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Rows: A Foundational Movement

Rows This is a foundational movement that I have been working on. This month I start with a slight elevation in my feet to increase the difficulty. I have 90 pounds or so left to lose but I am not giving up on remaking this 53 year old body while I have time. Changes to Make to My Form Keep Elbows …

New Book: Fishing For Fun and to Wash your Soul.

The Key Metric in Making Change

The best advice I heard and verified in my own life is the following for quitting something. Keep quitting until you have quit. Step 1: Decide that you are going to make a change. You know without a shred of doubt that it is bad for you. Step 2: Never doubt the decision. Step 3: (if needed) If you …

My Health Journey Continues

Boston Butt on the Big Green Egg!

The Numbers. @miraz

I am thinking about fixing this and using it.

Today is a good day Thank you @jean @burk

Living Phone Free

Last night was my wifes birthday. We had a lovely time. In my exploration of phone/no phone/flip phone/apple watch - BS that I have been wasting too much time thinking about - I went out with out any device. I had a lovely time. The person I care the the most about in the world was with me. I was …

Screen Time Report Back: 2021 Week 24

22 min per day. I am mostly happy about not using email or web or youtube as much, if any on my phone. Change for Next Week I turned on screen time on my ipad. I am not sure how I feel about this if it will mess up my metrics. But I have decided that I am not going to be an ipad user that much. I …

Dear MB Community and Internet Hive Mind: Imagine you gave up your smartphone. For good. You still wanted to take pictures. What would be your everyday carry camera?

The Smart Phone Dilemma

Today I had a Zoom call with a performing artist L. Warner and preforms under the name Cerulean. He lives and creates in London. I found him on my blogging platform micro.blog. First, can we just agree that people can be amazing and with technology - which I am about to rip on a little - we can …

What is it that modern people do not want to interact with files? Even with an app like drafts or Apple notes there are folders and documents to fiddle with. I find myself not wanting to open a simple word processor because I would have to decide where to save the file. Odd.

😊🙌👀🎁🥓🍳💛💙💜💥 - Testing my emoji on Windows 10. The MS Keyboard I have as a key for emoji.

Tropical Hibiscus. Common name- Double bloomers!

New hibiscus for the yard. A gift from a dear friend.

My Digital Divide

I cannot be trusted when I use a digital device. I sit at my computer with a thought of looking up some detail or sending a short email and while I am there my mind decides that I can do 2 other things really quick on Amazon or YouTube. And before long I have forgotten what I sat down to do. Today I …

imessage (Texts)

As I have thought more and more about not using a smart phone, I have gone through the various things I use a smartphone for and thought about how I would adapt. Music, Photos, Podcasts I can find workarounds for. imessage is one I cannot. Messages has become how people have conversations. How my …

iphone Screen Time Report Back: Digital Detox Week 32 in 2021

My iphone screen time report 52min of Daily Use Down 45% over last week. Top Apps MLB - 1hr 22m - I listen to Baseball games while I do chores. - Does this count as screen time? Sarafi - 47 min - Reading Blogs Youtube - 33 min I have a love hate with ol Youtube imessage 27 min

Twitter Detox

Since deleting my Twitter account. I find myself wanting to post on my blog (micro.blog) more and more and then coming here to check the comments. Which are not that many :) It is the same reflex of distraction seeking that I did with Twitter. Just part of the detox? I hope so.

Sans Device Diary

I am exploring using less technology. I left my phone and Apple Watch behind. I sported on my Timex watch. Today I helped my wife move some things back into her office. She is preparing to go back to work in the post COVID world. She works at the University of Texas and parking is always a struggle. …

I took last week off from my workouts. Today I started back and I lost some gains. It felt good to be back.

Twitter Deleted

Today I am breaking the first rule of No Social Media Club. I deleted my twitter account that I created in 2010. In 2018 I deleted Facebook. It took me a while to click the button. But I did and I never looked back. In in 2019 I deleted my Instagram account. I was more addicted and doomed scrolled …