February 16th, 2009

February’s Health Habit – Meditation

I think I waited so long to pick a healthy habit because the two leading candidates: meditating on a daily basis or picking the three things I was going to do during a day, just seemed like too much of a commitment. I didn’t think I could do either of them every single day. My [...]

February 16th, 2009

New Accountability Blog

In my efforts to create 12 new healthy habits this year, I have discovered that there really is value in doing a daily checkin. I don’t really want to do that on this blog. Daily checkin entries seems like too much noise. My solution is a new blog http://joel-accountability.blogspot.com/ . I can’t imagine anyone will [...]

January 27th, 2009

Healthy Habits Checkin

In my January 9 post, I resolved to:
*each week print of 7 days of Alan’s diet*each day of the week circle my meals on the sheet and note any deviations.*report on how I am doing every Monday
So how’m I doin?
*each week print of 7 days of Alan’s diet Check. Piece of cake.
*each day of the [...]

January 12th, 2009

Creating Healthy Habits in 2009

I like New Year’s resolutions. In theory. Any activity that gets people to reach for their better selves is OK by me. In practice, I haven’t gotten around to creating any 2009 resolutions until now. Two blog post got me moving.
The first is from Amy Batchelor over at Thoughts and Random Patterns. Her posting The [...]

January 9th, 2009

It’s Friday

It’s Friday and here is my latest news:
I finally got Intense Debate working on this site again. Unfortunately some old comments were lost in the process. Apologies to the three or four people whose comments were affected.
In other news, I am finally getting my CPAP machine! And not a moment too soon. I [...]

January 6th, 2009

More Sleep Apnea Fun

Today I continue my non-chronological sleep apnea report:
I went to my doctor and got my prescription for my CPAP machine. Before doing this I had to go in for a second study to determine the pressure maintained by the CPAP. This seemed odd to me because all of the research I had done indicated that [...]

January 3rd, 2009

Posting from phone

Ok, with a modicum of effort, I can now send blog post from my phone.
My motivation for doing this was to write about my flickr account. For some reason my blackberry flickr uploader has not been working. All my photos from the holidays – captions and all have not been uploaded.
Grrrrrrrr.
Look for a flurry of [...]

January 3rd, 2009

Test from blackberry mms

Hello world!

December 20th, 2008

Second Sleep Study

Last night I went to my second sleep study to get my CPAP machine titrated.
Here are some pictures to the getup you have to wear.

December 18th, 2008

Obama’s Odd Choice

President-elect Obama’s selection of the prominent evangelical minister Rick Warren is disappointing to say the least. As much as I am delighted that Obama is headed to the White House, I can’t help but agree with what Joe Solomonese of the Human Rights Campaign says in a letter to Mr. Obama:
“We feel a deep level [...]