Wow, it is a little hard to believe that it has been this long so I have posted in my livejournal. I blame facebook and two part time jobs. I do not think I have mentioned here that I am working part time for the city of Grand Rapids in the parking ramps as well as last month finally started back working at the Haunt. Both jobs are part time but ( Read more... )

I do not know if any of you how might read this listen to This American Life on NPR, so I thought I would mention that the show that is available for free download this week is really, really good. It is all about what has happened to banks and it talks about the different ideas that our government and other governments have come up with to fix the ( Read more... )

Over the weekend I drove down to Ohio and participated in Ohayocon as one of the two person Ohayocon Traveling Game Show, where contestants could Win Stuff. I drove down and have found a new toy that I must find a way to purchase. I borrowed a GPS navigator for the trip there and back and I was very close to having a new toygasm. I could just enjoy ( Read more... )

I just was informed that one of my uncles on my mother's side has passed away this morning. This is the second uncle on my mother's side that has passed away, both via heart attack. The first one nearly a decade ago now was my mother's younger brother. I saw this uncle two weeks ago when we helped my grandfather move to his new home and he seemed ( Read more... )

Well today it has finally become obvious to me that I can no longer qualify myself as a young person. There was a cast and crew get together for the Haunt today and everybody went sledding. We were out there for about two and a half hours and I actually went sledding down the hill only twice and even so right now, nearly ten hours later my knees ( Read more... )

So I dropped my car off at a local shop this evening. They are going to replace the broken strut with one that is not broken. Then I will have to get new front tires. I was originally thinking about maybe calling Shawn and having him, Rob and myself see what we could do to remove the broken strut and put in a replacement one but the shop I am going ( Read more... )

I now that I have had this discussion before with you karma, I know that you do not work for me, but all I ask is that you stop working against me. I feel like Rev. Frank Scott from The Poseidon Adventure when he is yelling at God at the end, only instead of God I am yelling at karma ( Read more... )

Well today I made it about an extra fifteen minutes into the "fast" program and I have worked up more of a sweat in those forty minutes than I have done in a long time. My knees did not protest nearly as much in the first part today which I am going to have to assume is a good thing. The "fast" program has a lot more twisting of the waist and using ( Read more... )

After some deliberation I decided to follow Joe's suggestion of Tai Chi to try and get exercise and attempt to lose some weight (because I do not have to go into the cold to do it). After getting a couple of different Tai Chi videos from Netflix and watching them I decided to try one by a guy named Scott Cole, so today I did my best to follow along ( Read more... )

This evening TLC seems to be having a fat people night and watching some of these people who have spent years just eating and are weighing in at near a half ton and weight like that, and when watching these shows I am starting to wonder if that is going to be me in ten to fifteen years ( Read more... )