‘Obviously A Major Malfunction’: 28 years ago today. 20140128

[Simon]

Good morning world

Originally Posted by Cleo

I remember living in Miami and looking to the sky to see if I could see the smoke trails from the Space Shuttle as it launched. I could just barely make them out but knew something had gone wrong so went to my car and turned on the radio. Not a good day for NASA at all.

Back in 1986 I was living in Manhattan and heard the news from tv in the other room as I was working in my home office. Bad day for sure. I've looked closely at all O-rings ever since.

And exactly nine years earlier I had a lot of fun in the snow when I visited Buffalo just in time for the Blizzard of 1977. I've never seen that much snow happen that fast ever again.

The last few days I've been having another kind of fun time. Manually cleaning a mailing list of all the addresses which should have been removed due to bouncing but which were being kept on because the receiving mail servers were sending back "try again later" messages when they should have been sending "never try this one again" messages.

Quick update on the first 5 weeks of using my custom-built standup desk (mentioned here), I'd going to say that I like working standing up most of the time. The first 2-3 weeks were rough since my feet and legs were used to taking it easy when I sat down all day. But eventually they came around and I was able to stand for longer periods of time without having to sit for awhile. I still do alternate between sitting and standing, but now I'm not sitting down because I have to sit down.
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One more note about working standing up. Since I work at home I always got up and walked around a lot during the day, just to take care of everything home-related that I can't do seated at my desk. Or at least I thought I did. Now that I'm already on my feet I find I walk away from the desk more to do more things at the moment instead of putting them off to do later "when I get up from my desk."
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Biggest take away so far -- One reason I tried this was that my weight had crept up to 240 and I was not going to let it go one pound higher. I have not changed my diet at all or added other exercises, and I only use my treadmill as much as I was before I started working standing up. Today my weight is down to 227 and I credit a lot of that loss to being on my feet a lot more every day.

(btw ... I just sprinkled some emoticons in there to break up the long text)

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...added my weekly forecast below as more reason for big smile.