I Missed It, and It's Not My Fault

I have a problem. I'm a Browns fan and have been as long as I can remember. I lived through John Elway and Ernest Byner and the move and everything else. So naturally when it comes to Browns games I have anger management issues.

The only way that I can maintain my "nice guy" persona is to turn off the games as soon as they are "over". If I were to watch any more from that point on, I tend to have reactions that are not very nice to be around. Not swearing or anything, but definitely yelling combined with a few projectiles.

Yesterday was especially dangerous as I was listening to the game in the car, with a sleeping wife, 2 year old and our 3 year old listening to everything I might say. So as any self respecting Browns fan who is sick of their profound ability to annoy the crud out of their fans would do, I turned the game off as soon as Baltimore had a first down on the Browns 40 yard line with only a minute left in the game.

Clearly Baltimore who had been cutting through the Browns defense like butter would run the ball a few times to get the clock down to about 4 seconds and then kick a chip shot field goal from about the 10. There was no longer any reason to listen, the game was over. (I did turn it on for one brief moment, only to confirm that Stover had indeed made the kick but that was it)

I spent the rest of the afternoon annoyed at how they had blown double digit leads two weeks in a row and now could forget about a shot a the playoffs. I even considered that they might bring in Brady Quinn now that the post season was a serious long shot.

Later my Dad asked me if I saw the game and I told him that I heard enough to know that they lost, and that was about it. He then tells me what really happened. Thanks a lot Browns, this is all your fault. I missed one of the better moments in Browns history because of.......well, Browns history. There was no reason to believe that they would make a comeback like that. None whatsoever. I'm almost angry that they won.

So now guess what? I'm going to feel obliged to watch the end of next weeks game which will probably cause me to throw something and act like an idiot. All because of this craziness. I can't even count on the Browns to stink when they are supposed to. They are just totally unreliable.

In the end, I'll take the win, but I'm going to have to do some serious calming exercises from now on in order to get through the rest of the season.

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Thank Goodness

Finally the barrage of Halloween candy is over. We have a stash that should last us well into next summer and I can take no more. I'm trying to eat well and lose the extra weight I picked up which basically involves not putting bad foods around me as I have no will power to avoid them. Naturally having gobs of candy at the house is not a good thing.

Plus our kids don't eat it. They love getting it, but have no real interest in eating it for some reason. Clearly we aren't going to encourage them otherwise, it just means more for me to have to resist.

Couple that with Thanksgiving coming up and I'm really going to be tested. I will earn my bf% by jove.

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Fitness Update

Boy it's been a while since I wrote one of these! Frankly I was too ashamed of how far I had fallen to write about it. I was worried about my stomach, and was convinced that I had another hernia. A CT scan showed otherwise and at the moment it is thought that the pain I was having was probably due to scar tissue in that area from my previous surgery. At the very least, I'm not going to worry about it anymore unless a really obvious hernia develops.

I had stopped lifting due to my fears about my stomach and therefore stopped caring about what I ate. For a period of about 3 months I steadily undid a lot of what I had done in the past couple of years. I was back up to 194 pounds and close to 20% body fat.

Now I'm back on the horse and have been watching my diet pretty closely the last 3 weeks. I weighed in at 188 this morning so I'm on the way to recovery. I'll be more interested though in the next bodyfat test to see how far I have really come.

The cool thing is that my body has responded quickly. I feel like I have recovered a lot of the strength and tone that I lost in pretty short order.

At this point I don't really have a specific goal other than ridding myself of the excess fat that I packed on over the last few months. We'll see how it goes. It's still all pretty confusing to me as to how much I should be eating etc. I want to force my body to burn up body fat but I also want to gain muscle at the same time, and I don't know exactly how to do that. For now, I'm lifting and eating less and we'll see how that works out for me.

The only nutritional supplements I am using right now is whey protein after workouts. I'm just trying to keep things simple and see what happens.

Until next time...

Fast food really is Fast

Why is it that the best foods are always the hardest to obtain? It's easy to grab a candy bar or a cheeseburger but if you want some whole grains, it's not like you can expect the healthcare cart to pull up at your office door. How cool would it be to go through a drivethru for a wholegrain wheat turkey sandwich and some milk? Not too many places offer that sort of thing. The reason is that there is next to no market for it. People don't want to eat healthy which puts people like me in the minority. I love junk food but I do my best to limit it because I like feeling healthy and not looking fat a lot more. I just don't understand why more people don't feel that way. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me really.

Info cost

Scott Adams was doing some market research on his blog the other day. At least I suppose you could call it that. He wanted people to guess how many copies of his book would be in print by January. He paid a decent amount of money to hear everyone's guesses to which seems odd to me. I wish people paid me to guess about things. I would be glad to give uninformed opinions for cash. If there is a market for that sort of thing, please let me know, because I'm interested. I have plenty of "supply" for that "demand". In fact, as far as supply goes, I've been full of it for as long as I can remember.

Proof that spelling does make a difference!!!

A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand.
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He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up! In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.

The head monk, says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son."


He goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery
where the original manuscripts are held as archives in a locked -->
vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot.


So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing.

"We missed the R !
We missed the--> R !

We missed the R !"



His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is crying uncontrollably. The young monk asks the old abbot, "What's wrong, father?"

With A choking voice, the old abbot replies,

"The word was...



CELEB-->RATE!"

Time Flies

This pregnancy is going so fast for us. For whatever reason it just seems like the time is flying by. We are nearly 25 weeks along now and that just seems crazy to me. Of course with the holiday season coming up and everything that goes along with it, it will be January before we know it, and then it could be any day! I really feel like this baby will be here before we can blink. In one sense that is pretty cool because, it's always exciting to welcome a new little one, but it will also mean the end of our last pregnancy. It's weird to think about being done having kids because that always seemed like it was so far in the future. I'm guessing though, that I will be too busy to notice, and hopefully I can keep them all from growing up too awfully fast. :)

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