Tomasz Korwel
programmer, administrator, engineer – my everyday fights with reality

Mark passed. Still huge amount left…

This country does not stop to amuse me. I’ve just bought an Internet Security software pack. I won’t mention the name because it’s not the case here. Anyway, the package cost $49.99 but the seller (software company?) offers $50 mail in rebate. So the question is – who makes money here? I bet on shipping company – it looks like it’s the only one who earn something (~$6.50) on that deal :-)

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It came today. Nice, red pepper Polar RS200 heart rate monitor. I have to admit that I was very curious waiting for it to see how my “usual” workout will turn out to be. The monitor itself is very intuitive and easy to use – it took me less than 5 minutes to have everything set up. Then I buckled up the wrist transmitter and started to walk.

Results were worse than bad. It turned out that after 15 minutes of walk my heart rate was constantly above 70%. Even more – 30 sec. fast walk (over 3 mph) elevates this level to well above 90%. Then at the end of the exercise 5 minutes very slow walk gave me only 72%.

Looks like we have very big problem here. There is literally long way to go before I will be able to say I’m fit.

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Our brand new snowboard carrier came this afternoon and I just came back from the garage after installing it on the White (our ZJ).

I have chosen Mount Blank 6 pair ski rack because it allows us to carry or two snowboards and two pair of ski from the friends of us who are usually going with us.

And as you can see above it was very good decision as 2 snowboards take more than half of space – I doubt I would be able to carry this set with 4 pair carrier. Finally we will be able to go with 4 people ski boots and some other supplies without stacking it all in the back and half of rear seat of our Jeep.

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As some of you probably know I started to snowboard recently. As I’m no longer 10 years old and I care about my health I purchased some protection gear to keep me together no mater what.

Among other thing I have chosen Crash Pads 2500 Padded Shorts from XSportProtective and
knee pads from Sports Authority.

Both purchases were made on Monday around 12 p.m. And guess what – shorts are here in less than 48h (keep in mind that they were shipped from Pennsylvania) while knee pads are still in the warehouse.

In the future I will definitely think twice before ordering from Sports Authority. I’m not saying I won’t mainly because their wide range of products, but I will always rethink and look for faster store.

*Small update – it’s been over a week now and the knee pads still aren’t here – I think I won’t ever buy from them again :-(