Hello, everyone!\u00a0 The Madness will now continue.\u00a0 No, really, I am returning to regular blogs.\u00a0 You see, today I am starting my training to become………a Superhero!<\/p>\n
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No, I am not kidding.\u00a0 I do believe I said the Madness will now continue.\u00a0 I have an interesting goal in life, and that is to become a superhero.\u00a0 No, I don’t have any super powers and do not expect to gain any anytime soon.\u00a0 However, I have been inspired by a few things to take up a cape and head to the streets in an effort to make the world a better place.<\/p>\n
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This will not take place tomorrow.\u00a0 Or next week.\u00a0 Or even in the next few months.\u00a0 I have a bit of training to do first.\u00a0 You see, I am physically unfit.\u00a0 Overweight, even.\u00a0 Nobody wants to see a fat man in tights, even if he is trying to be a do-gooder superhero type.\u00a0 So Aspect #1 of Superhero Training is physical fitness.\u00a0 As a start to this, today I resumed my daily walk.\u00a0 I have done it sporadically since the beginning of June but not regularly since before that.\u00a0 I was up to a two-mile walk five days a week in the months preceding June.\u00a0 Then my daughter had the audacity to get married and somehow that screwed everything up!<\/p>\n
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Okay, that’s not fair.\u00a0 I love my daughter and her marriage was an amazingly beautiful ceremony.\u00a0 She has married a fine young military man and they have a bright, Golden, wonderful future together.\u00a0 The wedding and the family reunion the week after (both in Indianapolis) took me away from my daily walk and when I returned I simply failed to continue it.\u00a0 So now I have restarted it and with passion.\u00a0 I set a quicker pace this morning than when I was doing it regularly before.<\/p>\n
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So why call it superhero training?\u00a0 It’s a cover story, like a secret identity for a guy in tights whois physically fit and doing good deeds.\u00a0 I may or may not someday be a Real Life Superhero (they do exist), but in the meantime it’s a way to motivate myself.\u00a0 There are several Aspects to it, all of which are Superhero-themed:
\n1.\u00a0Physical Fitness.\u00a0 This one is obvious, and I have already discussed it.\u00a0 I will add some plans:\u00a0 First, I will continue to increase the pace of my morning walk until it is more of a jog.\u00a0 I will eventually be doing it on my treadmill as that is more of a workout and not weather-dependent.\u00a0 I’ll add more exercise, starting with using my exercise machine (bench presses, etc.) and eventually floor stuff (crunches, push-ups, etc.).\u00a0 My goal is to be in superhero shape or something close to it in a year.<\/p>\n
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2.\u00a0 Better Diet<\/strong>.\u00a0 This goes hand-in-hand with #1.\u00a0 I have resisted this for a long time on the excuse that I can get into shape with just exercise.\u00a0 This may be true, but it will be quicker and better with a few diet changes.\u00a0 Less junk, more healthy stuff.\u00a0 I have what will be my last big bag of M&Ms at work.\u00a0 I am eating fruit or vegetables with dinner every night.\u00a0 Stuff like that.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3.\u00a0 Improved Hygiene<\/strong>.\u00a0 Sticking with the physical health theme, I am going to brush my teeth regularly.\u00a0 Wash my hands more often.\u00a0 Things we are all supposed to do but often get lazy about.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4.\u00a0 Disciplined Time Management<\/strong>.\u00a0 Now this is an interesting category.\u00a0 I could probably call it “Miscellaneous” but I wanted something more to the point.\u00a0 Things like doing this blog, working more on writing software or books.\u00a0 Doing things with my time which are less wasteful than what I have been doing.\u00a0 This doesn’t mean cutting out the fun stuff, just making sure I do more of what I should be doing so stuff gets done.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So expect more from me in the future.\u00a0 I will blog daily again, Monday through Friday with occasional weekend posts.\u00a0 I have a notion in my head to do a video blog once a week on Saturdays to recap my week.\u00a0 We’ll see if that happens, but it is a thought.\u00a0 See you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello, everyone!\u00a0 The Madness will now continue.\u00a0 No, really, I am returning to regular blogs.\u00a0 You see, today I am starting my training to become………a Superhero! No, I am not kidding.\u00a0 I do believe I said the Madness will now continue.\u00a0 I have an interesting goal in life, and that is to become a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}