Health/Fitness

Joshua on July 2nd, 2009

The site, hundredpushups.com, has a simple concept.  It provides a plan for training just about anyone to go from being able to do just a few to being able to do 100 consecutive pushups.  The site uses a well known method of increasing and decreasing numbers of repetitions in a set.  You do pushups three […]

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Joshua on January 24th, 2009

Yesterday I’d thought of writing about how Spring had apparently arrived in central Texas.  The weather was 80 degrees for a couple of days, we saw a gecko, and the last leaves finally fell off the trees in the back yard.  And then today it was 45 degrees and windy.  We headed for a “hike” […]

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Joshua on September 27th, 2008

Last Thursday we had our visit with the pediatric dietician.  We drove all the way out to the new Dell Children’s hospital (which by the way is in not very subtly shaped like a church with a tall steeple) on the recommendation of our pediatrician. The dietician, Megan, was friendly, but wondered why we were […]

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Joshua on September 7th, 2008

This is what happens when you post pictures of your daughter at the cardiologist on Flickr and then don’t get around to writing about like you thought you would:  Everybody and their mother assumes the worst. Jillian has an innocent murmur.  Basically that means it is small, harmless, and actually pretty common.  Our doctor recommended […]

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