Thursday, 30 January 2003

first

Jessie did a great job making her Movable Type template look like the old Perpetual Motion, but for right now I'm just pleased to have figured out how to put the date before the month.
Also I attempted for about 2.4 seconds to come up with a Speaking Confidentially theme for the side matter. I realized that the Soundkeeper in The Phantom Tollbooth had a vault in which you could search for the spoken word, and then that was it for the cleverness.
Movable Type offers a comment option, which I removed. Remember that my email link used to say "Speak your mind"? That was from the days when I had the First Amendment on all of my pages, and then I kept it because it worked well with the Speaking Confidentially title. But that's ancien régime, O My Friends and Brothers. I don't like the comment feature, so no soup for you.
But I should add an email link. And shall, if I can figure out how.

second

Also that notify list sign-up thingie. I need that too. And to figure out how to make all entries for any given day chronological instead of reverse chronological, and always a separate page for each day. Baby steps.

Friday, 31 January 2003

setup and kinwork

Email link, check. Chronological order, check. RDC says he will find whatever it is he did to his template such that the columns adjust for platform, resolution, and browser. I don't understand categories. I know how to assign them, but I don't know how to segregate entries by category so this can read as a record of exercise or reading progress. Can this thing understand paragraph tags or shall I be reduced to hitting the return key twice as if this were a typewriter? I just got prints back of the photographs I took at the funeral. I brought my camera for my visit as a whole, had my camera in the car that day anticipating post-funereal highjinks with my sister and cousin, and offered it up when I heard my great-aunt (my mother's paternal aunt, not the maternal aunt who has ALS) say she wished she had brought a camera for a photograph of my uncle. Camera karma again.

moving

Elliptical: 45', ~60 rpm, HR ~160 bpm, calories ~675 Resistance training, upper
body:
Bicep curl with bar, 3x12 @30
Bicerp curls with dumbbells, 3x12 @10
Seated row, 3x12 @40 (50)
Lat pull, 3x12 @50
Tricep rope push, 3x12 @50
Chest press, 3x12 @20
Shoulder press, 3x12 @25
Tricep extension, 3x12 @25
Back extension, 3x12 @

Forty-five minutes despite having left my headphones on the dining table from my last Buffy episode. Loud music not of my choice (e.g. John Cougar Mellencamp) and captioned televisions. It was that dark hour between news and primetime...the horror, the horror. After a couple of puzzles on "Wheel of Fortune" (that contestants didn't guess), for instance, here:

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I took off my glasses. Better.

(Last Thursday I also didn't have headphones. I caught a glimpse of a show on Fox in which humans pit animals against humans. How, exactly, do you goad a giraffe to run in the absence of a large predator? I took off my glasses. That's a good thing about the elliptical: I'm stable enough that I don't need glasses for balance. (I haven't been wearing contacts as much lately: supplies are running out and these new spectacles are much lighter than previous pairs.))

Is it possible to backdate stuff in Moveable Type?

And then, o joy, sushi. Maguro, saba, sake, yellowtail, and surf clam, and a California roll because avocado is good fat. The fellow next to us ordered a slew of wee little crabs, which I guess were flash-fried whole. He offered me one. Tasty. Crunchy. Sweet. Like a chocolate frog.