Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Monday's Lost Post
Going back to do a little backfill----
I had created another lunchtime post on Saturday, but didn't post it immediately. I went for a long workout at the gym and then that night my wife expressed displeasure with my Nokia-770 centric posts the last few days, this and the fact I had mentioned she threatened to buy some luxury for herself in retaliation for the 770 purchase in my blog. I had never believed she would go out and buy something to get-me-back, but I did feel her teasing and joking on this issue betrayed an undercurrent of resentment at my getting the internet tablet device. I guess you could say we had a small tiff over all this Saturday night. By Sunday night she was in an apologetic mood for being a tad unreasonable on Saturday. Now I'll probably be in hot water again for airing our dirty laundry in public. So Saturday's post still sits on my Nokia and I haven't decided what to do with it. My wife would prefer I center my blog around family issues, but it is hard to be family centric when your family is 8,000 miles away. I also try to be as honest in my posts as I can, so to try and steer their subject matter in an attempt to keep my wife happy would defeat the purpose of what this blog is supposed to be about. This all really boils down to a bit of a culture clash. My wife will probably feels she has lost some face by my posting of anything with a negative aspect between us, whereas her own posts about me in her blog tend to be glowing to the point of embarrassment.
In the mean time I've set new personal bests for myself at the gym. In any one day I hadn't exceeded a personal best, but Friday and Saturday together set a new 2 day distance record of 25 miles between stair-machine and treadmill, then Sunday night I tacked on another 13 miles to nearly double my all time 3 day total. My best one week total ever (about 2 years ago) is 50 miles and I hope to meet or exceed that tonight, setting a new 4 day personal best. All this in an effort mostly to shed say 5-10 pounds before my Anniversary trip to China. I wouldn't call myself fat by any stretch of the imagination (at least by American standards), but my pants have gotten tight in the waist line and it is time to do something about it. I have been at this weight a couple of times in the past and I let the last 5 pounds creep up on me as I studied for the General GRE test in the last two months, now I am making up for my below average Gym attendance with a 4 day all out attack to get the numbers moving back in the right direction before I have to really buckle down and study for the Computer Science GRE Subject test I have scheduled for next month.
There are one or two family news items I can relate -- my daughter Aiai has expressed missing her dad on several occasions now and sleeps every night with a soft fluffy stuffed animal dog I brought for her on my last visit. Nian has a roommate for now that she would probably be better off without. Since Nian's parents will be moving back to Gaungzhou next month to live with her for a while, the roommate will have to be moving soon anyway, but rarely a day passes that I don't hear something irritating the roommate is up to, most often having to do with failing to do any work around the apartment at all in exchange for what is essentially free room and board.
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BTW Didn't go to the gym that Monday, but Tuesday I finished another 13 miles which brought the 5 day total to 51 miles, beating my best 7 day total ever in just 5 days.
