While I haven’t quite hit my next goal, I am definitely well on the way.
The last time I had a blood test, my bad cholesterol was high, and my good cholesterol was low, so I’ve been adding green vegetables to my diet, lowering my fat intake, and eating more vegetables in general. I’ve also been trying to get some exercise in where I can.
Hey all. Some of you may remember that I’m trying to loose weight. Well, my recent bout with physical inactivity brought on by throwing my back out didn’t help, nor will my resolve to minimize heavy physical activity over the next week.
On the up-side, it turns out that I was able to keep most of the weight off that I talked about in my previous post according to the scale at my parents house. Unfortunately, that scale shows me as weighing far less than the one at the doctors office does, and I won’t have access to it nearly as often as I used to. So I bought a new scale.
Some of you may recall my earlier post in which I posted that I injured my back. Well, after resting up, my back is feeling much better.
Unfortunately, I had a lot of work to catch up on. So, between resting my back, and catching up on work, I haven’t had much chance to post lately.
Over the next week, I intend to continue to rest my back, which means I have to refrain from doing more unpacking and moving into my new apartment. This will give me time to catch up on my blogging, and hopefully a bit of light cleaning as well.
Recently I snatched up a 720p 32″ LCD TV with 2 HDMI ports and a VGA port, which was drastically on sale. I was told in store that HDMI was backwards compatible with DVI, and it even said so on the package of a converter. I also have a video card with 2 DVI outputs (and no VGA outputs), 256M DDR3 RAM.
Unfortunately it turns out that HDMI is only backwards compatible on pin out. As DVI and HDMI are both digital signals, they are both encoded. There are differences in this encoding, which can cause problems in hooking up DVI and HDMI devices together. Unless the device accepting the input can understand the encoding of the other format, problems are very likely.
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My apologies for not posting more often recently. As usual, there’s a combination of reasons. First of all, I have been continuing to move boxes of all kinds into my apartment and unload them. This caused the next reason: Despite lifting correctly, I threw my back out.
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For those that don’t know, there is a running gag among computer engineers that when a chip goes bad and lets out smoke, the reason the chip no longer works is because “you let the magic blue smoke out.”
In a related note, earlier today I was moving some boxes out of storage with my friends, when we noticed a burning smell, like burning plastic. We tried to find the cause, but did not. Moments later while they were getting some more boxes, and I was working to finish up a book shelf to put some books we brought up into, one of the air conditioning vents in my apartment suddenly started billowing smoke.
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Hey all. I’ve finished moving into my new apartment. Well, more or less. I still have loads of unpacking to do, and there is a storage facility I’m taking up some space in that my family will be working to empty out in the near future.
As I let you all know in a previous post, I’ll be moving to my apartment over the next few days. I don’t yet have cable installed in it, and I don’t know how long it will take to get it set up, so I may be off line for several days.
I will hopefully be able to get my computer systems set up and ready for the installation, so that it won’t take any extra time past receiving the modem in the mail, and the service being turned on.
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I have to admit that I haven’t been paying as much attention to my blog lately as I should have. However I do have a fairly good set of reasons. First, there is my recent birthday, and all that entails.
But I have also been apartment hunting. I recently found one, applied for it, and it is on hold for me. I will be taking possession of it later this week. It’s a 2 bedroom 1 bath, and is very reasonably priced, costing less than many 1 bedroom apartments in the area, and having more room than most 2 bedroom 2 bath apartments in the area. It has all the utilities payed except for electric (it’s an all electric building) and several amenities that were relatively hard to find in the are as well.
For those who do not know, I very recently celebrated a birthday. I received many wonderful gifts, but best of all was the fact that, despite rising gas prices, my aging Grandmother decided to come all the way out from several states away to visit me.
She warned me that she wouldn’t be able to bring me an expensive present if she came, and I told her that was perfectly fine. I just wanted to see her. I did ask, though, that if she had any paintings she had done that she had no plans for, I would really appreciate one of them.