P90X - Day 1
I finished Day one of P90X yesterday and I am feeling pretty good about it.
I ate a lot of protein and never really felt hungry through the day. Except towards the end of the work day, and thats when I ate my bar. I had 2 cans of tuna for lunch and I don't particually care for tuna, but I like the price of it, so I ate it strait, I am used to eating strait tuna, but never 2 cans at once.
Dinner I had tilapia with some asparagus. The rest of the family had some pitas which looked mighty tasty. I am probably eating too much vegetable according to the diet, but I like veggies so I don't really care.
The workout for the night was Chest and Back, meaning lots of push-ups and pull-ups/chin-ups. My wife did it with me which was fun, and we only had to pause a few times since we only have 1 pull-up bar.
I enjoyed the pace of the video and it has timers that show you how much time you have left in total and how much time you have left for that particular exercise or break. Also the guy, Tony I think is his name, is not too terribly annoying.
Today I am pretty sore as DOMS has set in my chest muscles. I'm glad we won't be using weights tonight.
The combination of Lime Gatorade and vanilla protein powder as a recovery drink is really quite tasty. Also the Detour protien bar decent.
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P90X The Beginning
FitnessI signed up for the Warrior Dash coming in May and also just needing to lose some weight in general I decided to try out the P90X program.
I started really working again at the begining of last year starting with strength training, then I cancelled my gym membership and tried out running with the Couch to 5K, which I find good but a little boring.
Aaron over at Progressive Overload told me about P90X and after checking it out I decided to give it a try.
I will be using this as my journal and hopefully be updaing every day. I think what I decided, since I am going to be working out at night, I will update a day off. So even though today is day 1 for me, I will make my day 1 post tommorow.
P90X is a 90 day fitness plan including working out 7 days a week and a diet plan that I intend to follow as closly as possible. So far the changes I have made are the fact that I don't want to buy the P90x official stuff, like the drink and bars. Instead I am using a Detour bar and for the drink I am going to mix gatorade and protien powder. I will do a full write up of those later.
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MythTV Sound Woes
LinuxThe biggest problem I am currently having with MythTV is sound. I have onboard sound which is theoretically disabled in the bios and a Sound Blaster Live! Value which is the one I want to use.
I have tried a number of things.
When I removed the Sound Blaster and tried to use the onboard, I lost all sound.
I tried to set a script to switch the default VLC sound driver to the Sound Blaster.
What really gets me is why the system even sees the onboard sound at all, disabling it from the bios should in theory keep the OS from knowing it is there at all.
What I belive is happening is that at boot time the system sees the two sound cards and assigns them an address, either hw0 or hw1, but not the same every time. So if I boot and the Sound Blaster is set to hw1 and VLC is set to use hw1 then it works, but it is set to hw0 it does not. In this case I have to exit out of MythTV, open VLC preferences and switch the sound hardware address manually, then restart MythTV. Try talking your wife through that over the phone.
I want MythTV to work without having a mouse connected.
I also can't seem to get ISO's to have sound. I belive on this issue I just haven not found the right command switch to open the file.
These issues make me want to give Vista MCE a try. Another plus with using Vista is that I will be able to stream Netflix.
If I can find any of the answers for any of these problems I will update here, if not I will post about Vista MCE.
Hack Your Kids Toys
TechnologyOne of the many many toys our children have is a Lullaby Light Show, you wind it up, it plays music and lights up stuff on the ceiling. The problem is that it uses 3 D cell batteries. When they ran out I decided I could make it better.
I picked up a $3 LED flashlight from Frys and proceded to rip it apart to get the LED and batterries. I then opened up the toy to figure out where I could connect wires to complete the circuit.
Once that I connected the wires to the batteries and LED. Since I don't have a soldering iron I used the next best thing. Old speaker wire, duct tape, and hot glue.
Here is the bottom of the toy opened up after I had connected all the wires.
A closer look
Here is where the LED is housed.
To finish it off I shoved paper towel in to keep it from bouncing around too much. You can also see the leftovers of the flashlight housing.
All closed up, I present to you the finished product. Now not only does it weigh a lot less but the batteries should last at least until they no longer care about this at night.
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Protein Bar Recipe
FoodSo I have been looking around for a Protein bar recipe to make from home because store bought can be expensive, and have tons of ingredients that make it really expensive.
Here is the recipe.
Conrad's Almost Pretty Good Protein Bars
8 TBS Natural Peanut Butter, slightly melted
3 Egg Whites
1 Whole Egg
2 Scoops Protein (I use a low sugar Vanilla flavor)
2 TBS Ground Flax Seed
1/2 Cup Whole Wheat Flour
2/3 Cup Low Fat Soy Milk (I use Vanilla flavor again)
1/4 tsp Baking Soda
2 Cups Rolled Oats
1 Cup Whole Almonds
2/3 Cup Dried Cranberries
Mix all ingredients and squish into a 13x9 baking dish. Bake at 350 for 20 - 25 minutes. Allow to cool and cut into 8 bars.
Makes 8 bars.
Each bar will have about 350 calories, 20 grams of protein, and costs about 50 cents each, depending on specific ingredients used.
This creates a slightly breadlike bar, but the oats do not make it overly chewy. While the cranberries add sugar, the taste they add is hard to beat.
Let me know if you have any suggestions on how to further improve this.
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Does this remind you of anybody
HumorThis reminds me of someone, but I can't figure out who.
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