Category Archives: General
Public Tracking: Day 18
Day 18: Phase 1 Day 4 of 21 Morning Weight: 214 Thoughts: The cardio is a challenge, as I’m limited by my ankle’s mobility and rehab instructions. I picked up some Hemp Protein at Whole Foods. I think I did something wrong when I used it. Time for some more investigation if I’m going to [...]
Public Tracking: Day 14
Day 14: Reset Day 14 of 14 Morning Weight: 214 Thoughts: Still here, I weighed yesterday, but forgot to come back and post. Tomorrow I start phase 1, I can’t weight! (Doctor’s comment from my test, “Very boring”.
On Lent 2011
A friend asked if Catholics practice Lent on Sundays. Someone had told him that during Lent, Sunday was a day off from any Lenten sacrifices. The question really got me thinking & I hope he’ll forgive me for sharing my answer here as well. Lent is a season & doesn’t skip Sundays. The idea of [...]
Wrapping up
It’s been a crazy few weeks. Actually it’s been a crazy few months, but I’m only going back as far a December or I’ll never get this posted. Th spin out the first weekend of December ended up causing over $9k in damages to the car. Apparently I broke everything under the floor boards. The [...]
Happy 2011
from me and the felines. Now I think I’ll go and get some sleep.
Dear Santa,
I was going to ask for good weather in which to drive up to Ohio for Christmas, but I’m going to have to put in a different order. This year for Christmas, I’d like one of the following: a) my poor car fixed or b) a new car. Today’s flurries were a bit more than [...]
Stanley’s Adventure
Right Click on the image above to Save or Launch the pdf file in a new window. The file is approximately 52MB, but worth the wait. Trust me, Stanley had a fun time across 102 pages. Brett turns in his project on Friday. I’d love to see his teacher’s face when she sees his journal. [...]
Stanley goes Tron-style
My nephew’s 2nd grade class is getting ready to start a section focusing on geography, types of land formations (lakes, rivers, mountains, oceans, excetra) and his teacher has an interesting idea of how to make it more personal to the kids. The class has read a book called “FLAT STANLEY” by Jeff Brown. This book [...]
Shredding History
So as part of my sort & shred adventure, I’m getting down to the last of my backlog of papers. As of now, I have only to go through the papers that were in my desk before it was donated. Yesterday I was shredding papers that were going on 10+ years old. Some of them [...]
Productive Helper
I have a love/hate relationship with Wednesdays. I hate getting up early in order to take conference calls with the team in China. I spend most of the day dragging around trying to wake up. Today was worse, I had to miss my nap in order to take a second call with China, that lasted [...]