Geezer with a Grudge: I'm Back

May 5, 2012

I'm Back

Ok, I never really left. However, I did leave a few bits of me somewhere in a hospital trash can five months ago and I've been working toward today ever since. At 7AM today, I started my first MSF BRC class for 2012. I've been doing 50 deep squats, a variety of leg lifts, pushups, setups, physical therapy, and flinging 10-20 pound dumbells (the weights, not the people) around every day for four-plus months aiming at today. It was just a single, but according to my Fitbit that amounts to 4.5miles walked today and 2400 calories burned before 1PM. Not bad for a 65-year-old under-achieving fat man with a bad attitude and low self-esteem.

I lucked out and it was a great class, full of over-achievers and it is good to be back on the range.

2 comments:

Robert Keeney said...: How does the FitBit work?

I went to their web site but it was very uninformative.; 5/6/12, 8:19 AM
T.W. Day said...: The FitBit is a USB dongle sized thing that records motion/activity and downloads it to the FitBit site where the data is compiled into something you can use as an activity monitor. From that data, it calculates the calories you've burned. If you wear it at night, it gives you an estimate of how well or poorly you've slept. You can enter meal data and monitor your calorie intake and you can add exercise data to refine the system's evaluation of your activity. It should be a useful diet tool, but I haven't lost much weight and I can't blame that on FitBit. I eat too much.; 5/6/12, 8:37 PM

The Geezer Story

I stumbled upon this column name (Geezer with a Grudge) almost 20 years ago, in 1999. The first Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly editor I worked with, in late 1999, complained that the magazine was getting no mail and the editors wanted to know if any readers were still out there. I fired off a sarcastic note, as a joke, intended to provide a little humor and some feedback. He published it as an article and later called me to say he'd received more mail on that letter than he'd received in the past year! I followed that with an offer to write a monthly column attempting to piss off a particular section of the magazine's readership to see if that tactic would generate some mail.

It did, probably more regularly than the magazine wanted at times, and I wrote a monthly column for MMM until the magazine died in 2018.

I plan to post an occasional old Geezer article into the blog, followed by short comments about the current status of my perspective on our activity/sport/vehicle of choice.