I’m currently visiting my wife’s family in Cedar Rapids, and being away from the city has been extremely helpful in letting me take a step back from routine life and look for opportunities to do things better.
Earlier this year, I reactivated my gym membership under the theory that given my situation, exercise would be a good stress-relief tool and I could use the extra exercise regular workouts provide. However, as life got busy, my attendance dropped considerably.
On an unrelated note, I’ve also found myself treading water when it comes to expanding my X-Men collection. The last older issue that I purchased was in last November, where I picked up a significantly older issue than any I had in order to establish a new “hole” in my collection. (Holes drive OCD’s like myself nuts.) The idea was that rather than just pick up the latest issues, I’d begin work filling the gap in my collection and work towards the lifetime goal of a full run of the original X-Men series (started in 1963).
Like my exercise, my comic book collecting was pushed to the back burner as I worked to get Audacious Software up and running. Making a run to Graham Cracker Comics was something that became hard to justify when I needed to push out another software release or tweak the performance of another web site. However, the Wednesday comic book run was a nice weekly ritual that I want to resume.
So, in the spirit of getting better exercise and getting back to doing something I love, I’d like to present the “Comics for Calories” workout plan.
