So lately we go to the gym a lot. I would say (based on my polar recorded numbers) I am averaging around 3000 calories burned per week for the past 8 weeks or so.
Early last week I had lost up to 13 pounds, but after some hearty Easter eating and a couple days of exercise I am standing at a 9 pound loss from 9 weeks ago.
The Nokia internet tablet (N810) I got for Christmas is great. Finally accepted the 7 day free trial for the GPS navigation software that came with it. My review of the software is that it is pretty good.
The streets are mostly accurate and the geo-coded POI's are fairly good too. Compared to microsoft streets and trips 2007 it is ALOT better. I have not played with a new garmin or tomtom or anything so I cannot really offer much comparison there, but it works better than microsofts stuff.
I bought a Neuros OSD tv recording device a couple months ago. The device works as advertised, but it is highly a product under development. The OSD part of the name is supposed to me Open Source Device or some thing like that. I have played with it a bit, root shell out of the box is nice.
It integrated right into my home network and records TV right onto any of the windows network drives on my network. Quality of the recordings is good for SD TV. The company (
link) has talk about a HDTV device that they plan to bring to market in the next couple years. That sounds nice too. I bought it to use for tivo like recording when I need to record some thing on TV, and it works for that... Works well.
I slowed down on beer making a bit. A little bit time consuming -- just a couple hours every week or two to set it up and bottle it, but my weekends have been focused on putting a roof on the garage.
We decided on a metal roof in a charcoal gray color and we ordered it from
lyon's roofing. At this point it seems I got exactly what I paid for, nothing less, nothing more.
Some keys for putting up metal roofing as a DIY project:
1. Pre drill the holes for the screws.
2. Use a mechanical cutting tool like a air nibbler for any custom cuts to the panels.
3. Cautiously move and stack panels, the paint comes off easily.
4. Spend extra time to make sure the first panel up is as square to the roof as possible, makes all the rest of the panels come out good.
5. Buy some magnetic nut driver bits for your drill/driver. (incredibly helpful to have that screw stay in the bit as you reach over to put it in the pre drilled hole)
I have pictures I need to put up eventually.
