190bpm

I know it's Sunday, but I am required to have a physical for my new job, part of which is a treadmill test. So D and I decided to run up Cowles Mnt and down the back side and then around to the car.

Cue the laugh from the Simpson's kid Nelson, "Ha Haah."

We made it about half way before cutting down the back side and then running on the road back to the car. At one point my heart rate monitor showed me over 190bpm!!

The normal runs during the week of around 3 miles just don't quite prepare you to run up a real hill......

One hour and one minute of running,jogging and walking. And I still weighed 137lbs.

wr250x exhaust update

So here is the latest news. Graves Sport says the carbon fiber muffler is flowing well, so well they need to remap my AF mixture and such. Ah, the fun of fuel injection and tuning.

So, I should have a carbon fiber muffler and remapped ignition from Graves sometime next week. I helped with development, so I am getting this "gratis", as they would say in Mexico.

Pics as soon as my bike is back in my hands!!!

List for the week 4/1/2008

Things I have won/earned a trophy or medal for:
-Most Improved, Troxel's Football Camp as a kid
-Faith in God award from church
-3rd Place, District Pinewood Derby races in Boy Scouts
-Eagle Scout
-2nd Place, Oregon State Jiu-Jitsu Games in my weight class
-2nd Place, Oregon State Judo Championship in my weight class
-Finisher medal, Mt Shasta 4th of July fun run, 5 miles
-2nd Place, California State Grappling Games in weight class
-2nd Place, San Diego Region G-stock autocross, in novice

What this tells me is that of all the things I have done competitively, martial arts was the only thing I did pretty good at. Wrestling in junior high I did poorly, tennis in high school I was JV all 3 years, mountain bike racing I finished and did well but was never fast,autocross (car racing) was always on sunday so I never could string a good season together. Excuses I know.
Guess I should start MMA/Jiu-Jitsu back up again...

Huh??

Mom for life is right! Goodness. Most women whine and complain the last trimester that all they want to do is, "get it out", and yet many of them turn around and spend money just to strap the kid right back to themselves!!

I don't understand it.....Looks like this woman wants to carry her kid until it can go to pre-school...

The caption for this photo should read, "Look baby, how quaint, a kid that can walk by himself. Poor thing, you just stay right here with momma." She probably already has one of those horrible leashes just ready and waiting....

Prison Break

Shaved short wins. I know it was a tie, but I am the final judge. Consider it a study in Executive Power.

Before.

After.

If Rome were built in a day.....

...I would have hired their contractors.

Isn't that soo true. NNOOOOWWW this guy's air compressor is broke, so another delay. The earth might as well have stopped turning. Goodness.

From one week as originally bid to now a month. I wish I could have made delays like that at any job I had.

At least it looks nice and will look even better when totally done.


In other "time" news, I only have about one more week of vacation freedom. The finger pritning and background stuff for my job takes 3-5 business days and then I have to have a physical. So easily a week and a half until I start the new job. Too bad my motorcycle is getting stuff done to it, or I would be at the track today!!

Health Update

I have had the 0,2 and now 6 week infusions of Remicade with no ill effects. Well, if you don't count the totally incompetent Kaiser nurses who can't start an IV worth a dang!! Other than that, it is just a 3 hour nap and reading session for me.

I am tapering off the Prednisone as well with no ill effects. I cant wait for the side effects from it to decrease. I am tired of the acne, water weight and round 'moon face' I have from it. Yuck!!

I am also consistently over 135lbs now for at least a week. That is good. Now I need to dial back my food consumption and just stay there, or else I will just start gaining fat. No thank you, that is not the Rowdy way.

All in all, I would say I am 90% of my normal self in all ways. So that is great!!

Thank you God! And all who helped me!