Basement Shower is done!!!

The door came in earlier than scheduled, and it is now installed.  

I have started a new blog...

to track my training for the Sandy to Snowbird Hill Climb which will be held this year on August 22.  A link to the blog is in the blog list to the right.

Somedays I get very conflicted....

After two days of being overweight....

...I slipped back into obesity today.  I am going to have to stop eating that damned (and bitter) acorn butter.  I was able to claw my way back to overweight by riding my bike for an hour.  So far today all I have had is a glass of Cranberry Juice (90 cal) and a bowl of oatmeal (100 cal).  I will soon have a yogurt (100 cal) with a few sunflower seeds mixed in (50 cal).  It is lunchtime afterall!

Thank God!  I am finally overweight!

Until this morning, the Wii Masters have determined, based upon my height and weight, that I was obese.  After several weeks on a fairly rigorous diet and abundant exercise, I finally dropped below the Wii threshold for obese and now am only overweight.  I am afraid that I will be overweight for the rest of my life, except perhaps for the time when the life forces are draining from my body.

Playing Tennis on Sunday morning ...

We decided to be daring...

...and so to flout tradition we got some wildberry purple stain.  I think it looks brown (which would be traditional), but you can see in the close up shot, it really does have a purple hue to it.  Becuase it is hardwood, it did not take up a lot of the stain.

The ballet bar is installed at last...

Today it finally all came together, and the ballet bar mounts which I had to have custom fabricated, were completed by S&K Machine.  The standard brackets positioned the bar too high for Carolyn to use, and there was no option regarding where the brackets were to be installed since they had to go in the holes which had been cut in the mirror.  The piece I had machined is the U shaped piece.  It replaces a piece which went straight up about two inches.

I also had to have the bar custom made... you can't buy 14' round bars.

I got it all put together this afternoon, and now have only to stain it.  Any suggestions for colors?

The lights in the exercise room are on two dimmable circuits.  I replaced the incandescent floods in one circuit with dimmable fluorescent floods.  They are cooler, use a lot less power, and do not interfere with the Wii as much as the incandescents do.  If I were starting over with the bulbs, I would have installed all fluorescents, but as I have 47 cans, it would be an expensive propositiion to replace them all.

Whose been sitting in my chair?