Lunch

I am sitting in one of my local lunch hangouts, a place my co-workers and I refer to as the "$2 pizza place", but it is actually called "Adrian's Pizza". They have a lunch special for $1.99 where you get a small (personal sized) cheese pizza and a drink. The pizza is actually pretty big, yummy, and it is paired up with a free refill drink. All together it makes a great lunch. The $2 pizza isn't the only lunch special, and it's not the only good, inexpensive food either. I usually get the Italian Hoagie lunch special: a good sized Italian sandwich with a large order of fresh fries, and a free refill drink, all together for under $5. Who says you have to carrt in a lunch to eat inexpensively? However, eating healthy is a whole different issue!

Last night (Thursday) our bowling team lost big time... I mean really big time. We didn't win a single game, and lost all 7 points. No oppurtunity for optimism there, except that next week we bowl a pretty weak team, unlike the team we bowled last night... To be honest, the team we bowled against wasn't really the problem, rather we just really didn't bowl well last night. I once again bowled under my average, and I believe most (if not all) of my team mates bowled under their averages as well... I think we need to start practicing, get professional training, or maybe we should wish upon a star?

Wednesday night I finally gave in on one of my new year's resolutions: No carbonated drinks. I had run out of bottled water at home, and I didn't feel like making iced tea. Sitting in the fridge was a few remaining cans of root beer that "Two" had asked me to get for him. I was at home alone, and still feeling a little down about "Sweetie" telling me she was "moving on", so I fell off the wagon and had the beer... the root beer. But I didn't stop with just one... I had two, and after last night's loss, I had another... I think I am becoming a root beer aholoic! :-)

It's time to go back to work, yeah... I went back to work yesterday, after my two day mental health break. I have talked briefly to "Sweetie", but there isn't anything positive to report on that front... (sigh)...

Later Lou

YMCA

Well... I did it... I am so far, succeeding at keeping my new year resolutions... The most important resolution I made, was to live a more healthy life. I need to eat better, take my vitamins and medicine, and excercise more. Well, here it is 26 days into 2007, I have started one of the three parts of one of my resolutions! I joined the YMCA and I have gone 6 out of the last 8 days since I joined. I have swam laps in their pool, lifted weights, ran on the eliptical machines, and walked the track. So now I am tired, but I am feeling a little better. I don't know if it's related, but I like to think it is, but my first night bowling since I started the YMCA and I bowled one of my best nights in a long time. Now all I need to do is start the other two parts of the resolution, and not give up on the exercise, and hopefully by the end of the year, I will be able to walk up and down a flight of stairs without taking a break half way... (I know, I am exaggerating... but I really am out of shape!) I made other resolutions as well, but that's for another post!

New Year Goal

It's a new year... 2007... 42 years after the year I was born... Yeah I am getting old, but I am not there yet! When it's 110 years after I was born, then I will be old... I am hoping that some new drug will be invented between now and then, and not only will I be old, but living as well! When I was about 11 or 12 I, like most people, used the start of a new year as a way of starting over and doing new things or stopping old things that they want to change... When I was young, my new year goals were things like: Talk to a girl, or at least make eye contact, and if I couldn't do either of those things, then at least do my best to not be noticed as a geek/nerd. Which was hard to do since I was (some think I still am) a geek/nerd. Now that I am and adult I have completely different set of new year goals... I am now trying to avoid making eye contact with a woman (ex-wife), trying to get a girl to talk to me (either of my eldest daughters), and trying to avoid being noticed as a geek/nerd by my girlfriend (I think she knows). See how much things change in 30+ years! Imagine how different they will be in 30 more years. What's your new year goal?

New Year

Well, I am starting off 2005 with a "Bang"... or is that a "Crash". I trashed the web site. I deleted everything I had on the site, and what's worse I didn't have a backup, or was the deleted pages in the recycle bin... So, that means I am rebuilding the site from scratch. It could be a good thing... It may be better than it was, since I have learned quite a bit in trying to recover it!

I decided to keep the same look and feel for starters, but I am completely redoing the content. I have gotten the main page, and the "Interests" pages back up. I have also revived this Blog. Hurray... I lost some of the inline pictures, but nothing that can't be replaced.

So the new year is here. Outside of backing up my web page, and other important data, I haven't made any resolutions. I suppose that's the expected thing to do, so I guess I will have to do that. What's a good resolution? Loose weight? Stop some bad habit (biting my nails)? Stick to my budget? Hmmm... I will have to think on that. Tomorrow (actually today) I return to work, after being on vacation for 2 weeks. I should be in bed getting a good night's rest for my first day back, but I am in no mood for sleep... I suppose it wouldn't be good to stay up all night. Ok, off to bed I go.