My employer is offering to subsidize membership in Weight Watchers, and to support meetings at the office if enough employees join (the "enough employees" is a Weight Watchers requirement, not my company's.)
Given my weight has been stable the past few years at my long term high water mark, I'll try it.
A dietitian told me years ago, "Drew, you know the rules. You just need to follow them!" Maybe WW and their metrics will help that.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Service After The Sale
When you dive into life in the Apple ecosystem, life can be expensive. On the other hand, sometimes it's worth it.
As implicitly shown in our cat blog, my home office includes a Mac Pro. I speced it out in 2008 to run multiple virtual machines, but mostly it and its monitors keep the cats warm while I just surf the web.
However, last Caturday I had a real project I wanted to attack, so I hopped out of bed at the crack of dawn and powered it up to do actual programming and ... got nothing except a blinking power light announcing a memory error.
Oh, bother.
I did a bit of poking about, and then made an appointment at the local Apple store. I hauled it in. They agreed it was probably memory or associated components, and admitted the patient. They held it for a week, through two rounds of parts ordering. I muddled along with my work portable in the meantime.
Oh, bother.
I did a bit of poking about, and then made an appointment at the local Apple store. I hauled it in. They agreed it was probably memory or associated components, and admitted the patient. They held it for a week, through two rounds of parts ordering. I muddled along with my work portable in the meantime.
I picked the machine up yesterday, with two components replaced for $150. I brought it home, and booted it up. Once. Second boot, the symptom is back. Oh, bother redux.
It was back to the Apple store today. They were able to get it resuscitated, and I'm typing on it now.
It was back to the Apple store today. They were able to get it resuscitated, and I'm typing on it now.
This where I should say "What a pain" for them not fixing it the first time, but I know perfectly well the machine worked when I got it home, if however briefly. Furthermore, their second pass replaced more components for no charge, and generally supported a machine which is not close to being the current model.
My take: "Will use again".
p.s. The real pain is the <expletive> machine itself, which is built like a tank and thus weighs 40+ lbs. It's worse than hauling a catzilla to the vet.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
A Bit of Time Riding
I was feeling wiped at work, so I bugged out early after letting my manager know. I napped, and rose around dusk just after Katherine left for class.
The quiet made me feel like I was back in my old apartment in Kingston NY, a third story walk up over an optician on a good block in a not so good part of town. It was the same isolation, and yet ...
... The Summerhill Kitten Farm blog has enough pictures of the house to more than hint at our creature comforts, and for that matter, the creatures escorting me about the house have broken my reverie multiple times. And there's the matter of the car in the garage -- I lacked both in Kingston.
One could say life is good here, far better than my first lonely winter in the Mid-Hudson Valley a quarter of a decade ago.
I'll just say it's time to feed my trusted companions.
Minor note: Note this is not about the feline overlords, although they were certainly about. If it was, I'd have posted this on the kitten blog. No, life is different from when I was in Kingston.
The quiet made me feel like I was back in my old apartment in Kingston NY, a third story walk up over an optician on a good block in a not so good part of town. It was the same isolation, and yet ...
... The Summerhill Kitten Farm blog has enough pictures of the house to more than hint at our creature comforts, and for that matter, the creatures escorting me about the house have broken my reverie multiple times. And there's the matter of the car in the garage -- I lacked both in Kingston.
One could say life is good here, far better than my first lonely winter in the Mid-Hudson Valley a quarter of a decade ago.
I'll just say it's time to feed my trusted companions.
Minor note: Note this is not about the feline overlords, although they were certainly about. If it was, I'd have posted this on the kitten blog. No, life is different from when I was in Kingston.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Where the Action Is
Having moved to blogger, I'm trying to generate more content. This is not hard, since any is greater than zero.
However, I should include my usual disclaimer, which is I write more on both our kitten blog and on Twitter.
I do like how easy it was to add live links to the most recent updates for both sites on my sidebar, as I never found customizing MovableType very easy.
(I'm also on Facebook, but my content there is not public.)
However, I should include my usual disclaimer, which is I write more on both our kitten blog and on Twitter.
I do like how easy it was to add live links to the most recent updates for both sites on my sidebar, as I never found customizing MovableType very easy.
(I'm also on Facebook, but my content there is not public.)
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Administrivia - Site Blog Software Upgraded
We've been seeing too much comment SPAM lately, so for the first time in too long a time (3 years), we've upgraded the Movable Type software which drives our blogs.
With Movable Type 5.01, we are now able to require commenters to sign-in order to reduce SPAM. We will not be collecting your login information, but rather relying on your choice of another web site (Google, Yahoo, AIM, Live Journal etc.) to verify you exist. (We won't see your password for that other site, they'll just us tell your name and maybe email address.)
The leap in software releases required us to change the look of the blogs; we're not done with Katherine's TFM blog yet. In addition, we MAY have broken some links.
Please notify of us any problems you have reading or commenting on the blogs.
With Movable Type 5.01, we are now able to require commenters to sign-in order to reduce SPAM. We will not be collecting your login information, but rather relying on your choice of another web site (Google, Yahoo, AIM, Live Journal etc.) to verify you exist. (We won't see your password for that other site, they'll just us tell your name and maybe email address.)
The leap in software releases required us to change the look of the blogs; we're not done with Katherine's TFM blog yet. In addition, we MAY have broken some links.
Please notify of us any problems you have reading or commenting on the blogs.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Nine months
My dietary habits have been really bad since the new year, but I can say one thing ... it has now been a full nine months since I had cola. That should be the longest stretch by far since I started drinking it around the end of the Ford Administration.
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