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  • Healthy Lunches

    More food posting for today, 7 Classic Handheld Meals Made Healthy. I really like Men’s Health emails, if I could just dedicate myself back to eating good and working out I would be set. Hopefully the McDonald’s Challenge will let me get in the right frame of mind. Day 10 and still no fast food. And I’ve only had Subway twice, and even then it was the veggie sub only.

  • One Pot Cooking

    This is more a personal bookmark for myself, but I thought a few November Challenge people might find it interesting as well: One Pot Meals and recepies.

  • House Update: Appliances

    Well, I got my appliances and a HDTV ordered this weekend. Well not ordered really, but they are not delivering them until the 15th. I got a stainless steel fridge and stove, and since King’s had five years free financing I decided to go ahead and get a HDTV. I picked up the new Panasonic rear projection LCD. It had a nice crisp picture in the showroom, and it also has a PC monitor input which was kinda the feature that sold me on it.

  • More November Challenge Motivation

    Ran across this article about 20 Reasons to Drop 20 Pounds. I’ve been getting Men’s Health emails ever since I purchased the Abs Diet book a few months back. By the way, I’d suggest the Abs Diet book for you guys who are also joining in this challenge, as it has several great tasting recepies that are good for you.

    Below is the complete list of 20 reasons (included for you lazy types):

    1. Because you whine that you need to. Have you ever been wrong about anything?

    2. Twenty pounds of warm human fat can refill every bottle in an empty case of beer, with enough left over to fill your blender.

    3. The statement “There’s more of me to love” has an actual bedroom translation of “There’s more of me to endure.”

    4. It’s not scaling Everest or writing the great American novel. You can do it in your spare time.

    5. You’ll speak of toaster pastries the way you talk about that dirty blonde from the blues bar in Berkeley, another whiskey-soaked lament over a love too great to last.

    6. It’s the difference between being thought of as jolly or witty.

    7. You’ll lose weight everywhere, including the suprapubic fat pad at the base of your penis. So as your belly shrinks, something else appears to grow.

    8. Decreased: your chances of developing heart disease, prostate cancer, diabetes, sleep apnea, depression, back pain, impotence, gallstones, joint problems, high blood pressure, low sperm counts, and an impressive collection of prescription-drug bottles.

    9. Increased: your chances of putting four fingers on a basketball rim.

    10. You’ll literally get closer to women.

    11. Holy sh– . . . abs!

    12. Men who lose weight never have less sex. They may not have more, mind you, but they never have less.

    13. You’ll shock the world at your local pool by being the only “big splash” champ to win the “little splash” crown.

    14. Research shows that since you’ll have less weight propelling you into the windshield, you’ll also have less risk of dying when your car hits a semi.

    15. Every time you pick up a 20-pound dumbbell, you’ll remember.

    16. You’ll be able to reach even more places to scratch.

    17. The clothing cliche: It’s liberating the first time your pants fall down by themselves.

    18. More pullups, because there’s less to pull up.

    19. Wait till you ride a WaveRunner, quad, or snowmobile when you’re 20 pounds lighter. Vroom, baby.

    20. In our society, people respect weight loss. Even if you do nothing cool or interesting or memorable for the rest of your life, you’ll have done that.

  • Everybody’s doing it…

    Well, since a friend from high-school has taken an interest in getting in better shape, and I’ve been dragging my feet at getting back in better shape, I’m gonna jump on the bandwagon too (if that’s ok fellas).

    Basically the challenge is no fast food for the month of November, I didn’t have fast food yesterday, so I’ll count that day as down. If I do fall into eating fast food before the month is over, I will donate $100 bucks to charity. You guys can post here for suggestions of charities, or I’ll watch the other threads and pick one of those suggestions.

    P.S. Maybe this was just the motivation I needed.

  • John Reuben

    Someone pointed me in the direction of John Reuben on MySpace. Pretty good rock/hip-hop fusion music with a spice of political activism thrown in. Also check out his official website JohnReuben.com.

    Update: found his album [iTunes link] on iTunes Music Store and purchased it.

  • Geek Toys

    My ReadyNAS X6 arrived last night and I got it setup and running after I had to reflash the compact flash card after talking to one of the guys from the company. Anyway, so far it is running great and I’ve now got 250gb of raid protected storage for my data.

  • Comments

    Apparently in my anti-spam efforts I had locked down the commenting system too tight. Comments should now be open for anyone but will be held for moderation if you’ve never had an approved comment before. They will also be held if they trip any spam checks that are being performed as well. All comments will be approved unless they are obviously spam.

  • This just in…

    dh loves the cock.

    11:18 < dh> hahaha it’s official now

  • House update

    Some new pics of the house have been added to the gallery software. Hopefully the floors will start being laid this week and the countertops will be installed soon as well. Basically we just have to finish the bathroom painting and touch up the bedroom paint and then do all the baseboards that I will need. I also think I’m going to wait on building the deck and attempt to build it myself in the spring. The more contractors I’ve talked to I think I have a good idea of how to do it and I think I could save quite a bit of money doing it myself. So hopefully if everything goes well I can start moving stuff in by the end of November.