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The Hulk vs Thor goes back to this 1960s 12¢ comic. Last night I loaded 602 division questions on my new Computational Fluency site.

Mutant Diet Phase 3 Day 17
So, I’m not really winning at the battle with chocolate so it’s time to figure out how to break the cycle.

Various options include:

• Smacking myself upside the head as soon as I think about chocolate (ouch)
• Having someone else smack me upside the head when I think about chocolate (might be a lot of overhead managing volunteers)
• In a perverse reversal, maybe I should go smack random people upside the head whenever I think about chocolate (might lead to legal trouble)

Perhaps I should just ask myself nicely to admire chocolate from afar and say “catch you next major chocolate based festival.”

I’m wondering if today’s yoga class will be as hard as the last time I did yoga the day after a personal trainer session.

Wonder Woman and Donna Troy. This link explains the how-to for my new Computational Fluency site.

Mutant Diet Phase 3 Day 16
OK, I ate my last chocolate bunny last night, a big freaking solid one and it tasted good dammit.

Now to get my act together. Small things are setting me off and I’d like to have a wee bit more energy to deal with it.

I have a trainer session today and I have no intention of weighing in. I simply want to do the work.

I found another Justice Society Elseworlds image. Hot off the press … a new venture. Computational Fluency.

Mutant Diet Phase 3 Day 15
I’m hoping that I’ve ingested all the Easter chocolate that I will. I definitely feel off track and somewhat mentally off kilter.

I was dissecting the yoga class from last night because I had two rest days prior to taking it. I was able to do more of the class, but what it as challenging and last week’s session or the painful one on Thursday? Hard to say. I woke in the night quite sore from it but was too lazy to stumble around in the dark looking for ibuprofen.

It seems to be a mind game right now between me, myself, the inner voices talking about chocolate and French fries and the integrated adult who doesn’t feel that a French fry is anything but a modified potato with limited nutrition. It’s not symbolic of any emotion in your head.

Red wine and chocolate … that might be a different story, especially in the presence of the Right Kind of Woman.

This is The Justice Society. So many comics to read. Sigh. Today’s New Brunswick destination is Saint John.

Mutant Diet Phase 3 Day 14
The nature of Easter Sunday includes chocolate. The trick is not to go berserk.

Sadly the night is young.

I’ve had two days away from the gym and yoga studio. Tonight I will see what the body can do.

I hope everyone is having a peaceful weekend.

This is Elseworlds Supergirl and Batgirl. I always wanted to read that series. Today’s New Brunswick destination is Bathurst.

Mutant Diet Phase 3 Day 13
Yesterday, Good Friday was a complete bust for food. A full train wreck. It kind of felt good.

However yesterday and today were besieged by Windows 10 problems. It seems to have subsided but now I have a series of services that are disabled that I won’t know if they affecting anything until something breaks.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Easter weekend.

The sometimes villain Mystique has always been a curiosity. Today’s New Brunswick destination is Fredericton.

Mutant Diet Phase 3 Day 12
Sleeping in is rare and Good Friday allows for it. The general disconnect society has from it seems to grow. The education system doesn’t touch it with a ten foot pole. Sadly in a diet context the focus is on chocolate in the form of eggs and rabbits.

The other thing that slept in is my Windows 10 laptop. Some ginormous update.

Yesterday’s yoga class was the toughest ever because my body had not fully recovered from the personal trainer session the day before. I did not realize this until I was in the change room when, if my muscles could talk, they would have said, “are you kidding?”

Each pose was intense and requiring ridiculous effort. I made it through the class but felt tingly for the rest of the day.

Given what weekend represents, perhaps my yoga class very slightly simulated death and by Sunday I’ll have healed up and been reborn. Slightly.

This is Wolverine X-23. Today’s New Brunswick destination is Moncton.

Mutant Diet Phase 3 Day 11
For a 4-day week, it’s been a week of Mondays.

Let’s just commit to a nominal level of chocolate for Easter and be done with it.

I have to find a way to add sleep to the diet/fitness equation. This means I have to find a way to encourage this behavior in my children. You know how they say you should model the behavior you want your children to have? Well, in the case of sleeping more, that doesn’t quite work. There’s a problem if were I to go to bed before my teenager had finished the required homework. I would be unable to have the good-grief-haven’t-you-had-a-shower-yet-don’t-forget-to-brush-your-teeth-and-put-all-your-crap-away conversation.

Simple suggestions can have complex ramifications.

Plus a yoga teh day following a really tough personal trainer session may cause extensive whining.

Donna Troy started out as a Wonder Woman sidekick, kind of like Robin. Today’s New Brunswick destination is Shediac.

Mutant Diet Phase 3 Day 10
Today was an 8 AM personal trainer workout. These are good because we can use the fitness class space but bad because I’m not really awake. Proof? I forgot both my phone and my paper ore book. Duh.

No weigh in. I was not mentally prepared for it. Not after yesterday, which led to no workout anyway due to scheduling issues. It was just as well; I was sore all over from previous days’ efforts.

If I can control my food compulsions today, I’ll call it win.

Psylocke is a bad-ass comic book character. I thought it was good for my Aunt. Today’s New Brunswick destination is Woodstock.

Mutant Diet Phase 3 Day 9
OK. My boss who’s a chronic fitness person, kept bugging me about going to the gym yesterday by way of phoning the gym and asking if the plumbing was fixed. So at about 4 PM I dragged my unwilling frame over to the gym and did about half of my routine. I thought I would get a break and the rain would force me to take the bus, but no. It was fairly nice and I walked home but I was stupid warm even though it was only about 7° I shoved my coat in my knapsack and walked comfortably in the chilly air.

What’s frustrating is that the step counter almost never breaks 10,000 steps, even though I added a side trip on the way home. I need 8° in the AM to ride my bicycle. The weather forecast is still rubbish. Yes, I’m wimpy but two people I know broke their shoulders biking in winter this year so, yeah, piss off.

I’m pretty grumpy today because an Aunt of mine passed away at age 84. Sounds like it was heart issues. (However many years of smoking probably didn’t help.)

Which means I should ignore my aching muscles and make sure I put in some cardio work today.

Starfire is an alien girl who ends up with Nightwing, who was the first Robin. However in another reality, Nightwing ends up marrying Barbara Gordon, a former Batgirl. How confusing. Today’s New Brunswick destination is Grand Manan Island.

Mutant Diet Phase 3 Day 8
You know it’s a Monday when the work item you were going to tackle is left untackled until 11 AM and you find out a water pipe has burst at the gym, leaving it out-of-commission.

Plus you realize that it’s a 4-day work week not the usual 5 and that means you have to shove things in sooner. However, there’s a prospect of sleeping in one day, which is fairly engaging.

Assuming the pipe isn’t fixed for an after work workout, it looks like this will be a slow day. Considering certain unmentionable parts are still sore from yesterday’s yoga, maybe that’s a good thing.