Before yesterday, the last time I hit the gym was May 26, the Sunday before Memorial Day. So, two full weeks off. In the interim I probably picked up the dumbbells a couple times and did some triceps dips, maybe a set or two of half-push-ups (half being halfway between wall pushups and proper floor pushups). I did get my sit-up mat out late last week and determined my abs are still in fair condition. Yesterday started with 1 cup of coffee and a scramble dog wrap before I showered and dressed and hurried... (...more)

Presbyterianism is a Calvinist denomination. Calvinism (as opposed to Arminianism) teaches that God selected and predestined some for salvation despite mankind's total depravity. Arminianism teaches that God imbued us with free will to respond to (or resist) His salvation by grace. Calvinism doesn't sit well with me. I don't see the justice, mercy or love in God creating a predestined clockwork universe where people, with subjectively authentic feelings whether "totally depraved" or not, are run through... (...more)

The last couple weeks' near-constant gloomy weather has been sucking the life out of me, and more of the same predicted for the coming week. Trying to keep my mind's eye on the rainbows. Thursday I went shopping for sundries at the Sears at Boca Town Center mall: underwear, which was on sale but what I wanted was not in stock. A slap-chop or strawberry slicer; no dice (heheh). A hand blender; they had a lot of overpriced gimmicky crap as well as $250 high-end blenders and food processors but nothing mat... (...more)

Frustrated with being stuck where I was on my jQuery app development, I distilled it to a much simpler, leaner demo. The concept is a minimal employee record editor like you'd see in an HR app, featuring an employee ID field, first and last name, SSN and DOB. I think it's a fair testament to my source design foresight that I was able to copy the whole app directory, change a few database connection parameters in the config file, rework some of the SQL and voilà - working demo. Well... "mostly" working.... (...more)

1. was out and about perhaps before church in a strip mall and ducked into a restaurant just as it was opening for the day with an urgent nature call. Stalls had doors but so low as to be pointless and a crowd of what was apparently morning bathroom regulars and one matronly employee wandered into the enormous restroom. I guess the saving grace was it was all strangers. 2. Something about cats being euthanized or just killed, made me cry and one of my housemates was laughing at me for crying. I did not ... (...more)