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| ice is starting to fall ending what had begun i am locked in my head with what i've done i know you tried to rescue me didn't let anyone get in left with a piece of all that was and all that could have been | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jun. 26th, 2009 @ 03:33 pm Month 01 | |||
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Current Music: When Darkness Falls - Killswitch Engage
So I decided, it's been a while; might as well post on public LJ how I'm doing with the mini-workouts, the food, the weight. Little did I realize it had already been a month. So far, so good. My weight this morning was a full eight pounds lighter than it was when I first posted Eating Better. I don't know why I'm still trying to be secretive about actual numbers. I was 261 lbs. when I started; now I'm 253 lbs. This is really an accomplishment for me. The last time I dipped into the 240's was during my brief tenure at Best Buy twelve years ago, where I was on my feet all day and missing meals. Office work has wreaked hell upon my system. I have failed so far on the workouts. I need to set a specified time to work out that I'll actually adhere to. If I keep waking up at 5am every morning (like I have for the past week), then maybe I'll just start there. The current goal is 240 lbs. | ||
| Jun. 9th, 2009 @ 09:49 am Week 002 | |||
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Current Music: Deep - Pearl Jam
Following up for myself. Hit the weekend and found it difficult to maintain the eating records, but I'm back on it. Still doing a good amt of water, working it more and more into my routine. Had some flan at the in-laws Sunday, and it's soooo good (even if it's bad for me). How can you not love a dessert that has 16 eggs in it? Still getting a lot of Rock Band drum action. I'm working up a sweat playing it and my kick pedal leg is sore, so I know it's helping some. Plus, I just started back with Hundred Push-Ups. If I can just remember that one, it'll serve me well for a while. I want to do crunches as well, but I've been reading that they can be pretty damaging to your back. Either way, if I fall off this wagon, at least it's not a few years of gym payments like it normally would be. Speaking of Rock Band! Drums - Hard Mode: Painkiller, Battery, Two Weeks all complete along with a host of other Nightmare songs. And 'No One Knows', that damned Queens of the Stone Age song from RB1, completed on Hard! That really felt good last night. | ||
| Jun. 3rd, 2009 @ 04:12 pm Losing It | |||
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Current Music: Spoonman - Soundgarden
Not my mind, but my weight. I'm making a filtered list so I don't continuously spam your LJ with what I've been eating. Sure, it's good that I'm posting again and I have occasional other tidbits there, but really, it's for my own record-keeping. If I have other important pieces to share, I'll endeavor to create a separate post.Thanks for those who read the previous posts, btw. | ||
| Jun. 2nd, 2009 @ 03:29 pm Day 007 | |||
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Current Music: Shine - Sevendust
And a full week. I won't say it's a full week of eating better, but at least I'm acknowledging what I'm doing.06.01.09 - Bojangle's Chicken Biscuit for breakfast. Lobster Bisque from Whole Foods for lunch. Italian sub from Jimmy John's for dinner. At least 48 fl. oz. of water during the day. | ||
| Jun. 1st, 2009 @ 10:23 am Days 004-006 | |||
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Current Music: Joker and the Thief - Wolfmother
Recording what I eat over the weekend is gonna be tricky, if I don't get into a good habit with this. I'll start with Sunday, day 006, as it's fresh in mind.05.31.09 - Through a mistake in my planning, no soda until 7:00 pm. Had water, which was good, but I needed the caffeine. Bacon + cheese biscuits from Biscuitville for brunch. Chicken strips meal with dirty rice, sweet tea at Bojangles for dinner. Did well and avoided the donuts at Jay's house, although I did have a slice of cookie dough before bed. 05.30.09 - Mix of Diet Dew and water throughout day. Had a half Muffaletta for dinner from Jason's Deli. It doesn't seem right, but that may have been my only meal of the day. I didn't leave the house, as I originally planned to head into the office. Maybe I ate breakfast? 05.29.09 - Worked in two 12-oz bottles of water during my workday. After a few short mishaps, ended up at Qdoba for lunch. Got pretty torqued at my server, but had a tasty queso chicken burrito. For dinner, tried a meatball sandwich from TGI Friday's takeout. Have you gotten the picture that we don't really cook at the house? I'm hoping to get the kitchen cleaned up soon and get back to some breakfast maneuvers. Only real workout action was a few nights working up a sweat on the drums for Rock Band. It ain't much, but it's something. | ||
| May. 29th, 2009 @ 09:49 am Day 003 | |||
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Current Music: Catacombs - King Diamond
05.28.09 - Sausage biscuit from McD's for breakfast. Mushroom Swiss Thickburger from Hardee's for lunch. Fish + Shrimp Platter from Captain D's for dinner. Water and Diet Dew throughout the day. Small bit of cookie dough late in the evening. Got a bit of aerobic workout in as well.Not a stellar day, but still positive in my eyes. | ||
| May. 28th, 2009 @ 10:19 am Day 002 | |||
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Current Music: Dope Show - Marilyn Manson
I think all the water and a salad (gods no!) threw my system out of whack. Left the office early yesterday, felt miserable. But I'm back now with a vengeance! or something.05.27.09: In an impressive display of willpower, I resisted donuts in breakroom. Roast beast sandwich from Jimmy John's for lunch with water. Some wheat thins for snack later. Spicy chicken sandwich from Wendy's with water. No sweets. Blood sugar still fairly high after eating. Estimating that I've dropped 30 points a day, which is how it was when I straightened up and first dropped the sodas. I can do this. | ||
| May. 26th, 2009 @ 01:42 pm Eating Better, Day 001 | |||
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Current Music: The Calamity - Trivium
In an effort to save myself from myself, I'm evaluating what I eat and drink a little more closely. If you're keeping score, I'm a type 2 diabetic. I keep myself in check solely through diet, although I should start up on Metformin on a daily basis (and plan to, once I get my insurance straightened out, and I can get over guilt issues with my doctor). I've known that I've let things slide over the past year or two, and I need to correct that. Seeing the diabetic-related death of my uncle should really drive that home. To make things worse, I went to a long weekend LAN gettogether a few weeks back, and lived like I was a normal (non-diabetic) person. My comment for the trip: My weight was the same upon return as it was when I left. My blood sugar was the same upon return as it was when I was first diagnosed with diabetes. Yay. =P Therefore, I'm attempting to improve some facets of my diet. I'm not all hardcore about it, as you'll see, but I can at least cut out some of the really bad habits I've been developing (raw cookie dough, I'm looking at you!). Lunch 05.26.09 - Salad bar at Whole Foods. Predominantly vegetables. More lettuce than usual for me. Peppers, Cauliflower, Cherry Tomatoes, Roasted Garlic. Very little cheese, minimal amt of blue cheese dressing. Added a cup of mac + cheese from the hot bar and grilled zuchinni. - Bottled water. Day 001 continued: - Bojangles chicken filet sandwich, dirty rice. No big changes there. - Also could not resist and had a slice of cookie dough (approx 4 small cookies). Failboat. | ||
| May. 2nd, 2009 @ 10:06 pm Artwork | |||
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Current Music: Reclamation - Lamb of God
After a good number of years, I've pulled out the sketchbook and done serious work on a piece. The cool part for me was scanning it in, then doing some postwork in Adobe. It's not finished, as I'll add a range of colors in and maybe some patterns for the breastplate and chainmail sleeves. But I'm pleased thus far. | ||
| Feb. 24th, 2009 @ 12:20 pm White House RSS feeds | |||
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Current Music: Friends - Led Zeppelin
I love my RSS. It's prominently on display in my Google homepage with all the fun tidbits from places like Lifehacker, Penny Arcade, and up until now, WhiteHouse.gov.I like the updates on Obama's presidency. The new version of the website is great. So why can't they get the feed right? Every day it seems they re-push the same updates across, so I'm getting 30-40 updates that I've already read. So I have to go through, clicking on them all to mark as read. I could Mark All, but then I might accidentally miss something from a different source that I haven't read. So yeah, guess it's goodbye for now White House. =P Also, my work desktop r0xx0rs.  | ||
| Jan. 8th, 2009 @ 05:09 pm Grim Satisfaction | |||
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Current Music: Evil - Interpol
I've been skulking around my favorite D&D website for a few days now, and I recalled that I had briefly played in a Play by Post game early last year. The game was pretty-much combat only, which at the time I didn't mind. But the environment between the GM and the players was pretty combative. I'm not sure if it was the twinked-out players making the GM really adversarial, or if the GM just was a dick and wanted to flex his online God-mode. I bowed out with a small explanation, being polite and not trying to cause too many waves.I went back to the forum today to see if they were still going, and alas, the game collapsed upon itself about a month after I was gone. A shame. *grin* I wonder if this was a contributing factor to my distance from gaming last year? | ||
| Dec. 30th, 2008 @ 05:18 pm Death Grip | |||
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Current Music: not Chinese Democracy
Wow has the death grip on me, to be sure. But last night was very cool, with us taking down Sappiron and Kel'Thuzad for the first time. I have really enjoyed Naxxramas, and I'm glad that Blizzard retooled it for us not-so-hardcore gamers. (It's also refreshing to be a pure damage dealer and not healing.)Anyways, I have other things I want to do, and really need to pry myself from the game to enjoy other pursuits. I have new D&D books and a campaign idea in my head that I'm (slowly) bringing to life. And there are my damned TV shows I need to complete. 3 episodes of Battlestar Galactica. 2 episodes of Heroes. 3 episodes of The Wire's 2nd season. 2 (soon to be 3) episodes of Leverage. And for what it's worth: I listened to a few songs from Chinese Democracy from GNR on Myspace. It's really not impressive in the least. Axel's voice was unchanged, which would be cool but without the awesome guitar of Slash or (more importantly) the songwriting of Izzy Stradlin, it's really just annoying and wasted. My wife will be happy to note that the egomaniacal Axel has failed. | ||
| Dec. 11th, 2008 @ 10:19 am LEVERAGE | |||
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Current Music: Indictment - All That Remains
I've meant to post this for a week or so. The original message would have been:"TNT has a new show coming out called Leverage. It's about a group of thieves that help the common man out, working against corrupt corporations and government. The ads constantly tell you 'with Academy Award winner Timothy Hutton', but if you're like me, that matters none. Instead, pay attention because it's written by John Rogers, the guy who Transformers among other movies. And he's a D&D gamer, recently writing something for the upcoming Manual of the Planes." But I was slow, and the premiere was Sunday and the show on Tuesday at 10pm. I watched both, and damn it's enjoyable. It has a little more camp than I was expecting, but it makes it compelling. Face it, not everything can be constant action/seriousness like 24 and the Shield. Sometimes, you want humorous moments in a show. And for this it works really well, allowing the rapid banter between characters. It's good. Watch it. TNT isn't like FOX, so we're not in as much danger of early cancellation, but active viewers help. The episodes should be online soon, we've been told, if you want to catch up. | ||
| Nov. 27th, 2008 @ 10:54 pm Fun with (Adobe) Fireworks | |||
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Current Music: Electioneering - Radiohead
It's simple, but I'm pleased:( spherical ) | ||
| Nov. 25th, 2008 @ 11:31 am The Shield | |||
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Current Music: Torn Between Scylla and Charybdis - Trivium
There's this twinge of nervousness I'm experiencing. A feeling that everything is going to go wrong, to end badly. The series finale of The Shield is tonight. I'm caught up on the show, and have watched all seven seasons through the good and the bad. I'm an addict and I really don't want it to end. But it's good that it will have a true ending, as opposed to so many shows that are aborted before they reach that point. The show is phenomenal, but it is stress-inducing. It is so predicated on lies and covering up actions that it makes me twitchy. It definitely increases the tension, as the characters try to achieve laudable goals, but take many illegal shortcuts to get there. Every season has a tagline, but the first one was the best: The Path to Justice is Twisted. Will the characters get what is rightfully coming to them? Will those who are less corrupt suffer fates they do not deserve? Twelve hours from now, I'll know the answer. | ||
| Nov. 10th, 2008 @ 03:20 pm Sword of Truth? | |||
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Current Music: The 13th Caesar - Cradle of Filth
There I was, trapped at my in-laws, with nothing but a non-networked laptop to occupy myself. My father-in-law, who's actually a cool jokester in his own right, likes to wield the television remote with lightning speeds and little remorse. He made me watch the last twenty minutes of the Sci-Fi Channel movie 'Abominable'. Yes, it was about an evil bigfoot. =(So at some point late in the evening, he turns to WGN to watch 'Legend of the Seeker'. As it first started, I could see the Xena/Hercules backdrops. I had immediate fears of Roar and other shows that died quickly. Then I saw the name 'Raimi', so hopes were a little better. The big villain of the show was named Darken Rahl. Darken Rahl? Wow, they blatantly ripped off the villain from that book series I'd read, the Sword of Truth. I couldn't believe it. Then I looked a bit closer. The main character is named Richard, the wizard Zed. Holy crap, it's completely from the series. The episode I saw was the third one, and it deviated from the books, by necessity. It's that type of fluff where they take a good story, then stretch it out and fill it with standard stories that bear little impact on the plot. I'm happy to say, however, that I've seen the first episode and it was dead-on with the story presented in the first novel, Wizard's First Rule. I haven't followed the series the way I have others, but I was completely blindsided that they've adapted this for television. I wasn't as big a fan of Xena/Hercules as some, but I'll give this show a chance. If for no other reason, than I want to see how closely they follow the books. Will the romance be the driving plot? Will characters get split up (for entire seasons!)? Some of Goodkind's later novels lost me (can we say Evil Chicken?), but the first two were golden. Hopefully, Raimi has some great plans for us. | ||
| Oct. 19th, 2008 @ 03:07 pm Concert! | |||
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Current Music: Tattered on my Sleeve - All That Remains
Heading out to Charlotte to see All That Remains, Trivium and a few others. Should kick my ass. =)Carry on. | ||
| Sep. 11th, 2008 @ 10:15 am (no subject) | |||
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Current Music: Two Weeks - All That Remains
TV Shows to catch up on when(if) I get out of my current malaise:The Shield (final season) Sons of Anarchy True Blood Battlestar Galactica Lost Fringe Heroes (when it starts) and keep an eye out for Leverage when it starts this Winter. | ||
| Sep. 3rd, 2008 @ 02:21 pm Elections | |||
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Current Music: Sulfur - Slipknot
So, a number of weeks out, we really don't know how this election is going to go. We can definitely hope... Myself, I've just figured out a way to console myself if McCain/Palin get into office. I'll just convince myself that they're someone else: 2008! Vote Cylon! EDIT: Good to see I'm not the only one who feels this way. http://www.flickr.com/photos/burnlab/28 http://www.madogre.com/images/Palin3.jp | ||
| Aug. 7th, 2008 @ 12:14 am Damn Gary to Hell | |||
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Current Music: Each to Each - the Gutter Twins
The Gary I work with. The one who brought in his new toy today. Damn iPod Touch. That thing is so very neat. And of course in my searches, I realize that I could use it with one of my new obsessions, Remember the Milk. I'm on a big self-organization kick, so nifty gadgets that can help me promote this hobby while it lasts are very appealing.In good news though, it looks like I outlasted the desire for the Amazon Kindle. I mean, it would be nice to start reading again, but eh. | ||
