Skipped A Meeting But Saw A Bear Fight February 9, 2009

I honestly INTENDED to go to Weight Watchers this weekend.  I did.  I won’t tell you what my 7th grade math teacher said about “good intentions”.  In her informed opinion they don’t lead to a happy place. That said, the weather was so outstanding this weekend my family and I went to the Riverbanks Zoo [...]

Ten Percent, A Keychain, And Optimism February 2, 2009

One of my close friends in town greeted the new year by terming it, “The Year of Optimism!” I’d say that’s shooting for the moon given all that sour national news.  Still, it is ambitious to be optimistic about optimism itself, sort of a meta-optimism.   So, I subscribe. I’ve been trying to be positive [...]

Walking The Back 40 January 26, 2009

I promised a quick update on my last weigh-in.  I’d like to claim the delay in posting was an attempt to prove Einstein wrong but, really, I have no good excuse. (For the nerds like me, Eisntein theorized that as an object decreases in mass it increases in relative speed.  He also said quantum mechanics [...]

How To Dominate The Football Field January 14, 2009

Not to brag or anything, but I’ve got a laser-rocket arm.  Great minds will likely study it as a precursor to the next stage of NASA technology.  My arm was banned from NASCAR.  If people look directly into my arm, they will be temporarily blinded. I like to imagine I can avoid appearing egotistical by [...]

A Happy Start To The New Year January 8, 2009

First, a confession : For whatever reason, the weight totals at the gym have always been different that the ones at Weight Watchers.  The ones at the gym are better.  And the odd thing is, it’s not just the starting weights that didn’t match but the CHANGE is different too. So, while we used the [...]

One Man’s Plans December 29, 2008

Not to get all Nostradamus-y here but I’m willing to make a BOLD PREDICTION about this week : Almost everyone will “resolve” to lose weight. There are, of course, several problems with that. Chief among them is the probability that you’ve made that resolution before.  If it worked last time, would we would be doing [...]

On Christmas Vacation December 22, 2008

I’m already tired after two holiday celebrations and another one three hours down the road today. We had a Christmas get-together with half of my wife’s family in Louisville Saturday.  We had another with the other half the next day. At one, the hosts made us lots of tasty snacks.  None of it was healthy. [...]

The Long Run December 15, 2008

Back in the day, when I was wearing smaller pants, back when I didn’t need to buy pants in special “big man” stores, I tried running in those 5 and 10k races. I was never actually GOOD at it but I’m not hard to please.  Any 5k I finished in fewer than 30 minutes was [...]

Survived Thanksgiving But Please Hold The Cookies December 9, 2008

Back when I was at Verity Middle School, we still had the DARE program to keep kids off drugs.  We had this play-acting thing where I applied “peer pressure” to a fellow student and tried to talk them into using whever illegal substance we learned about that day. It was mostly a good 5 minutes [...]

Good Luck Tomorrow November 26, 2008

I’m thankful that I don’t feel as bad as I did yesterday.  This morning, a sick day from work, I was able to sleep until 7:30.  In my line of work that’s an almost unequaled luxury. I’m thankful that after work tomorrow I’ll get to head to Atlanta and see some of my extended family [...]