Radiadores no calientan

Basicamente, despues de purgar los radiadores, habia dos que todavia no iban (ni si quiera su tuberia de acceso estaban calientes).
My brand Baxi. Also this link
Parecia que la valvula de entrada no iba... Y encontre este video. Basicamente, hay un pivote dentro de la valvula para regular el agua. Parece que el knob empuja para cerrarla pero no tira del pivote para abrirla. Este debe salir con algun muelle? Pero bueno, se queda encasquillado y por mucho que gires el knob el pivote no sale. Asi que hay que tirar de el. Lo unico que quedaba era saber como abrir el knob de nuestro radiador, cosa que se puede encontrar en 0:10 de este video.
Hoy lo probe con los dos radiadores y voila!

Cheers!

HTC U8 360 camera

HTC had what I consider to be the best panoramic app of all in the One M8 phones. It doesn't work like the stupid sweeping but instead you simply snap shots where it gives you the options to do it (indicating it with squares in the image adjacent to the one you just snapped) and real time builds the 360. It was also ahead of its time presenting this back to you linked to the motion of the phone. Now many do the 2nd but still all the apps use for panoramic the stupid panning. That unfortunately also applies to the new HTCs :(

So, I am looking about similar app or instead, port that app to my new phone:

• I tried simply downloading from Google Play and installing it. Now I can't even find it, but when I did, it gave me an error and didn't open.
• Get the HTC One M8 Camera App on Your Nexus (Or Any Device with Stock Android). More in detail here.
• Google Photosphere mode on their camera app looked similar. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be there in my phone. Checking the app store link shows a message saying "This apps is incompatible with all of your devices"
• With that in mind I found several releases out there, although not sure they are clean of malware...:
• The one I used
• https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=889764386195922284
• https://www.pipipan.com/dir/15204535-24613031-01ad80/

Certainly used that and worked great! Not a perfect clean way to do it but I am taking the risk...

Cheers!

Protein in a Greek Yogurt

Just as an exercise to understand nutrition labels, I decided to check how much Greek yogurt would contribute to a protein supplement. Let's start by how much protein they recommend for increasing your muscle mass...

Checking the Naked Whey label looks like in one serving size (2 scoops, 94cc=6.4tbsp=19.1tsp, 30g) you get 25gr of protein (50% of the daily value):

Notice how adding the grams column adds up to the grams in the serving, while the % column (the one to the right, DV%) obviously does not add up to 100% as it is the % of recommended daily value that one serving has on that category. Actually according to this nice article, DV recommendation sets kind of a minimum. Not an optimum. In this case, they assume 50g DV. Nevertheless, again, according to the same article, the American College of Sports Medicine recommends that to increase muscle mass in combination with physical activity, you need to consume between 1.2 and 1.7 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day, or 0.5 to 0.8 grams per pound of body weight. In my case, with 68Kg, I would have to take about 100g of protein per day (about 2x the DV).

From my experience, when I was going to the gym and taking one shake at the food stand, the lady was adding one scoop, and that was already making some effect. So, that would be only 12gr (of course, had protein also from the meals).

So, back to the Greek yogurt... The 0% Fage label shows: 

The serving according to them is 1/4th of the container. But I do not eat that much in the morning. Probably two large spoons which I measured to be about 100g. So, that would be about 10g of protein. In other words, maybe equivalent to the whey protein on the shake.

We will see if it makes any results... The main thing I noticed that over few months I gained about 2-3Kg of muscle, which I eventually lost when I stop taking it and exercising for a month. Muscle seems to be coming back without the extra protein just by exercising, so, it may not be that easy to distinguish the effect of one or the other... but anyhow, let's see.

Cheers!

PS1.: Watch with the products that add soy lecithin. The protein from the gym's bar had it and I was getting some weird effects. Maybe one day will put a post on that, but it looks like it is due to the weak estrogens on soy binding to your cell receptors and blocking the body good estrogens from doing their work (!).
PS2.: Greek yogurt upsets my stomach so I limit it to the days I go to the gym and I mix it with other yogurt.

Curing dry eye with exercise?

For long time I felt my eyes were getting drier... It started maybe 15 years ago with small symptoms, like red eye on airplanes or itchy eyes in the morning, and it was getting worse. About 5 years ago, I went to the doctor when the eyes were really itchy and he said that one of the 3 types of eye glands (the one that segregates an oil to avoid that the tears evaporate) wasn't working. Eventually he said it had no cure and I would just have to use eye drops the rest of my life. And these were kind of fancy ones. I know that they can be much much more expensive but these were about $10 for a week if I had used them as often as he said... Sure, the drops worked great but after few months I decided to try to work the eye out of them. So, I started with the cheapest ones and yeah, certainly they were not the same. I had to use them much more often (the others, with 4 times a day was enough). Somehow it looked like it was going pretty bad so I used the good drops again, once or twice, and then, somehow, my eyes were fine. For good. No need for more drops for weeks. Sure, eventually I was back on drops, but I did the same and again fine. This time much faster recovery. Some thoughts:

1. The glands are obviously not dead or gone. Otherwise I couldn't recover I guess. But they do have some trouble....  
2. I do have a bit of rosacea. Really mild. Doctor isn't even sure. But his initial theory is that the rosacea ("bacteria"?) affected the glands. So, he did give  me antibiotics but didn't help. But assuming it is true, it could be that the glands are able to keep it away sometimes, but some just lose. Why?
3. A theory is that we do have good bacteria in the eye (this seems to actually be proven) and some of that bacteria fights the bad one. But bad things happen, some imbalance in the body, and the bad ones take over unless they get some help. Antibiotics may actually not help as they harm also the good ones. Kind of gut bacteria theory.
4. The other is that I am not drinking enough water. This is something that I am trying to check/correlate to, but haven't been constant doing, so, can't prove it yet.
5. Another thought is some kind of eye strain. I think this is actually proven in my case. I do have some series of eye exercises that I can do when things get bad and do improve the vision instantaneously. Basically, when the symptoms are there (things like dry eyes which translate in blur vision), I close one eye and I blink the other. You have to do that without pressure. Just close the eye lead, and you got to search for that point where you feel like relieve, almost like when you stretch your leg and suddenly yields. Like a warm feeling. It takes few minutes to get to that point and you may feel even like chills. Actually when you start sometimes it feels that you can't even do it. That the eye that is supposed to be opening and closing can barely open. But then boom. Blinking with a slight push at the end seems to help too. So, with that in mind, I looked for some exercises. I never did any of these but may be in the same direction... (?)

Anyhow, adding a drop of the bad ones every few weeks and doing 5 seem to keep the problem away. I got to try #4. But now I go in 16hr flights and do not get red eyes! Although to be fair, I try to keep the laptop away (I do watch movies, though).

Visiting Antilope Canyon

This page has a nice overview of all the ways to see the canyon. Belongs to what looks like the official site of the area. If you ever hit this page this is just for my internal reference and that of my friend visiting with me. Go to the other links for real original info :)

Upper:
From Page:

• Antelope Canyon Tours; Website: www.antelopecanyon.com; Phone: 928-645-9102
• Only opening Thursday 7AM-8:30: 2 LEFT! $37+$8 park fee
• Note: careful with too early or too late (may be dark-ish). 7:13AM sunrise, 7:47PM sunset
• Grand Circle Adventures; Website: www.antelopeslotcanyon.com; Phone: 928-645-5594
• Only openings:
• Saturday 8AM - $68
• Adventurous Antelope Canyon PhotoTours; Website: www.navajoantelopecanyon.com; Phone: 928-380-1874
• 3/28, 29, 30 at 8:30 and 4PM. Plenty of spaces. $63. Prices seem to include everything (so, I wonder if we save the park access fee then for the lower side?)
• 3/29: 10:15 1 SLOT $74
• 3/31: 2:30PM got slots but we can't make it to the airport! :O
• A trick may be to book two canyons: Rattlesnake and Antelope on 3/28 or 29: 2:30PM. Got 2 SLOTS!
• 72hrs cancellation policy

From the Tribal Park entrance on Hwy 98:

• Antelope Canyon Navajo Tours; Website: www.navajotours.com; Phone: 928-698-3384
• Nothing available! $40.

Lower:

• Dixie Ellis; Website: www.antelopelowercanyon.com; Phone: 928-640-1761
• Looks like we got options everyday :)
• $38+$8 park access fee (common with the Upper) + fees ($52 when all set and done!)
• Cancellations are free till 24hr... 
• Ken’s Tours; Website: www.lowerantelope.com; Phone: 928-606-2168 and 928-640-0032
• Also got slots available. $40 ($2 more expensive than the previous one)