Important update!

Lying, it’s not important at all.

But I am still using the new Chromium-based Edge, which surprises me. While there are some niggles, there are no showstoppers driving me back to Firefox.

On the other hand, there are a few features of Firefox I miss, but not enough to compel me to go back to it–not yet, anyway.

The funny part is that the only reason I even looked into switching is because Firefox started displaying some squirrely behavior on start-up (it also feels a bit slow to start). Had that never happened, I’d still be using it daily now.

Anyway, a random tech musing. Carry on.

Treadmill workout: Tuesday and sweating

I completely forgot to write up yesterday’s workout, so here it is a day later. It was about average, with the only standout part being that I was curiously angry while working out, raging about various things. I’m not sure why this happened, as exercise usually has the opposite result, putting me into a calming, Zen-like state. In any case, the rage neither improved my performance nor took away from it and by the end of the workout I had thankfully found my way back into that Zen-like state.

Don’t tread and rant.

The stats reveal one of the closest sets of back-to-back workouts ever. Look, twins!

Speed: 6.5 km/h
Incline: 10

Pace: 9:29/km (9:29 km/h)
Time: 30:02 (30:03)
Distance: 3.16 km (3.16 km)
Calories burned: 329 (329)
BPM: 145 (146)

Complaint-free me: Postponed

My personal and to a lesser extent professional life is in what might call a state of turmoil right now, so I have elected to postpone the restart of the 21-day Complaint Free challenge, since I expect I’d just be constantly restarting and getting increasingly frustrated instead of making even incremental progress.

But I do plan to restart the challenge, hopefully sooner than later.

In the meantime, a re-post of the most amazing cat gif ever:

Complaint-free me, Day 2: Take 2

I completely forgot to do a write-up for my second day of my second attempt to go complaint-free for 21 days. This is because it rained most of the day, I stayed inside and engaged in very little interaction with other humans, greatly reducing the possible complaint window.

This is to say Day 2, the first day of summer, was a success.

Treadmill workout: Saturday grind

I skipped yesterday but walked at a brisk pace for 8km, so I skipped relatively guilt-free.

Today was the first day of summer and nature ushered it in with a bit of irony, as it rained all day. I stayed inside and tinkered around before finally doing a workout in the early evening. I felt a little less energetic than usual, as if doing not much of anything during the day drained me more than if I had done stuff.

That said, all stats except BPM were improved over the previous workout, so what do I know?

Speed: 6.5 km/h
Incline: 10

Pace: 9:29/km (9:34 km/h)
Time: 30:03 (30:03)
Distance: 3.16 km (3.14 km)
Calories burned: 329 (323)
BPM: 146 (144)

Complaint-free me, Day 5: Back to Day 1

Today started with an email essentially invalidating a bunch of work I had done yesterday. I was not happy. I complained.

I moved my complaint-free band to my other wrist. I complained some more and moved it back to the original wrist.

Tomorrow I start over on Day 1 again. I regret complaining, but at the same time part of me is glad to have gotten it out of my system this early on. It made me reflect not just on my state of mind, but where I am right now, and helped clarify the path I want to take going forward (which is not the path I am currently on).

So, lemons made into lemonade. Or something.

Treadmill workout: These titles are getting harder

Today I did not feel the same pep when I started but managed to finish with a little by the end.

The stats are a mix of better/worse but in all pretty close to the usual averages. I did hit pi again for distance. Mmm, pi…

I checked the calendar of the treadmill app and saw that today was my ninth workout in a row, and my tenth in eleven days. Not too shabby. I may try to run again outside this weekend to see how this wee burst of exercising has improved my stamina. I’m not expecting much at this point, really, but being able to run without stopping before I actually mean to stop would be nice.

The stats:

Speed: 6.5 km/h
Incline: 10

Pace: 9:34/km (9:29 km/h)
Time: 30:03 (30:03)
Distance: 3.14 km (3.17 km)
Calories burned: 323 (319)
BPM: 144 (144)

Complaint-free me, Day 3: Is a magic number

I edged perilously close to complaining at a few points today, but again was saved by being forced to communicate through online chat and was able to resist the temptation.

My partner had a bad day at work, but upon coming home immediately set out for 30 minutes of balancing to re-establish his Zen. I appreciated him not using me as a sounding board for a litany of complaints. He felt better by not dumping on me about things I have no control over, and I felt better for not having been dumped on–and tempted to do the same in return. Win-win, as they say.

Treadmill workout: Fast, slow, slower

Today I started out at a very brisk pace of 9:15/km. I was ready to climb right over the top of the treadmill. By the second km I slipped to 9:29/km, respectable but not great. On the third km I was at 9:41/km, clearly paying the price for my earlier enthusiasm (though I felt decent, really). I only saw the heart rate on the treadmill blip to life a couple of times so the light grip seems to be improving.

I originally started playing random songs for the workout. The iPhone music app now shows a list of upcoming songs when you select shuffle play–which sort of removes the surprise aspect when you think about it–and I noticed almost all of the upcoming songs were poop for workouts, so I manually shuffled a mix of stuff I deemed acceptable. Sometimes technology is great, sometimes it’s better on paper.

The stats, most of which are improved once again. BPM was likely up a bit due to the blazing pace of the first ten minutes.

Speed: 6.5 km/h
Incline: 10

Pace: 9:29/km (9:35 km/h)
Time: 30:03 (30:03)
Distance: 3.17 km (3.13 km)
Calories burned: 319 (309)
BPM: 144 (140)

Complaint-free me, Day 2: Boogaloo

I admit, it feels like cheating to be doing the Complaint Free challenge when I’m working from home. It’s much easier to keep from complaining when you have to type out your complaint in a chat program and then hit the Enter key to send it vs. just opening your mouth and letting it spew out without thought.

Today that did not happen, so I am two for two so far on the challenge. I’ll admit there were a few times I came close, but I recognized each one and held my virtual tongue.