November 29, 2004
justification for a sick day
Snow in the mountains = fun. Snow in the towns = suck.
- shovelled a 10′ wide x 35′ long path on my driveway (consisting of snow about 1′ deep). Using an average weight of 15 lbs. / cubic foot, this works out to 5250 lbs. of snow. . .
- . . . which is 23,337.3 newtons.
- each shovel motion lifted the snow directly up for about 0.5 meters (the amount of work), which gives us 11,668.7 joules
- there are about 4.186 J per kilo-calorie (the unit we measure food in)
- so I burned about 2787.6 kcals this morning.
- according to http://health.discovery.com/tools/calculators/basal/basal.html, the BMR is “the number of calories you’d burn if you stayed in bed all day - a tempting idea for some.”
- my BMR is 1622.6 kcals
Plus, I’m coming off the flu. I’m going back to bed. qed.
November 30th, 2004 at 8:05 am
Haha, nice use of QED. I almost called in sick today too, but that would have been due to the late night at the bar. Besides, if I tried to work from home, the temptation would be too great to just sit there and play Halo 2 all day.