Losing weight?

I met a woman today who was featured in the March issue of Shape Magazine for losing 266 pounds. She's the daughter of one of my coworkers, and she used to work for Smoak's Bakery back when they were still open. By watching her fat intake and portion sizes, she has kept the weight off for 7 years. When my coworker made fudge the other night, this lady came in, leaned over it, inhaled deeply, and said, "Ah, that's good." She never ate any of it.

She said today that she works out 5-6 days a week.

Obviously, diet and exercise are the keys. I just need to get back on the horse. These past couple of weeks have been bad. Parties at work, cookie-baking at home...I've started to just snack and snack and snack, and since it's been cold, I haven't been biking. Here's the graph of my weight for the duration of my diet, since it started on October 3:

As you can see, I've sort of stalled. I need to start working out more, and not wussing out when it's cold. There's a workout room over at the apartment office; I can go there.

And I need to stop snacking :P My coworker's daughter said in Shape that TV was causing her to overeat out of boredom, so she stopped watching it and started reading instead. I need to cut down on the habits that cause me to eat out of boredom, too.

Today at work was really bad...I had nothing to do after finishing up my work (I got done in like an hour and a half), and I had to sit there smelling the gingerbread house. When my coworkers all brought in food for another party, I just kept nibbling and nibbling. I even drank punch instead of water. I don't know how much pumpernickel bread and spinach dip I ate; I know I ate way too many sugar cookies.

I've tried to put it all in DietPower. Hopefully I was close. If I am, I ate something like 1300 calories. (Eeep.)

I want to say that it'll be good when the holidays are over, because then I won't have all the temptation...but to be honest, I can't just count on that. I have to make a permanent change within myself. After all, Christmas happens every year. ;P

I've found Hino Rei

Kitagawa Keiko is good. I thought she played Rei very well in the live action series, and her looks aren't bad either.

But look at this girl.

Absolutely gorgeous, sultry, mysterious, with a hint of sadness, surrounded by red.

It's Rei.

Capsule living/working

Via BoingBoing, some photos about the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Ginza, Tokyo. I should try to visit that building the next time I go.

Discover me!

The New York Times has an article about bloggers who become novelists.

I need to start writing more interesting things so that thousands of people tune in daily, and a publisher will write me and say, "Hey, want to do a book?"

Yes. That would be awesome.

...and before I hit the sack

Canada has a marijuana board game. Now you too can experience the thrills and pitfalls of growing your very own pot!

Earlier than expected

I was going through my nightly rituals, and when I got to the part where I go potty I found that my period has started. I just took the last progesterone dose for the month this morning (they always stop on the 20th).

When I first started on these hormone treatments, in October, the period started on the 23rd. The second month, it started on the 21st. And now it's starting before even a day has passed.

I wonder if this is a good thing, a bad thing, or if it means anything at all.

Will Clear Channel absorb Elvis, too?

Lisa Marie Presley is keeping Graceland but selling the bulk of the Elvis estate, including rights to her father's name and image, in a deal worth approximately $100 million.

Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. announced an agreement Thursday to sell 85 percent of its assets to businessman Robert F.X. Sillerman, founder of music and sports promoter SFX Entertainment.

[...]

Sillerman founded SFX Entertainment in 1977 and ran the company until it was bought by Clear Channel Communications in 2000.

Scary!

It looks to be a sweet deal for Lisa Marie, and hopefully Sillerman will have similar success. The question is what will happen when Sillerman moves on to another venture...

Imagine Clear Channel, even bigger than it already is.

The world is ending, isn't it?

UMEEE!

As promised, here's the umeee pan.

Unfortunately, there isn't a picture of a goat in this one. But rest assured, goat's milk was used in the making of the bread! So it's okay, see?

[Edit: I added an mp3! Umeee!! Here's a link to the file, if you can't see it under the picture above.]

When Tycho turns a phrase, he really turns a phrase

Sometimes Tycho's going for something when he writes, and I can kind of see where he's going, but he doesn't quite make it. Other times, he's dead on. Today's rantlet* on file sharing fits the latter category.

This sentence, and many others like it, brings joy to the depths of my language-loving soul.

This would have happened anyway of course, but just as the injudicious use of antibiotics creates devastating and unstoppable pathogens these applications will reach a true apex of distributed power, jamming a spigot into the very heart of pay media.

Check it out. First post, item II.

(I originally wrote "essaylet", which I like better, but it's hard to pronounce, which automatically knocks it out of the running for "cool new word that will soon be printed in the New York Times". "Rantlet" it is.)

O_o Double HA!

Oh wow, if I'd been drinking milk it would have spewed out my nose.

Last panel of today's Questionable Content. O. M. G.

HA!

Today's Ctrl-Alt-Del slays me.

Things seem to be ramping up on Elf Life.

Yes, I am still reading that.

Baughb is finally back on center stage. And he's reminding me why I originally started reading. It's because he's kooky, a little deranged...and a lot smart.

I can't wait to see what he does next.

Bizarro Mainichi op-eds (or something)

Check these out, they're good for a chuckle. (And written in what seems to be British slang, but all of my readers who aren't David, don't despair! You can guess the meaning by context.)

Japan's dim crims go bananas in Year of the Monkey by Ryann Connell (How's that for a headline?)

Skool's out for Japan's terrible teechas in 2004 also by Ryann Connell (Another winning title! The pattern seems to be "Goofy joke, followed by reference to the year".)

I'll take this

Just in case you have several hundred bucks to spend on me for Christmas.

Valdesta Classico 750 Digital Piano New B Stock

(Thanks to AJ for finding something else I want that costs way too much money. ;>)

Going to a "luncheon" today...

...at Sean's work. I have no idea what it will be like or anything.

But because of it, I get to leave early today. I'll be heading home as soon as Audrey gets in.

Fortunately, I've pretty much finished everything I can get done at the moment. The only problem is submitting the timesheets for the drivers, because I want to add a new one on, and that has to be done by the guys out in California, who may not even be open yet. The new guy may have to wait until the next pay period to get his check :(

I haven't eaten anything yet...I figured it would be smart not to eat until the luncheon. I'm not sure why I thought that. I'm sitting here starving.

My weight keeps yo-yoing...silly holidays!