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daylog posted: Thu 2012-04-12 15:01:30 tags: daylog, timex
Breakfast: maybe half a serving of Northland "berry berry maqui", which despite its label claims of "overflowing with antioxidants", provides 100%DV of C and maybe ~10-15%DV of A and E. At 30g of sugar per serving, it's pretty empty calories, so I won't be going that route again. Brunch: a powersauce because I was feeling seriously hungry, and I knew I wanted to hit teh gym, but I also knew that anything substantial I picked up in my travels was going to be too heavy to exercise on comfortably.

Dropped off some stuff at the AVDA thrift shop: 2 large white long-sleeve button-down oxford shirts, because after months of haunting Waldemart I'd decided that size be damned, I needed any shirt with a collar that wasn't wearing away to holes at the crease - more than I could wait for size-medium shirts to be actually stocked. And then a couple weeks and wearings/washings later, of course, the mediums were in stock... smh
...a nice drafting compass that was a stocking-stuffer when I was 10 or 12 and which I therefore hadn't had the heart to just throw away, 2 Sterilite drawer-style storage pieces, and my War and Peace paperback, since I have a public-domain digital edition. Oh, and a graphing calculator Nurse Girl gave me when she gradjitated nursing school. And a cheap wooden chess set, maybe a hand-me-down from Lisa.

Today's second quest started with finding out what model my watch is, so I could identify the battery type without opening it up, and hopefully learn exactly what screwdriver spec is required for the teeny phillips-head screws. Research suggests the model is T78587, aka module 739 (not model... the timex website offers documentation by "module number"). This points to it taking a 3V coin type battery, for example the Maxell CR2016.

As for the screwdriver: At Radio Shack I showed them the watch, they immediately responded that they're "not allowed" to open the watch up. I expected this from the last time I replaced the battery, 4-5 years ago, although at that store they'd had the good grace to lend me their screwdriver. (Yeah... it's like that lol) So I explained that I don't want to pay a jeweler $10 to install a $3 battery every time, I just want to buy a suitable screwdriver. Radio Shack does carry a $15 kit of precision screwdrivers, torx drivers, mini wire clippers and such, but I couldn't see buying $14 worth of crap I don't need just to have the $1 worth of screwdriver to open up a $20 watch to replace a $3 battery...

So, they suggested the jewelry store next door might know where to source a screwdriver. The jewelry store quoted me $10 to replace the battery. So I explained my intent, and they at least were able to direct me to Warmalt, who, they were quite certain, sells suitable screwdrivers. The jewelery counter clerk at Warmalt itself didn't even know if they carried a suitable bit of hardware, and like Radio Shack had a policy of not opening up the watch case themselves, but first suggested a flea market... lol... not for a screwdriver, but because they won't mark up the cost of opening the case to install a battery. As for the screwdriver... she tentatively suggested the hardware section. The dremels-drills-and-bits aisle of hardware had a choice between a $2, 6-piece precision screwdriver set and a $2, swappable-head driver with a set of 4 different bits. I went with the 6-piece set on the principle that more heads for the same price is the better deal, and there's plenty of room in my toolbox for the full 6-piece kit and case.

Next stop, I hit the Cybexes for a few light sets - see session 98 recap for lifting. just to get back in the swing. My last weight-lifting session was Tue of last week, and I'd described even that session as "suboptimal", so my expectations were low and I wasn't out to make it hurt anyway.
arm curl: 10-12x 30#
chest press: 12x 90#
ab crunch: 12-16x 90#
arm extension: 12x 50#
row: 10-12x 70# / rear delt 10-12x 30# (3 alternating subsets on 2nd pass)
leg curl: 12x 70#
leg press: 12x 230#

Lunch: egg+cheese on multigrain bagel and unsweet iced tea.