4XLT

I need to apologize.

Months ago, when I rolled out Version 2 of 4XLT (replacing the very early, white & minimalist design that the blog started with), I didn’t do a very good job of double checking that everything on my blog worked correctly and that it displayed correctly across browsers and operating systems. I just threw it up and ran with it.

And though I’ve been aware that some things have been lacking for a while now (for example, my archives don’t work), I’ve become painfully aware of the cross-browser problems this week.

Firefox hasn’t been working correctly (read: at all) on my work computer, and so I’ve been relegated to using Internet Explorer 7. I’d much rather be on FireFox, but now that IE has tabs, I can deal. But what I can’t deal with is how horrible my blog looks. And I shudder to think how many people have seen the blog in this state.

So, I’m aiming to fix that. In the coming weeks, I’m going to be working on a total site redesign. I might upload a decent, simple WordPress theme designed by someone else in the meantime.

Ungh.

On The Health Front

I really got in the groove the first couple of days this week. I was eating right and pushing hard at the gym. Sunday and Monday were awesome (read: nasueating) HIIT sessions. Tuesdays are my off nights to watch House and Fringe. But yesterday, I discovered a bit of an embarrasing health hickup that’s going to keep me out of the gym until it resolves itself, as hard work could only exacerbate the problem.

So, I’m understandably frustrated, but as they say, “abs are built in the kitchen.” So, I’m going to keep it up hard on the nutrition front and continue gameplanning for my trip back to Oklahoma (D-Day minus two!). Things were going really well yesterday until evening time.

I was aiming at coming under my caloric goal for the day of roughly 2200 calories by about 2-300 calories since I knew I wasn’t going to be exercising. So, my plan was to just grub on a couple slices of cheese throughout the evening after work. That worked until about 10:00, when I was coming back home from an errand and was stomach-rumblin’ hungry.

I caved and stopped into Taco Bell to drop two bucks on a taco and a cheesey burrito. I was in a hurry this morning, so I didn’t weigh myself, but I’m worried that I may be back around 315 or so. We’ll see tomorrow.