This weekend was action packed:

• Friday: Thai dinner, movies, punching and weight lifting with Phil and Rebecca G.
• Saturday morning: Deep housecleaning of my first floor including a stack of dishes as big as me, all my laundry, and thorough Roomba-ing while listening to the PDF planning meeting on my Bluetooth headset. Running all those appliances used 24 kilowatt hours of electricity in six hours.
• Saturday night: Dinner and drinks in Chinatown, touring Artomatic, and taking fire spinning pictures of the conclave with Teresa
• Sunday morning: Breakfast at Nautilus Diner, shooting 250 rounds of 9mm ammo into helpless (but ostensibly malevolent) paper targets and sitting around with guys on the lodge porch at the Loch Raven Skeet and Trap club with Dawn J. and Keith C.
• Sunday afternoon: Geek out at Red Emma's and finally crashing in bed at 6pm and talking to every member of my immediate family for hours on the phone for Father's Day.

Now I am working heads down to finish this big project at work and will be largely unavailable except to people I've already scheduled time with.

Best quotes from the weekend:

"Maybe it's Grant. It looks a little like Grant." "No, it's got to be a Lincoln impersonator."

"I shot off Obama's nuts! OHMIGOD OOPS!"

As for today, I managed to do a pretty productive stint at the office, then finished up my bills and miscellaneous house-related paperwork at home, and went out for drinks and Mexican food up the street with S. to talk about our crazy lives and cap off the day. One thing I've learned from the last four days is that no matter how bizarre I think my life is, everyone around me is pushing the boundaries just a little further.

On the topic of craziness, I appear to be returning to some semblance of a normal 8-5 work schedule and possibly some quiet local evenings. If I could only motivate myself to catch up on the yard work my neighbors would be very happy.

This is a busy week, with a Maryland Pandemic Flu response exercise on Wednesday where I'll be doing radio operation from some hospital or facility that isn't my usual base of operations. I got tentative approval from my boss to work from there if I'm called by the County. The exercises in general are a lot of "hurry up and wait" style stuff, so I'll probably be able to concentrate better during the drill than I can at the office.

Haven't had a lot of time to work on my random life ruminations documents because I'm too busy getting my life in order. Oh, the irony.

Evening weigh-in: 123.5 lbs.

Tomorrow officially begins the great "whey and resistance training" experiment with a big whey shake and a big omelet to start the day.

I think I'll try to pick up some 20 lb weights from Dick's and combine those with my bench set weights to make a tidy little workout to build my upper body strength. Legs and lower body will be covered well by bicycling and crunches to start, and I can always change around the exercises as I learn more. My goal is to make it back to 140 lbs in three months (9/17), with a bonus goal of 145 lbs without gaining more than an inch or so on my waist. That's an average gain of 2.9 ounces of muscle mass per day, which seems like a totally reasonable goal.

With any luck it will be nice weather tomorrow and I'll be able to take a nice bike ride out to the diner on my lunch break to cover my cardiovascular exercise for the day, then scratch out a quick plan for a few dozen repetitions of some simple resistance and anaerobic exercises to get into the rhythm of things.

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