Random Musing: You should see my eyebrows. One of the things that happens to us early middle aged men is weird stuff starts to happen with hair. I am fortunate that most of the hair on my head is still present, nothing wrong with baldness in general, but when you are 5'8" and your head is a little larger than that...I'm not sure bald ends well. The day may come, but I'll wait as long as I can. My hair has been graying for 13 years though and is now well beyond "graying" to just "gray."
But back to my eyebrows. A few years back I added the occasional trimming of an eyebrow to my regimen of nose hair trimming and more recently some stray ear hairs as well (like I said middle age and hair). I just hadn't paid much attention to my eyebrows for the last couple weeks and when I did look this morning at work, I was surprised to see Andy Rooney's eyebrows looking back at me. As a man, I might have been happy if you said there was part of my body that stuck straight out rigidly for a great distance from the rest of my body...provided it wasn't my damn eyebrow! But I trimmed them up and my relative youth is restored until the next indignity.
On the excitement front, I am stating to get fired up about the Castle Rock Triathlon on the 23rd. It feels like a bit of a re-birth. I know I've done several of these sort of things in my past but the last one was 4 years ago and my life mileage is up since then, so I'm pretty proud to be ready for a sprint tri. Barring mechanical issues of bike or body, I'll be able to reclaim the word triathlete on July 23rd. That's pretty cool and I should remember than when I'm feeling flabby at the pool or depressed on the scale.
Exercise update: After two pretty tough training days, I elected to take a rest day today. My only activity was walking Jake the dog in the heat. I'm planning on running or swimming or both tomorrow. The rest day seemed to make sense, but I hope I don't regret it too much weighing in tomorrow. I already suspect the new scale will provide a higher number than the old one, but I must remember it's just a new baseline. I don't really weigh more, the scale is just new... That's not rationalizing is it?
Nutrition update: We have bagels in the house which meant one for breakfast and one for a snack later. And of course someone brought scones for a treat at work. When you combine that with a PBJ and apple for lunch followed by spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, I may be a bit carb heavy today. My body seems to love the carbs, but I need to wean off.
Also, I did drink a soda at work today. It wasn't diet, it was regular, so I avoided NutraSweet, but did add some useless calories. I may have cut back on the Excedrin too soon. I was working on a major headache at about 1:30 which sent me towards the warm arms of my new friend Cherry Pepsi.
On the good side, I seem to avoid most fast food and this is the least soda I've drank in years.
Have a good night and think light tomorrow morning, so I don't jump out the window.
But back to my eyebrows. A few years back I added the occasional trimming of an eyebrow to my regimen of nose hair trimming and more recently some stray ear hairs as well (like I said middle age and hair). I just hadn't paid much attention to my eyebrows for the last couple weeks and when I did look this morning at work, I was surprised to see Andy Rooney's eyebrows looking back at me. As a man, I might have been happy if you said there was part of my body that stuck straight out rigidly for a great distance from the rest of my body...provided it wasn't my damn eyebrow! But I trimmed them up and my relative youth is restored until the next indignity.
On the excitement front, I am stating to get fired up about the Castle Rock Triathlon on the 23rd. It feels like a bit of a re-birth. I know I've done several of these sort of things in my past but the last one was 4 years ago and my life mileage is up since then, so I'm pretty proud to be ready for a sprint tri. Barring mechanical issues of bike or body, I'll be able to reclaim the word triathlete on July 23rd. That's pretty cool and I should remember than when I'm feeling flabby at the pool or depressed on the scale.
Exercise update: After two pretty tough training days, I elected to take a rest day today. My only activity was walking Jake the dog in the heat. I'm planning on running or swimming or both tomorrow. The rest day seemed to make sense, but I hope I don't regret it too much weighing in tomorrow. I already suspect the new scale will provide a higher number than the old one, but I must remember it's just a new baseline. I don't really weigh more, the scale is just new... That's not rationalizing is it?
Nutrition update: We have bagels in the house which meant one for breakfast and one for a snack later. And of course someone brought scones for a treat at work. When you combine that with a PBJ and apple for lunch followed by spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, I may be a bit carb heavy today. My body seems to love the carbs, but I need to wean off.
Also, I did drink a soda at work today. It wasn't diet, it was regular, so I avoided NutraSweet, but did add some useless calories. I may have cut back on the Excedrin too soon. I was working on a major headache at about 1:30 which sent me towards the warm arms of my new friend Cherry Pepsi.
On the good side, I seem to avoid most fast food and this is the least soda I've drank in years.
Have a good night and think light tomorrow morning, so I don't jump out the window.
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