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Hey, locals!

Don’t forget! They Might Be Giants is playing tonight at Jannus Landing. I’ve seen them three times, and have been vastly entertained every time. It’s well worth the price of admission. Somebody buy me a shirt, too. XL. Because, really, it’s all about me.

Quote of the Night

During our game of Apples to Apples, last night one of the words that came up was “Mischevious.” My son played “Spike Lee,” and when the judge ruled out his card he tried very hard to defend his case with –

“But he CREATED Malcolm X!!”

Ouch

Oh man, I’m sore.

Yesterday was a hellish day. As you saw from my list I had a ton to do, but what you didn’t see was the fact that one of the less labor-intensive items on that list, the sink repair, turned out to be a huge nightmare of an ordeal. And why? Because I didn’t thoroughly Read The Fucking Manual. I spent all told about 4 hours wrestling with what should have been about a twenty to thirty minute repair. I missed my fucking rehearsal yesterday over this, and unless I’m mistaken I haven’t missed a rehearsal with Jobsite yet. I had Krystalle drive me to a rehearsal once after I had passed out for christ’s sake (she took me to the ER after the rehearsal). So I’m kinda bummed over losing my perfect attendance record there. Ah well. At the time I called David the water was off to my house and I was about to make my second trip to Lowe’s (3 total to repair the sink).

Lessons learned. Much like my forays into electrical work, I ended up getting the job done (and done well). It just took a hell of a lot longer than it should.

Between that and everything else we did yesterday (my list was not the household list…all four of us were pretty much going non-stop from the time we got up), I’m REALLY sore today. The house, however, looks pretty damned amazing. Better than it has looked for a long time, I can tell you that much.

Our house guests, John and Random (Banick and March from Warcraft) showed up around 10:30 last night, and so far they are pretty damned spiffy folks. etcet, aishlynn and xanyboi stayed here until around 12:30 as we all sat around and got to know each other. I think the four of us finally went to bed around 2. There were many laughs and some of our favorite tales were exchanged, as well as the consumption of my grilled turkey burgers. Good times!

Oh, and before John and Random got here, xanyboi introduced us to Apples to Apples. Holy crap what a fun game that is!

Ok..I’m off. Gonna grab some coffee and see if I can muster up the motivation to exercise before rehearsal today.

To Do Today

  • Exercise
  • Shower
  • Baseball Game

  • Get Grill from Shed and put on back porch
  • Go to Home Depot
    • Get new propane tank

  • Go to Lowes
    • Try to find replacement hose for kitchen sink faucet
    • Get steel wool for cleaning grill
    • Get new vacuum cleaner
    • Weep softly over new debt incurred
    • Get Febreeze Carpet stuff
    • Get Grill Brush

  • Make Bed
  • Repair kitchen sink

  • Polish Stove Top

  • Clean Grill

  • Clean Bathroom (Tilex and Clorox in tub)
  • Rehearsal
  • Sweep/Mop Computer room floor
  • Vacuum bedroom

  • Go to Publix
    • Lipton onion soup mix
    • Eggs
    • Bacon
    • 4 pounds ground turkey
    • Hamburger Buns
    • Lettuce
    • Tomato
    • Chips
  • Deposit check in wallet (that you forgot about, dork) at GTE FCU
  • Find some time in all this to eat something
  • Shower (again)
  • Play card games, await arrival of house guests
  • Get with the merrymaking
  • Crash and burn

Weight Tracking Summary

Your current weight | 279.4 lbs
Weight change since your last recorded weight | -3.0 lbs
Total weight change to date | -139.8 lbs

FINALLY. Something positive at the scale.

Quite positive, really.

I had a feeling I was going to see something good this week. I got comfortably into a pair of size 40 slacks this morning that were darned near impossible to put on the last time I wore them (about 3 or 4 weeks ago, if I recall correctly). I’m starting to see a bit of a change in the mirror, too, but I’ll really be able to compare later tonight as it is picture night (going to take the pictures when I get home from rehearsal).

Whoo hoo!

Now…if I can just survive the next week (house guests who have promised to take us out to dinner no less than twice)

Oh..heh..Maya (Yourself Fitness trainer) told me today that my consistency in my workouts has been “outstanding.” I realize there was no truly “personal” motivation behind that comment, but it was nice to hear anyway.

(Small gripe, though – STILL 1.4 pounds away from my pre-Goth Cruise weight. Damn, man. I’m gonna eat more fruit next time.)

419.2 / 279.4 / 225

I can do this.