Monday 25 May 2009

Still got cold - so I watched this instead of working

This guy and his book presents the science that backs up the Paleo diet and the Primal Blueprint. In it he uncovers scientific research from early last century that proves it isn't how many clories it is what calories that make people fat. It is 71min long but worth it.

In a nutshell it is not the amount of calories people eat that make them fat but what they eat. The culprit is insulin which allows fat to be stored. But the insulin is created by carbohydrates so eating a diet high in carbohydrates causes a high insulin production which causes fat to be stored. Over eat carbs i.e. pizza, fries, burger buns you've got real problems. As have type 2 diabetics which is often caused by obesity are then given insulin as a treatment - a bit of a catch22 situation.




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Thursday 21 May 2009

I have a cold

I have a cold

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Wednesday 20 May 2009

Rant

Teresa and I are feeling yuck at the present. Mentally exhausted from the children who both have hacking coughs but according to the doctor there is nothing we can do it will get better (it can take up to 6weeks) and we just have to put up with being woken up.

I'm fed up with marketing, obsese people and the sense of entitlement people seem to have. At the weekend I called out the noise control people at 5.30pm because the ugly people next door had their noise on so loud we couldn't hear ourselves think.

Had a lousy swim this morning never got going, I might be tired or getting a cold.

A phonecall from Ian the principal at Napier Central , Teresa's boss. Wanting to know could I put back the intranet. I had redesigned there intranet with a content management system for them to add links, videos, examples of cool digital work done by the children. The problem was I sent them an invoice on the 4th April and still hadn't been paid by 18th May. As I told Ian this is the second time this had happened the last was the previous month. The woman in the office told me she couldn't pay before the 20th of the month, I checked with my accountant and he told me her reason was only partially right. I didn't make a fuss I just sent along the second invoice expecting it to be paid by the 20th it didn't.

So when Ian said that he didn't know what had happened between office woman and me (as in personality thing) I told him it has nothing to do with it, I said it is purely business and gave him the example of the first invoice and how I had tried to be accommodating. He himself knows that this woman is a law unto herself so much so that board of the school is having an external auditor come in to review office practices because they have had so many complaints. I held back from saying that he is her boss and it is his fault it has got to this situation.

I did say that I had done a lot of work cheaply for the school and I support Teresa in her role as ICT co-ordinator. I also rely on goodwill between myself and my clients and that this is the first none payment issues I've had to deal with and shouldn't have to chase payment when he suggested that I should have rung the school..

I told him that I was trying to keep the website business seperate from my teaching and Teresa's teching at the school. Then I should have stopped talking because I launched how exhausted Teresa is because she does way more than her fair share. The most recent is the school production. She is teaching the songs to the main characters at lunch time and yet still has to get 15 different costumes made for all the different roles her class are playing. Whereas the junior (teaching children younger than 7) have one type of easy costume to make and thats it. So I told Ian she is thinking of leaving the schoo or a different teaching team, because her present team leader likes long bring after school meetings to analyse the stats from tests that don't mean anything. Teresa would shoot me if she found out.

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Monday 18 May 2009

Weekly traing 11May - 17May & Teresa's race

Teresa did one of the multi-sport clubs very low key duathlons (VLKD) in Havelock North. She has been trying for the last few years to get back into the triathlon lifestyle but has found her job, 2 children and suitable time to train exhausting. There are 2 options 4.5km 22km 4.5km and the shorter 2km 11km and 2km she came second vet on hardly any training. She doesn't really like cycling but has found cycling on the turbo trainer 2 mornings a week, at first it was 10min it is now up to 15min and after this race she plans to increase it 20min, helps a great deal. I do my bit to get lunches packed and children fed which creates the time.


Swim
3 swims 5700m
Bike
10 weeks of solid cycling (small bits) so I chose to miss 2 seessions in my effort to get more recovery. total: 6.49miles
Run
2 runs, worked one day in Teresa's class total: 8miles

Getting into the whole bare foot thing. No shoes around the house, flip flops if I go out except if I really need to walk. I am also stopping using the orthotics instead I'm trying to strengthen my legs and feet naturally. This will save me money because stability control running shoes cost more. In December I an going to to buy some vibram five fingers as part of a christmas present.

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Tuesday 12 May 2009

Weekly traing 4May-10May

Cameron was home sick so one swim and one run was missed.
Swim
2 swims total: 3600m
Bike
3 bike rides on trainer total: 14.63 miles
Run
2 runs total:8 miles

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Thursday 7 May 2009

Feijoa hedge & police emergency

I was just going to post the photo I took of the new hedge 10 feijoa trees but something very newsworthy happened. In Napier a man shot at unarmed police who were carrying out a routine house search looking for marijuana. One officer was killed and 3 were wounded. It happened on Napier hill which is where Napier Central school is were Teresa teaches and Emily goes to school. The suspect was also said to have explosives strapped to him. The school was one of 3 evacuated and residents inside the police cordon were advised to kepp down and out sight. Napier and Hastings aren't large places and it was proved today that the suspect was the uncle of a boy that was in Teresa's class last year. He was already an unhappy boy (I had taught him as well)his dad had committed suicide a few years ago. More info on stuff.co.nz. At the time of posting the event is still happening.


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Tuesday 5 May 2009

Weekly traing 27Apr-3May

Swim
3x1700= 5200m
Bike
3 trainer rides total: 12.95miles
Run
3 runs total: 10miles

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