So my official weigh-in this week is 281 pounds. Down from 294.
That was 3.2 pounds this week!
--Yay.
This weeks weigh-in: 284
So my official weigh-in this week is 284 pounds. Down from 294.
The first weight loss week is easy for me. Week 26 is when it will be hard!
--Wish me luck!
The first weight loss week is easy for me. Week 26 is when it will be hard!
--Wish me luck!
2009 is my year to get fit.
I will be turning 50 years old late this year.
By the time my birthday rolls around, my goal is to be about lighter and in much better shape physically.
My first weigh-in of the year was 294 pounds.
--Wish me luck!
By the time my birthday rolls around, my goal is to be about lighter and in much better shape physically.
My first weigh-in of the year was 294 pounds.
--Wish me luck!
Goodbye 2008
In no priority order, in 2008 the following crap happened:
It was an expensive year. Our cash reserves took huge hits:
- The value of our house fell $100,000.
- My retirement investments crashed big time.
- I had to write a check for $37,000 to pay our taxes. Cleaning us out.
- Fuel prices spiraled to over $4 a gallon.
- I was in 2 car accidents.
- Vehicles were in the shop like 9 times, and not cheap.
- I stubbed my toe so bad on July 25 my toenail still has not grown back.
- I gained 60 pounds (again).
- My knee is acting up again.
- Too many friends and family discovered they had cancer this year.
- Even Brenda had a HUGE cancer scare and operation.
- The worst of it is Brenda's mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer (less than a year to live).
- I managed to attend too many funerals this year.
- Including my favorite cat Jasmine.
- And worst of all, my dear friend Kelly Kirk died for no good reason.
In recent weeks I have come to seriously enjoy the connections and interactions I am having on Facebook.
It has me sorting through old photos and chatting with old friends I have not seen in years, even decades.
It has games too. Scrabble is fun. Mob wars is a total addiction.
If you are in Facebook, find me. Odds are I miss you. If you are not on Facebook, sign up damn you!
--And we have Firefly there...
Christmas Traditions
There are lots of Christmas traditions out there. Some are common like presents, Christmas trees, stockings hung from the mantle, baking cookies, feasting and many others. Some people open presents on Christmas Eve, some christmas morning.
Families develop their own traditions too. We have developed wonderful traditions. I seem to reload my PC OS every Christmas!
Brenda and I open presents with the kids at our house on the morning of Christmas Eve. We have a big Christmas breakfast together after the presents. Later we attend Christmas services and sing Silent Night softly in the candle light. After huggage the kids go home with Becky for Christmas morning, Part 2.
At our house we sleep in on Christmas morning. Well, Brenda sleeps in. I get up around 7am and make coffee and the Marty, Movie, Madness begins (60-something new movies this Christmas). When BR gets up she bakes. Something easy like muffins or Pop-n-Fresh cinnamon rolls.
We usually have a food theme for the day. Something to eat as we watch movies. Massive party platters of shrimp, just for the two of us has been popular. This year it was desserts all day. I'm still full from all the cookies. It must have been a hundred cookies, and fifty of those gold ball Rochelle chocolate things. Plus, I learned the joy of Ready Whip in a can!
--Total movie madness, all day. ALL WEEKEND!
Merry Christmas!!
The best explanation I ever heard was the one Linus gave to Charlie Brown...
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
And the angel said unto them,
Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
--LUKE 2:8-14
[RIP] Majel Barrett
Majel Barrett died this week.
For the two people out there that do not know who she was, she was Nurse Chapel on the original Star Trek TV series. More than that, if you close your eyes and imagine what a computer would sound like if it could talk it would be her voice you would hear.
I met Ms. Barrett at my first SciFi convention at the University of South Alabama in 1982.
She was talking about the pilot episode called "The Cage" where she was the first officer Number 1. It was later that she was re-cast as the ships nurse.
--Rest in Peace Majel. Say hi to Gene for us.
Local sheriff’s deputy arrested on child porn charges
A 65-year-old Prince William County sheriff’s deputy is under arrest on charges of possession of child pornography.
Investigators say they found more than 900 such images on the computer of Deputy Arthur Staples.
Last week authorities in St. Lucie County, Fla., contacted the Manassas City Police Department about a child pornography suspect in Manassas City. Manassas police searched Staples’ home Friday. Police said they were seeking evidence that he was distributing child porn.
Staples was being held Tuesday without bail and will be extradited to Florida, where he will face charges of using the Internet to trade pornographic pictures of children.
--Bastard
Rule Number One: Don't Panic
I almost died today.
Seriously. I choked on my lunch today. I know now, that in my entire life, I never have really choked before. Today, like many other days, I was working through lunch. I often do this to make sure I don't have to work late. Some days I don't even bother warming up my lunch and just wolf it down. Like today...
A piece of pork loin firmly lodged in my throat. I was helpless. I could not swallow it, couldn't breath, couldn't cough or gag or do anything.
20 seconds of abject Fear. Fear for Brenda and the kids and never seeing The Hobbit filmed with real people.
I actually thought to myself, "If you don't act now you are dead." Rule Number One was invoked. I didn't panic.
I wasn't going to be one of those people who are too embarrassed to ask for help. I figured coworkers were a 10 second walk away. 15 seconds to communicate the point. Then say hello for Mr. Heimlich.
As I moved to get up the piece of meat shifted. My epiglottis was freed and air moved. I stifled a cough and gag and worked on swallowing that cinder block. It went down eventually. Once water seemed like a good idea I drank a quart quickly.
Mom was right. "Marty! Chew your food!"
Mom was right. "Marty! Chew your food!"
--Rule Number One: Don't Panic
Repo Man Sequel Starts Filming Next Month
The original 1984 film told the story of Otto, a newly hired repossession man who goes in search for a mysterious Malibu carrying a high value package which was taken from a government lab and has strange effects on anyone who views it.
Cox has previously said that the follow-up will “unfold against the background of the credit crunch and the subprime mortgage crisis in the US, where repossessions of homes, cars and other forms of property is at a new high. ‘The repo business has expanded to everything from boats, houses, aeroplanes, small nations…children”.
-- Please don't make this Suck!!
Turkey Soup!
Left over turkey is one of my favorite things in the world. My wonderful wife knows this about me. So much so, that even though we went to my sisters this year for T-Day, she baked a Turkey!
I discovered last year that I had a knack for soup.
I started out to make a soup that I would like. I made it for me. I had 4 times the meat of other peoples soup. I included spices I liked. Veggies I like and as it turns out EVERYONE loved it!
Encouraged, I started making soup on a regular basis. I love having it for lunch.
--Today may be the BEST batch EVER!
Happy Thanksgiving!
What are you thankful for today?
I am thankful for my wonderful wife.
I am thankful for our excellent children.
I am thankful for their excellent mom.
I am thankful for my friends, my beautiful home, my excellent job.
I am thankful for being born in this time and place.
I am thankful for my country.
...and pie, I can't forget pie.
Fallout 3
So I bought this new game for the xBox 360 called Fallout 3.
This game is so cool. The style of it is so haunting.
It takes place in the future after a huge nuclear war. It actually takes place in and around Washington DC. That has pissed a lot of people off. I recognize places in the game. Buildings, bridges, metro stops and other places.
So very cool.
--But I suck with game controllers!
Mob Wars on Facebook
I have a FaceBook account. Lots of people do. In Facebook they have an applications section that includes games.
My current favorite game is called Mob Wars.
It is a turn based game. It actually doesn't take much time to play and it's not complicated. For some reason I really like it.
Brenda is into it now too. We are in each others Mob.
--Give it a try! Invite me to your mob!
RIP: Jasmine
The photo is from better days.I will miss that cat. Eight years ago, the very first time I visited my now wife at her home, Jasmine jumped right into my lap. She had a specific spot in my recliner as I surfed the web. When she was afraid, she would run to me.
--I loved that cat.
All this talk of Change
President Elect Obama is all about Change.
To that end I am looking at a blog change!
--Upgrades, baby. Upgrades.
To that end I am looking at a blog change!
--Upgrades, baby. Upgrades.
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