Day 476 - Start of Three Weeks Away From Office

I have 2 weeks of training and one week of vacation, starting today. Amazingly enough, this is actually more time sensitive, since the training start promptly at 7AM to accommodate for East Coast Time. Well, at least they didn't ask me to drive 80 miles to Anaheim and be there at 7AM.

110/73/51 168.4lb 76 mg/DL

Day 475 - End of Week 68

08-07-2010 Front

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11-27-2011 Front

11-27-2011 Side

Now that my rogue is somewhat geared, I've started running heroic dungeon on my Death Knight again to get more crafting materials.  That has been slow going.  I've lost out so much on these random loot rolling that I have to pace myself to avoid frustration.  Fortunately I do have a lot of characters to play with in between dungeon crawl. 

As mentioned in yesterday's post, my knee didn't hold up completely.  So I dial down the difficulty to finish the exercise.  This is my limit for now.

113/82/58 167.6lb 82 mg/DL
Week to Week 0.6

Day 474 - Exercise Update

This is yet another late post. I'm getting behind on my postings again.

I was able to complete the 45 minutes of walk at the same pace as yesterday without difficulty. It's still iffy on whether this regiment can be sustained. I'll lower it whenever I start feeling pain. More on tomorrow's post.

118/75/72 167.4lb 74 mg/DL

Day 473 - Black Friday 2011

As my belated post from yesterday points out, I've tried 4.1 MPH at 2° incline the entire 45 minutes yesterday without difficulty. Well, this morning, I literally have to work myself into that pace, otherwise, my left knee complaints. So I have to dial down the routine back to what I used to do, 4.0 MPH at 1° for 15 minutes, and then the same routine the rest of the way through.

I had a big lunch yesterday (vegetarian hot pot, albeit, the fish meatball kind of ruin the vegetarian spirit), and we went out to Universal Hilton for their Thanksgiving buffet. As I've mentioned before, I tends to do very badly at buffet, since my usual signal of size went out of the window. Last night was no exception. To make matter worse, I had a glass of milk just before sleeping to wash down some benefiber, with out eating lactaid. That combination really puts the pain into my digestive system.

So it's much surprise to me that I weight myself this morning and come in at 167.2lb, 0.2lb lighter than yesterday morning...

115/77/62 167.2lb 75 mg/DL

Day 472 - 4.1 MPH

Today, just for the hell of it, I dial up the exercise routine to 4.1 MPH, at 2° incline. Surprisingly enough, I don't feel any pain in my left knee. We'll know tomorrow if I can keep up this pace.

114/72/59 167.4lb 90 mg/DL

Day 471 - Feeling Sick

I haven't varied my breakfast for a long time. Recently, I have added some spicy cheddar cheese in addition to the rest of my usual meal. As I drove in this morning to work, I began to fee uneasiness over the breakfast. I'm not even sure I can make it through the rest of the day, or whether I should just go home.

125/80/54 168.8lb 72 mg/DL

Day 470 - Scenic Route

When I drive home from the support meeting tonight, I heard on the news radio of debris on my usual route. Now, 405 north just past 10 is always bad. Tonight, I spend 10 minutes just waiting to get onto the freeway. I search around in the Google map and found an alternative, West LA to Santa Monica to Malibu to Topanga Canyon, the scenic route.

Normally this would've been a beautiful route in the day time. But seeing that I'm tired, and my vision hasn't exactly been restored to full capacity yet, this isn't something I go out of my way to do.

Just as I turn onto Topanga Canyon Blvd I heard on the radio explaining the 4 police vehicle that raced pass me at high speed. Apparent there was a police pursuit that ended just past Topanga in Pacific Coast Highway. Fortunately for me, that particular pursuit's backup didn't reach me.

I don't particularly like driving Topanga Canyon even during the day time, due to its many twist and winding road. On the west side of the mountain, the twist isn't as dramatic. However, once I pass the summit, the twist became much more dramatic.

Since I'm typing this, obiviously I made it without incident. I won't be doing this again anytime soon.

114/72/69 169lb 77 mg/DL