15-15-12-12-27

I notice that at least some of you are well exceeding your initial tests after just two weeks AND after doing 4 sets of push ups.  That's just amazing.  I'm not quite there yet, but I'll try to join that club next week!

16-13-11-11-20

The pain today is more dull than it was last week, but still.. ouch.

Week 1, day 3 was on Saturday and I did 15-13-10-10-15

Today is Week 2, day 1 and I did 12-12-9-7-20

Last week jprall and Abe expressed interest in joining the challenge, but I don't see any posts from them about it.  Come on and join guys, it doesn't hurt that much..

My muscles have tightened up quite a bit, I've lost some amount of movement in my arms, and I'm aware of the muscle groups involved with doing push ups.  At this point it almost feels that I'll be on pain killers all weekend.

Jason signed up for the program yesterday and Brenna said that she was going to join this morning too.  Go guys, go!

Today I feel slightly stiff in my pecs and abs.

Ok, I'll join, 100 Push Ups, here I come!

Today I did the initial test.  I hit 27 before I fell over trembling.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this does NOT qualify as an 'enlarged image'.  It *might* have qualified as an enlarged image in 1995, but not in 2008.  My screen is 1440 x 900.  I expect something considerably larger than 380 x 380 (as this enlargement weighs in at.)

While I'm in the pet peeve arena, let me also just state that a credit card number without spaces is incredibly hard to read.  It's also incredibly trivial to remove those spaces (and any other spurious characters) in the credit card number.  OH, and don't make me tell you what kind of card it is!  You can get that info from the card number itself.  All Visas start with 4, all Mastercards start with 5.  Want to know all of them: credit card info.

McCain 'resurrects' his call for a gas tax holiday.  This is so unbelievably wrong.  It's exactly the opposite of what we need.  It might help some people in the short term, but it will hurt all of us in the long term.  What will happen if gas prices decrease?  Demand will increase.  When demand increases prices go up.  That's just economics 101.  I'd even suggest that the price will quickly come back to where it is today.  The people that it would help would be the gas station owners and the manufacturers.

What would help us is if we imposed a 100% tax on gas (I guess Perot was on the right track.)  You must think I'm crazy, but hear me out.  The proceeds from this tax should go toward alternative energy research.  With gas prices that high, consumers will demand alternatives.  When consumers demand something manufacturers create it.  Long term, it's the way to go.  Short term the world will be turned upside down for a lot of people.  It could even plunge us into a massive global economic downturn.  So maybe we gradually put that gas tax into place, say over 2, maybe 3 years.  hmm, haven't has prices already doubled over the last 2 or 3 years?  If we had imposed that tax then we'd have a lot of money earmarked for energy research.  But who has that money now?  Oil and gas companies.  Do you trust them with alternative energy research?  It might be better than the government dishing out the money.  Point me to alternative energy research by oil and gas companies in the comments below.

I got notice that my building has ordered a 'green bin' for composting (as offered by the city of San Francisco.)  So I've started filling up some BioBags with compostables. Then I looked in the trash.  Most of it is various plastic stuff.  ZipLock bags, plastic film, plastic packaging, etc.  Now the question becomes: Why is recycling various plastic so hard?  I'm sure that's a loaded question, but does it need to be?

I also found that there is a company developing a zip closed biodegradable bag.  We live in exciting times.

Ladies and gentlemen: Recycling, composting, 'environmentalism' is not about saving the earth.  The earth is fine.  It's now about making sure that humans can inhabit the earth in the future.  And every little bit helps.