I titled this entry as day one, but really it’s day 3. It took me a couple of days to realize that I was sending emails everyday to the group I am doing the program with. I decided [...]]]> I thought I might as well Blog about my P90x experience as I run through the program.

I titled this entry as day one, but really it’s day 3. It took me a couple of days to realize that I was sending emails everyday to the group I am doing the program with. I decided I should just Blog about it instead. That way all of my readers can see my wonderful progress. Yeah, all 3 (me, myself and I). Now where did I put those before pictures?? I’d better start on the fake spray on tan now for the 90 pictures so I can look like the ads. Lol

Day 1 was a killer. It was all push-ups and pull-ups. I felt like I needed to soak my chest in ice afterwards. It would have helped me a bit to have had a set of weights, but I don’t at home so I filled a 5 gallon jug with water that had 2 handles and made myself a 42Lbs weight to work with.

I couldn’t get the videos on the I-Pad to work as my computer was still being rebuilt and the new build did not recognize the I-Pad, so I had to start over. I didn’t like doing the workout much in the Office by the computer, but I did what I could.

In the end I felt using the chair for pull-ups was better as doing 10 with the chair vs 2 without, seemed like the 10 was better for a start.

I also started to use my knees for the last push-ups as I could do 8 that way and none otherwise.

Day 2
For starters I never realized how much carbs I ate in a day until one day I could not have Donuts, bread, tortillas, pasta and candy. I have found it challenging to find more proteins.

So day 2 workout consists of: Jump squat, jump squat, jump jump squat. Breath deep sweat a lot, pass out and then do one more squat.

The worst part is that I had 3 flights of stairs to climb after the work out, then 2 flights to walk down to get to the lunch room.
The walk down was harder than the walk up.

I felt I could do most of the exercises and keep up this time, I just need to work on getting lower. And keeping my heart rate out of the 180’s or higher. In all I liked that program as it reminded me of the stuff I used to do for the ski team. It was only missing the ski pole stance, wide jump sideways routine.

Oh, the Ipad worked great. I kept thinking I might have needed a longer headphone cord, but then felt if it was longer it might be more in the way. I found a bike machine where the seat went up way high and was rubbery, so I could place the Ipad there and watch the program about chest high in front of me. I had to use headphones as there was music, 3 TV’s and a workout class in the other room at the same time.

Day 3
ouch, ouch, my legs and my thighs are on fire!

Took the IPad back to the gym for the Arms and Shoulder workout. I think I will get better at this stuff as I watch the videos, because the 1st time you have no clue what it next or what they are doing and what you need to be ready. In the end I had weights (20lbs, 15lbs and 12lbs) along with a few bands. I was using the bands for the stuff that needed a chair as I didn’t have a real chair to use.

I did need a longer headphone cord for this day.

Day 4
Yoga day. Oh goody Yoga is about relaxing and stretching right??

Holy crap!!! I’m sweating my ass off. Plus doing this in the office with no good ventilation is all wrong.

Did I plan this all wrong. It was a pain in the ass and I was toast after 40 minutes and the damn thing is 95 minutes long. For some reason I thought all of the exercises where like 60 minutes. I can’t complete the Yoga today because I started my workout at 9:30pm and I don’t want to stay up until midnight. Plus I don’t think I can sleep after doing an intense workout.

Shit and I found that I didn’t do the Ab blaster thing yesterday. Same reason I was at work and have an hour lunch, my workout was at about 80 minutes when I was done with the arms and I still needed to get something to eat.

Now I’m finding that it’s not the routines that I won’t be able to do, it’s the length of time involved with each. I just don’t think I can dedicate 1.5 to 2 hours for working out everyday. I’m sort of pissed off about this.

Oh, well. Like tonight I am going to do what I can and get better as I go. I will have to plan a little more in advance to make sure I can have the time to finish a workout. Easier said that done with a heavy child activity schedule, and needing to be at work at 6:30 am. That kills the early workout options.

So I can use 11am to 12:30 on a few days and 4-6pm on some others where the kids aren’t busy. I won’t start a work out again after 8pm that isn’t going to work because going to bed will be hard and it will be hard to sleep.

So I still owe myself an ab workout and the 2nd half of Yoga.

Day 5
Postponed because I have Volleyball matches from 6 to 9pm, so I will get my workout.

Hum. Writing this before the Actual day 5 so I think I will do my make up ab workout tomorrow at lunch.

First my daily driver is a Dodge Caliber SRT4.  From a registry created on one of the SRT4 forums they have 206 VIN numbers from the 482 produced, so almost half of the [...]]]> I am not a huge car buff, but I have found out this week that both of my cars are now considered rare.

First my daily driver is a Dodge Caliber SRT4.  From a registry created on one of the SRT4 forums they have 206 VIN numbers from the 482 produced, so almost half of the cars are registered.  I did a little math and it appears that roughly 8-10% of the cars registered are Sunburst Orange, so will assume on the high side of 10%.  That would make my Caliber SRT4 1 of 48.

• 2008 production:  482
• 2009 production:  222
• Total production:  704

I have the production numbers for the 2008 Dodge Viper listed below, so according to the chart my car is 1 of 65, but the list here doesn’t show which cars have stripes, so I would guess the Viper is about 1 of 48 as well.

I guess it’s pretty cool if I can keep both of them in great shape for about 20 years.  It will totally suck to try and sell one off in a couple of years as most people won’t want some sort of rare car that parts may be hard to find.   I guess I need to treat them with care and keep them looking good as long as I can.

HERE’s to having 2 cars that are 1 out of 48 in the World.

I was thinking stuff like “SNAZZY” and “FLYBYU”, they just weren’t me.  Plus I don’t want a plate that screams “Give me a ticket” when I am driving a bright red car that is already screaming “Give me a ticket”.   I wouldn’t want to wreck my [...]]]> I was thinking of getting personalized plates for the Viper.

I was thinking stuff like “SNAZZY” and “FLYBYU”, they just weren’t me.  Plus I don’t want a plate that screams “Give me a ticket” when I am driving a bright red car that is already screaming “Give me a ticket”.   I wouldn’t want to wreck my awesome record of being pulled over 19 times and not having a ticket.  Although, none of those times were in a 600Hph bright red supercar.

Then I got to thinking what about these Plates?

I go by “TheMilkman” in many of my online games, much to the chagrin of Milkman Dan which is “A” Milkman, but not “The” Milkman.

TheMilkMan

Then I also thought, what the heck and go Funny and with something that most people won’t have on a really nice car such as a Dodge Viper.

Let me know what you think would be a good license plate for the car?

1/12/2008 I thought for the first posting that I would place my [...]]]> I had this information in a forum thread where it made a little more sense than in a Blog posting. Seeing how I’m moving all of the old forum stuff to a blog, I might as well include the info. It’s funny anyway.

1/12/2008
I thought for the first posting that I would place my current favorite saying.

Ryan had a fun saying that I just thought was poetic, or at least could be part of a poem or song.

“Every time I see the sun I sneeze”

I liked the involuntary act to something that you can’t avoid and at something that is needed and enjoyed by most.
To me the sentence says a lot with so few words.

I keep feeling that this is a poem in the works.  I say the sentence in my head and just expect the next line to fall into place, but I haven’t discovered it yet.

Now for a few of the fun and cute sayings from Brianna.

When Brianna was around 2 years old I told her she needs to eat a little more.

“Brianna you eat like a bird.”

Slight pause.

“No I don’t Daddy.  I use a fork.”

Now Brianna is 6 and wrote up her first three wishes.  (It’s at least the first time I have seen them written down) This is also how she wrote it, misspellings included on purpose.

“I wish I had a Wii
I wish we cood ware pijamas to scoole every 3 weeks.
I wish my bruthr wouldn’t squash my paprarplan” (sp. paper airplane)

1/21/2009
We were discussing New Year Resolutions and what they are.  Stuff like resolving to learn to read better, exercise more, or travel to a new place.

Brianna Resolved this year the following.
I resolve to not sleep with so many people this year

Dad: Awesome!  Can you keep that resolution for like the next 15 years and your dad would be very happy

What is funny is that she was talking about her stuffed animals and that she had about 20 in her bed and after the resolution reduced the animals down to about 6.

3/18/2009
Ryan, had a good one the other day.

Ryan talking to is older sisters friend.
Well I don’t care if you don’t want to be my girlfriend, because I have three more.

12/23/2009
Ryan picked up a random Christmas card from some old friends and there was a picture of their son on the front with his name “Edwardo” scratched under his picture.

Ryan: “Who is this?  Cousin Eddy?!

Ryan: Knock knock
Who’s there?
Frank
Frank who?
Frank Miller, now let me in!

Who is Frank Miller?
Ryan: I don’t know I just made it up.

Knock Knock
Who’s there?
Flying piece up
Flying piece up who?
SPLORTCH!

12/24/09

Ryan asked his sister the other day. “What do you want to smell like armpit?” Only after he dumped an entire bottle of Ode’ de Spiderman cologne all over himself.

I had been running PHPNuke and various versions for a long time and just decided that I really didn’t need all of the bells and whistles provided.  I did need the ability to make the site more SEO and mobile phone ready.  Plus a little bit [...]]]> I have decided that I needed to update my site.

I had been running PHPNuke and various versions for a long time and just decided that I really didn’t need all of the bells and whistles provided.  I did need the ability to make the site more SEO and mobile phone ready.  Plus a little bit more secure, as PHPNuke is really no longer updated or in development.

I found that I was the only one using the old site as it was not easily searchable.  I had a lot of really great content, and it was all just in the forums.  Because it’s just me and there isn’t a large following of people, I don’t really need a portal per-se, but a Blog would better fulfill my needs.

The posts that follow are all of the items from the forums I felt that I should keep around.

I hope this format works better for me moving forward.