So not too long ago I downloaded this app called FitFu in order to help regain some of the youthful stamina I had when I was younger.

Although I’m technically still in shape (I still have a six pack), I needed to find a way to stay active in order to avoid gaining a watermelon belly in the future.

While FitFu is fun to use (I’ve already broken past a few personal bests) I’ve realized that I need to improve the number of pushups, crunches and squats within a minute.

Personal goals are:

60 crunches/minute: I use to be able to do that when I was younger without breaking a sweat. I’m doing about 30-40/minute which is pathetic as it means I’ve slacked off.

50 push ups/minute: When I was a child doing this was easy. The fact I can’t even reach half way there in 60 seconds means that I need to spend more time doing this.

Squats: I’ve never been into squats (I prefer running instead), but according to FitFu I’m suppose to wait 2 seconds between each squat (so 30 in a minute is the most I’m suppose to do). I think I’ll concentrate on endurance with this one.

The only thing I loathe about FitFu is that you have to unlock pushups by performing other exercises (like knee pushups?!!), although there are in app upgrades available if you want to skip over some of the silly exercises.

Between FitFu & Run Keeper, I think I’ve found a fun & affordable way to stay in shape without having to pay out the wazoo every month for a gym membership.

No, I have not gained any weight or lost my six pack, but I have not done any running/exercise in well over a month!

Although I hate running/exercising, it does relieve stress, which is easy to catch during this Christmas season, as I already have one gift on the way, one in the process of being completed (no details will be spilled here) and another I can only do 4 days before Christmas! (I’ll explain later on)

Getting back exercising, I am trying to figure out a way to do it so that I am not bored out of my mind as running around for two miles is not that entertaining.

Perhaps its a good time to purchase a Nintendo Wii. For Me.

But that’s not going to happen with all the gifts I have to buy.

Running it is.

While I was reading the scriptures this morning, I noticed a humorous in Leviticus:

“It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.” ~Leviticus 3:19

Blood I understand, as it may contain all those fun bacteria that can usually kill you in your sleep (or when you’re awake, which ever comes first).

But it seems humorous to me that this health tidbit given over four thousand years ago (give or take a few centuries) is currently being ignored by most fast food restaurants in the US today.

Perhaps this is the reason why health insurance is so expensive here?

If it were not for the fact that it hurts every time I laugh, I probably wouldn’t take it as seriously.

Anyways, I’ve been “slightly sick” with big lip fever for the past few days, and haven’t been able to do as much as I would like to, especially online.

Although eating is a bit slower, I am still trying to swallow three (or two) meals a day, as it hurts every time I open my mouth, and even more so when I laugh (as my lips are swollen).

Hopefully this isn’t an allergic reaction to some food item, as I am already forbidden to drink milk from my doctors (although I can say it tastes really good!).

That’s it for now…

Belated Update: You gotta love CVS pharmacists! A two dollar medicated chap stick cream saved the day.

I certainly hope not!

(Space Daily) “We’re at a junction now of developing a new approach for a brain-machine interface,” says senior author Douglas H. Smith, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at Penn. “The nervous system will certainly rebel if you place hard or sharp electrodes into it to record signals. However, the nervous system can be tricked to accept an interface letting it do what it likes – assimilating new nerve cells into its own network.”

To develop the next generation of prosthetics the idea is to use regions of undamaged nervous tissue to provide command signals to drive a device, such as an artificial limb. The challenge is for a prosthesis to perform naturally, relaying two-way communication with the patient’s brain.

We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

Sounds like Google, don’t you think?