Something clever this way comes...

I wish I could think of something clever to post ;). Blackpetero always seems to.

Well, fitness-wise, I'm still doing "just okay" in my books. It's amazing to me how much 'life around you' is preventing 'the fire within'. How's that for cliche' world? I want to do more, but there's only so many hours in the day. I aim to change that. Not by increasing the hours in the day, but by prioritising better.

Anyhoo, I had appointment #3 at the SAN today and it all went well. I decided to take a bit of control and up everything they're putting me through. They're being too precious. For example, I've always had massive strong legs, so leg-pressing 10kg is just ridiculous, so I cranked it up more than a few notches.

Basically, I upped all of the settings on anything they put me on today and did fine. That said, my BP was still too high. It was a different cardiac nurse to the last two visits and this one said "Heart rate a bit high, really good workout, hmmm, you're breathing fine, talking fine, but what is wrong with this blood pressure??".

I must say, I still feel great. It's the silent killer, they say.

Oh well, appointment with cardiologist tomorrow, let's see what he says.

I want to do some non-fitness/health thing per post now, to compete with bpo, so I'll start below. I want to say I'm happy with my friends reading all this. Use the comment feature or not, the emails from you all are just as encouraging!

In my constant atheist/skeptic/science reading, I'm now reading a great book by Houdini called "On Deception" (with a foreword by the fantastic Derren Brown). This is a book written at best in the early 1900's (I don't have it with me to reference it and I'm too lazy to google, but Houdini died in the 1920's!) and it's amazing how he's attacking and debunking the same charlatans that we still face today!

One hundred years ago and not much has changed! Psychics, alternative medicine, mail scammers, it's all there! Yes, mail scammers, I kid you not. It seems to me that the schemes are all the same, just that technology (i.e. the internet) helps make the same lame schemes more profitable than ever. And fools never differ...

Oh and here comes Oprah to visit Sydney :(. One of the richest people in the world, a veritable juggernaut of promotion and a sad purveyor of the old 'woo woo'.