Progressive Overload

Progressive Overload is the name of my blog as of yesterday (10/28/09).  I think the concept is extremely important to making gains in the weight room, but there might be some carry-over into other areas of our lives.

Progressive overload is the gradual increase of stress placed upon the body during exercise training. It was developed by Thomas Delorme, M.D. while he rehabilitated soldiers after World War II. This technique is recognized as a fundamental principle for success in various forms of strength training programs including fitness training, weight lifting, high intensity training and physical therapy programs. (from wikipedia)

Moral of the story, if you want to improve in a certain area of your life, never stop pushing yourself...it should always be hard if you want to always get better. 

Ok, maybe love is too strong of a word.
But I seriously am digging my laptop these days.

I routinely have this feeling that my laptop is a part of me. I work on it all day, then do side work/projects at night...my hands are attached to this thing. Not only that, but I absolutely love the KDE desktop now that I have taken the time to get used to it.

Running Linux (various flavors in the past, but currently running Kubuntu (Edgy Eft)) has really allowed me to get familiar with the machine. Some by choice, some because I had to do some minor tweaking to get all the parts working like they should.

It isn't the best and brightest machine out there, but it does the trick for me. 1.86 ghz Centrino, 2gb DDR2 RAM, 60gb hard drive. At times I think about how cool it would be to get a duo core with a bigger display, but then I wonder if I will miss this laptop when it dies.

Does anybody else form a bond to their machine?

See pics and a review of my favorite machine at: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2408

EDIT:  I no longer have this laptop, stay tuned for some info about my new-to-me Dell XPS lappy.