Project 365: Day 126

Here is what my new bed looks like with the mattress and sheets:

I need to get some sort of mattress cover to protect the mattress from my funk and bedbugs.  I'll get one tomorrow if I feel like it.

No meaningful football

For the first Sunday since September, there is no meaningful football on today. Sure, the Pro Bowl is on tonight, but who cares? Football is the ultimate team sport so you can't assemble a team on short notice and expect it to perform at a high level.

I think they should scrap the Pro Bowl, but it makes too much money. Having it the week before the Super Bowl is pretty stupid, but I'm not in charge of anything.

So...instead of plunkin' my ass in my chair in front of the TV, I'll hit the library this afternoon to get some books to make some more progress on my 101 items in 1001 days challenge.

Trying out my new oven

My new stove was delivered and installed Thursday afternoon, but last night was its maiden voyage. To properly test it out, I made pizza. Here we've got the pre-cooked pizza made with homemade dough, Classico red sauce, some fancy pepperoni and a pound of fresh mozzarella:

Twenty five minutes later, accompanied by a piercing smoke detector, the pizza was done:

The sauce dripped off the pizza onto the parchment paper and then onto the stove which is what caused the smoke which set up the detector. Even vigorous towel waving near the detector didn't work so we opened up a bunch of windows and got the ceiling fans going. The detector is hooked to the house circuits rather than battery-powered. I was looking for the hallway circuit breaker when it finally cut out. Holy moly.

Anyhow, the pizza turned out really well. I'm even having a couple of slices for breakfast.

Project 365: Day 125

My new bed came at 4:30 yesterday and I put it together with a lot of help after dinner.  It has too many screws and more of the pieces should've come put together.  It doesn't quite fit together perfectly, but oh well.  We got it together after a bit of struggling and a couple of screw driver blisters:

It's a king sized platform bed and I'm not sure how it can be moved again without some serious disassembling.  Heh.  Nothing to worry about now.

I got a king sized latex mattress to go along with it and slept on everything for the first time last night.  Fantastic.  My back feels much better.

Fitness update

Sweet. Another week and another record low body fat percentage. I'm now down to 23.5% which means I lost just under a pound of fat this week. I've been working hard playing badminton, volleyball and basketball. I actually played pretty well during basketball this past Thursday. I rebounded quite well and even scored a half dozen times. I used to be ok and I'm finally getting back to that level. I play for fitness, but it's nice to score every now and then since the other team usually leaves me open. I've got an ugly shot for sure.

As you see, the slope for my body fat percentage is pretty steep. I'm sure I'll start to plateau soon enough, but I've got more chunk around the waist to lose. I would be pretty stoked if I could get under 20% by the end of the year.

Project 365: Day 124

I'm on the third book in Brent Weeks' Shadow trilogy:

The books are well written with a cool (and different) look at magic.  They have the violence of Martin's Song of Ice and Fire, but not quite the depth.  I definitely recommend reading this series.

101 items in 1001 days update

I successfully completed my first 101 items in 1001 days task, #100, last night when I stayed away from Facebook for 15 consecutive days. 

It was easier than expected.