On 2,880 kgs - the Installment Plan

This morning's trip to the gym included weights.

No new record for weight lifted but I think my 6 sets of 6 at 80 kgs is probably a record for weight * reps.

Which I think I'm going to try and measure - so 36 *80 is 2,880 kgsreps.

PT's guideline is to spend some time working at 5% of maximum load but doing more reps to build up muscle and the nervous systems controls.

Lifting felt pretty good this morning - lots of energy. I think I could have done another couple of sets if needed (although perhaps ask me about that later when the post exercise soreness kicks in.)

On Technie Memes

I'm going to answer this questions about the first time I started using things rather than how old I was when they started, because they started at the same time for everyone - unless you are part of the global poor in which case they didn't start then, they started later.


• Did you have a cell phone prior to your thirties?

I had a mobile phone in my mid-twenties. I know this because my current mobile phone number (which is my second) includes my age when I got it. I used to have one of those Nokia phones that was indestructable. Now I have a smart phone.

• Did they exist?

They did. One of my girlfriend's at university had one for work. The first person I remember having a personal mobile phone was a friend of mine on my MSc course who had some personal security concerns so had one.

• Did you have cable when you were a little kid?

I barely had a television when I was a kid. My mum would often decide that not watching television was good for us as kids so I spent many years without a television. In fact I once got in trouble at school for not being able to complete a maths assisgnment to do with charting television watching in my household.

• Do you know what 8-track tapes are?

I know the are a thing. I'm not sure I could tell you what they do except that they seem to be important to the Beatles and therefore a very important cornerstone of Western civilisation, along with Coca Cola and the Morecome and Wise Christmas Special 1977.

• How about cassette tapes?

I know what these are.

• When did you get your first DVD player?

The first DVD player that I owned was about 12 years ago when I was 30. It could record DVD's and had a hard drive too. It was a very nice machine.

• Did you learn to type on a typewriter?

I did. In fact I have the Australian equivalent of a Standard Grade in Secretarial Studies and, when my eye is in, I can touch type at 100 words a minute. On a typewriter. By co-incidence I was thinking about typing last night. There is a slight strain of dyslexia like symptoms in my family. I get b and d mixed up when I write, but not when I type.

• What was the first computer you owned?

We had a family Commodore 128 when I was a lad and the first computer I owned was a generic desktop that I bought when I was at university in 1998.

• What age were you when you first got e-mail?

I can't remember. Probably during one of my summer jobs at uni. That was in the day when not everyone in an organisation would have email. Maybe not until I started work.

• Was the Internet around when you were a kid?

I think the internet was around but the World Wide Web had yet to take off. I didn't use it much at university and not lots and lots until I got a smart phone. All the world's facts in your pocket, along with all the world's nutters shouting that the facts are wrong.

• What age were you when Facebook, Twitter, Livejournal, and Dreamwidth started?

I started using Dreamwidth about a year ago when LJ when all anti-gay for the pay. LJ, I'd been on for at least five years, maybe ten. Facebook and Twitter about the same. I've stopped using Twitter mostly now.

• What was the first printer you owned like?

No idea - it came with the Commodore 128.

• Collegiate papers: typewriter or computer?

We had to hand them in typewitten, the university authorities did not care how this was done.

• How old were you when streaming came into being?

I started using streaming when we got a smart TV about 4 years ago. I now mostly watch programmes on catch up.

• What age were you when you got your first MP3 player?

I have never owned an MP3 player.

• Did you own a record player, cassette player, CD player, or MP3 player as a teen?

We had a music centre in our family room that had a record player and a double tape deck. I had a CD player at uni when I was still 19 I think.

• At what age did you start blogging on the Internet?

About 2011 I think. I had a blog for a while and then moved to LJ.

• What age were you when the e-readers came out?

I've had a Kindle for about ten years I think. My first was a present from MLW. I'm now on my second after I lost my first one. I have a touch screeen one now. Which I like except for the way the forward and back functions work.

• How do you listen to music?

Rarely. I tend not to have it on in the background. My usual pattern when listening to music is to find a song I like and see how many cover versions I can find of it on Spotify and then see which bands I like from that.