Well… I didn’t have much luck in the lottery for Escape From Alcatraz, but I thought I’d throw my name in the Kona Lottery for the second year in a row. If I don’t get in this year, there’s always next time around. 😉

I’m still doing Jorge’s Winter Plan and took the lactate threshold heart rate test again. This time around my LHTR was 165, not sure if it’s a good thing it’s lower or not, but the workouts aren’t getting easier.

Along with the bike plan I’ve also been trying to do some upper body work. I found a pull-up app and have been trying to improve how many chin-ups I can do. So far I’ve gone from being able to barely squeak out two to a solid eight chin-ups! Once I hit twenty chin-ups, my plan is to work on my wide grip pull-ups.

The wait is finally over! I’ve been waiting to use my upgrade eligibility for a new phone for quite some time now. MotoMaker was finally released for Verizon this week and all I can say is the Moto X is a pretty damn sweet phone!

Washing Machine 2, John’s phone 0… lost another phone to the washing machine, either I need to find a phone that is waterproof or stop doing laundry… 😉 We did find out, after finally “guessing” the Verizon account password (least we didn’t get locked out this time), that Susan was eligible for an upgrade. I’m glad we got to the Verizon store when we did, because it seems they move really slow and there was a couple people waiting in line for a LONG time while Susan got her new phone set up and transferred her old one to my number. I guess I have a little more knowledge then most people who go to the store and I really wanted to argue with the sales rep, but I kept my mouth shut…

He first tried to tell us the Eris wouldn’t support Adobe Flash because it had out of date software… I told him the reason we didn’t have flash on our phones was due to the fact the processor is arm v6, not supported by a lot of stuff, including flash. He looked blankly and was like no it’s because you don’t have the latest Android version. I then wanted to say, oh yeah well before my Eris took a swim it was running Gingerbread and this phone is running Froyo… but I didn’t. After he got Susan’s phone set up, he went about resetting her Eris, once it booted it up he was like “whoa, I haven’t seen this version in awhile”… dude it’s what is running on YOUR phone… stock Android 2.2. We got home and first thing I did was flash Gingerbread on it, hah take that… my end-of-life Eris has Android 2.3 while that sales rep is still waiting for Verizon to release an update to his phone. Susan seems pretty excited about the phone… Angry Birds is actually playable on it! 😀

As far as work goes, things are in the hurry up and wait process. I have a ton of stuff to get done, but can’t do it until other programmer’s get their changes in. I had a surprise project dropped on me earlier this week that I had to code against what I thought the other programmer was going to do. His stuff doesn’t work 100%, but my stuff does, so things are looking good… for me! The commute isn’t AS bad as I thought it was going to be, it still kinda sucks getting home closer to 6, but it’s working out for the most part. Hopefully I’ll be doing my open water dives this weekend to get certified, should have an update on that next week!