M and I made 160, 4oz jars of Apple Butter for our wedding guests. It was fun spending the past couple of weekends putting this together. Here are a few pics of the process.
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This next year holds a lot – wedding planning, shipping a major product, house hunting, and now a major personal goal has been tacked on top of it all. I’m really starting to question my sanity, or maybe that’s just the hunger talking. Today I embarked on adventure in improving myself: I’ve started a diet – but not just any diet, this is an all-inclusive, personalized, lifestyle modification plan.
If you’re employed by the big M, then you’ve likely heard of Lifestyles 20/20. It’s essentially a chichi froufrou soup-to-nuts (as in crazy) approach to losing pounds, ridding diabetes, increasing lifespan, dropping cholesterol, and general cure-all for what ails yah. The crazy part is more centered around how successful it appears – if you believe their numbers, they’re the rock stars of the permanent weight loss world.
That’s why I’m all in – I love the approach of medically supervised care, including a doctor, dietitian, counseling, and personal training. I also love that they approach the nutrition angle similar to an elimination/paleo diet, but with a personalized touch. I probably can’t say much about the specifics (I’m pretty sure I signed an NDA that says I can’t talk about specifics…). I’m really looking forward to finding out why I eat the way I do… in particular, why I never quite drop weight no mater how active I get.
Today was the beginning of the first phase – the one in where I’m going to be grumpy until my body figures out it’s not actually hungry on fewer calories. Hopefully that comes soon, because what I’m really looking forward to is my next meal… tonight’s dinner was sparse, but tasty. And right now, I’m just hungry.
200+ miles and 14 hours of riding later, we rolled into Portland. The ride was great, despite a bit of a mishap that left Andy with 3 stitches, but no worse for the wear. Yet again, the Cascade Bicycle Club did a great job putting on the ride.
This year’s pace was a bit slower than last year, but not by much. We did pretty much the same ride as last year – 135 miles to Castle Rock, and then the remainder on the next day.
I’ve posted some of the better pictures up here, and the GPS stats are below:
Day 1 – 134+ miles, about 9 hours in the saddle (15.0 MPH Average) – 4 hours of stopped time.
Day 1 GPS Tracks Here
Day 2 – 66+ miles, 4 hours 42 min in the saddle (16.4 MPH Average) – 34 min of stopped time.
Day 2 GPS Tracks Here
Every now and then, the fabulous Garmin 705 will get screwed up while “Saving History” when plugging into the computer. What’s good is that the data isn’t lost. What’s bad is that it can take some hacking at the internal structure of the file to fix it up.
I’ve put together a quick script that you can run on the files to fix them up. It’s not perfect (it won’t fix the lap data, for example). But it saves the time to stitch the files together by hand. The script is attached, and the instructions to use it are below. Be warned – it’s a little geeky.
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One of the first things I did when I got my new TV was figure out how I can stream all of my movies from my server to the TV. Luckily for me, my TV has DLNA built into it. What’s DLNA? You can read up on details here, but the long and short of it is that it’s a technology that makes it easy to share media across different devices.
Windows 7 has a DLNA server built into it. My LG TV has DNLA built into it. It took all of about 5 min to run through the instructions to get Windows 7 sharing media on my network. But one of the things that I’ve noticed is that new movies put onto the server don’t always show up on my TV’s list of files. I finally figured out today that it’s Windows Media Player that’s doing the indexing of the movie list – you have media player running for the new files to show up!
So, if you ever fire up your DNLA end point and can’t see a file, fire up Media Player on your sharing device and that should solve the problem.
