So I’m on a new get healthy journey, one that involves me working out at home in my undies and drinking fruit shakes with powder in them. I’ve been on a smoothie kick ever since figuring out that a good smoothie can be made with frozen fruit, yogurt and juice. Not to dismiss the goodness that is a fresh fruit smoothie but I don’t have the time to prep all that fruit or the storage space for it all. They’re a good accompaniment to my morning cereal, which is typically Grape Nuts, and then of course my morning coffee. I recently got a new client who’s an Herbalife distributor and among other things, a wellness coach. I went to his shop and had a body scan (I’m not sure on the technical name but it wasn’t a BMI scan) and I found out that out of the 210 pounds of my coffee drinking self, 175 pounds of it is muscle. I thought that was kinda cool and he was even surprised. Based on that, I need more protein. So, I went home with a nice big tub of protein powder that I include in with my smoothie routine. Since then I’ve been feeling pretty good, the muscle aches I’ve been getting off and on are minimized. Nice!
Another part of me getting into a shape that isn’t round, is a Pilates workout regime that my wife talked me into. I am now a convert when it comes to working out at home. I used to hate it, you couldn’t pay me to do it. I felt crappy no matter how good I felt afterward. It always seemed to make me itchy or I’d find something else to complain about and just back away from the idea of it. Now that we’re cleaning up the house constantly—and vacuuming especially—I don’t feel like I’m rolling around in dust and also don’t feel the need to complain about it as much. Sure, working out sucks pretty much wherever but it’s nice when I’ve got a buddy. Especially one who’s cute.
Oh, and Windows 98. I’ve been itching to play some old games lately and don’t have a good way to play them. I came across Earthworm Jim for the iPhone awhile back and the interface was kinda clunky. It didn’t really navigate all that well and it took up about 200 MB of space on my 4GB iPhone. Poor thing can’t take that much for just a game that isn’t played all that often. So basically, I went digging through my disc archives for a solution and I came up with a few old install CDs for Windows. I’ve yet to successfully install it on VMWare Fusion, it keeps yelling at me about not having a bootable disk installed. It’s been so long that I’ve installed anything but XP in a PC environment that I’m taxing my memory banks trying to figure out what to do. There’s games to be played!