Old Soup Cans +1 to 10

I was printing out some receipts late one night this week. The printer ran out of paper. Fine. I would just fill it up with the paper in the shelf underneath it. Not only did I not find any backup paper in the shelf, I found some contraband that Little Kat stashed there.

Little Kat has times and foods he is not supposed to eat. When he decides to eat anyway, he stashes the evidence in weird places. It just so happens that the stand that holds the printer is one of those places. I found some used soup cans, complete with dirty spoons in them. There were also a bunch of empty soda cans in there. Big time fail.

Momoko judged Little Kat and decided to put him in charge of trash for a month. That means he needs to empty all the trash cans when they are full. In addition to taking the trash bags out to our outdoor trahs cans, he needs to take those cans to and from the curb on trash days.

In other news, Little Kat contacted his uncle. He found out that the Rolex he sent Little Kat was fake. Oh well. I called the local Rolex dealer. I asked whether Little Kat's diagnosis of a bad battery could be on the mark. The dealer said real Rolex's do not use batteries, they use the movement of your arm to power them. He also told me the average cost to repair a Rolex is $750. Good thing it was a fake.

Finally I am up to 10 minutes on both the treadmill and stationary bike. Double digits.

Rolex Baby +1 to 9

I was busy after lunch collecting trash in the house to take to the outdoor trash can. I thought I heard a noise outside. But I continued collecting trash. When I finally assembled the trash bag, I found two packages outside. Once was the Shark Sonic Duo carpet and hard wood cleaner. I ordered one just like pop-pop had purchased.

The other package was for Little Kat from his uncle. Apparently Little Kat left his new watch over his uncle's house. He was lucky that it got shipped back to Little Kat promptly. I heard that was a "surprise" in the box as well. Little Kat came hold and told me the surprise was a Rolex watch! The thing just needs some batteries.

Not sure whether this is a real Rolex or not. I do know we need to go get some batteries for it. In other news, I exercised on the treadmill and bike today. Spent 9 minutes on each of them. Tomorrow I got for 10 minutes on each. I don't get fatigued because I am not running at high speeds or biking against heavy restraints. Good stuff.

Change of Plans +1 to 8

Yesterday the temperature was moderate. Then it dropped during the night. The weathermen thought we might test the all time lows for the area. I was scheduled to go work at the customer site this week. Great. I packed my bag the night before, and set my alarm an hour earlier than normal.

Momoko and Little Kat's schools opened two hours late today due to the weather. Momoko brought Kit Kat along with her to help at school. I was supposed to leave for work before Little Kat. I called the big boss, asking which room I should head to when I got to the customer building. He told me I did not need to go in today. Woo hoo.

I asked Little Kat if he wanted a ride to school. No reason for him to wait out in the freezing cold. He liked that plan. While he was getting ready, I went to pick up some breakfast for us. I brought it home and we ate together. Then I drove him to his school.

The weird thing is that my clutch was sticky due to the cold weather. Ouch. We made it to school fine. I got home and started my work day down in the basement as usual. Might have to go to the customer building tomorrow. We shall see. In other news, I forgot how many minutes I was supposed to exercise on each machine today. I decide to make it 8 minutes apiece on the treadmill and bike.

Lifeline +1

Last year I signed up with a service provider to host my web site. Well it was going to be a web site I created. All in all, it cost around $75 for the year. I figured that was a reasonable price since they offered a $100 coupon for advertising with Google. The only caveat was that the coupon expired at the end of the year.

I thought I would finish my school and get busy creating some ads. However I was just too busy at work at first. Then I was tired. And I went on vacation and wanted a vacation from everything, including figuring out my ads. The coupon expired before I could collect on it. I was bummed.

This week I got a letter in the mail from my provider. They were giving out a $150 coupon for ads. I only got a couple months to redeem it. This is my chance. Time to get busy and try out some ads. Yippee.

Five to Six +1

Years ago, the family exerised together by walking around the neighborhood. We would bring flashlights so cars could see us. I also wore a vest with glow in the dark colors on it. It was good times, except that Momoko had trouble making the walk. I told her she could start small, and add some distance each day. That just did not work out.

I figure the theory is sound. Build your way up to higher endurance. Now that I am picking up exercising again, albeit very slow, I should build up my exercise too. The other day I did 5 minutes on the treadmill and 5 minutes on the bike. Today I did 6 minutes on the treadmill and 6 minutes on the bike. I did not feel any extra fatigue.

Next time I will do 7 minutes. Maybe I will work my way up to 30 minutes eventually. At that point I will have some staying power. Instead of increasing the time, I will then increase the pace at which I walk and bike. Good stuff. Right now I am only walking on speed 2 of 10. I got a long way to go to max out the treadmill.

Let It Snow

The weatherman predicted that the temperature would drop and we would get snow. He said we might get an inch or so. Nope. Got three to four inches I saw. Maybe more. Last night I waited until the snow stopped falling. Then I went out to shovel our driveway.

It was really late when I started to shovel. I did not feel right running the snow blower in the middle of the night. Therefore I used the good old fashioned snow shovel. My showel is very wide. It is designed to help make it easier for you to remove snow. I needed the help.

Half way though the job I got tired. I knew to pace myself so I would not overwork myself. The problem was that the snow started falling again. The area that I cleared started getting more snow. I went back over the area, and spread out some rock salt. Then I went to the other areas.

This morning I needed to go into the office briefly. I took Momoko's car because it was dry under the carport. That and she had four wheel drive. When I got back from work, I cleaned off my car and started clearing the rest of the driveway. I hate snow.

Getting Back on the Horse

I did not make any new year's resolutions this year. Don't really believe in that. However I did read a lot about people vowing to get back to the gym to get healthy. I figured I might as well do the same. Not because it is a new year. But because it is good to be healthy.

Last year I lasted a few months. Then I got real busy. It was easy to let go of the exercising. The reason I started up last year was because Momoko wanted to throw out our exercise equipment. That stuff cost a couple grand. So I felt like I needed to get a couple grand worth of value out of it. Still not there.

Today I started light. Walked on the treadmill for 5 minutes. Then I did 5 minutes on the recumbant bike. Did not lift any weights. Also did not use the elliptical. While I was exercising for the whole 10 minutes, I read a somewhat boring book on my Kindle. Perhaps that will be something new I do this year while exercising.

The trick will be to keep up with the exercising through the hard times. Let's see how long I last.