Mar
15
2009
Mahmoud
So I was having some problem with printing. And I fixed it and was able to print a test sheet and I tried to print again. Only thing, I got something else. A thin maybe two inch something was flapping on the printer top.
Well I found the lizard. Or at least a piece of it. I printed a flapping tail.
The poor lizard. I tried to capture it to avoid something like this. Noose on a stick didn’t work. Jar with food didn’t work. Sticky paper didn’t work. Printer CHECK. I was h0ping he would have left the printer the other day when I saw him there. I would print a sheet and he would run out as the paper he was standing on got rolled in, like running a treadmill. I figured he would have left by now.
I removed the flapping lizard tail. Opened up the printer, removed the ink cartridge and there he was not moving, part of his body was squashed. Poor fellow. I then needed to remove the jammed sheet of paper which was printed on with ink and blood.
Poor fellow, I was hoping to get him out without him getting hurt. Yah I kinda felt too bad to take a picture. Use your imagination.
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Feb
13
2009
Mahmoud

Treadmill
My workout routine as of now goes like this. I go to the gym atleast three times a week, that is every other day, which sometimes can be four times a week. At the gym I do pull ups, the amount I can do, pretty much two. Very pathetic I know, I used to do 15 easy but I was also 150lbs. Now I can only do two, but a few months back I only did one
. So I do this so I can strength myself in that again, and get a stretch a bit before I get on the treadmill.
I set the treadmill to random so it inclines and declines randomly. The level setting I put on four, I enter my weight, the time to 30 minutes, and I set my starting speed to 3.5. I walk to warm up at this speed for two minutes, then I increase it to 4.7. I jog/run at 4.7 for 20 minutes, decrease it to 3 for next 4 minutes and then increase it to 4.7 again for final 4 minutes. The machine then has a 5 minute cool down which I keep between 3 and 3.5. So I end up with a total of 35 minutes including the cool down, 400 calories burned and a total of 2.4 miles.
I have also been doing 60 crunches daily and have added 10 declined pushups as well. I do the crunhes sometime in the afternoon, and I have been doing the pushups at night time before going to bed. And that is my workout routine for now, it will probably change as I improve and I will add/subtract as needed.
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Feb
12
2009
Mahmoud
Workout schedule is way off track, but with reason. I have been busy with family events the past week and have not gone to the gym. Normally this would be a big indicator of intention to quit the workout routine, setting off alarms. But that isn’t the case, I will be back at the gym tomorrow. Further I have started to doing 60 crunches everyday and that has been going on for probably a week, maybe more, so I am still getting something in. This is by no means a replacement to the workout, but an addition, the workout is the main activity. In order to burn calories and burn fat, I need to sweat, and I only do that running on the treadmill. The crunches are just to help shape up a bit.
Which leaves me still in the 200-204lb range. Must break 200 again. Must continue. Flex!
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