Author Archivejust a quick shout out to all my x-co-workers from the old place, that still curse my name whenever something goes wrong. of all days, today is the one that you can’t blame me for anything. most likely, it’s the fault of the larget hadron collider. i never factored the lhc into any of my scripts or manual processes that i entrusted to this brilliant bunch. good luck my friends!!
now that is what i am talking about! 3 lbs sliced off. after my 4.5 mile workout, i was all the way down to 230.0, but i now know that i can’t count the post-sweat weight. it does feel good to be off sugar, because there are less cravings and i am more alert throughout the day. and this week was a perfect week to start. i had 2 late nights, working on a content management system for my 2 kids’ cub scout web site, as well as a 13 hour work day migrating our work development environment to another server/operating system. the cut-over was not so bad, but testing that ensued afterwards took a long time. biut through it all i remained awake and alert! any hootenany, i’m down 3 to 232.5 and off sugar feels great after one week. i bet i will be in the 220’s next week, the first time in over a year. i’m excited!
wahoo! lookie here! i got lighbox to work with this site. i guess it makes sense to have the most up-to-date version of the theme in order to get the newer cuilerstuff working. wonder what it looks like on my pocket pc’s browser or in the news reader? better go check that all out soon. hmmm, 2:50am, prolly should go get some sleep now… yikes, tomorrow is going to hurt! and here we are. the past 3 weeks have not been the greatest to me. i have not exercised 6 days each week, i’ve stayed up late (sometimes work sometimes stupidity) and slept late 3 or 4 mornings. i’ve been somewhat stressed by the last weeks of summer; school crap shopping, broken bones and cracked skulls, bored children, mouthy children, teenagers that think they are 25 and living in their own house with their own rules, then my windows computer died, then my phone sorta died (everything worked except for making/taking phone calls). yikes, lotso little stuff piled up. but there have been good times to, niagara falls outing, darien lake with the boy, a buffalo bills pre-season fotball game, a couple trips to the smaller local amusement park (pix still being uploaded), and loads of fun at the local pools!! so here i am, trying to reach some lofty 2008 goals amidst all of this fun and furvor. of course, out of all of them, the one-an-only-one i wouldlove to reach was to lose the 50 lbs. the last 3 weeks have been so crazy that i have not posted much, i have even skipped the skinny updates, so here they are. 2 weeks ago, 236.0, last week 236.5, this week 235.0. it saddens me that i have worked out so hard all summer to at least get to and maintain a weifght below 230 lbs. blows my mind that this simple goal was not reached. and now, with 4 months left in the year, i am teetering on the brink of failure. hence, i am starting skinny v5, and going back to no sugar because when i combined no sugar with consistent exercise back in 2006, the results we amazing. 2-3 lbs per week and 10 lbs per month. the great thing was that i sustained it for 3 months until personal stress ripped through and ended my ambition to keep losing weight. it was amazing to remember that it got me down to 218 that year. this time i can and will sustain it for 4 months! skinny v5 is my way of saying that i am personally committed to making this goal a reality. i need to do this for myself. the exercise has been a great infusion into my life, but exercise alone will not take off this fat and flub. ’sides, i really wanna cross this goal off at the end of december! got my pix for nofx and i can’t wait to see em on oct 23! i think i’ve seen them now 4 or 5 times, but only on warped tour, 1/2 hour sets. finally i will get to see a whole set, should be awesome. and after watching the fuse series on em, i kinda want to do something crazy at the show… but i’ll probably only dance. check out the fuse show, pretty crazy crap! ep 1:
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ep 7: [wpyt_rawdadfish]y62PQdFTUQI[/wpyt_rawdadfish] ep 8: those were the first words outta my 9 yr old’s mouth after the silver bullet ride at the amusement park came to a stop. geez. it was the second time round on the second ride of the night at darien lake. the poor guy had blood dripping everywhere.
this fun ride, that has been around for ever, totally caught us by surprise. the cage that you get into looks fun and swings freely left to right. then the ride starts to spin, centrifugally. the cage swings outward and you start to feel it pushing you against the back and bottom of the seat. you can feel the g-forces. then the ride lifts up until it is perpendicular to the ground. now your spinning vertically. then after probably 20 seconds it comes back down and the ride is finished. so I think what the boy with the broken head did was he leaned too far forward on the seat, let go, holding his hands in the air like superman and closed his eyes, so she could feel like he was flying. he ended up changing his center of gravity and the force pushed his chest and head down so strongly that his head poped the center support along the floor of the cage in an instant. he sat back up with blood streaming down his face. i had the smarts (??) not to take any really bad pix, but once we got to the hospital, i snapped a couple. i do want everyone to remember that this kid was a trooper. no crying, cracking jokes, smiling through it all. even after one big stitch on the inside and 5 staples on the surface of the 1.5″ gash in his head.
yeah, yeah, skipped an update. i know. well you didn’t miss much. last week i was up a bit to 233.5 lbs and this week i was travelling over the weekend, so weighed in on friday morning at 232.5 lbs. i guess i can’t complain too much, being the middle of the summer and all. just like everybody else, the summer picnics and late night heat make it real tough to stay away from the icy creamy luciousness of a good sundae! so i am just hanging in there and trying to make it to sept, the final stretch to the end of the year. will I have some significant progress to show? maybe halfway to the ultimate goal? pppttthhh… right. but just maybe. i’ve never felt more fit and motivated to walk and run hard. time will tell! aaaggghhh! my mobile is starting to die, after 2.5 yrs of love and happiness and iphoneless joy. just yesterday, while exercising, the bluetooth suddenly stopped working. ever since, i have not been able to get the mic and receiver to work. I figured it was the cuil new throttle launcher software that I was trying out. nope. uninstalled it and still no talking. maybe I just needed a soft reset (this thing is windows, you know). nope. still no talking. ok. let’s get crazy. backup everything and hard reset. waaaa! still no luck. although the phone rings, no other sound works and the thing won’t even go into speakerphone mode. crap! i’m not ready for a new phone! i am holding out for the touch pro. look at these reviews: htc touch pro hardware hands-on now that is something to look forward to. look at the speed, the memory, the size, the keyboard, the flush screen, oh man! let me know if you think there is something better and it doesn’t begin with the letter ” i “. hey grant-man, here is the dickies live cover of the gigantor tv show theme song. then a better audio version. then the original. the dickies rock, btw! check out some of their original work too, fun and creative.
well it has been a stressful week leading up to my brother’s surgery to hopefully make sure there is no more cancer left in his body, and as a result i am thankful that i have been making the time to exercise every day, otherwise i would be a giant fatso. in the end, i put on 2 lbs, up to 232.5 lbs. next week will be different! |
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