After working out and eating more sensibly, I’m happy to discover that my weight went to down to 179 lbs today! I was hovering around the 186-189 range lately. I’ve been wanting to get toned up at least for our summer vacations.

I was 165 lbs when I graduated. I held that weight until I was 30, then my weight was 175. Then I was that weight until my metabolism finally said goodbye for good. around the age of 36.

Cutting out soda completely probably accounts for 4-5 pounds of loss. Then I limit my meals to more reasonable portions instead of eating to the point where I have to unbuckle my pants. I’ve also been running and lifting weights for a half-hour every day. This was hard at first but after the first week I got used to it. Now I’ll have to increase my workouts if I want to keep “feeling the burn.”

I’m happy!

My wife’s boss died two weeks ago. He was relatively young, in great shape, fairly well-to-do and stress-free, from all accounts. He just had a heart attack and instantly died.

He had a blog that we discovered after he died. It was inspirational in the sense that he documented all the places he went and seen during his year long sabbatical. That inspired me to start this blog, humble as it is.

I had also been wanting a space besides Facebook where I could air out my thoughts. I feel like Facebook has outlived its usefulness. In the beginning it was a cool way to catch up with people that I hadn’t talked to in a while. Then the forums came and I got in heated, educated discussions. Then I stopped the heated discussions when they devolved into name-calling. Now Facebook is only good for getting notices of events, finding out what people’s kids are up to, and looking at vacation photos.

My wife works in the public sector, which in today’s environment requires a large amount of discretion when it comes to dealing with social media. So this blog will be a good place to post items that I don’t want on Facebook, which is almost everything nowadays. Chances are that only two people will ever see anything on here – you and myself. So I feel more freedom here in my little space.

I think that a lot of animosity today can be traced to social media, mainly how Facebook presents others’ posts. In the old days of the internet you would have to make a conscious effort to go to individual forums, websites, blogs, whatever, to get people’s opinions. There was still a lot of crackpots and conspiracy theories, but at least you knew what you were getting into beforehand. But Facebook created The Wall, where other’s post were unwittingly thrust into your view. So you could be laying in bed, looking at Facebook on your phone, looking at benign stuff like vacation photos, when you scroll and see some acquaintance that you friended years ago post some dumb political meme. And this unexpected post has invaded your bubble, your safe space inside your house. So the base-level instinctual thing to do is to respond and fight back, to defend your little territory. Basically it’s road rage, only in the home now. It’s this dumb arguing that has lead to the level of hateful rhetoric today.

In conclusion, thank you for consciously choosing to come to my blog to see my thoughts and opinions.

Elsa is making lists and whatnot in her new notebook. She’s very satisfied with this page. It includes a good diagram of our living room. “Satisfying” is what the kids say today.

I wish the networks would stop showing sports in 24 frames-per-second frame rate. I don’t want to feel like I’m watching a movie when I’m watching playoff football. Just show the games in 30 fps so I feel like I’m there watching it live. 24fps is a slower, dreamier watching experience.

It’s time to start planning the itineraries for our Miami and Denver trips. I know we’re going to a Marlins game but not sure what day. They play the Cardinals on the Fourth of July which would normally be a night game with fireworks. But this game is at 1:10PM. So maybe the night before is their fireworks night. I don’t know; they don’t have their promotional schedule out yet.

We have tickets bought already for the Queen tribute show at Red Rocks outside of Denver. I doubt we’re going white-water rafting but we’ll find some other fun stuff to do.

…but it’s wiser to be nice. Unknown

Today was Jack’s last home game for 7th grade basketball. They’ve only won one game this year but that’s better than none!

Louie is the greatest cat ever. He’s a rag doll that we got from the animal shelter back in 2016. He has no spine.

I finished the Lego lighthouse today. This was a purchase from Scheels, the outdoors store that carries a surprisingly large selection of legos.

Also this is a post from my phone. Test.