Our hero, having been just realized that he has entered the “coding zone” and lost track of time, stops to take a deep breath and look back over what he has written.
Damn…I’m brilliant.
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On a completely unrelated note, I just got a really bizarre phone call.
That is all.
Sooo…Things I’m looking at doing in the upcoming weeks…
Tomorrow night it’s over to squarewave and zayna‘s place for birthday shennanigans. Not sure if I’m going to actually make it out to The Castle after, but I’m at least showing up to get birthday spankings in.
Mmm…spankings.
Sunday is Super Bowl, and it looks like an informal party has sprung up here. This is going to be a seriously “not big” deal. xanboi was talking about bringing some chicken over to throw on the grill, and I think I’m going to procure a platter of sushi from Edo. If you wanna come, think healthy as far as the food bits you may bring along are concerned.
Next weekend, I’ve got a night of Karaoke madness ahead of me on Friday. Saturday night, all things being good and well in the world, I’m going to try to catch Topdog/Underdog and Phyro-Giants!. Sunday would be a Molten Core run with our allies in World of Warcraft.
Oy. My free time is starting to look too busy!
netgoth may or may not be with me at any and all of the above, depending on her homework load. At this point, as she posted recently, most social commitments from her end are going to be a maybe with a strong leaning towards probably not.
And on that note, I’ve got a meeting to get to.
Your current weight | 285.6 lbs
Weight change since your last recorded weight | -3.0 lbs
Total weight change to date | -133.6 lbs
Part of me is kind of disappointedly that I didn’t drop more of the cruise weight in the last week, but I’m damned happy with 3 pounds. Especially considering that I’ve now walked every day since we got back. I know I’ve built up more muscle in my legs again (as evidenced by the fact that netgoth keeps excitedly groping them), so I’m going to be ok with it. I had a great week. For the first time in a while, I followed program 100%. In fact, last night, I was actually treating myself to a few things because I had Flex points left (mmm…peanut butter). I know I’ve said it before, but man do I love this program. I mean, in the last week, I’ve had desserts almost every night. I’ve had chinese food. I’ve had Blueberry Muffins. I ate at Applebees…I wasn’t deprived at all.
And I lost 3 pounds.
I know I’d do better if I cut back on the coffee and quit smoking again, but I’m not quite ready to go that far yet. I’m also not in too much of a hurry to “kick up” the exercise routine. I don’t need intense exercise. I need consistent exercise. As long as I can maintain the daily walks, I’ll be fine. My biggest successes on program were during times when I was doing just that.
So..Three more weeks until my next set of pictures. I’m starting to look forward to it.
419.2 / 285.6 / 225
I can do this.
Ok…so what’s going on, locally, for the Super Bowl?
One of the things that has always stunned me is how nasty people who are overweight can be to those who they perceive to be thinner than themselves. I’ve been an active Weight Watchers member for just over five years now, and I’ve seen it a lot. The person who, frankly, looks like they might actually benefit from gaining a few pounds coming into the meeting and getting “looks” from the more obviously overweight ones. It’s like, somehow, there’s the measuring stick that people expect you to hold yourself up to before you have the right to claim that you are “fat.”
If you’re going to make a huge, ranty post or two and disable comments can you at least use a cut tag for those of us that don’t give a crap either way and aren’t out on the playground with the rest of you?
See you at karaoke soon!
Write down 7 things that piss you off, in no particular order, then tag 7 more people.
1. Having someone wake me up by messing with my feet.
2. Being taken for granted.
3. Gaining weight
4. People who will never honestly admit they were wrong and/or never sincerely apologize.
5. Politicians
6. Children who don’t know how to behave in public.
7. People who think that they “know” me and can explain my actions or dictate how I live my life.
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And since we’re talking about things that piss me off…
I’m a layman. I’m not an economist. I don’t have a college degree. I’m a self-trained computer programmer who does some acting. I do some reading, on occasion. Most of it fluff, but I’ve read a few books about Important Issues. I listen to Democracy Now! and Rush Limbaugh. I try to keep an open mind, ya know? Get some perspective so I can look at issues objectively.
But at this point I’m amazed at how few people seem to be making the connections that I’m about to make, and I’m honestly wondering if I’m missing something.
Because, from a laymans perspective…
We have a President who came from a family that was largely involved in the oil business. He has a background in the oil business. He comes from a state that is closely tied to the oil business. So he gets into office, right, and we get attacked by terrorists*. Terrorists who, while belonging to an organization based in Afghanistan, mostly came from Saudi Arabia (a country whose leaders are close personal friends with his family). Ok, so we invade and liberate Afghanistan. Cool. Then we turn around and invade Iraq because they have Weapons of Mass Destruction – which it turned out they didn’t have (Best Available Intelligence!). We’re told it was definitely NOT about the oil. If it was, I’ve head the folks like Rush Limbaugh say, why would gas prices be so high?
Well, that’s a good question, really. I guess it’s true. Except…
Well…
There’s the little fact that Exxon Mobil had a net income of $36.1 billion dollars last year. And that was UP 31 percent from last year. Despite hurricanes. Despite high oil prices in the middle east.
And they aren’t the only ones.
“The 12 U.S. oil companies in the S&P 500 that have reported fourth-quarter results have seen an average of a 48 percent rise in earnings excluding items in the period.”
Gas prices are almost as bad right now as they were during the late 70’s and early 80’s. Prices are up across many retailers as a direct result of companies trying to compensate for that. Every “average American” is feeling the pinch of this…except those with lots of money invested in oil companies.
Now…
I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I know that there are huge chunks of data that I’m missing out. I realize there are probably several logical fallacies in my conclusions. But, you know, I’m a little smarter than the average bear. I know what a fallacy is, but this still seems like far too much of a coincidence for me. We have a President who has ties to big oil. We are at war in a region that is the source of most of our oil. Oil companies are posting record profits, while our soldiers are dying and we’re paying nearly $3 bucks a gallon for gas.
Am I missing something?
*I am not blaming the terrorist attacks of 9/11 on the fact that G.W. Bush was elected President – Although there IS data out there that could suggest that such a thing is true. I don’t have enough of that data to make a conclusion one way or the other on that.
So I have this search feature linked off of my main site. It basically indexes the public record of my blog. One of the reasons why I’ve kept the service I have (and don’t have the link pointing to something like the new google blog search) is because I get a report, every week, showing me what has been searched for on my blog. What is fascinating about that is the fact that, more often than not, I find that people are looking for themselves. People who, for one reason or another, no longer actively communicate with me.
Makes me kinda sad. In most cases it would be kinda nice to hear from them.
Ah well.