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Cooling our planet with geoengineering may in fact be affordable
Seeing as we can all agree that global warming is definitely real, it's probably a good idea to start doing something about it. Making slight changes to our lifestyle is obviously a ridiculously thing to suggest, so let's move on to more realistic schemes like global weather modification through controlled atmospheric aerosol release, which might actually be affordable.
While releasing aerosols into the atmosphere sounds like a bad thing (and it very well may be, in the long run), we know that it's an effective way to cool the planet down in the short term since we can measure the effect every time a major volcano erupts. For example, the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo added about 20 megatons of sulfur dioxide to the upper atmosphere, which lowered the average summer temperatures of Northern Europe by about four degrees Fahrenheit.
A recent study in Environmental Research Letters took a look at ways that it might be possible for humans to achieve something similar without having to set off an actual volcano, and there are a bunch of ideas that look like they might work for an amount of money that's easily achievable within the next few years. Here are some ideas, based on delivering several megaton of aerosols into the atmosphere at a sufficiently high altitude:
Old Airplanes
Modifying a fleet of Boeing 747s for high altitude flight and aerosol delivery would cost just $1.1 billion per year. We'd only need 14 of them, and we could buy used ones on the cheap. However, they max out at about 45,000 feet. Going higher (up to 65,000 feet) would require a fleet of 28 supersonic B-1 bombers at a cost of nearly $5 billion, and for extreme high altitude delivery, we'd need to spend $8.4 billion on 133 F-15s that could "zoom-climb" up to 85,000 feet.
New Airplanes
For the most effective high altitude aerosol deployment, another option would be a new, purpose-built aircraft. The estimated cost for an aircraft capable of releasing five megatons of aerosols at 100,000 feet would be just under $10 billion, but that's a lot more cargo at a much higher altitude than current aircraft, making for a more effective system.
For heavy cargo lifting and long duration operations, airships could be a good way to go. Hybrid lift helium airships that can deliver one megaton per year of aerosols to 100,000 feet would cost about $2 billion per year.
Rocket Gliders
Rockets are an obvious way to get to high altitudes, and the researchers took a look at a concept vehicle that would use "rocket engines or motors to boost a vehicle and payload to altitude. At apogee, wings are deployed to increase the vehicle's lift-to-drag coefficient to allow it to glide at altitude and disperse payload. Once dispersal is completed, the wings retract to allow it to descend quickly." Cool idea, but it would be about a hundred times more expensive than a less exotic system at an estimated $390 billion per year.
Yes, guns. Why not just shoot aerosols into the atmosphere packaged inside exploding artillery shells fired out of an Iowa-class battleship's 16'' Mark 7 naval gun? Sounds like fun to me, but the overall cost would be nearly $140 billion, or $20 billion if the guns were modernized to fire shells electromagnetically (sweet!). Also, the study notes that "these new gun technologies are unlikely to be available for non-military uses for some time to come." Bummer.
A Hose
We've looked at this pipe idea before: you'd take a hose, attach it to a big balloon, send the balloon up to into the air, and then pump aerosols through the hose. Unfortunately, we don't yet have the materials that we'd need to get this to actually work at the necessary altitudes, but getting us there might cost between $4 and $10 billion.
Mind you, this study was not paying any attention to the effectiveness of these methods at climate modification, just the potential cost. And really, it seems fairly cheap. As the authors of the study point out:
To put these cost in perspective, the costs of climate damages or of emission mitigation are commonly estimated to be 0.2-2.5% of 2030 global GDP equivalent to roughly $200B to $2000B per year. Our estimates of the cost of delivering mass to the stratosphere--likely to be the most substantial part of the cost of SRM deployment--are less than 1% of this figure.
Again, the preferred method of dealing with climate change is to tackle the root causes, but if we can't get together to manage that, concepts like these might need to be put into practice to keep our environment stable.
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After an uninspiring beginning of the season for pitching prospects, a number of hurlers kicked it into gear and gave us the most competitive week of MLPW so far.
Minor League Players of the Week (v3):
Adam Warren, 23, RHP, AAA
Notable: 10 GBO, 6 FBO
NoMaas Ranking – 13
Easily the best pitching performance of the Yankee system so far, Adam Warren was in complete control this past Wednesday. The former Tar Heel had his stellar control on display (2.2 BB/9 in 2010), and kept any contact against him weak (1.67 GB / FB). You always hope for more strikeouts, but if he keeps putting up lines like this, you really can't complain. Adam's combination of command and grounders will definitely come in handy for him moving forward.
Warren has been one of the fastest moving Yankee pitchers in recent memory. In what amounts to a mere two seasons, he's moved from the New York Penn League to the International League (four levels) and put himself on the cusp of a call-up to the majors. His experience as a four-year college pitcher absolutely prepared him for the rigors of pitching regularly, but I seriously doubt that even the Yankees expected Adam to pitch this well, this quickly, with virtually no hiccups along the way and some of the most dominant performances of any prospect in baseball (8/18/2010 – 7.0 IP, 2 H, 1 BB, 15 K).
It's a testament to both Warren's ability and work ethic, as well as the Yankee scouting and player development departments. They tailored a plan to Warren (not just "Collegiate Pitcher #4") that, while seemingly aggressive, has absolutely worked and allowed him to flourish. Now he's one of the best pitchers in a top-5 farm-system. Not bad for a third round pick a lot of draft minds saw as merely an organizational player.
Austin Romine, 22, RHB C, AA
.381 / .435 / .857 in 23 PAs
Notable: 3 HRs
NoMaas Ranking – 3
Another week, another top hitting prospect posting ridiculous numbers. First it was Slade Heathcott, then it was JR Murphy, and now it's the Yankees former second round pick, Austin Romine. It's good to see Romine get off to a hot start for the second year in a row, but it's going to be crucial for him to keep his production up as the year goes on. Last year, his first full year as the sole catcher for his team, really seemed to take a toll on Austin, as he waned in the middle of the season (.626 OPS from June through August). Hopefully he's better prepared for the rigors of catching everyday and we can see more weeks like this in July and August. Hitting, however, is only one part of the equation for backstops at any level.
One of the Yankees top prospects coming into 2010, Romine had a rather underwhelming year at Trenton, posting his second-worst season as a defender (22.7 CS%). For a player whose work behind the plate was always supposed to one of his best tools (his arm ranked as a 60 according to BA in both 2010 and this year), it certainly hasn't shown lately (22.6 CS% in 2010/2011). Romine is probably not completely to blame in this matter, as minor league pitchers don't typically do a great job holding runners on, but given that Austin has displayed spectacular defense before (30.4 CS% in 2009), at lower levels no less, we can hold him to a higher standard.
Romine has really been set up for success at Trenton this year. It's a level he's familiar with, having spent all of 2010 there and he's (hopefully) prepared for the toll consistent catching will take on his body. Austin really needs to show the Yankees something in 2011, as anything resembling 2010 will likely be considered a disappointment for a player who, only a year ago, was viewed as the Yankees long-term solution at catcher.
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Kelvin De Leon, 19, RHB RF, A
.263 / .333 / .632 in 21 PAs
Still hasn't found a pitch he doesn't like (37.5 K% in 2011). Needs to get some plate discipline, ASAP.
Ramon Flores, 20, LHB LF/1B, A
.278 / .409 / .500 in 22 PAs
The polar opposite of De Leon, Flores has more walks than strikeouts this season (14 BB – 12 K).
David Phelps, 24, RHP, AAA
Great start for Phelps, unfortunately overshadowed by Warren's effort.
Graham Stoneburner, 23, RHP, AA
Stoneburner is so consistently good this is a "meh" start for him (5 GB, 1 FB).
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The Knicks are still listing him as day-to-day, when he was previously diagnosed with a "sore left foot."
Wallace, who had been serving as Tyson Chandler's backup at center, has missed the past four games, during which the Knicks have gone 2-2. The needs to provide more support for Chandler, who's been playing additional minutes. Not only is Wallace out,Marcus Camby has plantar fasciitis.
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In the middle of radiation treatment for breast cancer, Beckie Fry began training for her first half marathon. So understand the Plainfield woman's goal.
The 16th annual Chicago Half Marathon & Hyundai Hope On Wheels 5K is Sunday, beginning and ending in Jackson Park. The bulk of the 13.1 mile course is along the lakefront north to 31st Street and back. The elite runners begin at 7 a.m. The 5K begins at 7:45 a.m.
"Originally, I just wanted to finish and not to be picked up by the bus,'' Fry said Thursday after her last 2-mile training run before the race. "On my good days, I am a 12. I will finish. We are all determined.''
Runners in the half marathon must maintain a 13-minute mile pace or be picked up by a race vehicle and taken to the finish.
Fry, 47, was diagnosed in the early stages of breast cancer in December. She underwent radiation treatment from January through March. In February, Fry, now cancer-free, began training while following the novice schedule set by Team World Vision.
"[Medical staff] said, 'The more exercise, the better,' '' she said. "There are lots of side effects [with radiation treatment]. The big thing is fatigue. I didn't feel it near what most people feel. The doctor said it was probably because I was exercising.''
Team World Vision, a Christian relief organization, encourages groups and individuals to dedicate their fitness goals to helping achieve the organizations efforts in Africa. Many people are now doing 5Ks, half marathons and marathons as charity exercises.
"They have two schedules: one for seasoned runners, one for those who have never run,'' Fry said.
The novice schedule begins with running three or four times a week with several minutes of running followed by a minute of walking. Eventually, the minutes of running are shifted to miles. Two months in, she said they were encouraged to run a 5K.
"I am not like a runner, but it totally works,'' Fry said. "I have never been associated with exercise. This will make such a good scrapbook page.''
She runs regularly at 6 a.m. with a small group ("the slowest ones'') out of the larger Team World Vision Bolingbrook Group — 121:Run. The larger group does weekly runs at places like Waterfall Glen. The team name references Hebrews 12:1, a famous Bible verse about running. The group is through Westbrook Christian Church in Bolingbrook, where Fry's husband Marc is director of tHis Generation Children & Youth Ministry.
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--- The 2 biggest purses in northern California short track, dirt track stock car racing are paid at Paul and Kathy Hawes Marysville Raceway Park each year. One is at the Gold Fever Stock Car Open; MRPs annual closer and this one, The Great Taxi Cab Open. So what does that mean? Every quality stock car from all over the northwest will make a bee-line for MRP this Saturday. All divisions will feature open aerodynamic rules. Fins, wings, panels and just about every other aerodynamic device will be tried. Being the first major stock car race of the new decade, the entries will be cruising in from everywhere!
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The Pro Stock feature will pay $1000 to win. The Pure Stock feature will pay $500 to win and the Mini Stock feature will also pay $500 to win. Promoter Hawes continues to pay the highest stock car purses period. 7 track champions representing some 20 championships will be saddled up this Saturday night. Its the biggest payday in these divisions until next October at MRP. We are expecting the cream-of-the-crop in short track, dirt track stock car racing.
The pit gate will open at 3PM. The grandstands will open at 5PM. Hot Lap sessions start at 6 with the first race scheduled to hit the track after hot laps. Get there early for the 1st major stock car race of the new decade at MRP.
As noted in other press releases, promoter Hawes has reconfigured a good portion of the raceway over the winter. The entire turn 3-4 complex has been revamped. The track is now entirely surrounded by a crash wall for safety protection purposes. In doing this Hawes still maintains the widest turns available in west coast short track, dirt track racing. The new wall and catch fencing on either end of the raceway should maintain a much nicer high line cushion than in the past. Rather than stripping the clay and throwing it over a bank, the new wall and screening should trap the clay and provide a build-up on the outside groove.
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|Hometown: Delano, MN
Year: Senior
Major: Psychology
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Campus Ambassadors, Psych Club, Alpha Lambda Delta-Phi Eta Sigma, Blugold Beginnings, and Intramural Sports.
The organization that I am most involved in on campus is Blugold Beginnings, which is a program that provides mentors/tutors for underrepresented students in the local elementary, middle, and high schools. The goal of the organization is to promote higher education for these students and to assist them in reaching their full potential. I mentored for the organization my freshman year and now am a lead student researcher. Our research team has attended several conferences, and we will be traveling to San Francisco to present this year!
I also participated in the National Student Exchange during the fall semester of my sophomore year. I traveled to Buffalo, NY and had an amazing experience! It was incredible to explore the culture in an entirely different region of the United States. I was also able to travel to Niagara Falls and Toronto; both of which are places I hope to visit again soon! I think NSE is a fantastic opportunity, and with over 200 schools to choose from, there is a perfect match for everyone!
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There is absolutely no place better to be during the springtime than on Towers Field. As soon as the weather gets nice, everyone grabs their towels and blankets, and heads out to the field to spend the rest of their day working on homework, taking a nap, or just soaking in the sun with their friends. You'll always be able to find sand volleyball games going on, as well as pick up games of soccer, Frisbee, football, and even Quidditch!
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The footbridge is one of my favorite spots on campus (when it's not cold or windy out!) because it provides such an amazing view of both lower and upper campus. I also love that it serves as a connection to the Eau Claire community because I think the interaction between community members and UWEC students is really special. The hill is definitely a blessing in disguise. I actually really love it, not just because it gives me an awesome workout everyday, but also because it provides the perfect separation of my home life and my academic life. It is so nice to have the feeling like you're going home after a long day of classes.
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The thing that most interested me is the ability to borrow features from one species and embed them in another. I can't wait to get my tail and wings. Flying monkeys got a bad reputation from The Wizard of Oz, but I can't think of a cooler way to go. Obviously I wouldn't wear the bell hop costume, or even pants. But that's okay because I would be covered with fur, everywhere except for my genetically enhanced giraffe-style genitalia. I'd be giving up something in terms of aerodynamics, but you have to make tradeoffs.
I think most people would want to have wings if they had the option. But it would be a mistake to choose the form factor of a bird. You want to go with the monkey design for your fuselage so you get the gripping hands and feet. You don't want to have giraffe-style genitalia and nothing but two scratchy feet and a beak. That's just asking for trouble.
The most exciting part of this wonderful future is that when you can fly, the whole world is your toilet. You might want to avoid any homes that have anti-winged-monkey artillery, and there might be a lot of that in the future, but everywhere else is fair game.
Some people might manipulate their genes to become smarter. I think that's a mistake, especially after you become a winged monkey. The smarter you are, the more easily bored you will be. I want to be happy all the time so I'd trim 40% off my IQ and get some new hobbies such as collecting rocks that are roundish, or running for Congress.
Well, I can dream.
It's a good start, but a better format would allow the moderator to pick the topics, state them in the affirmative as in "The government should do X" and then let the best pro and con arguments get voted to the top. The current design is a bit too scattered.
Next, as I wrote several times in this blog, the universe is starting to look more like a hologram every day. Now there is physical evidence, which I find delightfully creepy:
If you read my book God's Debris, you might find an interesting analogy between what I called God dust and the holographic "pixels" of the universe that have been discovered.
Last, after blogging about the next financial bubble being in water, a commenter recommended an index fund of companies in the water supply business, ticker symbol PHO. So I loaded up on that stock yesterday morning after noticing it was way off its historical high, and the topic is out of the headlines because of bigger news. As luck would have it I caught the bottom of the overall market before it climbed back and made a 4.4% gain in a few hours
Yesterday a US Airways jet lost both engines in a freak collision with a bunch of geese. Amazingly, the pilot made an emergency landing in the Hudson River and no one was injured. The jet is an analogy to the economy. This is how the hologram tells us we hit bottom and survived. Mark yesterday on your calendar; it's the day the economy started to turn around.
Disclaimer: Don't take advice from cartoonists on investing, religion or politics. Even a blind squirrel can find three nuts in a week.
Water has it all, except for the existence of futures contracts, as far as I can tell. Once you see a market for water futures forming, bend over. That's when the manipulation will begin. Crooks prefer manipulating financial markets over building reservoirs.
The plausible explanation for the worldwide shortage is that the population is growing faster than the supply of clean water. Add global warming to the mix and you have plausible explanations for worldwide droughts. That's the cover story. It's true enough to mask the artificial shortages that will be caused by the speculators and hedge funds.
So how can you invest and make money in water now, before the bubble tops?
1. Someone you have told a secret.
2. Someone who has accepted a favor from you.
Notice that I have cleverly defined a friend in terms of things you give and not things you receive. If you are evaluating your potential friends in terms of what they can give you, or how they can entertain you, you probably don't have many friends.
I read somewhere that telling a secret makes the recipient of the secret automatically bond to you. It puts the giver of the secret in a vulnerable position and it changes the receiver into a protector. That's halfway to being friends.
The second rule is simple but powerful. We accept favors from strangers all the time, without any expectation of becoming friends. But we don't also share secrets with those strangers. It is the combination of the secret and the favor that nudges an acquaintance into a friend.
Most people are wired to reciprocate. So if you go first with your secret and your favor, the recipient will be primed to do the same. It is the willingness to reciprocate that matters.
Obviously you don't want to give a dangerous or important secret to an acquaintance in hopes it will lead to friendship. You want to hold back the good stuff and start with something small. For example, lets say you are both at a dinner party and your host served duck. At the dinner table you told the host the food was wonderful, but later and privately to your would-be friend you jokingly confess that you hate duck. That's a secret, but a tiny one. You don't want to start out with your deepest secrets. Work into that over time.
Likewise with the favors, keep them tiny at first. You might have some special knowledge to share that costs you nothing but a few minutes of your time. Or perhaps you had a conversation about a vacation spot and you forwarded an e-mail with a link that your potential friend might find useful. It's a tiny favor and will be accepted. You don't want to start right off offering to drive someone to the airport at 4 AM.
This partly explains why people who work together, or play sports together, naturally become friends. You have lots of opportunities to share small secrets and perform minor favors. And of course you have lots of things to talk about. That helps.
The secret and the favor are necessary but not sufficient for making a friend. You still need some basic chemistry and common interests. But chemistry and common interests aren't things you can easily change. So if you find a candidate for a friend with whom you have some chemistry and common interests, work on the secret and the favor. Those you can control.
As an adult, I realized my dream of getting a nice pool table. Thanks to my many hours of childhood practice, I don't often lose. The exception is when I run into someone who also grew up in a cold climate and had a pool table.
Pool is a game in which there is a nearly perfect correlation between how much you have played during your life and how good you are. I sometimes joke that instead of playing actual games I could just compare my number of hours of lifetime practice to my opponent's and declare a winner. Research shows this is essentially true for all sorts of skills.
So you would think that the secret to success is to practice more than your competition. But it's never that simple. In order to put in that much practice you need the opportunity, such as having a pool table in your basement*. But you also need some sort of passion, or drive, or OCD to put in the time. Where does that come from?
Personally, I have felt the compulsion to practice particular skills dozens of times in my life. It happened with ping pong, drawing comics, tennis, computer programming, and other things. Practicing these skills always felt like something I couldn't stop if I wanted to. The attraction was so strong that it felt like OCD. The only reason I wasn't treated for my afflictions is that the activities to which I was drawn (no pun) were socially acceptable.
It makes me wonder if the passion part of our brains will ever be manipulated by drugs so that passionless people get just enough OCD to obsessively practice something until they get good at it.
* Malcolm Gladwell's book, Outliers, talks about the importance of opportunity. It's a great read.
Worse yet, now I have to worry that, for the benefit of the world, Warren Buffett will send his goons to kill me. As long as I'm a dead man walking, I might as well make things worse before I go. Here now, more of my opinions about the economy.
I wonder what people mean when they say the economy will recover in 2010. The only way that can happen is if another irrational bubble forms thus creating an illusion of wealth similar to our previous illusions. If you take illusions out of the equation, there isn't anything to get "back" to. The wealth was never there in the first place.
I said before that I think we're on the cusp of a change as fundamental as the industrial revolution. But this time the change will be on the consumption side, not the production side. As a society we have dabbled with recycling and such, but it has always been fairly optional. There was no real penalty for waste.
The coming consumption revolution won't be strictly for the benefit of the environment. It will be an economic necessity, driven largely by the huge numbers of retired poor. There simply won't be enough stuff for everyone if waste is allowed.
The Internet will make this revolution possible. I've already written about the concept of ride sharing becoming widespread if the Internet and smart phones allow you to easily find rides going your way. That's just one example of how society could adapt to having less money without losing much in terms of happiness. Here's another example:
In California we're facing a severe budget deficit, and this will demand cuts in education among other things. I can imagine a future economy where everyone is home schooled over the Internet, and the average result is an improvement. With the Internet you could leverage the best teaching methods to the entire country. No one gets the bad teacher or the disruptive class. There are no bullies and no cliques.
Obviously you can see lots of problems with this approach. We assume that kids gain a lot from the social interaction of being in school. And of course personal attention from a teacher is important. But we have enough home schooled kids in the world to test that theory. My guess is that as long as home schooled kids have friends in the neighborhood, and siblings, they socialize just fine. The social skills can be learned on sports teams and at Girl Scouts. And I suspect a parent can give better personal attention than a teacher with 20 students.
Poor kids don't have computers and Internet connections. But subsidizing them would be far cheaper in taxes than sending them to school. And suddenly everyone would get the same quality of education.
I'm reading an excellent book called Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell. One of the topics involves the huge academic disadvantage absorbed by kids who are the younger ones in a given class. Eleven months is a huge difference in maturity when you are in second grade. Home schoolers could start grades on their birthdays, and always be at the same maturity level as their peers. That change alone can buy you a big gain in average academic achievement.
Gladwell also discusses the disadvantage of having no school in the summer. It's a legacy of our farming past, with no current utility. Every summer the American kids lose ground to the Japanese kids who school year round. Home schooling would have no long breaks. Another problem solved.
This is the sort of change that could never happen if the economy was in a happy bubble and it seemed that money was abundant. But as the reality of our economic situation settles in, unthinkable options become thinkable. The good news is that the unthinkable options will have lots of advantages.


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Dundee boss Barry Smith has challenged his players to make the most of their SPL respite ahead of Saturdays Scottish Cup tie at Livingston.
The Dark Blues, who returned to the top flight this season following a seven-year absence, have been battling at the foot of the league but have a break from the rigours of their survival battle when they head to Almondvale for Saturday's fourth-round tie.
Smith, therefore, wants them to take advantage of this weekend's break from their dogfight in the hope it can spark a cup run.
Smith said: "It's been tough this season and we've had to learn the hard way at times.
"We knew all along it was going to be like that but this is something of a break from it all.
"There are stresses and strains in the SPL so this will be a different sort of experience from that but it's still not going to be easy against a good side like Livingston.
"I have a group of players who always give their best and they will want to stay in the cup for as long as possible.
"I know what it takes to get all the way to a final, which I will be stressing to the players beforehand.
"To be fair, they know the importance of the tie and have been preparing all week towards getting a positive result."
Dundee will be favourites to book their place in the next round but Smith is adamant they will not be underestimating their First Division opponents.
He added: "We've had them watched on a few occasions.
"We know what they have to offer as a team with some good players all over the pitch.
"We will respect Livingston the way they we respect every other team which we come up against.
"That's what we always do and this is no time for approaching things in any different way.
"But if our players show the sort of attitude and commitment levels they have done in recent weeks then we will give ourselves every chance of winning the tie.
"But we all know how the cup works so we have to be on our toes from the very start and go about our job in a professional manner.
"I think they like to play the game in an open manner much like ourselves.
"That means it has got the makings of a good cup tie.
"But we will only enjoy it if we can get the right result to put us into the next round of the competition. That is the most important thing as far as we're concerned."


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I have a fun girls lunch today with a friend of mine who I've not been able to hang with often recently due to us both being so busy...followed by getting to hang with my buddy Emily at her new photography studio!! I am so excited for her to finally have a "place"...Growing up is so fun, lol!!
I'm also neck deep in working on my website updates and trying to get our next contest organized. FUN, FUN!!
The contest is going to be our shortest yet-- just 21 days! The goal is to help get everyone involved a jump start towards their 2012 goals and to help establish new habits. They say it takes 21 days to attain a new habit~ i think we'll be able to accomplish just that!
I should be able to post the official contest announcement by tomorrow at the lastest....Promise me that once i post it, you'll invite your friends?? :bff:
I'm off to get some work done before the fun!
Your Friend, Michelle
My nick name growing up was "piggy Marie"..and for good reason. I am a mess! I blow through my life like a tornado and rarely take the time to ORGANIZE myself the way I should. It's not a in my nature to care about keeping things in order-- I'm more about shaking things up and taking action.
Well...I can't take it anymore! I must get organized at least a bit more than what I am right now. Does anyone have some good tips?
3 areas I really struggle with organizing are:
- my clutter- odd and end stuff around the house- where did all this junk come from?
- my paperwork/mail/bills-- what to do with all of it??
- my computer- I can't find anything on the sucker!
I think where I'll start is with my computer. I'm inches away from buying a new one-- it will be a "fresh start" of sorts :) Naturally next in line will be my office just in time for tax season, LOL! If I can get those 2 areas under control during Feb. I'll be happy!! that's my goal!
The good news is that my body is getting organized-- the fat cells are leaving and my muscle cells are becoming more active!!
This week my focus is all about my diet~ the workouts are solidified as part of my routine-- now I just need to keep the diet in check! FAT is where I tend to over consume-- so I'll be watching the butter, nut and fatty meat consumption big time in order to get to my goal by March 1.
POA for workouts are:
M- Lift back and run
T-Lift legs
W-Lift chest and run
Th- Lift back
Friday- run
Saturday- Lift legs
Sunday- off
I'm still planning on writing up a workout plan for the warrior dash- maybe I'll have time to get that done later this week.
Also, I'm rather sure our Feb contest is just going to be a short one- 21 days!!
I'll announce that later!
Love ya's
It's a gorgeous Saturday here in AR (that's ARKANSAS)...and I hit the trail on my property for a good KILLER run!
We have a trail that is probably about 600meters+ in length all down hill! Today I ran up the entire thing twice with running down the hill in between-- then afterwards ran r 4 "striders" each one getting progressivly faster and jogging between them. It was a great workout in preparation for the Kansas City Warrior Dash...I need to be sure I have some sort of an endurance level built for it!
Now it's time to shower and primp myself up for "DATE NIGHT"!! G'ma is taking care of the kids for the night and we are spending the night in town~ whoohooo!! I can't wait to hang with my baby!!
My little puppy is gonna miss us:
She hates this shirt...poor thing!
Yesterday was a good day, I felt better and my body weight is finally responding to my relentless fitness quest! I am getting stonger, leaner and LIGHTER! I weighed in at 129 again...but I feel 128 in my near future!
Funny how life changes and how Friday Nights are not so exciting anymore, lol! At 9:30 and we were prepping for bed.
My plan was to do a big 10 week contest starting on Feb. 6th, but I'd like to have my new website done prior to that contest. It doesn't seem like that's gonna happen~ things always take longer than planned. Anyhow...I'm thinking that we may have to start it later or do a short challenge instead...I'll keep thinking on it this weekend and let you know.
The workout for Friday was legs...and MAN! i'm really missing a squat rack at my new gym-- the smith machine is not a stellar option for me to hit my legs the way I need. I actually went against my own better judgement and put a bit more weight on the smith than usual and strained my knee a bit I think it'll be fine, but I seriously must find a way to get in a better leg workout at least 1 time a week.
So it went like this:
Squats and Lunges on Smith
Leg Press
Knee Extensions
Leg curls
Seated Calf raises
Abs between sets and some side lunges and stretching also
Gunner is getting stronger~ fun to see!
See you tomorrow!!
This week my brain has been overdrive. I'm trying to figure out the direction I want to take in my business. What amazes me about where I'm at is that I have TOO many options. I don't think most people can say that! I've gone back and forth- should I dive in- hire help, attack all angles? OR should I scale back and focus my effort towards one specific goal? I'm at a crossroads I can't continue on down the same path....Change must happen.
Today was all about business branding and tough questions, like: "What photos are too sexy? What is the message I'm selling? What is the true mission? How do I stay true to myself while conforming to a markeing model?"...Guidance from ABOVE is where I need to go with those issues.
Despite my brain being on overdrive, I had a good day. I got GRAZED by a head cold, so I slept in...I feel good and know I'll be feeling 100% by tomorrow.
Today's workout was Chest/Tri's and intervals with my son Gunner. We were both texting while trying to workout-- that doesn't work the greatest. In the end it was the perfect workout for today.
It's time to get the kids to bed, I'll see you in the morning!
Well...It's officially time for a new computer for me! Today I spent 5 long unproductive hours dealing with computer issues on my 2 computers. My 4 year old desktop kept freezing up and my 3 year old laptop kept crashing. It's time for a new NICE machine!
I'm wondering what I should get? I've had always used PC's but I would love to try a MAC since a ton of what I do is with pictures, videos and online. I have an I phone and an I pad, so having a MAC may just be the ticket. I'm not sure though about compatibility??? Will I be able to open all my old files on the MAC? Any input on what kind of computer I should get would be great.
To alleviate the stress my computers gave me all day, I hit the gym with my son!
We did legs-
Smith squats- 4 sets
Smith Lunges- 3 sets
Knee ups on bench- 2 sets
Leg press- 4 sets, heavy set 10 reps at 220#
Bulgarians 2 sets body weight, 1 set 15#DB's
Leg curls- 2 sets
Leg Extensions- 4 sets
Seated Calf Raises- 4 sets
On the way home I clocked how far it was to our house from a street named Dallas-- it was 1.25miles. I decided I'd run that when we got home...
So I hit the dirt- running on a dirt road with lots of rocks isn't the most enjoyable experience, but I am determined to get into shape! All was well until after the halfway point a dog decided to run through his "invisible fence" and run the mile with me. Good thing he was nice and harmless...I had my pepper spray in-hand just in case :)
Once I got home, I brought the dog back to his house in our truck-- what a furry mess! Thankfully Gunner cleaned out the truck~
I'm ovulating and bloated today-- I've had to continually remind myself that I'm re-building my muscle and fitness right now so my weight is not ready to shed just yet...but come February, I'll be in a good place to see the fruit of my Labors..... "Patience Grasshopper!!"
Time to go before my computer crashes again!
Love ya,
I'm proud of myself today, becuase I'm doing it!! I'm sticking to my workout plan and I'm getting more fit by the minute!! Winter is rough and seems like such a hart tine to keep energy and momentum; my determination is paying off!! I'm DOING IT!!
I've got in 2 great runs and 3 nice lifting workouts this week so far!!
Yesterday was a treadmill run of 20 mins with the easy minutes at 6mph and the hard at 8mph- I had 6 hard minutes AND I lifted Back, Shoulders and Biceps.
Today was a good DANCING/JUMPING warm up followed by Chest/Triceps and abs....I'd like to get in a bit more "cardio" so I think I'll go for a hike or maybe dance more??
On my body front, I am seeing changes, just the scale is not reflecting it as much as I'd like- I feel like I have a cyst on my right ovary again (I had one a couple years ago)...anyhow the hormone irregularities can be causing me to retain more water than ususal...No worries, I know it'll resovle it self soon. I'm focusing on doing my part- eating GOOD and EXERCISING!!
I'm fired up because I'm not letting myself down; I'm sticking to my plan; I'm doing it!!!
A sweet friend of mine helped me remember that "We are WARRIOR WOMEN"...we are fighters!
I preach and teach that I want being buff to look easy. I strive to make it simple, turn-key and uncomplicated...But the truth is it's a battle!
I battle continuously:
I fight for time
I fight sore muscles
I fight for proper food
I fight for good information
I fight for energy
I fight for focus
I fight injury, illness and disease
I fight to be understood
I fight to get results
I fight to learn more
I fight to help others
I fight for my motivation
I fight to be positive
I fight to keep the MISSION pure
I fight to enjoy life
We are "Warrior Women", fighting is what we must do, but we must do it with LOVE!!
Love is the key-- if we fight out of rage, jealousy or malice--we lose!
Warrior Princess,
Michelle Marie Berger
Alright, I am here to tell you about a key learning, I RE-LEARNED about myself last week. Stimulants and me = NO GO! My week started off great last week. I had great energy, good mojo, focused clear mind and then--- WEDNESDAY happened. I did 3 things I shouldn't have-
1- I took a "fat burner"
2- I tested a new pre-workout stimulant powder creatine/no2/caffiene product
3- I had a BIG diet coke!
I was fine on Wednesday, but on Thursday- I felt as thought I had been hit by a truck. You think I would have connected the dots and learned then from my faulty intake, but NOOOOOO! I repeated the stupidity on Friday- minus the diet coke
Saturday I paid! I was DOA all day and I fell asleep at 8pm. The moral of my story...
"Temporary energy from STIMULANTS is NOT WORTH it! Stimulants and me = NO GO!"
I implore you to be aware of the affect stimulant type products have on your body. My in-ability to handle stimulants was not always like this...I had years in my 20's where I was a fat burner junkie, lol! I was a total addict to ephedrine and "metabolife"...anyhow- I believe that abuse is what has lead me to this place of "no tolerance"...It's not good for your body to run too long on empty. It does affect you more than you know! Be aware and use stimulants with caution and very conservatively.
The only "safe" pick me ups I found are the small amount of caffeine in my buffing pills and plain old "coffee"...my body doesn't react in crazy ways to it and I always know that I'll be able to sleep as long as I keep my consumption to the am hours.
Buffing is ON for me-- I started by being active on Sunday- we did more "burning" on our property.
Then yesterday Gunner and I hit the HILL on a path by our house- We picked a distance that was about 150-200meters and ran up it 5 times! It was good and I sure do feel it today!
The remainder of my week looks like this:
Tue-legs @gym with gunner
Wed-run and back, shoulders, biceps @gym with gunner
Thurs-chest/tri/shoulders and some sort of cardio
Friday-legs again...maybe at home due to squat rack issues
Saturday-upper body and a run- maybe hills again if it's nice outside
My main goals this week is to stay focused on diet- cutting diary and grains- and get in my cardio-- it's time to up it for some serious BuffING!!
I plan to hit my goal of 125 by March 1!!!
Stay healthy, and WISE!!
Tonight Gunner and I got in our 4th lifting workout for the week, YAY!! He's already getting stronger and says he's gained 7 pounds (not sure on that, but he is up to 114!)...I'm so proud of him and his effort. He's going to be a big strong boy by this football season!
Anyhow, The kids are so fired up that the weekend is here and so am I!! I'm going out for dinner tonight: Tomorrow is watching some football, a bonfire, the UFC and more football on Sunday will round out my weekend!!
In addition to the fun stuff one of my DD's has a birthday party, so that'll mean some driving around- I also would like to get in a solid squat workout. My new gym doesn't have a free weight squat rack, so I'm planning to go to my old gym or get in a good workout at my house on my squat rack! THESE LEGS NEED THE WORK!!
Today is cycle day 3 and my first weigh in was horrid!! I was holding tons of water and weighed 132--eeeeekkkk!! But by 5pm tonight I weighed 129 again~ Whew! I hate hormone bloats! Anyhow~ buffing officially starts on Sunday and I plan to hit it VERY HARD! Time to push myself to the limit, no more pussy footing around!!
Peace out....
It's time for me to go OUT!!
Yet another social website is gained my membership this past month...Pinterest! I'm still trying to learn how it works, but today I actually figured out how to pin a few items on a board. Anyhow if you are on there, let me know, I'd love to follow you! My profile is "BuffMother" http://pinterest.com/buffmother/
This week has been so busy, I worked so hard Mon, Tues and Wed to catch up on my work after the holiday vacation, that by today I was beat! I had to go back to bed for a couple hours after the kids left for school ....I guess that's why I call them "Tired Thursdays". I expect that tomorrow I'll feel like a new woman; It'll be cycle day 3 and It's FRIDAY!! Buffing is almost here!! The BEST Week of my month is ahead~ watch out world~!
I finally managed to my booty out of bed just before 10...so that I could call a my Buff-Sister Sherry. She's such a hoot and really GETS ME. Anyway, we spend some time talking about how excited we are for 2012 and how we love, love, love all our BuffMother-Sisters!! :bff: It's true, we believe we will all be Best Friends FOREVER!
After my talk with her, I had another really interesting business phone call. I can't share too much about it just yet, but It's really good stuff for all parties involved. I can't wait to get that project rolling!! I love all the energy for fitness that people have during the new year...I sure hope this momentum lasts through the winter!
Gunner and I got in our back workout and a short run too this afternoon. It's good that we've gotten 3 workouts done so far this week and now he's been "initiated" on each body part. Tomorrow when we workout we'll do some things he's already done~ which means less work for me!
On a personal front my head is spinning....I have so many things I "want to" get done and an ever increasing workload that shows no sign of slowing down. I may actually be at the point of being ready to hire myself an assistant! I'm talking about a real in flesh person in my office to help me get things DONE! It would be so nice to have a capable helper!
Sorry this is such a "journal" type post...I'm just too tired to be creative tonight. My plan is to snuggle up and watch some good tv tonight!
God Bless,