One of my pet peeves:
Find a line on the ground
Make sure there is a clear path
Walk normally, with the line between your feet
Look down as you're walking
Are your feet parallel with each other, and parallel with the line?
Or are they angled out at 33 degrees or more?
If they are not parallel, you are not walking correctly and you are putting unnecessary pressure and stress on your feet, ankles, knees, hips, and legs.
When you walk, your feet should be parallel.
Your joints will thank you.
Part 2
Are you a runner?
Running is VERY hard on all the joints below your waist... and even harder if you're doing it wrong.
Have a running partner watch your gait from the side and from behind to see if you're stepping wrong or if your feet are doing weird things.
You should be landing mid-foot and rolling forward, not striking heel first, and from the back you should be in parallel the whole time - no landing on the inside or outside of the foot.
Personally, I don't recommend running as an exercise at all, but people are so enamored of it, I can't really stem the tide. Use sparingly.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Friday, March 18, 2011
performance issues
So yesterday at the end of the day at work, my team lead says to me: "Dallin you need to limit your internet time - people are saying things"
While I had been on the internet for a minute or two here and there during the day, I had also been working all day. So that got me curious. We work in two basic systems - one of which allows you to track everything. So in that system I pulled the stats for everything I had done vs. what everyone else had done. Here's how the numbers played out:
Numbers expressed in "items processed"
Employee 1...36 (this is one of the ones I suspect probably said something)
Employee 2...37
Employee 3...43 (this is also a suspected tattler)
Employee 4...56
Me...70
Hmmm... would you look at that? Looks like I did more than everyone else. AND that's not counting the other system - which I had been working in for the first 3 hours I was at work.
Sounds like some bitches need to keep their damn mouths shut...
(Also when I showed my team lead these numbers she told me I was in the top 3 overall for the year in terms of production/numbers.)
While I had been on the internet for a minute or two here and there during the day, I had also been working all day. So that got me curious. We work in two basic systems - one of which allows you to track everything. So in that system I pulled the stats for everything I had done vs. what everyone else had done. Here's how the numbers played out:
Numbers expressed in "items processed"
Employee 1...36 (this is one of the ones I suspect probably said something)
Employee 2...37
Employee 3...43 (this is also a suspected tattler)
Employee 4...56
Me...70
Hmmm... would you look at that? Looks like I did more than everyone else. AND that's not counting the other system - which I had been working in for the first 3 hours I was at work.
Sounds like some bitches need to keep their damn mouths shut...
(Also when I showed my team lead these numbers she told me I was in the top 3 overall for the year in terms of production/numbers.)
Saturday, March 20, 2010
FAIL
This weekend I went on a road trip with my travel group... or at least, part of it...
To explain:
The carpools met up and got to the rendez-vous point in good time, and without incident. Starting off on the right foot there. Our rendez-vous point was the Taco Cabana in Lewisville.
After dinner we get on the road and start our journey to Oklahoma. Our destination was just outside Lawton, where there is a wildlife sanctuary reported to have buffalo and lots of other fun and interesting wildlife. The weather all week had been beautiful and on Friday the temperature was even up in the 70's. The weather report predicted a cold winter storm coming in overnight, but didn't sound too unbearable. We packed warm clothes and just expected to maybe walk through a little snow accumulation on our planned Saturday hike.
There were only 6 people on this trip (small for our group) so we fit in two cars. We, in the 2nd car noticed that the driver in the lead car seemed rather sporadic with her speed - going really fast when no one was in front of her, and then slowing WAY down as soon as there was another car. Andrew, the driver of the car I was in, was doing his best to keep up. At one point we realize they're going VERY fast - like over 90, so I try calling someone in the lead car to let them know - "hey - country highways in Texas are heavily patrolled" they didn't answer, because apparently the phone I was calling was on vibrate... but by then it was too late anyway - we saw red and blue flashing lights come on behind us. Andrew starts to pull to the side and the cop actually goes past us and after the lead car.
We didn't have a map of where we were going and didn't want to end up lost, so we pulled over behind our other caravan half and the cop. Looking back, we shouldn't have stopped - we should have just kept going and got off at some exit down the road, because they cop gave BOTH drivers tickets. About $250.00 fine EACH. Afterward the conversation in the car tended to center a lot on that. Lots of ennui.
When we got to the lodging we were going to stay in, Danielle, the group leader, goes in and finds the place completely unlocked. Upon further inspection, all the beds had been slept in, the trash hadn't been taken out, etc. Basically, they hadn't come and cleaned after the previous people had checked out.
We played a round or two of Apples to Apples, and then decided to call it a night, as most everyone was tired. The lodge was VERY drafty and cold. There was a recessed light over the bed I was sleeping in that if you felt closely, a freezing cold breeze was coming in from the outside. After lights out, I crammed a t-shirt into the fixture to at least try to prevent some freezing air from getting in.
So we all went to sleep in a freezing cold house in already-slept-in-by-some-stranger beds.
This is when it got "real" for me. I wake up at 4am with a very weird feeling. I can tell something is "off" so eventually I head down to the bathroom. Lets just say the bathroom and I became VERY well acquainted over the next 8 hours. Something I had eaten at Taco Cabana was, apparently, pure evil, and my body wanted to get it out by whatever means necessary.
I alternated between sleeping and visiting the bathroom the rest of the night and through the morning.
When everyone else woke up and decided they wanted to go to breakfast, I gave them a grocery list for a liquid diet to bring back to me, and went back to sleep. Many hours later they came back and I got the only calories in me since everything had been expelled overnight.
The snow was relentless, and the wind was blowing hard and fierce. I was in no condition to be going out in that weather, and the lodge was still freezing cold. Everyone, fully dressed in their winter clothes, STILL huddled under blankets to keep warm. It was at about that point that everyone kind of realized there was no way things were possibly going to get better from that point - so we cut our losses and came home.
While I was quite nauseated for a good majority of the car ride back, I miraculously didn't need to stop. So at least the return was fairly uneventful... except...
As we were riding back I got a "head's-up" phone call to let us know from the other car what the plans were. During that call my phone gave the "low battery" bleep sound, so after I hung up, I turned the phone off. Well, the on/off button seems to have either broken or stuck, because I have been completely unsuccessful in turning it back on. So if you're trying to call or text me and I'm not answering... I'm not ignoring you, my phone won't turn back on!
To explain:
The carpools met up and got to the rendez-vous point in good time, and without incident. Starting off on the right foot there. Our rendez-vous point was the Taco Cabana in Lewisville.
After dinner we get on the road and start our journey to Oklahoma. Our destination was just outside Lawton, where there is a wildlife sanctuary reported to have buffalo and lots of other fun and interesting wildlife. The weather all week had been beautiful and on Friday the temperature was even up in the 70's. The weather report predicted a cold winter storm coming in overnight, but didn't sound too unbearable. We packed warm clothes and just expected to maybe walk through a little snow accumulation on our planned Saturday hike.
There were only 6 people on this trip (small for our group) so we fit in two cars. We, in the 2nd car noticed that the driver in the lead car seemed rather sporadic with her speed - going really fast when no one was in front of her, and then slowing WAY down as soon as there was another car. Andrew, the driver of the car I was in, was doing his best to keep up. At one point we realize they're going VERY fast - like over 90, so I try calling someone in the lead car to let them know - "hey - country highways in Texas are heavily patrolled" they didn't answer, because apparently the phone I was calling was on vibrate... but by then it was too late anyway - we saw red and blue flashing lights come on behind us. Andrew starts to pull to the side and the cop actually goes past us and after the lead car.
We didn't have a map of where we were going and didn't want to end up lost, so we pulled over behind our other caravan half and the cop. Looking back, we shouldn't have stopped - we should have just kept going and got off at some exit down the road, because they cop gave BOTH drivers tickets. About $250.00 fine EACH. Afterward the conversation in the car tended to center a lot on that. Lots of ennui.
When we got to the lodging we were going to stay in, Danielle, the group leader, goes in and finds the place completely unlocked. Upon further inspection, all the beds had been slept in, the trash hadn't been taken out, etc. Basically, they hadn't come and cleaned after the previous people had checked out.
We played a round or two of Apples to Apples, and then decided to call it a night, as most everyone was tired. The lodge was VERY drafty and cold. There was a recessed light over the bed I was sleeping in that if you felt closely, a freezing cold breeze was coming in from the outside. After lights out, I crammed a t-shirt into the fixture to at least try to prevent some freezing air from getting in.
So we all went to sleep in a freezing cold house in already-slept-in-by-some-stranger beds.
This is when it got "real" for me. I wake up at 4am with a very weird feeling. I can tell something is "off" so eventually I head down to the bathroom. Lets just say the bathroom and I became VERY well acquainted over the next 8 hours. Something I had eaten at Taco Cabana was, apparently, pure evil, and my body wanted to get it out by whatever means necessary.
I alternated between sleeping and visiting the bathroom the rest of the night and through the morning.
When everyone else woke up and decided they wanted to go to breakfast, I gave them a grocery list for a liquid diet to bring back to me, and went back to sleep. Many hours later they came back and I got the only calories in me since everything had been expelled overnight.
The snow was relentless, and the wind was blowing hard and fierce. I was in no condition to be going out in that weather, and the lodge was still freezing cold. Everyone, fully dressed in their winter clothes, STILL huddled under blankets to keep warm. It was at about that point that everyone kind of realized there was no way things were possibly going to get better from that point - so we cut our losses and came home.
While I was quite nauseated for a good majority of the car ride back, I miraculously didn't need to stop. So at least the return was fairly uneventful... except...
As we were riding back I got a "head's-up" phone call to let us know from the other car what the plans were. During that call my phone gave the "low battery" bleep sound, so after I hung up, I turned the phone off. Well, the on/off button seems to have either broken or stuck, because I have been completely unsuccessful in turning it back on. So if you're trying to call or text me and I'm not answering... I'm not ignoring you, my phone won't turn back on!
Thursday, June 18, 2009
head over heels... again
so last year - on May 19th, to be precise... I wrote a blog about going head over handlebars on my bike.
It happened again today.
I was all excited to go for a ride, since I hadn't been in a long time. Got my bike out, aired up the tires and struck out on the sidewalk. About half a mile down the road there is a trail that goes through a park. I got there and went downhill on the trail, then, there was a sharp curve with dirt covering the trail and a ditch on both sides. As soon as I saw it I knew I was hosed. If I tried to turn sharp enough to keep the trail at the speed I was going I would skid on the dirt and crash, if I tried to not turn the wheel [which I ended up doing] I would go off into the ditch and flip right over.
The brunt of the impact was borne on my left forearm near the elbow and there were various other cuts/scrapes on my left leg and various other places
It happened again today.
I was all excited to go for a ride, since I hadn't been in a long time. Got my bike out, aired up the tires and struck out on the sidewalk. About half a mile down the road there is a trail that goes through a park. I got there and went downhill on the trail, then, there was a sharp curve with dirt covering the trail and a ditch on both sides. As soon as I saw it I knew I was hosed. If I tried to turn sharp enough to keep the trail at the speed I was going I would skid on the dirt and crash, if I tried to not turn the wheel [which I ended up doing] I would go off into the ditch and flip right over.
The brunt of the impact was borne on my left forearm near the elbow and there were various other cuts/scrapes on my left leg and various other places
My left shoulder hurts a LOT, too. I can't raise my left arm very high, but it's not dislocated or anything, so hopefully I didn't do any hardcore damage to it and it will get better within a day or two.
I think now I'll just lie and watch some TV... that's safe...
Friday, May 15, 2009
Dallas has the best audiences
So... having attended concerts in Houston, Austin, and many in Dallas, and seeing the musicians' responses I think I've determined that Dallas has the best audiences. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Allison Moyet of Yaz, and Ed Kowalczyk of Live all seemed particularly enthralled by the crowd response at their respective shows here in Dallas.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
For some reason...
I have three "for some reason(s)..."
1. For some reason I didn't sleep much last night. I went and played mini golf with the travel meetup, met some new people and lots of fun was had there, and maybe I was all riled up from that, or maybe I was all riled up thinking about all the trip possibilities [now that I'm an assistant organizer for that group.] I got home a little after ten, and was in bed by about 10:30pm, but was wide awake. I couldn't turn it off... so I got up and got on the computer for a while, and eventually got back in bed about 11:30 or so. Then I woke up about 5:15 this morning. I tried for about 15 minutes to fall back asleep, but couldn't so I just gave up, got ready, and came to work! I clocked in here at 6:40am. I'm sure in a few hours I'm going to be so dead tired I won't even be able to stand it.
2. For some reason it smelled like skunk INSIDE the entry of the office today. [Dwight... what have you been up to?]
3. For some reason I can't log in to the imaging system where I need to log in in order to do any work here... so thus, I'm writing a blog! Hooray!
1. For some reason I didn't sleep much last night. I went and played mini golf with the travel meetup, met some new people and lots of fun was had there, and maybe I was all riled up from that, or maybe I was all riled up thinking about all the trip possibilities [now that I'm an assistant organizer for that group.] I got home a little after ten, and was in bed by about 10:30pm, but was wide awake. I couldn't turn it off... so I got up and got on the computer for a while, and eventually got back in bed about 11:30 or so. Then I woke up about 5:15 this morning. I tried for about 15 minutes to fall back asleep, but couldn't so I just gave up, got ready, and came to work! I clocked in here at 6:40am. I'm sure in a few hours I'm going to be so dead tired I won't even be able to stand it.
2. For some reason it smelled like skunk INSIDE the entry of the office today. [Dwight... what have you been up to?]
3. For some reason I can't log in to the imaging system where I need to log in in order to do any work here... so thus, I'm writing a blog! Hooray!
Friday, February 20, 2009
catching up
so... again, it's been a while since I last posted... I can get lazy about updating my blog [as you may have already noticed.]
The main point of this entry is to recap the road trip I took with my travel group back on Feb 6-8.
Friday night we get picked up in our carpools and meet in downtown Fort Worth at a Chipotle there. I had already eaten before I got picked up, so I was just hanging out. One other car had arrived before the car I was riding in and when we got there they were already proposing a little detour to the carnival that was going on just down the street. Well, after we got the message that one of the other cars had gotten a flat en route and they would be delayed about an hour, Brian, Andrew, Angela, Misty, and I all headed over to the carnival. It was free to get in - so bonus there. Brian paid for a ride called "the Kamikaze" for all of us. It was crazy fun. After that we wandered around and then ended up getting a funnel cake. I had never had one before. Sure, I had seen them around, but never sampled one myself. As we were finishing up our funnel cakes and walking back toward the car we got texts and calls that we'd better get our butts back to Chipotle, since the other car had arrived and the group was ready to go. When we got out to Abilene the owner of the guest houses gave us a guided tour. They were VERY nice. If you ever have occasion to go to Abilene with a group [I know, why would you?] I would HIGHLY recommend these guest houses. Our group occupied all 3 of the houses. That night we all ended up in house #3 [we referred to them based on the order they were shown to us on the tour] and ended up playing a rather rousing game of taboo. The most fun part of that was yelling out fake 'funny' answers when it was the other team's turn - to throw them off their game. Ahh, good times.
Saturday was our 'photo scavenger hunt.' The goal was to take pictures of Texas redneck/country things such as: a dead animal, cactus, windmill, historical marker, sign with the word "gun" on it, etc. The list had at least 30 or 40 items. We divided into 4 groups of 4 and went separate ways. We all met up in San Angelo for lunch, and then went back out for more photos. We met again at a steakhouse for dinner in "Buffalo Gap." That evening we reviewed and had some good laughs at the photos - and counted up all the points - with some hotly debated items... After the photo sharing there was fun of all kinds in all places. One group member brought the whole Rock Band package with the X-box, so there was always that going on [with certain instances of horrible singing.] There was a lot of sitting around socializing, and just before midnight I instigated a polar bear swim in the pool at house #1, and got a few other willing participants to join me. And of course, there was also a "throwing in fully clothed" incident or two... or three... Good times.
Sunday was kind of a "take it easy" day. We got IHOP takeout for breakfast and played RockBand some more, then drove home in the afternoon. Definitely a fun and VERY memorable trip. Photos can be seen here.
The main point of this entry is to recap the road trip I took with my travel group back on Feb 6-8.
Friday night we get picked up in our carpools and meet in downtown Fort Worth at a Chipotle there. I had already eaten before I got picked up, so I was just hanging out. One other car had arrived before the car I was riding in and when we got there they were already proposing a little detour to the carnival that was going on just down the street. Well, after we got the message that one of the other cars had gotten a flat en route and they would be delayed about an hour, Brian, Andrew, Angela, Misty, and I all headed over to the carnival. It was free to get in - so bonus there. Brian paid for a ride called "the Kamikaze" for all of us. It was crazy fun. After that we wandered around and then ended up getting a funnel cake. I had never had one before. Sure, I had seen them around, but never sampled one myself. As we were finishing up our funnel cakes and walking back toward the car we got texts and calls that we'd better get our butts back to Chipotle, since the other car had arrived and the group was ready to go. When we got out to Abilene the owner of the guest houses gave us a guided tour. They were VERY nice. If you ever have occasion to go to Abilene with a group [I know, why would you?] I would HIGHLY recommend these guest houses. Our group occupied all 3 of the houses. That night we all ended up in house #3 [we referred to them based on the order they were shown to us on the tour] and ended up playing a rather rousing game of taboo. The most fun part of that was yelling out fake 'funny' answers when it was the other team's turn - to throw them off their game. Ahh, good times.
Saturday was our 'photo scavenger hunt.' The goal was to take pictures of Texas redneck/country things such as: a dead animal, cactus, windmill, historical marker, sign with the word "gun" on it, etc. The list had at least 30 or 40 items. We divided into 4 groups of 4 and went separate ways. We all met up in San Angelo for lunch, and then went back out for more photos. We met again at a steakhouse for dinner in "Buffalo Gap." That evening we reviewed and had some good laughs at the photos - and counted up all the points - with some hotly debated items... After the photo sharing there was fun of all kinds in all places. One group member brought the whole Rock Band package with the X-box, so there was always that going on [with certain instances of horrible singing.] There was a lot of sitting around socializing, and just before midnight I instigated a polar bear swim in the pool at house #1, and got a few other willing participants to join me. And of course, there was also a "throwing in fully clothed" incident or two... or three... Good times.
Sunday was kind of a "take it easy" day. We got IHOP takeout for breakfast and played RockBand some more, then drove home in the afternoon. Definitely a fun and VERY memorable trip. Photos can be seen here.
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