2 Bit Hacker

Not really a whole lot going on in my life, as usual, but I figured it’s been a while, so I’d toss together an update.

Work has been going well. Finally transitioned over to the system administration position. So far it hasn’t been anything overly exciting, a couple trips to the colo to swap out bad parts and I’ve been putting together a couple of new systems. I’m rather enjoying it, it makes me happy to be working with hardware again after spending so much time on the last coding project. I think this new position is going to be a good mix of hardware and coding, which I think will keep it from getting repetitive.

In other news, I finally ordered some new parts for a new computer for myself. My current system is getting a little on in years with it’s Athlon XP 2600+, 512MB of RAM, and GeForce 3 Ti 500. The new system will be an Athlon 64 X2 4600+, 2GB of RAM, and a GeForce 7900GT. Should be quite a step up, and I’m looking forward to playing some more modern games (suggestions welcome.) Not sure what I’m going to do with the old hardware yet. The chipset fan died last week, so I’ll need to replace that before doing anything with the motherboard, but it’s all still good hardware, so I should find some useful task to set it to.

I’m also trying the whole diet thing again (sounds familiar, right?) with watching what I eat and drinking more water. I’ve also been trying to get out and walk for a bit each day. I figure once I get into the habit of going for walks, I’ll start replacing walks with time at the gym a few times a week. I figure I’ve got a little over a month to get a bit more into shape so walking back and forth from the new office location won’t be a big deal. It just seems silly to drive a car to go a mile to work.

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Yup, here we go again. I’ve been ignoring it too long, I have to get back into the mind set of losing weight. I thought I had been doing pretty well when I was working at PepBoys, and I may have been since I never kept a close eye on my weight during that time. But now that I’m back at a cushy desk job, I definitely need to start doing something.

So, I’ve resurrected my Clie and started tracking my weight again. I’m starting off doing the same thing I did last time, giving up soda (at least non-diet soda) and keeping an eye on calorie intake. I also want to start going to the gym again, since there’s one like 3 blocks from the apartment that I drive past every day.

My goal is to get back to where I thought I was by my birthday, which I think should be doable. I’ll be posting monthly graphs as they come along, so poke at me if you don’t see a graph by the end of April. I’m using the Hacker’s Diet stuff to track weight again, since I think that worked rather well for me last time.

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Well, after stalling on my diet for a while, I’ve managed to pick it back up and for the past few days have been weighing in at under 300 pounds. Granted, only a couple pounds under, but it’s still a downward trend. Just need to keep this up. I’m sure it doesn’t sound to impressive to the normal people out there, but I’m happy about it.

Oh, and in true geek fashion, there are graphs. I don’t update them as often as I used to, since I can’t sync the new Clié at work. I’ll have to fix that.

Good news will come to you by mail.

Personal diet