Filled up the car this morning.  The QT near my house had plenty of gas and a very short line... at 5:30 on a Sunday morning ( Read more... )

Friday night was my first night home alone.  It's now been Saturday night and Sunday night as well; it hasn't gotten any easier yet ( Read more... )

I got home late tonight, feeling ... well, let's just say feeling off, and not in a good way.  Full of negative energy.  Fed the dogs.  Nothing to do, nowhere to go.  So of course I went out tracing.

( Workout details behind the cut... )

Here is an excellent overview of the recent goings-on surrounding Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, AIG, and (going back in time a bit) Bear Stearns.  Here is a different one that's somewhat less excellent, and somewhat less of an overview, and a whole lot less detailed... but well worth reading, both for the explanations and the writing ( Read more... )

Some nights, when the spirit moves me, instead of going out tracing I'm going to work on my skills indoors at home.  The two big ones to drill indoors are rolling and quadrupedal movement.  Tonight I tried QM for the first time.  It's basically going around on all fours; not crawling, mind you - your knees stay off the floor the whole time.  You ( Read more... )

Every now and then I glance in the mirror and check out my muscles, which are very slowly but very surely getting larger.  I don't think I'm becoming Narcissus or anything, I just happen to notice every couple of weeks that there might have been some improvement in the past couple of weeks in my arms, shoulders, and chest ( Read more... )

I was too tired tonight to get any work done, and too annoyed with myself for not getting any work done to do nothing.  So I went out tracing.

There's a football game at the high school tonight, so jumping over stuff there was out.  So instead I decided tonight I would work on running, and thus I took off on a run around the block.  It's a big block ( Read more... )

I did my cardio workout this morning, and it felt great.  Which feels bad, because it's supposed to feel bad.  I call it my morning frog, as in "if you eat a live frog first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen to you all day long ( Read more... )

I got sick and tired of being sick and tired.

The Con Crud really knocked me off my feet all last week.  I spent Thu-Sun pretty much asleep.  Yesterday I was recovered enough to go to work, but still felt awful.  Today was much better, although I still have a lingering cough and I can tell I'm still not really recovered.  But I hadn't exercised ( Read more... )

Thanks to happypete I just found out about a movie called I.O.U.S.A.  It's about the national debt.  I saw the trailer on Youtube.  The LA Times calls it "unexpectedly frightening."  Variety calls it "alarming."  And based on the trailer, it certainly is that.

It's also the biggest crock of shit to be peddled in a movie since Reefer Madness.

The first clue ( Read more... )