Cereal Time

On this episode I give a brief description of my experiences and evolutions in exercise/fitness, more specifically with weight lifting. I gained my first experiences in Olympic lifting in high school where I competed on the school's team. That gave me a good foundation and familiarity which I took and applied in later years at a local CrossFit box. After ending my membership there, because of the expense, I lamented for many years about not being able to do Olympic style exercises because I feel it provides awesome stimulus which is hard to replicate without a minim of basic equipment. All that back story leads me to the joyous realization that, after 10 years of employment, the fire department I work for finally invested in a good barbell and set of bumper plates. Perhaps other aspiring strongmen (or women) can relate to my happiness with the access to new toys and workout opportunities.

On this episode I review the Zoom H5 Handy Digital Audio Recorder and discuss my experiences up to that point making some first recordings. I describe the external features and ergonomics the device, then offer a basic description of some of the software features from a layperson perspective. Included is some music I captured of a live blues band at a new year's eve celebration along with a recording of myself playing Scotland the Brave on the bagpipes within the bays at the fire station.

On this episode I describe my experience preparing for and going out on a fossil hunting adventure. A friend and I scour river bottoms in search of the remains of prehistoric Florida creatures, hoping to find and recover ancient paleontological treasures. Fossil hunting is perhaps the most adventurous hobby I partake in, brings you out in to nature and face to face with fearsome wildlife. There are few things like the thrill of recovering a awesome fossil. Just knowing that you're holding the remains of an animal such as mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, and saber cats, which lived tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago, will spur any imagination and drive the curiosity to learn about so many related subjects, like geology and archeology.