Got It In

Ten Days...ten days since my last workout. What is wrong with me? I've got to do better. My health, physical and mental, must be my priority. Without health everything else falls apart.

1. Two-legged Glute Activation Raises 1 x 20
2. Flying Dogs 1 x 15 per side, alternating
3. Kettlebell Swings
• Point A 5 x 12.5 lb. t-bar homemade kettlebell
• Point B 5 x 12.5 lb. t-bar homemade kettlebell
• Swings 5 x 12.5 lb. t-bar homemade kettlebell
• Swings 25, 25 x 17.5 lb t-bar homemade kettlebell
4. Turkish Get Ups
• Weak ( left ) Side x 5 x 5 lb. dumbbell
• Strong ( right ) Side x 5 x 5 lb. dumbbell
• Weak  Side x 5 x 5 lb. dumbbell
• Strong ( right ) Side x 5 x 5 lb. dumbbell
5. Myotatic Crunch 1x5
6. Cat Vomit Exercise 5 reps

Done in 32 minutes. Outside in my natural gym, barefoot and shirtless in the sunshine!

Tired of Starting Over Then DO NOT QUIT

So, I haven't worked out again for seventeen days, not since I tweaked my back working out when I was in Atlanta for DevOpsDays. I've seen the slogan which is the title of this post on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and elsewhere on the internet. I need to make it my motto. I keep beginning workout plans and stopping, beginning to eat more healthily and stopping. I've got to get in a groove and stay in it.

Fellow sysadmin and online acquaintance @magurski inspired me with his weight loss tweet:

lost 2.4 lbs since his last weigh-in! Magurski's lost 61.8 lbs so far. #myfitnesspal - Michael A. Gurski (@magurski) October 19, 2013

My wife and sons left a couple of hours ago to ride their bikes on the Swamp Rabbit Trail. I still don't have a bike and my hip has still been bothering me so I decided not to go along. I could have rented a bike, but again you wouldn't believe how uncomfortable riding a bike with an irritated hip socket can be.

Therefore I took a page out of another of my online, Steve the Diabetes Warrior, acquaintance's play books and got my workout in outdoors, barefoot and shirtless. Again, I did a light, brief routine to get myself back in the groove hopefully without hurting anything or making myself too sore.

1. Two-legged Glute Activation Raises 1 x 15
2. Flying Dogs 1 x 15 per side, alternating
3. Kettlebell Swings
• Point A 5 x 12.5 lb. t-bar homemade kettlebell
• Point B 5 x 12.5 lb. t-bar homemade kettlebell
• Swings 5 x 12.5 lb. t-bar homemade kettlebell
• Swings 30, 30 x 17.5 lb t-bar homemade kettlebell
4. Turkish Get Ups
• Strong ( right ) Side x 5 x 5 lb. dumbbell
• Weak ( left ) Side x 5 x 5 lb. dumbbell
• Strong ( right ) Side x 5 x 5 lb. dumbbell
• Weak ( left ) Side x 5 x 5 lb. dumbbell
5. Myotatic Crunch 1x5
6. Cat Vomit Exercise 5 reps

I finished this routine in thirty-two minutes. I focused on keeping my core tight during the kettlebell swings so as not to repeat the back tweaking, injury. I need to slow down on the myotatic crunches and hold at the top position for a few seconds. The TGUs really had my heart pounding and my lungs working like a bellows. Rising from a supine position to standing and then returning to a supine position repeatedly can be quite a workout even with a light weight. Next workout on Tuesday. 

Subtle Breakage in Saucy Salamander

All of a sudden, after what have become daily dist-upgrades on my part as the release of Ubuntu Saucy Salamander approaches, my VPN connection stopped working. I try to connect to VPN and get an error "no valid secrets". Also, I couldn't edit the VPN connection. Some googling lead me to "gray button for saving “editing VPN connection” in Ubuntu 12.04"  It didn't exactly match my situation, I'm running 13.10 already, but it was close enough for me to figure out what to try. I made the following change:

[chbaker@reacher:polkit-1/actions]$ diff -u ORIGorg.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policyORIG org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy

--- ORIGorg.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policyORIG 2013-10-07 05:57:03.000000000 -0400

+++ org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy 2013-10-15 16:50:56.724445415 -0400

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@

     <message xml:lang="uk">Правила системи забороняють вмикання або вимикання з’єднань з мережею на системному рівні</message>

     <message xml:lang="zh_CN">系统策略阻止启用或禁用系统网络</message>

     <defaults>

-      <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>

+      <allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive>

       <allow_active>yes</allow_active>

     </defaults>

   </action>

@@ -940,4 +940,4 @@

     </defaults>

   </action>

 

-</policyconfig>

\ No newline at end of file

+</policyconfig>

[chbaker@reacher:polkit-1/actions]$

After logging out and back in my VPN connection works again. I think there are other mis-configurations in Saucy Salamander (13.10), too. For example the date and time are no longer being displayed in my taskbar. Also, when I go to the time date settings all the clock options are grayed out and I can't edit them. This is really quite disappointing since 13.10 is slated for release in just two days. I can live w/o the date and time in my task bar, but no way I can work remotely without VPN.

 

Better Late Than Never - 20131003

I'm in ATL for DevOpsDaysATL. Staying at the Renaissance Midtown on West Peachtree. Went down to the fitness center at 0645 after waking up at 0515. got my workout on. It's still scaled back but had me sweating profusely and breathing hard nonetheless.

1. Two-legged Glute Activation Raises 1 x 20
2. Flying Dogs 1 x 15 per side, alternating
3. Kettlebell Swings
• Point A 5 x 12.5 lb. t-bar homemade kettlebell
• Point B 5 x 12.5 lb. t-bar homemade kettlebell
• Swings 5 x 12.5 lb. t-bar homemade kettlebell
• Swings 30, 30 x 22.5 lb t-bar homemade kettlebell
4. Turkish Get Ups
• Weak ( left ) Side x 5 x 10 lb. dumbbell
• Strong ( right ) Side x 5 x 10 lb. dumbbell
• Weak ( left ) Side x 5 x 10 lb. dumbbell
• Strong ( right ) Side x 5 x 10 lb. dumbbell
5. Myotatic Crunch 1x5
6. Cat Vomit Exercise 5 reps

I did let me ego get in the way a bit and used a weight 5 pounds heavier than last time on my work sets of swings and on the TGUs. I twinged my back a little on the first working set of swings. Somehow looking in the mirror led to sloppier form on a couple of reps! I feel good to have gotten this workout in.