Hearing the siren song of GPS

My gadget-loving husband has been diligently researching GPS units for me to use when out walking, so I can lose the dependency on city streets and sites like MapQuest and go walking wherever I like with an accurate recording of how far I've gone. I've been vaguely intrigued, but not really hyper-eager...until today. Today I went walking with my co-worker B, who just happens to have one of these spiffy gadgets. We went wandering all over campus, and at the end of the walk not only could he tell me exactly how far we'd gone (2.17 miles), but what our rate of speed was (averaged 2.8 miles per hour), what our exact route had been, our overall elevation change (338 feet), and a long so on. My geeky side was duly impressed. I'm going to have to invest in one of them thar goodies...

On another happy-making note, what with the walk with B and the early morning walk to the van, I'm already up 3.88 miles for the day. I should wind up over five, which given that I only had to do 3 today, has me feeling quite pleased with myself.

Pardon the (hopefully temporary) ugliness

I'm delving into modifying and customizing this journal again, but LJ itself is having bandwidth issues. It might take me a while to get everything straightened out again. In the meantime, please ignore the odd colors, strange layouts, and so on...or just come back later when I've got everything ironed out.

Tweaking away with a vengeance

For a first attempt, I don't think this is half bad...but I'm curious to know what everyone else thinks.

For those who want to read details about what I've been up to with this journal, I chose a new layout and proceded to customize it with lots of the surface-layer adjustments available. When I couldn't get everything that I wanted that way, I ventured into the somewhat obscure land of S2 code fiddling. Nothing too outrageous as yet (no actual original programming, just reading through code and changing parameters to suit me), but I am proud to say I managed to change some textbox titles as well as move mood and music display from the top to the bottom of an entry. Of course I still need to figure out how to pad/space it properly without having to leave blank lines at the end of said entry. Whee!

Today's total walking distance: 5.33 miles. A good start to the walking week!