I Weighed in the Day after Thanksgiving.
Here are this weeks numbers:
- This weeks weight: 255.3
- Gain is then: 4 pounds
- Total remaining to goal: 60.3 pounds
- Starting Weight: 296
- Goal weight is: 196
Weigh-in 255.3
Weigh-in 251.3
Had a good week.
I bought a new Kilt! One more and it will be a collection!
Here are this weeks numbers:
- This weeks weight: 251.3
- Loss this last week: 2.1 pounds
- Total remaining to goal: 55.3 pounds
- Starting Weight: 296
- Goal weight is: 196
--I'm Rolling and Rocking!
Weigh In 253.4
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| RUSH at JLL |
Had a good week.
I went to see RUSH this weekend at the Jiffy Lube Live pavilion. The still rock after all these years. The people that were eating delicious smelling pizza all around me was driving me mad!
Here are this weeks numbers:
- This weeks weight: 253.4
- Loss this last week: 1.5 pounds
- Total remaining to goal: 57.4 pounds
- Starting Weight: 296
- Goal weight is: 196
--I'm Rolling and Rocking!
Weigh In 254.9
Had a good week.
Last weekend I refit the master closet with Tony's help!
It kept me busy while Brenda was gone.
Here are this weeks numbers:
- This weeks weight: 254.9
- Loss this last week: 2.5 pounds
- Total remaining to goal: 58.9 pounds
--I'm Rolling!
Weigh-In 257.4
Last weekend I went scouting for dear season with my friend Chris. We both got eaten up by chiggers. Hundreds of bites
Oh The humanity!!
Here are this weeks numbers:
- This weeks weight: 257.4
- Loss this last week: 1.6 pounds
- Total remaining to goal: 61.4 pounds
--Gonna try to do better next week!
Weigh-In 259
The other adventure I had this week was that Cady moved into her college dorm!
Here are this weeks numbers:
- This weeks weight: 259.0
- Loss this last week: 2.5 pounds
- Total remaining to goal: 63 pounds
--I am feeling good.
Weigh-In 261.5
I consolidated all the Fighting Gravity posts here so I will keep myself honest. Here is the New baseline!
Here are this weeks numbers:
- This weeks weight: 261.5
- Loss this last week: 0.0
- Goal Weight: 196
- Total remaining to goal: 65.5 pounds
--I have been stress eating A LOT. Back on the stick now.
More Books
Translated!!I just finished:
Sens and Sensibility and Seamonsters
And
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The Zombies were better!!
Book: Shadows in Flight
I was really looking forward to this story. In the Ender Saga I always wanted to know what happened to Bean and the kids.
This is the first part of that story. There will be another book that details their adventures.
Rating = 8 of 10
Loved it. Want a movie!
Book: Rise Again
I really like Zombie Apocalypse fiction. This was a good action adventure survival story. Great survival concepts. Great characters.
Rating = 7 of 10
Book: Dragon Keeper
This is book one in the Rain Wilds trilogy.
I like the story, the characters, the world. I enjoyed the book except for one thing. The book was not a finite story with a real end. It is one of the ones that just ends on a chapter.
I don't have book two, dammit! Neither does my damn library!!
--Oh the humanity!!
Book: The Cut
I can't say it was that good. No mystery really. The main character was not that likable. It was predictable. The actual premise in the end was thin.
Rating = 5 of 10
--It was ok.
Books: The Sentry, and Grave Secret
I finished reading two great books this week. Both are part of series whose characters I just LOVE.
The Sentry has a central character named Joe Pike. He is awesome.
Grave Secret has Harper Connolly as it's central character.
Great stuff.
Rating: 8 of 10
Book: Quicksilver
I just finished reading Quicksilver by Amanda Quick (aka Jayne Krentz). This is a book in the Arcane Society Series.
When I picked it up I didn't realize it was the second book in a trilogy. It was OK though, it stood on it's own feet. I could tell there was back story here, I didn't lose anything because of it. I like that.
It is my guilty pleasure genre. Paranormal-mystery-action-romance-softcore-porn. I Blame Brenda.
Rating: 6 of 10
The Looking Glass Trilogy
- In Too Deep, 2010 (as Jayne Ann Krentz)
- Quicksilver, 2011 (as Amanda Quick)
- Canyons of Night, 2011 (introduces Rainshadow Island)
Zombie Apocalyse
Where are you going when the Zombies come? You saw the news about Florida right!!??
--Check out more remote monasteries!
--Check out more remote monasteries!
Book: Breaking the Rules
It was another in the Troubleshooters series.
I always enjoy the books in this series, while this was not my favorite in the series it was still good!
Rating: 7 of 10
From www.SuzanneBrockmann.com:
BREAKING THE RULES
Troubleshooters Series, Book # 16
In stores: March 22, 2011
New York Times Bestseller
In hardcover from Ballantine Books
Coming in paperback on 1/31/12
Izzy Zanella wasn't looking for another reason to butt heads with his Navy SEAL teammate and nemesis, Danny Gillman. But then he met Danny’s beautiful younger sister, Eden. When she needed it most, he offered her a place to stay, a shoulder to cry on—and more. And when she got pregnant with another man’s child, he offered her marriage. But Eden’s devastating miscarriage shattered their life together—and made the intense bad blood between Izzy and Danny even worse.
Now Eden's back, on a mission to rescue her teen brother, Ben, from their abusive stepfather. Even if she and Izzy can prove that their broken marriage is still in one piece, winning legal custody of Ben is a long shot. But they’re not alone: Danny and his girlfriend Jenn offer to help, and he and Izzy agree to bury the past and fight for Ben’s future.
As they plan their strategy, Izzy and Eden grapple with the raw passion that still crackles between them—while Danny and Jenn confront new depths in their own rocky relationship. But events take a terrifying turn after Ben befriends a girl fleeing a child prostitution ring. When the young runaway seeks refuge with Eden and Izzy, her pursuers kidnap Ben—and a deadly standoff begins. Now, they must all pull together like never before and strike back, swift and hard, to protect their unconventional little family and everything they hold most precious.
130 Sq Foot Apt
Boats, RVs, cabins and tiny apartments.
I saw this one in WIRED magazine.
Cool stuff. Check out all the pictures.
Summer Reading List
I am collecting my titles for summer reading. Here is the start, a Mira Grant Trilogy:
--Feed, Blackout and Deadline by Mira Grant.
--Feed, Blackout and Deadline by Mira Grant.
15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy
Here is the quick list.
1. Give up your need to always be right
2. Give up your need for control
3. Give up on blame
4. Give up your self-defeating self-talk
5. Give up your limiting beliefs
6. Give up complaining
7. Give up the luxury of criticism
8. Give up your need to impress others
9. Give up your resistance to change
10. Give up labels
11. Give up on your fears
12. Give up your excuses
13. Give up the past
14. Give up attachment
15. Give up living your life to other people’s expectations
Book: After the Apocalypse
This was a collection of short stories edited by Maureen McHugh.
There are a lot of "end of the world as we know it" scenarios that are depicted in these short stories.
I really liked the variety of the stories everything from classic Zombies to slow economic collapse to financial slavery.
Rating 7 0f 10.
--Good Stuff.
That was unexpected
I needed the damn thing to help me renew the wilsey.org domain name.
I was very close to going land line-less!
Books: Bone Island Trilogy
I just finished reading the Bone Island Trilogy by Heather Graham.
It was OK as far as murder mysteries go. Just OK. Same with the romance parts.
The part I liked was the stuff about Key West. Makes me want to take a vacation there!
It was OK as far as murder mysteries go. Just OK. Same with the romance parts.
The part I liked was the stuff about Key West. Makes me want to take a vacation there!
I Want This
http://www.treaddesk.com/
It's an advanced treadmill designed to be used in conjunction with a computer.
I spend so many hours a day behind a screen, sitting on my ass, I would love to double duty that time.
The only drawback is the cost. $850 retail.
Buy me one dammit!
Book: Rise of the Governor
The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor is the first installment in a new novel series by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga. It depicts the journey of Philip Blake in the early days of the undead apocalypse to his eventual rise as "The Governor" of Woodbury. It will be followed by The Road To Woodbury, scheduled for release on October 16, 2012.
If you like Zombie stories you will like it.
Rating = 6 of 10
Movie: The Visitor
It was a yard sale buy from yesterday and man was it a dollar well spent.
It was a beautiful depiction of a mans internal struggle and how he finds himself in the end.
The casting was so very good. Hiam Abbass was so quietly excellent.
Richard Jenkins was amazing. He was also great in Let Me In.
Rating = 8 of 10
Book: Ready Player One
This book was so damn good I swear it was written just for me. It is chock full of pop cultural references from the years of my youth. It references books, movies, TV, cartoons and so much goodness it was amazing.
To make it even better this was an audiobook read by Will Wheaton, who was also a character in the book in his dotage!
And now it's going to be a major motion picture in 2014!!
"The year is 2044 and the world is in near-ruins. The Great Recession has taken its toll on the world's economy, and resources are scarce. The internet and gaming culture have evolved to a creation known as OASIS, a massive multiplayer online simulation game created by James Halliday and Ogden Morrow, the Steve Jobs and Bill Gates of Gregarious Simulation Systems (GSS). Halliday, with no heirs or other living family, dies suddenly and leaves a video will to those in OASIS and a book that was dubbed Anorak's Almanac, which purports to be a volume written by James Halliday's avatar Anorak in OASIS. The video says that whomever can collect three keys (Copper, Jade, and Crystal) that are hidden throughout the universe of OASIS and can pass through the matching gates will receive his fortune and controlling stake in GSS. This becomes known as the Hunt and people at once begin searching for Halliday's "Egg", a reference to the first "Easter Egg" in video game culture in the game Adventure."
I rate it 8 of 10!! Great Stuff.
--It even has School House Rock!!
BOOK: Better to Rest
Part of the Liam Campbell series:
In 1998, she began a new mystery series featuring Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell. In addition to Liam Campbell, the books also feature bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard, and restaurant owner Moses Alakuyak.
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The end of this book kind of petered out. I still liked it. Great characters, settings and sex!
Rating = 6 of 10
Jennifer "Badass" Lawrence
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| Jennifer "Badass" Lawrence |
The 21-year-old beauty gutted a squirrel in the most talked about scene for her role in 2010’s Winter’s Bone, (for which she was nominated). The scene was not faked, she told Rolling Stone magazine: “I should say it wasn’t real, for PETA,” she said. “But screw PETA.”
--I Love this woman.
The McDonald Visit
We did the tourist thing. We watched movies.
We had some excellent Tequila and beer.
We went to the range!
Tom also got my chainsaw running. He has one just like it and gave it some love. Then I put him to work. We cut down six more tree in the yard and chunked them up into firewood. His kids Joey and Ryan, even stacked all the wood!
--Some day he might figure out that the saw was fine the whole time and I was just too lazy...
Book: Shatner Rules
Shatner Rules: Your Guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large
William Shatner reads it as well. It is a hoot and I really enjoyed it! Makes me go to Youtube and search for the things he talks about! Wow.
"This collection of rules, illustrated with stories from Bill's illustrious life and career, will show you how Bill became WILLIAM SHATNER, larger than life and bigger than any role he ever played. Shatner Rules is your guide to becoming William Shatner. Or more accurately, beautifully Shatneresque. Because let's face it...Shatner does rule, doesn't he?"
--Rating 8 of 10.
My View of the Space Shuttle Today
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| Discovery Lands at Dullas |
--My office was eye level at the final approach.
Book: Commitment Hour
Commitment Hour by James Gardner
I read a lot of post apocalyptic fiction. I love books that have description of the societies that develop after the big crash. Hunger Games is another example. This one was written in 1998. Brenda recommended this one, I think because it was 100% zombie free.
This book has an excellent look at gender roles. It looks at sex from an interesting angle. (STOP laughing Schwartz!)
The people of this village switch genders annually.
Everyone in Tober Cove knows what it's like to have a baby, be a mother and a father. When their Commitment Hour comes they decide the gender they will keep through the rest of their lives.
--My book rating: 7 of 10
Went camping
If you are related to us we probably talked about you!!
There was steaks and coffee and even a couple good cigars!
--Gotta go back soon with BR!
Ever seen a grown man cry?
Brenda said it would happen and it did.
But did she predict it, or make it happen?
Hmmmm,,,
--Goodbye old friend.
In the Bleak Midwinter
I read a ton of these books. I am always on the lookout for a new author and/or character to consume wildly.
I really enjoyed this book. Great characters.
The main characters, the protagonists, are a small town police chief and a female priest.
...and she is a hot, fit, ass-kicking, former military, attack helicopter pilot, blond in a priests collar.
Yes, this strangely aroused me too.
Plus it takes place in upstate NY during the winter. I can totally relate have grown up just outside of Buffalo!
"It's a cold, snowy December in the upstate New York town of Millers Kill, and newly ordained Clare Fergusson is on thin ice as the first female priest of its small Episcopal church. The ancient regime running the parish covertly demands that she prove herself as a leader. However, her blunt manner, honed by years as an army pilot, is meeting with a chilly reception from some members of her congregation and Chief of Police Russ Van Alystyne, in particular, doesn't know what to make of her, or how to address "a lady priest" for that matter.
The last thing she needs is trouble, but that is exactly what she finds. When a newborn baby is abandoned on the church stairs and a young mother is brutally murdered, Clare has to pick her way through the secrets and silence that shadow that town like the ever-present Adirondack mountains. As the days dwindle down and the attraction between the avowed priest and the married police chief grows, Clare will need all her faith, tenacity, and courage to stand fast against a killer's icy heart."
Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series
- In the Bleak Midwinter (2002, hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-98676-6, paperback 978-0-312-98676-6)
- A Fountain Filled With Blood (2003, hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-99543-0, paperback 978-0-312-99543-0)
- Out of the Deep I Cry (2004, hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-31262-6, paperback ISBN 978-0-312-98888-3)
- To Darkness and To Death (2005, hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-33485-7, paperback ISBN 978-0-312-98887-6)
- All Mortal Flesh (2006, hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-31264-0, paperback 978-0-312-93398-2)
- I Shall Not Want (2008, hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-33487-1)
- One Was A Soldier (2011, hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-33489-5)
PC Crash
Posting has been light here because my laptop had the big Blue Screen of Death.
I will be back soon.
Today's Haul
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I can't believe it's still March and yard sales are now in full swing,
Today I scored 15 new movies for $15.
I love that I got 15 movies for less than the price of one.
Today, Brenda and I are going to see Hunger Games in the theater with friends. The two tickets alone alone will cost more than this stack of movies.
--Love the Yard Sales!
I Lost Another Friend
Tony was one of my shooting buddies.
He was a good guy and made excellent pizza.
I will miss his outlook on the universe.
--RIP Anthony Weissenberger
VCU or Bust!
I am excited. I want to go to college!!
First up: Waffle House!
--We will take lots of pics!
Movie: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
I was a big fan.
Now I have watched the American remake.
The original version was raw and brutal and brave and I loved it.
They toned down this version a bit and changed just a few things to simplify it.
I liked it.
--I give it 7 of 10.
Great day for a Hike
Spent the day with my brother Carl and my nephew Jason. We went to the range, did some skeet shooting. Ate subs at a hole in the wall, and we went hiking to the Woodstock Tower. The Dinner at our sister Amy's house with a pile of more family!
It was a beautiful day!
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| Carl and Jason |
Weigh-In
I have been a big slacker with the weekly weighins. I consolidated all the Fighting Gravity posts here so I will keep myself honest. Here is the New baseline!
Here are this weeks numbers:
Here are this weeks numbers:
- This weeks weight: 256.0
- Loss this week: No idea
- Goal Weight: 196
- Total remaining to goal: 60 pounds
--I have been stress eating a lot. Back on the stick now. I am up like 19 pounds.
Book: Walking Dead
I just finished the TV series season and then cranked though the book. I think that is the order to do it in. I think if I had read the comic first I would have been disappointed about the variations from the original.
Chris loaned me the book and showed me one page in advance. The last page.
The season and the book ended in the same spot.
--Great stuff. Check it out!
New Cap
Got it from Craigslist!
Great condition, fits perfectly and the hatch even locks.
Now my rifle cases can go to the range!
Love it!
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