I lost seven pounds this week.  Pretty cool, huh?
One of the biggest pieces of advice I hear, pretty much from everyone, when I talk about losing weight is this:  “Don’t think of it as having to lose over two hundred pounds, do it in five pound chunks”, or “take baby steps and you’ll get there!”, [...]

The country has been divided on the notion of changing the Pledge of Allegiance for a while now.  I know… why don’t we just rewrite the whole thing, and water it down?
I infer preference to the flag of the United States of America (as long as the nation’s actions don’t violate my personal beliefs), and [...]

Celebrating my return to actually losing weight this week, I’m introducing a new scale image!  I was getting a little tired of the 1 vs. 100 copycat routine my little graphic was doing, and thought I should put up something that was more me, so I created this little podium with Fat Silhouette Man standing [...]

Holy cow, has this week been busy!
School started on Monday for the kids, and Tuesday for me.  I was scheduled to be there Monday evening, but the Spanish class was canceled.  Fortunately, I found another – and I say fortunately because I’m truly enjoying the class so far.  It’s small, with only five students, and [...]

I had something interesting happen on Wednesday, and I figured I’d share, a bit belatedly.
Earlier in the week, The Digital Kid asked if he could go check out a new place in town, called The Haven.  Now, I’d seen the place, looking over the edge of a bridge that crosses a series of Santa Fe [...]

This is not an easy post for me to make.
You see, this week, despite getting back into regular exercise – walking daily, using the shovelglove a bit, and beating the tire pell for fifteen minutes to half an hour every morning – I did not lose weight.  Just the opposite happened, in fact; I gained.  [...]

I’m finally all set and ready for school.  Classes start next week, with the body of the day starting on Tuesday, but night classes the evening before.  That means next Monday at 6PM, I’ll have my first Spanish class in twenty five years.  That’s right, I took Spanish from kindegarten all the way up to [...]

For the past few weeks, I’ve felt great.  Life has been going in a positive direction for just about every aspect of who I am, except my weight – and weight moving in a negative direction is a good thing, right?  Thing is, I’ve felt thinner, lighter, better.  That is, right up until this week.
This [...]

You know, they say everyone has their twin, someone who looks enough like them to be a brother or sister.  In the case of famous comic actress Carol Burnett, for instance, that person was Vicki Lawrence.  And while these look-alikes may be rare, I believe I’ve found one.  You see, I’ve got this friend, Charlie, [...]

I got my tire pell up.  For those who don’t know what a “pell” is, well, a definition and little history lesson is in order.
A pell is an immobile target used to practice combat skills.  Pells have ranged from simple poles sunk into the ground for stability to complex designs with moving parts that simulate [...]