Made the mistake of waiting too long to eat last night and subsequently shoved too much food into the old piehole. As you will see below, I am not exercising nearly enough to eat a lot of food (in order to lose weight).
Also, on a whim decided to see if there were any empty lots for sale in East Atlanta. Holy shot has the real estate market gone insane again.
February Summary (tldr; “not greatâ€)
February 2019
02/01 – ?, M, nothing 😢
02/02 – ?, V, walking 😕
02/03 – ?, V, nothing 😢
02/04 – ?, M, hashing 🙂
02/05 – 210.4, V, walking 😕
02/06 – ?, V, trainer (60:00) 😀
02/07 – ?, M, hashing 🙂
02/08 – ?, V, nothing 😢
02/09 – ?, V, trainer (60:00), walking ðŸ˜
02/10 – ?, V, trainer (60:00) 😀
02/11 – ?, V, hashing 🙂
02/12 – 211.2, V, nothing 😢
02/13 – ?, V, walking 😕
02/14 – ?, V, trainer (60:00) 😀
02/15 – ?, V, nothing 😢
02/16 – ?, M, trainer (60:00) 😀
02/17 – ?, V, hashing 😀
02/18 – ?, V, nothing 😢
02/19 – 210.0, V, nothing 😢
02/20 – ?, V, nothing 😢
02/21 – ?, V, nothing 😢
02/22 – ?, M, nothing 😢
02/23 – ?, M, walking 😕
02/24 – ?, V, nothing 😢
02/25 – ?, V, hashing 🙂
02/26 – 210.8, V, nothing 😢
02/27 – ?, M, nothing 😢
02/28 – ?, V, nothing 😢
Hello March.
My 2019 restart begins today!
Yup, being sick most of February afforded me lots of time to sit on the couch, eat and not exercise. I am the fattest today that I’ve been in a looong time. I can almost say I’ve gained 15 pounds since last January, YIKES!!!
(And speaking of gaining weight) First time to Trader Vic’s last night with my friend David. While my friend Paulie helps expose me to Atlanta’s best dive bars (🙌ðŸ»), David’s mission is to expose me to tiki bars / tiki drinks (i.e. there’s more to life than beer 😮). Fun night with a fun cover band that played the likes of Dire Straits, Tom Petty, John Mellencamp, Eric Clapton, Huey Lewis, Duran Duran, The Romantics, Toto, The Police, Jackson Browne.
My goal starting on today, “Paulie New Yearâ€â„¢ï¸, is to lose enough weight to be below 200 pounds by the end of the Calendar Year.
You can do it! *Fist bump*
In case it wasn’t clear that I’m an insufferable spreadsheet geek, here’s categorical proof:
Days:
nothing 14
walking 5
trainer 5
hashing 5
29*
*Total is more than 28 days because one day had two types of exercise
Days:
m 7
v 21
28
This is what it would look like in a worksheet, assuming the list is pasted into column A and the words are entered into column G:
nothing =COUNTIF(A:A,”*”&G1&”*”)
walking =COUNTIF(A:A,”*”&G2&”*”)
trainer =COUNTIF(A:A,”*”&G3&”*”)
hashing =COUNTIF(A:A,”*”&G4&”*”)
=SUM(H1:H4)
m =COUNTIF(A:A,”*”&G7&”,*”)
v =COUNTIF(A:A,”*”&G8&”,*”)
=SUM(H7:H8)
Alright, I’ll get back to what I *should* be working on now. But we can now safely say that Paulie does nothing half the time. 😉 Happy Friday!
*fist bump*
See, too many “nothing†days in February. ☹ï¸
And it goes without saying that it’s a good thing that I don’t log my beer and coffee consumption for all to see. 😮
The worksheet cells would clearly show #########. 😜 (That means the number is too large to be displayed. )
😂😂😂
Weeeellllll you kinda do log your beer…. ðŸ»
I nearly put an asterisk by beer because of Untappd. 🙂
I wish I understood spreadsheets like that – wow!
There’s a couple of really useful techniques here:
=COUNTIF counts how many times something appears in a range of cells. In this case I was lazy and referenced A:A instead of say A1: A28 the way most people do. That causes it to reference the entire column, but also results in a shorter formula.
The rest is the criteria of what I was looking for. For â€*â€&G1&â€*†the asterisks are wild-cards, that I want to count how many times whatever is in G1 appears in column A:A, thus is can be in the middle of a cell, as opposed to counting when whatever is in G1 comprises the entire cell value.
The asterisks have to be enclosed in double-quotes, and so the ampersand connects it together. A lot of people use CONCATENATE to piece text together, but again I’m too lazy to bother typing out such a long word when the ampersand does the trick instead.
OK, now I *really* need to get back to what I should be working on. Thanks all for the distractions. 🙂
And today also marks the first day of the Atlanta Preservation Center‘s “Phoenix Flies†program in March. Check it out.
Wow, the quotation marks are really screwed up in that comment. 🤨
I went to OK Caf̩ for dinner РJohn was NOT there РI was very disappointed.
Dinner was good – only 5 beers for the selection – but I found 1 that was acceptable.
Are you sure he wasn’t there? Rumor has it that he has a treehouse in that money tree…
yep- we sat under the money tree…….
…if I had only known (in advance)!
FYI: It’s not a treehouse, I just sleep in my car in the parking lot (a very high crime area, BTW).
73 de JG/HamWithCam
I didn’t know (in advance).
It was a friends birthday – we used to always go to Scalini’s – not sure when they changed it to OK Café. maybe last year, since I didn’t go.
OK Cafe Trivia:
The “money” on the Money Tree has the names of those that donated $$ to the OK Cafe Employee fund, after the fire (water heater, lot’s of smoke, like November 2 years ago).
Many long-time OK Cafe employees have been there (well) over 10 years.
OK Cafe was *totally* gutted (down to red dirt floors), rebuilt and everything put back (almost) exactly as before.
We were there the first day it opened (surprising nobody).
(Letter to the Editor: I sure wish I knew how to post pictures to this blog.)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hamwithcam/46943122841/in/dateposted-public/
73 de JG/HamWithCam
FWIW- I don’t post photos to the blog, I use HTML to link to Flickr photos.
“I wish I remembered how to do that…” 🙂
73 de JG/HamWithCam
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp
Just wanted everyone to know that I don’t have any special skills when it comes to photos.