A portion of the Thought-stream of Tangent (Kacey Green), my brain doesn't turn off, so I dip this dixie cup in the stream and share with the world on a when I'm in the mood basis. Sometimes days in a row, sometimes you might not see me for years (do look at some of my other online outlets). I recommend you subscribe to the RSS feed.
Changes waiting in the wings
Anyone who remembers the start of my personal blog here should remember why I started it; this weblog was a test-bed for the new version of the content management system "Tech with a twist of lime!" is running, that version went gold months ago and has even has a pair of stability releases. So coming up you will see this site's functionality morph to a more fully featured platform much like the one at GRLT. After the tests are complete they will roll to the Midlands Hybrid Club site, once that site is ready for Saturday's soft launch this site will go back to being my personal blog but able to handle anything I might throw at it. Next up is the upgrade of GRLT and the splitting of the tech and hybrid sides of the sites, long overdue.
Back to that history lesson, I had a test mule but it bore my name, only at this point did I see the point of a personal blog (for myself anyway, I’ve been reading personal blogs for years). I got really into posting and found my balance, then work got in the way and I stopped posting altogether. After becoming a workaholic yet again, I found a pseudo-balance for work/personal life and now I am back baby!
Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
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Fresh new song!
I was listening to "I love to move in here" off Moby's new album
this morning on my way to my staff meeting. This song has a great beat and a nice rap session and some great bass lines, it really caught me by surprise. I listened to it about five times today and cranked up the volume in the Prius. The lyrics were easy to learn and I don't anticipate this one playing itself out quickly, unless XM channel 26 picks it up in their rotation. XM 26 is the station the radio is set to at work. The fresh new song and the cool breeze combined to put me in a great mood for the day ahead. Listen to "I love to move in here" and let me know what you think.
Update: After writing my mini-review of this track I found a place to download it for free and a review of the whole album here: http://mainstreamisntsobad.blogspot.com/2008/03/last-night-with-moby.html
Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
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Day off, 2007.9.19
Today was my highly anticipated day off, I missed the opportunity to exercise in the daylight, but I completed a task that has been on my task list since the month after I took delivery of my Prius. Today’s walk was several times longer than usual and the first half went at a brisk pace, the second half I was exploring and went at the usual pace. Tomorrow is tentatively light strength training day, we’ll see what happens then. I did not get quite as much done as expected because there were unexpected errands all day, and about 14:30, the Prius project started to materialize. I will provide more details at “Tech with a twist of lime!” tomorrow after some field-testing.
Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
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Status
I've been running at full-throttle since 06:45 Eastern, I don't have the energy for two full posts now, there will be a brief write-up on today's trip at GRLT. I did fight the flab today with a walk on a different route and running with crazy energy and enthusiasm. Tonight I will sleep soundly.
Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
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Fighting the Flab IV
Today’s walk was awesome, the fall temperatures were amazingly comfortable. The cool, soft, autumn breeze was just enough to keep my temperatures down and I did not feel like a grungy caveman after arriving back home, I had a thin layer of perspiration and felt the effects of a light workout but without ending up feeling disgusting. I did get some of the light strength training in, with a bonus, today I helped several customers with their luggage but they were all flying with bricks, their heavy belongings were my free bonus strength training! At “Tech with a twist of lime!”, I will discuss my upcoming business trip. I think Tuesday, I close at work, and this enables me to have the morning off to write some more substantial content for both websites.
Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
"This post brought to you by Tangent's randomly firing synapses."
Fighting the Flab III
Day off
I am enjoying my only day off in a week. Today’s installment of Fighting the Flab was a bike ride; I borrowed a self-shifting bike and rode it for about half an hour. The hills put up quite a fight, I triumphed, winded and humbled. The self-shifting bike didn’t like shifting in to high gear on straight downhill or level sections, and uphill didn’t want to shift down to my liking, but it didn’t allow me to over exert myself on an uphill stretch. If this was all I would say, the bike did a great job. However, the seat was extremely uncomfortable and I will have to figure out how to adjust it for a better fit or get bike of my own, the seat will not allow me to make my goal of riding to the fountain at the other side of my housing development.
Tomorrow is back to walking and other miscellaneous exercising escalating into a real workout or disappearance of belly fat and man boobs, whichever comes first. The ultimate goal of this plan is to achieve great fitness and to achieve a body image I’ll be satisfied with I’ll detail this goal later but now I have to post to keep up with my pledge.
Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
"This post brought to you by Tangent's randomly firing synapses."
Quick update
Today was a light day, I could not do my walk because of the rain, but I did play mini golf and Ping-Pong with my neighbor’s son, an exercise on its own. Tomorrow is a day off, I plan to do chores, catch up on feed reading and blog posting, as well as getting my walk in, and working on the light strength training, I’ll be back here tomorrow, until then have a great weekend.
Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
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Quick update on Fighting the Flab
Today I had a sore ankle and decided to just go for a short walk, keep up a good habit, but the music was so uplifting, I ended up doing a full walk. Tomorrow I should do more light strength training, I just need one of you to lean into me a bit, don’t let me slack off and progress will be steady.
Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
"This post brought to you by Tangent's randomly firing synapses."
Fighting the Flab II
I am making slow progress on my self-improvement/fitness plan; remember that is a good thing. I did get the pushups and such done; the stair climbing never did come to fruition, although I did get a few climbs in outside of the plan. I also didn’t get any of the jumping jacks and such done, though I did get some dancing in (I feel that counts if done right) and there was an unexpected jog of respectable distance too!
The jog only reminded me of how much I hate walking, I’ve always been a jogger/runner even when I walk it is done at a wicked-brisk pace. After I get some more money saved up I’ll get some trainers (tennis shoes) and get back in my element, by then the walking and such should bring the lung capacity back to where it needs to be. Eventually I want to be able to sprint (I don’t know of anyone who can sprint for miles) run/jog the entire distance I’ve been walking.
Over at "Tech with a twist of lime!" I talked about my first day back trading hours for dollars, and I already have a story about a brush with utter danger!
Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
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Fighting the flab
I have been neglecting my fitness lately and decided to get back on the ball extremely slowly, tonight I walked and listened to my Creative Zen Vision:M for a smidge over an hour. In the morning I plan to do a handful of sit-ups/crunches (whichever is easier tomorrow), and pushups. Then, some jumping jacks and stair climbing (on a real flight of stairs) maybe a jog, I’d take the dog too but she’s too easily distracted for bringing along for fitness and she too needs some fitness training, (she’ll be next after I make some progress beyond laughable). I will then do my blogging and set some fitness goals for the next week and two weeks, then some long-term goals, using the short-term goals to achieve the distant ones.
Wish me well.
I've enabled the Contact Us buttons/pages on this site and GRLT, so readers can interact directly with me (mostly because this blog doesn't have a comment feature yet).
Kacey Green
KaceyGreen.com
"This post brought to you by Tangent's randomly firing synapses."