{"id":3102,"date":"2014-03-15T03:19:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T10:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:37:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:37:24","slug":"this-week-in-history-table-push-ups-and-jogging-in-place-beta-readers-catching-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/this-week-in-history-table-push-ups-and-jogging-in-place-beta-readers-catching-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in history: Table push-ups and jogging in place; Beta readers; Catching Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Table push-ups and jogging in place<\/b><\/p>\n<p> As you know, I&#8217;ve been trying to get a bit fitter, so I&#8217;ve been working some exercise into my routine in-between all my ass sitting and TV watching. So far, it&#8217;s been working out pretty good for me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p> I do about 200-300 push-ups a day &#8212; my sissy table push-ups, since I&#8217;m not willing to go down to the floor with my dog ready to stomp on my back. I don&#8217;t do them all at once, since I&#8217;m not secretly Superwoman, but I do groups of 40-40-20 within a ten minute period. Once in the morning, once in the afternoon, and once in the evening. I&#8217;m thinking about adding another two groups in there to get it up to a round 500.<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ve already lost one pound since I started and my arms are getting toned and that annoying waggle has disappeared.<\/p>\n<p> Tonight I added five minutes of jogging in place, which science tells me should have burned 45 calories. It got my heart rate up and I could feel it working my legs, so I&#8217;m going to add that to my routine as well. I don&#8217;t really like running, since my feet are a little flat and it starts feeling like the skin is tearing right at the arch, but the jogging in place wasn&#8217;t bad at all.<\/p>\n<p> I figure 30 minutes of jogging in place (272 calories according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfitnesspal.com\/exercise\/calories-burned\/running-jogging-in-place-133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MyFitnessPal&#8217;s<\/a> calculator) and 500 push-ups a day should see some serious results within a month. At the very least, I&#8217;ll honestly be able to say that I&#8217;m trying to get healthier. Plus, I&#8217;ll have me some serious arm guns.<\/p>\n<p> * * *<\/p>\n<p> <b>Beta readers<\/b><\/p>\n<p> I am on the lookout for some beta readers. I&#8217;ve made myself a little side-site and I&#8217;ve gotten some very helpful concrit, but I&#8217;ve always been of the mind that a few more eyes never hurt anything.<\/p>\n<p> Projects I&#8217;m working on and will be posting: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuesday Night<\/li>\n<li>The Brand<\/li>\n<li>The Panic Pure<\/li>\n<li>Paradigm Shift<\/li>\n<li>Franz Caulder: Rescue Position<\/li>\n<li>Faizel 02<\/li>\n<li>Doggy Style<\/li>\n<li>Residual Blue<\/li>\n<li>Fiends<\/li>\n<li>Spores!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> So if you&#8217;re a cash-strapped fan of my work willing to read some stuff and offer some feedback, let me know. The rewards include clean copies of the ebooks once they&#8217;re ready to go, your name listed in the acknowledgments*, and my eternal gratitude.<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;m good at spelling and grammar, though I do occasionally double up words when wordwrap defeats me (it mostly seems to be &#8220;the the&#8221;). I had Seth finish eating the same sandwich twice. Solar&#8217;s clothes changed during a scene and no one noticed it. And sometimes it helps to have someone tell me &#8220;More details&#8221; when I don&#8217;t realize I&#8217;m glossing over a scene.<\/p>\n<p> * I realize that some people don&#8217;t like to be associated with m\/m stuff, and that&#8217;s totally cool. You can be listed by your first name and last initial, or your non-profane nickname (Ass Monkey Ball Licker will <i>not<\/i> receive a dedication, though A.M.B.L. will get a big thank you).<\/p>\n<p> * * *<\/p>\n<p> <b>Catching Fire<\/b><\/p>\n<p> I finally saw <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B008JFUS8M\/?tag=harperkingsley-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catching Fire<\/a><\/i>, the second movie in the Hunger Games tetralogy (there were three books, but there&#8217;s four movies, it&#8217;s weird). Jennifer Lawrence is my heterosexual girlcrush; fuck anyone that hates her, she&#8217;s adorable.<\/p>\n<p> I watched the movie with my dad, and while <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0084IG7KC\/?tag=harperkingsley-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hunger Games<\/a><\/i> didn&#8217;t move him, I think <i>Catching Fire<\/i> has sealed the deal and he&#8217;s become a fan. I&#8217;ve loaned him my copies of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B004XJRQUQ\/?tag=harperkingsley-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">books<\/a> and we&#8217;ll see what he thinks about them. (I expect there to be some bitching about the first person narrative, but I&#8217;m hoping he&#8217;ll be able to get past it.)<\/p>\n<p> Phillip Seymour Hoffman played the Plutarch (game master guy) and he already filmed the first part and most of the second of <i>Mockingjay<\/i>, though he died with one week of filming left. I guess they&#8217;re going to CG him into his last scenes, so I&#8217;m not sure how that&#8217;s going to work out. Anyways, <i>Catching Fire<\/i> was a good movie, and it was brilliant on Blu-Ray. Though Liam Hemsworth&#8217;s face looked <i>ginormous<\/i> and I can see why he grows that beard between movies. I mean, I wouldn&#8217;t say anything, but I was seriously startled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table push-ups and jogging in place As you know, I&#8217;ve been trying to get a bit fitter, so I&#8217;ve been working some exercise into my routine in-between all my ass sitting and TV watching. So far, it&#8217;s been working out pretty good for me \ud83d\ude42 I do about 200-300 push-ups a day &#8212; my sissy&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/this-week-in-history-table-push-ups-and-jogging-in-place-beta-readers-catching-fire\/\" title=\"This week in history: Table push-ups and jogging in place; Beta readers; Catching Fire\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This week in history: Table push-ups and jogging in place; Beta readers; Catching Fire<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[160,301,415,595,713,773],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-exercise-2","tag-beta-readers","tag-exercise","tag-jogging-in-place","tag-push-ups","tag-the-hunger-games","tag-weight-loss"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-O2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3039,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/thursday-march-6th-locks-love-exercise-arunachalam-muruganantham\/","url_meta":{"origin":3102,"position":0},"title":"Thursday, March 6th: Locks of Love; exercise; Arunachalam Muruganantham","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"March 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Locks of Love - It's that time of year again. 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