Pretty much yesterday was school. I actually slept in and missed my 8am class. I wouldn’t normally care that much, but it’s one that I really don’t like to miss. So, in the afternoon I made the offer to help one of the guys with Solidworks. I know, wasn’t I complaining about helping people too much. However, on Wednesdays everyone in the school gets 12-1pm off, so it’s almost impossible to find somewhere to sit in the cafeteria. So I had planned to go into the CAD lab anyways (and copy the sheets from the class I’d missed).

Then last night I went back to the electricity homework. That pretty much took the rest of the evening.

Food for yesterday:

Total: 1909 (20% fat, 49% carbs, 31% protein)

Breakfast: breakfast bake, honey oatmeal bread, jam, orange (405)
AM Snack: none (0)
Lunch: multi-grain tortilla, eye of round, lettuce, celery, mustard, apple (440)
PM Snack: hummus, carrots (119)
Dinner: chili with whole wheat pasta (698)
Late Snack: protein shake, fruit salad (248)

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This morning’s workout (before school). I did a 15-min walk on the treadmill, followed by:

A: Deadlift - 85/12, 90/12
B1: Barbell Shoulder Press - 65t/12, 65t/12
B2: Barbell Pullover - 45e/15, 45e/15
C1: Lunge - 30e/15, 32e/15
C2: Swiss-ball Crunch - 8, 8

I tried to talk myself out of this workout this morning. I have time that I could have done it either this afternoon today, or even tomorrow afternoon. In the end I decided that I really should get it out of the way.

From the HR monitor:

40 mins, 295 cals, Max HR: 168 (94%), Avg HR: 132 (74%)

I also spent a fair amount of time this afternoon walking around. I was working on my project for Creative Thinking. I had my choice of:

10 poems - no thanks
2 paintings - considered this, but decided not
a 20 frame video with the theme of ‘this is Hamilton’ (city where the college is)

So armed with my mother’s camera today I took pictures (95 of them). Some from the car even - yes, while it was moving. Then after class I went to a couple of parks, a local waterfall, the downtown beach, a recreational area on the lakefront, and a local castle (okay, a big mansion, but they call it a castle). The only complaint was that it was pretty cold, and everything is dead from the winter. However, it’s due April 1st, and I doubt it’s going to be any better in a couple of weeks.

I think I don’t have much homework this weekend, so I’ll probably try and edit it together. My plan is to break it into two parts. The first part will be the typical commuter’s vision of a city. You know, highways, traffic, parking lots. I’m planning to use ‘Working in a Coal Mine’ (the Devo version from Heavy Metal, just because I have it) for the first part, then transition into the scenes that the commuter never sees. I haven’t picked the tune for that part, still thinking about it. The whole thing will probably run about two minutes. But hey, it’s worth 15% of my grade, and presenting it will give me up to another 15%.

It was kind of sad really. Hamilton is a steel town, with two main companies (originally Dofasco and Stelco). They’ve both been sold off to other interests (Dofasco to Arcelor Mittal - a European based company, and Stelco to US Steel). I know it was probably, for both of them, the only way to keep going. However, this week US Steel announced that they are ‘temporarily’ shutting down the Hamilton works. This will be a huge loss for the people in the city, as it’s been a cornerstone employer for years. I went past the two installations today and even at Dofasco there are a lot of empty spots in the massive parking lots. I suppose it’s better than the deserted ones at the other plant.

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Ack, I just looked at the clock and it’s at least 30 mins past when I planned on getting to bed. One more early morning tomorrow and then I can have two medium early mornings before it all starts again. 

Food for the day:

Total: 2193 (28% fat, 41% carbs, 31% protein)

Pre-WO: protein shake: 210
Breakfast: two fried eggs, honey oatmeal bread, orange (405)
AM Snack: none (0)
Lunch: multi-grain tortilla, eye of round, lettuce, celery, mustard, apple (440)
PM Snack: hummus, flatbread (149)
Dinner: chicken fajitas, with onions, peppers, salsa, cheese, salad w/dressing (850)
Late Snack: fruit salad (96)

Yeah, I know - lots of cals at dinner. That’s because I was hungry! We ate almost an hour later than usual. Instead of taking my fajita mixture on one tortilla, I took a second one. Usually we have the smaller tortillas, which would have been easier, but I threw caution to the wind. At the time I wasn’t thinking about macros as I knew the calories were okay (just dropped the shake from the evening snack).