Heavyhands, week 3, day 2

• Weight: 272.5
• Walked for 31 minutes, doing four sets of flyes, lifts, and overheads, 35 reps per set, with 1-lb weights. Exercises still feel difficult.
• Heartrate stayed in 140s most of the time, sometimes up into 150s. Monitor mostly behaved itself.

I’ve just been all exercise reports recently, haven’t I? Sorry about that. Mostly whatever else I’ve got going on is internal, just thinking and concluding, generally about things I can’t share, or that aren’t interesting.

I decided a few days ago that if I hadn’t hit 270 pounds by the end of the month I’d go on Atkins. That gives me 16 days to lose 2.5 pounds — shouldn’t be a problem if I keep working out and watching what I eat. Then comes the real challenge — getting to 260 by the end of June.

After that we find out if I can keep this up in the summer heat.

A colophon that transcends all colophons

Does everyone here read Paul Ford’s Ftrain regularly? Here he is talking about books, typography, and specifically the colophon of Bruce Rogers’s Paragraphs on Printing:

Rogers’ book terminates with a tremendous 3-page colophon, which wonders aloud if it is not perhaps “the longest colophon on record.” I take this personally, as a challenge for some day in the future, a challenge to create a colophon that transcends all colophons, a colophon that not only mentions the fonts of choice, but describes the sensuous lilt of certain descenders, offering prayers for good linespacing and a hymn to the golden ratio—a colophon that compares the kerned nestling of the “a” against the “W” in “Water” to the cuddling Madonna and child, and describes not only the paper that holds the ink but explains how the exact proportions of the lowercase “q” were debated so avidly that there was a stabbing in the foundry.

It gets even better. Go read.

One year on LJ

This is the one-year anniversary of my first LiveJournal post. It only took me three days to prove myself wrong.

Now I can do “one year ago” entries when I can’t think of anything real to write.