The Other Don Kelly

Morning weigh-in: 190.5#, 14.5%

It’s chilly again, and rainy out to boot, so I’m just chilling at home. Anne is playing violin with one of her concert friends, and later we’ll be brewing beer, but right now I’m enjoying my lethargy.

We did a short ride yesterday, with our friend Shari W, going over to Southside where we picked up our brewing supplies, grabbed some take-out at Tulum, and then went over to Bonn Place for a long, liquid, late lunch. Allie was working behind the bar, and Erin popped in for a bit — we have mutual friends, and she lives in the neighborhood so that’s her hangout — and eventually Shari’s husband Rick joined us, so it was a good convivial afternoon. But I discovered once again, the hard way once again, that I am not much of a day drinker: when we got home all I wanted was to go to bed even though it was like 6:00. Two beers — maybe three? Party animal!

We made a roast beef for dinner, and stayed up long enough to go to bed at a reasonable hour.

Morning weigh-in: 189.5#, 15.5% BF

Solid trainer workout last night, followed by a pretty sparse dinner, and there you have it. I’m heading out in a few minutes to take a photo of the last bike-parking art installation over on Southside, which will finish up the Bethlehem bike-parking map project… Soon I’ll be heading back to my old projects — Lehigh Valley routing engine, LANTA bus stops and routes for OpenStreetMap, etc, and we may have a new project (3D  terrain models made from layers of CNC laser-cut plywood), but for now I’m sort of “on vacation.”

Anyway and in other words, not much going on.

Morning weigh-in: 190.5#, 14.0% BF

Well I’ve been so busy (sooooo busy!) that I haven’t had time or inclination for blogging. I got that CAT/NCC mapping project done, with nine routes  in total mapped: two from Easton, two from Nazareth and five from Bethlehem. There were a few other things on the agenda as well, which made even my exercise commitments difficult — I still get in my yoga, but there were a few days where I was basically doing a “50 push-up challenge,” to say nothing of the trainer workouts… But I did get in today’s trainer ride, and my push-ups are all done, so now I’m ahead of the game for the evening — which is good because Anne’s ukulele band is practicing here tonight, starting in an hour: workouts were “now or never” when I did them a few minutes ago.

Anyway, here are a few pictures from this Saturday’s Women’s March on Philadelphia.

Morning weigh-in: 190.0#, 13.0% BF

Another night out at Brew Works, this time with Anne and Donna (and without the burger). No trainer workout either, though I’m still faithfully doing my yoga and my push-ups. They come in handy when I feel chilly: rather than turning the heat up in the house, I turn up my own heat…

It’s pretty damn cold out again, by the way, though there is no snow. I may do a towpath ride in a minute, or I may hop on the trainer. We’ll see.

Morning weigh-in: 190.5#, 14.5% BF

Looks like those numbers are back to normal — thanks to a cheeseburger and a couple of beers! Went out solo to Brew Works last night. I ran into Greg H and Laurie  with some of his high school friends, but they showed up not long before I left — it was nice to see them, but I was feeling the beer and the burger, and I was pretty tired. Which is why it was so weird when I woke up around 3:00 or 4:00, and couldn’t go back to sleep. No indigestion, no hangover or anything like that, just toss and turn, and I got up early…

So now I’m just working on another CAT map project: commuter routes for Northampton Community College students. They want some recommended routes that students, who may not be the strongest or most confident cyclists (at least at first), would be comfortable riding; they are looking for routes from Bethlehem, Easton and Nazareth, and I’m doing multiple routes (easy, more direct, etc). After I/we get the routes hashed out I’ll be looking into how to present them, probably a printed map of some kind.

Morning weigh-in: 187.0#, 16.5% BF

Not sure what’s going on there with the weigh-in, but I figure that if you keep hitting them with sledgehammers the walls will eventually come down. Of course, I’d like to think that the “wall” in this case was that logjam in my official weight, but sledgehammers are two-edged swords, so to speak, and this sudden drop in weight could be a sign that I’ve been overdoing things. I got in a short trainer workout last night, that’s two nights in a row, so today will only be the morning yoga and the push-ups and we’ll call that a rest day. No idea what’s going on with the body fat; it’s usually low when I’m dehydrated, maybe this is the opposite.

Then again, it could all be due to my dinner last night: basically I ate half of a leftover cheese tray and not much else. I was planning to go out to eat, but it was raining so hard and I was tired…

It’s beautiful and mostly sunny today even if cold, but Anne is in New York, at a knitting convention with her sisters. They left yesterday in the rain, to try and beat the worst of the winter storm which came down last night. She may be home today, or stay through until tomorrow depending on the group consensus. I’ll try to eat right until she gets home.