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Healthy Food

Potomac Beach Picinic

by carbonboyMay 31, 2010 A Day in the Life
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I made it to my second ever Potomac Beach Picnic after eight years of living here, and had a wonderful time with my neighbors.  With new residents, kids were everywhere, and they all were clearly having more fun than me, which is as it should be.
As always, the food was great, but not so much [...]

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Health Care, Broccoli & Beets

by carbonboyMarch 21, 2010 Collective Stupidity
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Now that I finally got Windows 7 to work, I love the feature where you bump two windows to opposite sides of the screen and you get a perfectly split screen.  I had a live CCN feed of the US Congress on one side of the screen, with a live Twitter feed from  http://monitter.com/ on [...]

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Feta Cheese & Kalamata Olive Fetish

by carbonboyFebruary 21, 2010 Fittness
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Holy crap – there are signs, ever so remote signs, that spring is on its way to Piney Point. The snow is almost gone, as are the below-freezing temperatures. Sunny days approaching 50° F (10° C) are the norm. No signs of any green or anything in bloom yet, but soon!
Today I am sixty days [...]

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14 Day Surge – Finale

by carbonboySeptember 14, 2009 Fittness
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Ha – I’m far too modest to post a realistic photo at this stage (but some day soon) as I still have 15 pounds of fat to lose (well, more), or replace with lean muscle. Again, I am disappointed, and I am not going to list the actual stats.
But in 14 days I did lose [...]

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14 Day Surge – 12 Day, almost there!

by carbonboySeptember 12, 2009 Fittness
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Both the weight training and aerobic workouts have now become effortless, except for the pain of the last few reps of each last set. I’ll have to buy some more weights for my two dumbbell sets after my holiday, but I have a long way to go (if ever) before I out grow the Olympic [...]

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14 Day Surge – Day 7, Disappointment

by carbonboySeptember 7, 2009 Fittness
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Half way into the surge, and today I weighed in with only a 4.4 lb weight loss – only 2 kilograms. Losing 4 pounds of fat in a week is nothing to be embarrassed over, but I was hoping for a pound a day. I’ve lost about 1.5 inches around the waist, which is nothing [...]

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14 Day Surge – Day 5, the Tipping Point

by carbonboySeptember 5, 2009 Fittness
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Yesterday, Friday, I spent much of the day outside working on an overdue project: re-screening and re-painting the back porch.  The temperatures have creeped back up into the mid-80’s, but it was still comfortable to work in the afternoon shade.
I like to start my weight training a 5:00 pm and finish my hour on the [...]

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14 Day Surge – Day 2, Priniciples with Soreness

by carbonboySeptember 2, 2009 Fittness
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Today I have the expected muscle soreness everywhere, as I jumped-started the surge by two days. I think it will pass shortly. I’m stretching in the morning, realizing how inflexible the neglected body becomes. As it has become cooler, I begin each day with a really hot soak in my jacuzzi tub.
I’m not taking [...]

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14 Day Surge – No More %&@&$!# Around!

by carbonboySeptember 1, 2009 Fittness
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OK, I had a lovely week off during my sister’s visit. We ate Chesapeake seafood in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and pasta in Little Italy. I drank more vino rosso than I should, and basically slacked off all last week. The summer heat and humidity have made me a bit too lethargic most of August. [...]

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My new obsession – the AF-S Nikkor 50mm 1.4 G

by carbonboyAugust 8, 2009 Healthy Food
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There’s one drawback to using a zoom lens all the time – it makes you a lazy photographer – unknown
Back when I bought my first SLR, a Canon EF, the f/1.8 50mm lenses were pretty much a plain vanilla option in the world of fixed focal-length lenses. They gave about a one-to-one view through the [...]

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15 bean soup – I mean 15 bean chicken chili

by carbonboyAugust 6, 2009 Healthy Food
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Chili is much improved by having had a day to contemplate its fate – John Steele Gordon
OK, I’m obsessed with this 15 bean package from Hambeens, even though it’s been around for a hundred years. So what if beans give you farts – so be it, as they are healthy farts.
I’ve been making this soup [...]

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