Doings, Polar Fitness, Ikea, Laptops, Cameras

I have been continuing with my fitness program (weight loss and beginning to exercise)

My weight is below 180lb and that puts me at 40LBS + of weight lost since Jan 5, 2008.

With some hitches I have been doing my fitness program:

Situps
Pushups
Beginning chin ups, but I can't do one yet! I just finished making my revision .1 I It works as planned, as far as I know the ceiling capture of the 2X4 is novel. Of course few have open joist homes, except in the basement. I am pretty proud of myself for thinking of it, and am not going to go looking to see if someone else has done it already for a while so I and at least imagine that it is my original idea.

Decided that I would spring the extra money for a laptop. I have my desktops and they are okay, they are in the p4 2.0 - p4 2.8 ghz. The most "advanced" laptop I have is a fujitsu b142 lifebook that is okay as a web browser, and main advantage is that it is compact (7" screen) and works with open office. I had to upgrade to win 2k and lost the use of the touchscreen, but it ran very crappy with win 98. Screen is very dim, even for it's time.

I am leaning towards getting a lenovo from newegg. I was looking at the lenovo thinkpad workstations and I just don't have the cash to spring up to that. Another thing about the Y3000 is the 4 hour battery life, I am not sure but I think that is decent. Most laptops wont even list battery life in the specs.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834146366

I envision using it around the house, maybe at work (to make my work life less frustrating) I suppose I could get work to buy a laptop I could use but I just would not feel I had the freedom with it to really make it work right for me. At least I think they would let me bring mine to work so I could use it. Most immediately I have started to have to manage projects and it is a real waste of time to have to write things down for meetings then have to type it all into the computer later, I don't have that kind of time to waste at work, and being there more than 8 hours a day is the path to really wasting time and the fastest way I know of to reduce productivity. (unless it is to meet a immediate and temporary cause)

I got the lowepro backpack for my camera, and the remote shutter trigger.

The backpack is a lowepro fastpack 250. I like it fine, I really want to start hiking again this year and I think it will be comfortable and roomy enough to take a lunch and the camera.

I also just got the Nikon ML-L3 remote shutter trigger. To use it I did have to go into the setup menu and flag using the remote. From there you just trigger the remote to shoot a picture, there are two modes, one is delayed shutter release and the other is fast.

It is IR so you have to be in front of the camera, more or less.