I'll be suffern someplace else

I'll be spending the week in Suffern, NY at the end of the month. I'll be studying so probably won't leave the hotel.

I hope it's warmer then.

I had to try this

Apparently you can email your posts to your EP blog now.

That is so cool (if it works).

Just had to try it.

So now when we feel like phoning it in we can email it in instead.

Take care all.

;;
J

More Random Thoughts

Yesterday was a great day.

We went to Speedway and met some new friends. We belong to a car club and one of the members is from Austraila. He and his family came up for vacation so we met there with a few other local members. It was a blast. Afterwards we went to Macaroni Grill for dinner.

I ordered soup and a scallop salad and Cheryl ordered the special which included salad, pasta, and chocolate cake.

It was way too much food and Cheryl said she would ask for a box (did I mention I have a habit of eating everything in front of me?). We did take the cake home in a box though.

After we got home we shared the cake.

This morning I 1.4lbs heavier. No surprise.

Today is the Superbowl. It is tradition in our house to have chili. This year it is turkey chili... I'll try not to eat it all.

All the men in my family were overweight

My father was always heavy. My oldest brother had a big gut, so did my second oldest brother. They all 3 died of heart failure.

My third oldest brother was a man mountain. He was 6'1" and probably about 250 when I was growing up.

I just talked to him on the phone today. He's still 6'1" but now he only weighs 185lbs. He has been that weight for years. I guess if he can do it I can do it. I hope so.

Best laid plans

I fully intended to read everyone else's blog this morning but... Every Sunday morning at 7AM we have family reunion (my remaining brother and my 3 sisters) via the telephone. That usually lasts 2 or 3 hours, today it ended at 9:30. Then after that someone from work IM'd me. Then I started writing this and now I have to get going and get some things done before the big game.

Hopefully, I'll be able to catch up on my reading later.

Take care

It ain't much but...

Two sisters were named Flo and Betty

Their husbands were named Mo and Eddie

It took me some time

But I found a rhyme

For my buddy we call SlowAndSteady

Random thoughts

That's just the kind of guy I am.

I told my wife I was going to do a mile on the treadmill this morning.

She asked me to do one for her too so I did.

I'll do mine tomorrow.

Remember when bathroom scales didn't need batteries?

That thought occurred to me this morning. Then I tried to remember the scale we had before this one. Then I tried to remember the one we had we we first got married and that is when it dawned on me.

When we first got married I used to think it was strange that some people had scales in their bathrooms. At some point I became one of those people.

This realization caused me to ask myself what information the scale is giving me that I need now and didn't need then? If I think about it, the scale has never told me anything I didn't already know.

What if I lived my life in such a way that I didn't need a bathroom scale? Yeah, right, whatever.

101 thru 104

I like Leno

Letterman? Not so much

I like BNL

SNL? Not so much.

Who'd a thunk?

So I'm on the phone with my wife the other day and she bursts out with "I do TOO read your blogs!"

I guess I have to come up with a different plan for her birthday surprise (I actually already did but I ain't postin' it here ... or anywhere else).

I love all your comments

I do really. I also love reading all your blogs.

I'm sorry I haven't had time to do that lately (I guess I should be reading your's now instead of writing my own but that's just the kind of self centered a$$hole I am).

I would/will write more limericks about my buddies. It's not like those are my only three buds, it's just the only three that I could come up with rhymes for (what rhymes with QH anyway? or SlowandSteady?) I'm sure I'll get inspired at some point.

Today

We are going to race go carts today at Speedway. That should be fun.

If you are ever in Fort Worth

Be sure to eat at Bonnell's

Ask for Jayare (pronounced J'ar in Texan.. pronounced J-R by me).

Tell her you know her dad.

caio

Please accept my apologies in advance

There's one chick who's just here to chat
'cause seriously she's not even fat
I think she's insane
No need to explain
You know her, we call her D'Brat

Here's to the LDS_Mom
Who struggles to keep herself calm
She continues to be
An inspiration to me
I think she's really da bomb

Then there's my buddy in Austin
It's her office she really feels lost in
She looked up and found
No one like her around
Cheer up Babe, you could be in Boston

100 things about me...

1 # of people I live for (not counting me)
2 I am not gay (not that there's anything wrong with that)
3 # of people I would die for without hesitation
4 I have a bottomless Starbucks card
5 I only drink the drip coffee, nothing fancy
6 I am not embarrassed to wear my Bluetooth headset anywhere
7 I will not wear a hearing aid even though I could use one
8 I love blues music
9 I love my Chevy Avalanche
10 I hate working out
11 I hate not being healthy
12 My wife will never understand how much I love her
13 I will never understand how much my wife loves me
14 I used to think I could do anything
15 I still do but now I have learned other people can do some things better than me
16 I am not athletic
17 I'm a workaholic
18 I eat fast
19 I will eat everything in sight unless someone is watching (sometimes even then)
20 I used to have will power
21 I still do but I think it's in the garage somewhere
22 I made a hope chest for my daughter
23 I made a bookcase for my son
24 I made a kitchen for my wife
25 Christmas is my favorite time of year
26 I am agnostic
27 I don't have an opinion about the death penalty or abortion (that I want to share)
28 I'm not as smart as people think I am
29 I am amazed that people like me
30 I am often misunderstood
31 I am totally amazed when people don't like me
32 I am never going to think of 100 things to say about myself
33 They are filming Boston Legal in my neighborhood today
34 I TiVo everything so I don't have to watch the commercials
35 I am happy
36 It doesn't show on my face
37 I do not have a secret life online
38 I put a link to all my blogs on my wife's laptop but she never reads them
39 I never update my blogs so she isn't missing anything
40 I will stop blogging here someday
41 No one will miss me
42 I don't have 8 friends
43 If I did I wouldn't tell them about this site
44 Maybe I do have a secret life
45 There is nothing about me my wife doesn't know
46 My wife knows me better than I know myself
47 I forget stuff
48 Lots of stuff
49 I figured out I am a terrible liar so I quit doing it
50 I don't smoke
51 I drink red wine because it is good for my heart
52 I hate Merlot
53 I love milk chocolate
54 Family is the most important thing in life
55 I plan secret surprises for my wife all the time
56 I am thinking about getting a tattoo with my wife's name
57 I have been married 32 years
58 I do not have any tattoos
59 I don't understand body piercing
60 I have ADHD (doesn't everyone?)
61 No one is going to read all this crap because it is neither funny nor interesting
62 I can never think of anything to talk about in social situations
63 I like Scotch
64 I love computers
65 I hate computers
66 I have a low tech job
67 I used to have a high tech job
68 I like low tech better - much less stress
69 I like to cuddle
70 When I am at the gym I always wonder if the naked guy on my right feels sorry for the naked guy on his left
71 I count backwards from 100 when I can't sleep
72 It never works because I forget and start thinking of other things
73 There is no 73 - deal with it
74 I love reality shows (there, I said it)
75 I saw Jimi Hendrix in concert
76 I own 7 guitars and cannot play
77 I cannot sing
78 I like to write limericks
79 I read "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex…" as a teenager and I always get undressed the way it said to
80 When I don't hear my wife it's because I am deaf
81 When my wife doesn't hear me it is because I mumble
82 I camp out in hospital waiting rooms when someone I love is sick
83 I'm the guy you call when you need something
84 I don't know how to say no
85 I am the youngest of 7
86 Rumor has it my family owned half of Texas but my grandfather was the black sheep of the family
87 I traced my roots… turns out it was true
88 My grandfather was killed for cheating in a card game in Reno
89 My father died of heart failure at the age of 59
90 Many of my family members are in some kind of 12 step program
91 I am the good child
92 One of the best things I ever did was give my mom a computer and an AOL account before she died (we all live in different parts of the country)
93 The best thing I ever did hasn't been done yet
94 I don't understand hatred and bigotry
95 Why can't we all just get along?
96 My dad always said "Every time I get 39 cents somebody borrows it"
97 I do not follow sports
98 I am naive
99 I suck at chess
100 I think holding a child's hand is the most important thing you can do as a parent

I've turned up the heat...

As some of you know I have been fighter for weeks to get below 200 lbs.

So of you also know that my scale is sensitive to heat and it sits in front of a wall heater.

This morning I weighed in at 202.2.

I turned on heater and read a few of your blogs.

Now it says I'm 199.8.

I won't post that weight here but it was fun to see it.

I'm going to the gym now.

Enjoy your day.

Go ahead everybody else does

The EP web site is extremely slow this moring. At least we have that in common.

I had a much longer post but it disappeared after I hit Submit.

Could be worse I guess.

My mom always used to say "I complained because I had no shoes until I met a man that had no feet".

I miss her.

Did I do that?

First, thanks to all for your compassion and understanding.

Second, I found his comment amusing (because that's how I roll).

Third, I don't feel depressed or demotivated so what the heck is going on with my weight this morning? Hopefully, it's just a temporary spike and I'll be back down to fighting the 200 line instead of the 205.

Fourth, we are off to Laughlin, NV this morning. See you all Tuesday.

Take care.