Back on the rails

After neglecting it for months, I am going to get back into actively tracking my calories and physical activity. That is not to say that I have been eating unhealthy lately, but I need to get back to watching the how much as well as the what.

For the past few months my lunches have consisted of stuff like this:


While that is on the right track, it does not do a lot of good when I combine it with things like this:


or this:


This is not to say that I will be cutting out treats entirely, because the best way to ensure that I don't follow a diet is to make it unpleasant. By tracking it all,though, it lets me strike a karmic balance. I will allow myself a muffin, or a doughnut as long as I can see on paper that I need to cut out something else to compensate.

I also need to get more active again. With the nicer weather we have started taking semi-daily walks, and we have hauled our bikes out of storage again. The first time I hopped on my bike last week, my first thought was, "Man, I missed this."


In other news, I have gotten a bit sloppy about posting new pictures here as I add them to my 2012 collection. I am going to work on updating here more often as well.

Cell shading

When half the company goes on strike and your operations roll to a stop, you find ways to occupy your time.

Usually I am pushing out tables and graphs in this application, but today I put it to a slightly better use.


I did most of the coding for this at work while I was languishing on a conference call, but I was running into a puzzling error. It was a pretty short bit of programming, so I recreated it when I got home and finally worked out the bug.

This is quite possible one of the most useless things I have done in awhile, but I am quite pleased with the results.