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Progress

Posted by Joel Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:40:17 GMT

I've not only kept up with my exercise routine, I've stepped it up. I have been working out five days a week after work, doing a full torso workout and running a minimum of two miles (usually 2.5).

It's made me feel much better. I'm hardly fit yet, but I think I look a touch slimmer. I can lift much more than I could a month and a half ago in just about everything.

I haven't completely cut back on comfort foods, but I'd say I eat healthy about 3/4 of the time now instead of 1/4 of the time. I even switched to light Heinekens as my daily beer of choice (I tried giving it up entirely but it wasn't much fun). Trying to eat cereal instead of Starbucks junk in the morning, taking multivitamins, the whole thing.

Hopefully in six months I'll have transformed physically somewhat. It's gotten to the point I really enjoy going to the gym every day. The effect music has on me while I'm exercising is incredible. The song I often choose to listen to near the end of my routine is Stockholm Syndrome by Muse. I can run really fast through that, and it's kind of like bliss. I originally was a little dismissive of Muse but that kind of poppy rock is pretty nice while running and I've come to love them.

I've been trying to make it a habit to go to the city on the weekend. Visiting Aiden is fun because he really likes to have a good time in SF and try new things. In particular he loves Club 222 in the Tenderloin and I am also somewhat in love with the place, and now even know some of its bartenders. I'll be at their Masquerade party on the 30th.

Work is moving along well. For reasons unclear, but most likely due to changing our search URLs which angered the search engine crawl bots, our Alexa ranking slipped a bit. It's been recovering though and our sales have been doing well the whole time, with our record sales day just a couple days ago. Lots of little things continue to get fixed, and we're about to unleash forums within a couple weeks. That will be an adventure.

While I've enjoyed making WoW a regular nightcap at this point, I get on late enough (about 10pm) that my friends, who are either two or three hours further east, are often incredibly tired and on their way to bed. I need to shift my schedule by a couple hours.