Vitals this weekt:
I have been eating much too much during the weekend. After I purchased the new counter top oven I have been trying new recipes and they have been great but I must stop and that includes all the ice cream I have had as well.
I completely missed posting last week…. Goes to show where my mind has been. Not on me lately.
I have spent the last 21 months trying to get Angie over the “I want $X.XX and I want it now”. I went ahead like I said and gave her 8,500.00 to pay off her car and all the stupid loans she had plus pay for her fathers tomb stone and let her know she can’t ask for anymore. Well since then she has gone off the deep end and every time she asks (yes, she has not stopped), she asks for four to five hundred at a freaking pop. Finally I just told her I’m not paying you anymore, stop asking. Her next response was “Would you turn this phone off please”. Wow a please out of her and needless to say I said ‘No, I have to pay for it anyway’ and her response was ‘Well I most likely will turn it off’. Go ahead I say. Now, the next time she talks to me in a couple years she can not say I turned off her phone. She also can’t get married to get another phone because she never got the divorce she said she would get. I have not heard from her in a few days and that is still not enough.
Now, Vitals this week, better than last:
I have been on a non exercising trend lately and I think Angie had put me in a depressed state. I didn’t want to do anything but buy toys and lay around. Specifically I did not want to get on the bike. Last week screwed up my streak for the year which upsets me a bit however this week I’m back on the bike and will be getting out of this depression.
I was completely out of my routine for the last month at least and now have started again and adjusted a bit. Getting up earlier, around 2:00 to 2:10 in the morning instead of 2:30. Last week and so far this week it has made a big difference.
I purchased a DJI Osmo gimbal camera which takes great buttery smooth shots, a GoPro Hero5 which is leaps and bounds over my other GoPro and I will receive a new label maker Friday to attach my FAA registration number on the spark.
The remote controller for my Tello arrived and it makes a huge difference, much easier to control. The last three of four flights I have made I have not crashed at all and I finally received my 15″ landing pad.
All of that should make me all set to go fly! I have a flight plan set up for Sunday barring any weather changes.
Before get into the vitals statement let me tell you I had a great albeit short time flying my new DJI Spark this weekend. I could not fly at the park I wanted to because of weather but I did fly outside my apartment and just a bit Saturday morning before the rain started again. Flying the Spark is so much easier than the first Parrot drone I purchased years ago. The Tello is great and easy to fly but the Spark is a dream, getting the Mavic-2 Pro will be even better. Pictures will be next with all of the accessories I have purchased for my Spark
Vitals
The statement about pizza lets me know I failed this weekend but also that the pounds that are there are most likely water.
My vitals checking batteries need replacing so back to that next week.
On to the good stuff!
I added Drone number two to my collection and it is the DJI Spark. A nice compact drone, great for learning the larger size drones. My Tello has been great for learning to control the drones especially muscle memory for the left and right controls. Moving the little guy around inside the apartment teaches you quite well, lots of crashes but the little guy is rough and tough, no damage to the drone or anything around the apartment.
The Spark will be a different story, no flying indoors until I am very used to flying. It looks like I may have found the perfect spot near my place, Jackson Park which seems to be outside any restricted areas, close by with flat and open areas to fly.
I purchased the Spark on eBay getting what was supposed to be the fly more combo but missing the DJI Spark bag and extra propellers but did get a hard case two extra batteries and parabolic range extenders for the controller. After purchasing the bag, extra propellers, landing pad, gimbal, joystick protection and OTG (On the Go) cables I still saved 300.00 over the regular fly more combo. I did not get any manuals but downloaded them from DJI’s website. Now I think I will be ready for my first flight this weekend.
Edit: Probably won’t fly this weekend, the weather forecast is looking to prevent that – it is what it is.
Vitals
My weight shocked the shit out of me although it probably should not have. I had quite a bit to drink (water) this weekend and not much in the was of working out to drop it. I also used my new counter top oven (Breville Smart Oven Prove Convection) and made some chicken divan with rice while I was testing that new toy out.
I also received another new toy, a Ryze Tello drone by DJI, the pictures are below. I’ll add some images giving you an idea of the size but for now think of the items on the second photo all fitting easily on a piece of notebook paper.
You can fly this with your cell phone or controller purchased separately (mine will arrive in a couple weeks). All videos are stored on the phone. I’m trying out a new hobby and will use this for training purposes as it seems to react much the same way it’s big brothers do. I’m still researching which of the larger models to get. DJI and Autel seem to be the front runners so far
The title is a condition I am not familiar with at all. When someone is depressed I think of them as crying or upset all the time and that is not me. I never feel like crying (well, some movies get to me) or get upset with people, ever. Now I’m beginning to think my lack of what I perceive to be will power or rather motivation may be depression and I think I know the cause. My inability to reach some goals (buying a house) because I am letting others hold me back. By inability I mean save for a down payment, save to retirement etc. and the person whom I am referring to would be Angie. No matter what I do or say she refuses to stop asking for money and when she does I always break down and give her what she wants. Hell, I spent my bonus paying off her car and stupid loans she had taken out. Saturday she was going to her nieces wedding and wanted a couple hundred to get a gift and gas. Two days later she say she needs 400.00 to pay her storage or they will sell everything. She did not need the 400.00 when she was asking for the 200.00? She does not know the difference between a need and want. Everything to her is want, want, want.. she spends that and then the need presents itself and she expects the money to be there and I give it.
Tuesday morning I had just that situation where. On Saturday I gave her 200.00 for a gift and then come Tuesday morning she is demanding the 400.00 which I gave to her. I also said she has given me no choice but to cut communication with her. I sent a rather lengthy text explaining the situation and that she is now done getting any money, at the end I told her it would be in her best interest to not respond to the text. I won’t turn off the phone because I have to pay for it anyway but if she continues to try to contact me I will have to block her phone number. I ended up taking an extra two days off work because of my frustration with her and I’m tired of it. I drank last weekend as well. Time for another reset and get things back together in my head.
Vitals
None of these are that bad seeing as this weekend did not go as I had expected.
This morning vitals
This weekend went really well. During the week I was not in the mood to work out at all, when I did I felt great but I could not get that motivated. All vitals look good with the exception of weight but now, with time that will align itself as well. Holidays will be the hard part.
I screwed that one up. After a great weekend of doing nothing and having a fantastic time doing it, I arrived at work and found a chocolate bar and hostess cupcake on my desk with a birthday card.
It was a nice gesture from my boss but I don’t usually eat milk chocolate (dark 86% cacao yes) and have not had a hostess cupcake since I was about ten years old. In a nutshell I ate the bar, before breakfast mind you and having nothing in my stomach. About 10:30 or so I ate the cupcake and then my breakfast, one hard boiled egg.
After an hour it all started to go down hill. I went for a short walk down stairs and on the way up I felt very dizzy and had an funny feeling in my chest (heart). My heart beat started racing to roughly 185+ beats per minute and would not stop. By 2:00, sitting at my desk getting ready for a conference call my heart rate went down to about 110.
I packed up to leave for home and was taking things slowly but when I started walking ‘down’ the stairs my heart started racing again and I was praying I would make it to the car.
When I got home I started eating anything I could get my hands on that was not sugar and drinking some water etc. and was able to get my heart rate down to less than 100 but still over 90. I took my vitamins, super greens drink and went to bed.
Upon getting up in the morning I found my resting hear rate to be 78 which is not bad but a number I consider high for me and after a morning walk my heart rate was still high and my heart rhythm was so irregular my blood pressure cuff kept cutting off with an error. After a few hours and another short walk my body seemed to rid itself of all those toxins from the day before but I still could not ride the bike.
I feel really good now but need to put my body back on its regular diet and get back to normal so, the experiment officially starts today, one week late.
Take note: Do not mess with your body especially when you feel good!
This morning vitals
Today is the start. I’m still on vacation today but the ‘no alcohol’ rule starts now. Actually it started when I had my last drink on Saturday night. Sam will be quite surprised when I don’t want to go to the liquor store on the way home Thursday. That will be the test, if I can do that or not. I am looking forward to these results I’m quite confident in my ability to do this.
I’ll be doing this experiment for at least three months, through the middle of November. During that time I will be posting graphs of my resting heart-rate, blood pressure and weight. I believe all of those will be affected by this experiment, to what extent we all shall see.
What I think is my weight will be affected by a significant amount followed by hear-rate to a certain extent and then my blood pressure. I’m sure I’ll see a big difference in the fluctuation I normally see during the weekend when I drink the most (Friday night and Saturday) , I never drink during the week or if I may have to work the following day.
Helping me out will be the large number of courses I have purchased on Udemy that have not been started yet. This will give me plenty of time to work on those courses as well as start setting up the outline for my courses as well. The outline for my book for SharePoint and maybe some SAP courses geared toward manufacturing. I need to look around and see what might be available for that topic (that just came to mind).