Today I finished debugging a new part of this customer-service app in MS Access 2000. Basically the idea is, we have a table that stores affiliate data, one record per affiliate; each affiliate may be associated with one or more venues; and at each venue they may have scheduled some number of seminar event dates. So in relational-database terms, we added a table to represent venues, each keyed to an affiliate; and a table to represent seminar event dates, each event keyed to a venue (and thereby implici... (...more)

session #44: 3.3mi / 42m05s - best 3.3mi time yet, by over a minute = session average 4.7mph. 5.0mph is getting "easy"; probably sometime before vaycay I will attempt 2 miles at that pace. I can do half-miles fairly routinely at 5.5-5.8ish. I've lost track of my one-lap limit but it's probably around 6.3-6.5ish; and top speed this session was 7.4mph for a half-lap. After the treadmill I hit the upper-body Cybex machines. First set, 12 reps / 50# on chest press, 6 reps / 50# on overhead press, 10 or ... (...more)

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session #43: 43m08s, best 3.3mi time yet by ~45s. Set for 185# body weight, the treadmill estimated I burned close to 500 kcal. After a cooldown, I had "my" row of Cybex machines all to myself, as God intended. There are 5: Dual-axis chest press: pecs, anterior deltoid and triceps Dual-axis overhead press: shoulders Arm curl: biceps Arm extension: triceps Ab crunch: abs My ideal upper-body routine, when there aren't other patrons running interference, is to do a set of 6-12 reps, move on to the ... (...more)

La Banderita multi-grain soft taco tortilla: 104 kcal, 16%DV fiber, 5g protein (10%DV), 19g carb 1/2 cup (2 servings) "eggstirs" (pubilx store-brand "egg beaters"): 60 kcal, 12g protein (20%DV), 100%DV B2, semi-significant amounts of A, D, folate, B12 ...pan-cooked to a solid on minimal heat with a tsp of extra virgin olive oil (40 kcal) 2 oz extra sharp cheddar: 220 kcal, 14g protein (28%DV) ~1 tbsp California Sun-Dry tomato pesto: ...1 serving is 4 tbsp and nutrition per serving was negligible to s... (...more)