It all started last evening with a question, “John, do you want anything from Smokey Joe’s?” My stomach said, “Boy do I!” But my brain intervened, “I guess so.”
Damn diet.
It turns out the stomach won out. I had a whole heapin helping of B-B-Q pork with cinnamon apples and steamed broccoli. That first bite of pork, dipped in sauce, it was like manna from…
The weather matches my state of mind precisely; fog. Looks like I picked a heck of a day to start riding my bike to work again. The important thing is that I got here in one piece. The gimpy ankle stood up to the test, but then there’s not much lateral movement on a bike (not if you do it right anyway). Now if I could just piece together a few coherent thoughts I’ll be just peachy.
Do…
Eating healthy food is way easier when you’re hungry. This is perhaps the best thing about the starvation diet. All that green stuff in the grocery store; you know, that strange corner of my Publix behind the frozen pizza, where they keep that stuff that kind of looks like the things that grow instead of grass in my yard, it turns out that under some circumstances it actually tastes…
The hardest part about this diet thing is giving up caffeine.
“Caffeine? What does caffeine have to do with a nutritionally balanced diet?”
Nothing really, I guess, I’ve just decided that if I’m going to eat healthy I might as well throw out the baby with the bath water.
“That’s crazy talk man. You’re not Catholic, and it’s not even lent for…
There are times (thankfully not very often) when I’m sitting in my office and I have this overwhelming feeling that I’m in the wrong place. Usually the right place is someplace at home, preferably in a more horizontal position. These times have come a little more often since my little boy was born.
This is when I’m glad I have a web site and internet access at work. It’s…
I have decided that I don’t need anymore rounding as a person. Friends, it’s time for a diet. In true gadget geek form, I’ve immersed myself in lists, digital scales, digital nutrition books, and spreadsheets. If commitment can be measured in collateral stuff, then I must be in it for the long haul.
How am I doing it; South Beach, Atkins, Weight Watchers? Nope, I’m sticking…
The dream of a paperless office died about two hours and thirty-three minutes after our “paperless” case management system came online more than ten years ago. Since then our capacity to do lots of work has gone way up, but it has resulted in a flood of paper; with nary a reduction in sight. It is with this in mind that I have proposed a new measurement standard for work. Counting the…
Wouldn’t you know it; Adam woke up in the middle of the night last night. Just who does he think he is? Can you believe the nerve of some babies, filling their parents with false hope like that? He sleeps through the night for a few nights in a row, so I let my guard down, then WHAAA, WHAA, WHAAAAAAAAAA, it’s heads up at 2:30 a.m.
Cheryl got up first. I heard her rustling in the…
I’ve read recently that tea is good stuff. Yes, I’ve been reading that book on nutrition again. No, I’m not going to try and explain what the value of tea is, you’re just going to have to take it on faith. So anyway, I tried mixing up a batch for work today, but I noticed something a mite disturbing. If you shake up a batch of tea in a bottle of water, it looks suspiciously…
Our weekend dinner routine goes something like this:
J – “What would you like for dinner?”
C – “I don’t know. What would you like?”
J – “I don’t know, I asked you first.”
C – “So, what’s your point?”
J – “Custom dictates that whoever is asked first must yield to the questioner prior to posing any…