I Was Thinking About Something Else

Today's Weight

2010-07-10T07:36:00.001-04:00

285.5. Yes, thank you, the tide has turned.

Today's Weight

2010-07-06T00:22:00.000-04:00

...is more than yesterday's weight. This is not going well.

Today's Weight

2010-07-04T02:26:00.001-04:00

289.0. This would be more...
Not what I intended. Never do. It happens because I do not mind, and that is where it falls down. Weight loss is really really hard work. Something I really really do not do well.

Today's Weight

2010-07-02T08:47:00.000-04:00

288.1 lbs.

I am trying to find my way

2010-06-19T00:30:00.004-04:00

Through this new template. With the changeover I lost all the "blogs I read" etc., type things. I do not remember the HTML to do these things as I have been weaned away by the simplicity of facebook, which is really plug'n'play. I am confident it will comeback or I will figure it out at some point down the road. It is so time consuming though, and I really came back to the blog to just write. Moving forward.

I am tired of hearing about fat people.

2010-06-17T00:15:00.004-04:00

Someone I know posted on her facebook page, an article from a feminist blog that concerned a woman who was kicked off the exercise equipment at a women's only gym. She was kicked off for being overweight. The slant from the blog was that there was yet another occasion where fat people were shamed.
I say no. The article mentioned that the woman was offered an aerobics area to work out in or a refund of her membership fee. I say the gym was right. I say the gym protected itself from a lawsuit and protected the woman whose health could be at risk on gym equipment that her body is not ready for. Which is why the alternative aerobics area would have been offered. The fat body needs to be prepared and eased onto gym equipment.
It really frosted me that this, and I do not want to single out this blogger because this does not happen often, was brought under the umbrella of slights against fat people in a sweeping generalization. And anyone will tell you I really hate sweeping generalizations.
I had more but I cannot think of what it was now. I am just so tired of hearing about fat people.

It must be the barometric pressure

2010-06-08T01:50:00.002-04:00

A study in the early 1980's found that school age boys would be much more difficult in class when the barometric pressure was low. I found today to be a pretty good day and I did not feel like misbehaving at any point so the barometric pressure must have been good.

New Name, Old Management

2010-06-06T01:27:00.004-04:00

This is the first post under the new name.
I have been away from blogging for a long time and I hope this will be the new name/new blogger writing and not just typing. A few things have happened since I left blogging. Made some new friends and reunited with old friends (how I really missed old friends), and I think lost some friends.
I want to move forward from this point rather than dwell on the past and what happened while I was away. Maybe I will have the past pop up occasionally as an amusing anecdote. Maybe not. I want a Pulitzer prize. The real deal. I am writing a play to achieve that goal. I hope I start to write betterer, or I can kiss that dream adieu.
I am starting to think now, why do I want to blog. There is essentially a not small group that I do not want to read it, which is so restricting. One needs a place to express their ideas though. Come heck or high water, or the opinions that were not asked for.
Back in the saddle again.

Still Gathering

2008-10-04T16:17:00.000-04:00

...my thoughts

It has been over a year...

2008-10-01T22:10:00.000-04:00

I may say more. I may not...
Not sure,yet.

So long, Frank Lloyd Wright

2007-06-26T18:27:00.000-04:00

This song by the famous Funkel Brothers, Simon and Gar, is what I try and start these days with.

Days seem busier now, especially having lost touch with so many by not blogging.

I do still keep up kinda with reading blogs and occasionally guerrilla comment, but it's been awkward since my own blogging has on the wane.

One of my cars

2007-04-22T23:20:00.001-04:00

6-13-2006 022
Originally uploaded by wordman165.

I'm trying to work out this whole posting from Flickr thing.

Trying something new

2007-04-22T23:18:00.001-04:00

6-13-2006
Originally uploaded by wordman165.

California Girls

2007-01-10T23:02:00.000-05:00

Jump

2007-01-08T11:34:00.000-05:00

Wicked Game

2007-01-08T10:58:00.000-05:00

2006-12-19T02:20:00.000-05:00

What Classic Movie Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

OK, you didn't ask for it, but....

2006-12-11T00:48:00.000-05:00

FACT:You embody the German principle of Konstantzusammenschaft, which is best described in English (without using the obscure English word "sammenschaft") as "eternal togethermanship".

The Loverboy
Random Gentle Love Master (RGLMm)

Well-liked. Well-established. You are The Loverboy. Loverboys thrive in committed, steady relationships--as opposed to, say, Playboys, who want sex without too much attachment.

You've had many relationships and nearly all of them have been successful. You're a nice guy, you know the ropes, and even if you can be a little hasty with decisions, most girls think of you as a total catch. Your hastiness comes off as spontaneity most of the time anyhow, making you especially popular in your circle of friends, too.

Your exact opposite:
The Billy Goat

Deliberate Brutal Sex Dreamer

You know not to make the typical Loverboy mistake of choosing someone who appreciates your good humor and popularity, but who offers nothing in return. You belong with someone outgoing, independent, and creative. Otherwise, you'll get bored. And then instead of surprising her with flowers or a practical joke, you'll surprise her by leaving.

ALWAYS AVOID: The Nymph

CONSIDER: The Window Shopper, The Peach

Link: The 32-Type Dating Test by OkCupid - Free Online Dating.

A Meme

2006-11-27T03:13:00.000-05:00

Shmelessly, as always stole this one from Much More Than A Mom, because I'm just that way.

1. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?
The Grinch who stole Xmas. What a dick. Am I right, or what?

2. You can flip a switch that will wipe any band or musical artist out of existence. Which one will it be?
The Rolling Stones. Hey, Get A Clue. It's OVER. Mick, put a shirt on!

3. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?
Barney. 'nuf said.

4. What is your favorite cheese?
LOL. Land O'Lakes

5. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your immediate disposal. What kind will you make?
Ice cream sandwich

6. You have the opportunity to sleep with the movie celebrity of your choice. We are talking no-strings-attached sex and it can only happen once. Who is the lucky celebrity of your choice?
Queen Latifah

7. You have the opportunity to sleep with the music-celebrity of your choice. Who do you pick?
Melissa Etheridge. Yes, yes. I know she's gay. Hello? MY fantasy.

8. Now that you’ve slept with two different people in a row, you seem to be having an excellent day because you just came across a hundred-dollar bill on the sidewalk. Holy crap, a hundred bucks! How are you gonna spend it?
Definitely either donate it to the Church, or, buy imported beer and higher grade porn. (shouldn't really bank on the Church one)

9. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere. You have to depart right now. Where are you gonna go?
WDW.

10. Upon arrival to the aforementioned location, you get off the plane and discover another hundred-dollar bill. Now that you are in the new location, what are you gonna do?
Souveniers

11. A demon rises out of Hell and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. It is…?
Vodka Sours.

12. Rufus appears out of nowhere with a time-traveling phone booth. You can go anytime in the PAST. What time are you traveling to and what are you going to do when you get there? 1981, become good friends with Bill Gates.

13. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place?
No anger.

14. You have been given the opportunity to create the half-hour TV show of your own design. What is it called and what’s the premise?
'Fuddles'. A goofy, big dog who always comes to the rescue.

15. What is your favorite curse word?
Not so much a word, as a phrase. Fuckin' idiot. As in, "Do you know you're talking out loud? Are you really that much of a fuckin' idiot?"

16. One night you wake up because you heard a noise. You turn on the light to find that you are surrounded by MUMMIES. The mummies aren’t really doing anything, they’re just standing around your bed. What do you do?
I'm sorry but, this one was just dumb.

17. Your house is on fire! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don’t worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what’s the item?
My Brother-in-law.

18. The Angel of Death has descended upon you. Fortunately, the Angel of Death is pretty cool and in a good mood, and it offers you a half-hour to do whatever you want before you bite it. Whatcha gonna do in that half-hour?
Get lost.

19. You accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what’s even cooler is that they endow you with the super-power of your choice! What’s it gonna be?
Flying.

20. You can re-live any point of time in your life. The time-span can only be a half-hour, though. What half-hour of your past would you like to experience again?
A summer afternoon when I was seventeen when I looked around and I thought everything in my life was perfect.

21. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?
Clothes from the 1970's, except for desert boots. A decade of casual sex and fashion that guaranteed you would never get laid.

22. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check out this cool stuff… you can move to anywhere else in the world! Bitchin’! What country are you going to live in now?
Canada, eh.

23. This question still counts, even for those of you who are under age. You have been eternally banned from every single bar in the world except for ONE. Which one is it gonna be?
Harry's Cafe in Chicago.

24. Hopefully you didn’t mention this in the super-powers question…. If you did, then we’ll just expand on that. Check it out… Suddenly, you have gained the ability to FLOAT!!! Whose house are you going to float to first, and be like “Dude, check it out… I can FLOAT!”?
Dave Letterman's house. I would be a guaranteed winner of the 'Will It Float' segment.

25. The constant absorption of magical moonbeams mixed with the radioactive vegetables you consumed earlier has given you the ability to resurrect the dead famous-person of your choice. So which celebrity will you bring back to life?
Walt Disney

26. The Gates of Hell have opened, and Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person, etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back?
I wouldn't be able to handle picking someone to have give up heaven to come back here

27. What’s your theme song?
Jump

Connecticut Yankee Party of 29, Please. Right This Way...

2006-11-26T22:48:00.000-05:00

Hope you had a good Thanksgiving, or as I like to call it, Big Pants Day.

T-Day is a glorius thing for so many reasons that I've listed before.

1. No pressure of gifts.
2. It is a NATIONAL FOOD HOLIDAY.
3. (Most) Folks get Friday off from work/school by virtue of the FACT that Thanksgiving is ALWAYS on a Thursday.
4. No religion involved. Everyone celebrates.
5. Leftovers.

I have hosted Thanksgiving dinner in my humble abode(s) every year since the '80's (because I LOVE leftovers) and have each year had a modest group of family members/guests that numbered from about 8-12 people generally. I have always harbored a dream of having all the family members gathered at my house for Thanksgiving and this year it came true. I fufilled my dream and 29 family members feasted in my quaint colonial home on 2 turkeys, a Carando ham, including a gut-busting amount of trimmings (there is only one way to have stuffing...and it is from the bird) and many homemade (rude and evil, "calories are our friends!") desserts.

I was going to detail some logistical problems that secured my position on why I'm never going to do this again, but this isn't the time. Everyone told me they had a good time and I believe them. An impetuous Australian Shiraz kept my blues away and there were so many great leftovers. A very serious amount. All good. No fruitcakes, if you know what I'm saying.

Oh, I almost forgot the best reason:

6. Friday is TV/Couch/Grazing Day.

Excuse me, I have to loosen my sweatpants...again.

In The Land That Our Grandchildren Knew

2006-11-19T18:26:00.000-05:00

Kind of an ambiguous title for this post because as much as I want to talk about Thanksgiving, the best, and my favorite holiday, I don't know how much will get to it within this post.
Lots of personal tragedies in my life just waiting for me to blurt out in whiney crybaby fashion, and I guess a blog is really good for that purpose, but somehow it just doesn't really say 'me'.
Right now at this moment I want to be heading to Anna Liffey's (a bar with Guinness on tap) and pretending to fit in with the crowd that is way younger than me. All under the guise of me thinking it would be fun and them not thinking, "Whoa, the guy's like twice our age".
It's sort of a Love/Hate relationship with bars. I love them because they have well, y'know...alcohol. And a festive atmosphere. I hate them because the alcohol is so fucking expensive! Still, there is that festive atmosphere.
The money part prevents me from associating with my clutch of ne'er do wells, as often as I would like. Money, or lack of therein, prevents alot of things.
I miss being younger, too. Then again, who doesn't. I'm not really that bad off in the age department, but just for me personally there are just alot of things I miss. One would be school time. Not school itself, but the lifestyle. It always turns out to be an, if-I-knew-then-what-I-know-now, crying in your beer, life story, but that isn't where I'm going. Not dwelling. Just mentioning. Moving on.
Photographs are big helpers for isolating a time. Happy memories of vacations standing in line waiting to get on a ride in DisneyWorld just before a downpour. A sister when she was little looking impish, before growing up and facing countless operations for medical conditions that were dormant. Friends who have come and gone. Favored relatives who have left me behind (That's you cousin Mark, for not taking care of your diabetes).

For my life
Still ahead
Pity Me.

Don't Know Where to Begin

2006-11-19T01:17:00.000-05:00

It's been so long and a lot has happened. I am sure with extreme effort I could put a funny spin on it, and I may give that the college try, but then again...
Since the last time I posted I've only occasionally making comments guerrilla-style on other peoples blogs without giving them a chance to poke fun at me because i hadn't posted anything in a long time. Rude of me, to be sure.
I truly respect the people who post all the time

ah, y'know what? Fuck this, I'm goin' to bed. Maybe more tomorrow.

Wow, this was too close for comfort

2006-09-24T23:01:00.000-04:00

My Personality


Neuroticism	85
Extraversion	28
Openness To Experience	47
Agreeableness	42
Conscientiousness	6

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You are introverted, reserved, and quiet with a preference for solitude and solitary activities. Your socializing tends to be restricted to a few close friends. You can be very easily upset, even by what most people consider the normal demands of living. People consider you to be extremely sensitive and emotional. A desire for tradition does not prevent you from trying new things. Your thinking is neither simple nor complex. To others you appear to be a well-educated person but not an intellectual. You have some concern with others' needs, and are generally pleasant, sympathetic, and cooperative. You like to live for the moment and do what feels good now. Your work tends to be careless and disorganized.

A Day of Days

2006-09-03T23:37:00.000-04:00

Today was the day that the shower water in the upstairs bathtub decided to reroute through the wall. The wall that has all the shower and bath plumbing fixtures, adjacent to aforementioned bathtub. The water did this rather than assume the more tried and true course of the bathtub drain.
The water in choosing this road did not understand the logistical considerations of such a career decision. Things like, oh, unprepared house interwiring, unseaworthy wood and sheetrock, panicing humans when ceiling light fixtures blow because they're filling up with h2o. Sometimes change is not good.
The water was persistent, too. Did not stop until it found a path all the way to the basement.
May I take a moment here to mention the virtues of wet/dry vac's. Good times, good times.
A rule in our house is that we don't purchase the non-free movies available on cable. My son chose to ignore this rule and qeued up Grandma's Boy. I found out when I saw the movie playing and someone said fuck and I thought, hmm, not regular tv, no dvd or tape. Well, long story short, I watched it a couple of times and it was hilarious. it's all Adam Sandler's cronies in their own movie and they do a really good job and I look forward to more from them.

A Bittersweet Thing

2006-08-28T22:25:00.000-04:00

Since the picture was posted I have had what i like to consider a 'bunch' of visitors. Now I feel obligated to write something. There's too much pressure now for anything profound, but maybe a word about the Emmy Awards last night.
DeAnn does a great recap, but I have to put my two cents in with how great the show was. Truly. The pace faltered on only a couple of occasions, and only one bit, two at most, failed comedically.
The show kept moving along. Really moving along for me as I am one of the 17% that Tivo'd the event and then watched it this morning (zipping past every commercial, heh, heh).
There were some "What the Hell were they thinking on that one" award moments.
Why do they bother with any ceremony in a category with Chloris Leachman? Just give her the damn thing. She's going to win anyway (as she deserves!)
I do believe one of the best acceptance speeches ever was the guy who 'had a list of people he would not like to thank'.