a bit more time than we expected, so instead of doing something super fast, we opted for Lone Star fajitas, which all three of us enjoy. I don’t know WHAT they did to the steak tonight, but it was amongst the best that I’ve ever had, and that’s saying something considering how much I love their offerings. And we realized it’s probably been almost 3m since we last partook. A nice little treat for us tonight.

Onward…

3×30: Day 9 of 30 days of change

September 9 2021

Big news for the day. Another odd day working full out for regular work while trying to keep some momentum going at home.

Item 9.1 is still my website stuff although there’s not much “new” on it. They have my old account “restored” now, and I have told it to restore the backup to see if THAT site also had the same issue I’m seeing with the new one or not. Wait and see. So that is obviously not the big news.

Item 9.2 was Jacob’s return to in-person schooling today. He started a new school (Grade 7 Intermediate, attached to the high school he’ll go to in two years), he is still in French (his choice to continue, we did raise it as a question to discuss with him if he wished, but he was good to keep at it), it’s in-person after 18m of virtual schooling, and he has to wear a mask all day. Oh, and he’s in a portable. Some major changes going on there for a young man who is not that fond of changes in general. I won’t say it was a screaming roller-coaster-level success, but he coped. He was pretty tired tonight, but we drove him over and picked him up, followed by an outing to DQ for the end of the day as a treat (he loves their slushies aka old Mr. Misties). We’re settling back into a routine,

Item 9.3 was also big news. I now have a home gym for the basement. I used TaskRabbit to hire a contractor to assemble my Bowflex, which is now set up in my basement. Sweet. Now I just have to figure out how to use it. 🙂

Onward…