Nothing to report really.

Nothing to report really. Just working a little but hardly enough.

I'm in this project purgatory, where I start up a project and I feel lost without some direction.

Japanese Toilet Training with Shimajiro (w/ English Subtitles)

Brilliant, sure beats our other plan of mr. hanky...

01) Keep on knocking - Death (For the whole world to see)

They remind me of Thin Lizzy but more garage.

Blog Shots

How Christian were the founders?

How Jewish were the apostles?

How Catholic was Martin Luther?

How British was George Washington?

silly question..

Blog Shots

How soon before Sarah Palin quits Fox News? I think given 12 months, I'll take the under on that.
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More American will probably die in Haiti in the recent earthquake than were on the plane with the underwear bomber.
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Eric Kleptone is god.

Winning in Afghanistan

I thought this blog post was interesting
from voyages of the bloody, snake, chariot Blog, Bring back the king:

Once upon a time (from 1933 - 1978), in the Hindu Kush Mountains,
Afghanistan was a relatively peaceful, stable, amazingly beautiful
country.

Until 1973 it was ruled by King Mohammad Zahir Shah, a beloved,
pro-cannabis monarch.

That year, while the king was visiting Italy (for eye surgery and to
treat his lumbago), he was overthrown by a jealous, resentful, evil
cousin, Mohammed Daoud Khan (the Villain Daoud), who was backed by the
C.I.A., Richard Nixon, and The War on Plants.

When we first went at war with the Taliban, I always thought that the only way we'll know the war is over is when we started to see 'Grown in Afghanistan' on agricultural goods. Afghanistan was once known for the fruit that was grown there.

Perhaps if they legalize Cannabis in the US, we will know if we've won the war when we are smoking afghani pot.

Blackhawk Poker Trip report.

After a full day of cleaning up the house and playing with the kids. I thought it would be fun to go up to Blackhawk for the day. So I made the kids breakfast, kissed my wife and when up to Blackhawk on the 9:35 am bus out of Downtown Denver.

I visited a few casinos. The Golden Gulch Casino has a Heartland Poker tour going on and the Lodge was almost empty so I went over to the Ameristar Casino. They had a $450,000 bad beat jackpot, so I thought "why not?". I knew me hitting the bad beat jackpot was next to nothing, but it's worth a try. I knew other people would be trying it to, so there will be more loose players.

I played from about 11:30 to 7pm and then I had to make the bus back down to Denver.

I played alright. I came out about $250 ahead starting with $140 and I didn't have to rebuy the whole day. I felt like I left some money on the table thought without some value betting and some more aggressive moves, and some draws I should have taken.

Position is key, I had this aggressive good player to my left and I should have move on the table to his left or got a new table at some point, because my EV would have been better in position.

I did let a few people draw out and I should have pushed more when I flopped had a straight flush draw and someone beat me with a higher straight. Also, I should have drawn out a little more with two other players.

I do like the spread limit better than no-limit. The games plays more like a Pot-Limit game and it less push/shove.

I can't wait to go back.

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Don't forget to use Bonus Code "Blackhawk" when you sign up to play poker at Full Tilt Poker and I'll send you some love. :) Plus you'll get 100% Poker sign up bonus up to $600.

Sick Bastard: Take 2 Promotion on Full Tilt Poker

I'm a sick bastard. I completed the Take 2 Promotion on Full Tilt Poker and got myself one of these. It was a pretty simple deal, instead of the Iron Man challenge where you had to play a lot and at higher limits.. All you had to do was to play poker on two tables during September for each day.

There is still time to earn a $5 this month. I think it'll be a popular promotion and it'll be back soon. Especially if other sites run big tournaments.

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Don't forget to use Bonus Code "Blackhawk" when you sign up to play poker at Full Tilt Poker and I'll send you some love. :) Plus you'll get 100% Poker sign up bonus up to $600.

Move Daily Show back to the regular time.

I'm going to start a petition.

"Move the Daily Show/Colbert Report back to its regular replay time at 9PM MT/8PM ET."

I live in Denver and get Comcast Cable. They show Comedy Central on the Pacific time schedule so that the new Daily Show/Colbert Report is shown at Midnight and not 11PM as it is in the East Coast. The replay from the night before used to be at 9PM which was great for us, because the kids went to bed and we could watch it before we went to bed. But this season, they've switched the replay to 8PM instead of 9PM. This has messed up our scheduled. The Daily Show/Colbert Report dovetailed nicely with our nighttime schedule. Most of the other shows we watch (Project Runway, Top Chef, ESPN Poker) have new shows at 8PM and so we no longer watch Daily Show/Colbert Report any more.

Please write your Cable Provider, Comedy Central, and your Congressmen.

Political masturbation

Bringing your gun to a health care town hall is the political equivalence of masturbation in public.

06/30 @215

I gained a pound this week. I'm not too happy about that. I haven't been eating as well as I want to. We went to the Renaissance Fair this week and I had a turkey leg and some ice cream. And last night I ate too much for desert (fruit and fudgesycles), but that was just my normal eating during the week. I also had pork ribs last week. So, not good.

I'm happy with my exercise, I'm able to run almost 6 miles in a hour and I feel really good about that. I burned 1000 calories on Sunday by just running for an hour.

I've adjusted my goals. I think 175 is probably too low of a goal, so I've adjusted it to 185. If I hit 185, I would be 4 lbs less than overweight. Based on my projections I would hit that goal weight in mid-November. I think my HDL's would be good as well.

Current Weight: 215lbs

06/23 @ 214

I lost 2.5 lbs last week. I was pretty good. I'm running a lot more now about 5.2 miles in an hour 4 times a week. My eating has been pretty good as well. I'm going to need to buy more clothes. When I run, I set little goals in my head: Can I reach 20:00 at 5.5 MPH 2.0 incline? etc.

So my next immediate weight lost goal is to get to 210 lbs so that I can buy some new pants and some shirts. I think I could do that over the Fourth of July weekend.

Current Weight: 214

06/16 @ 216.5, LDL good, HDL needs work.

I managed to lose 1 lb last week. An amazing feat considering that my Mom came to visit, we ate out a lot (Root down restaurant, breakfast, ice cream, etc). It's not too bad. I'm still under my target weight.

Current Weight: 216.5


I went to my cardiologist last week and I got a lipid panel done. The above busy chart represents my Total lipids, LDL (Lousy), HDL (good), and triglyserides, plus my targets for each. I have two goals, To lower my LDL levels to less than 70 and to raise my HDL to over 60. I've managed to lower my LDL's, but I have to raise my HDL to 60. I did increase it from 43 to 50 in 6 months, but it has to be higher.

According to this article on the Mayo Clinic website. I should be able to raise my HDL 1 mg/Dl for every 6 lbs of weight lost. So if I have 40 lbs to lose (216.5-175 = 41.5), I should increase my HDL to about 56 ( 41/6 = ~6 mg/Dl , 50 + 6=56). It's not 60, but it'll be close. My next lipid panel will be in December.

Lipid Panel: Tot: 123, LDL: 63, HDL: 50, Tri: 55

On Edit: When I did my last lipid panels in December, I weight 240 lbs and my HDL was 43. I weighted 217 when I got my lipids done and my HDL was 50..

So for 23 lbs of weight lost translated to 7 points in HDL lost.. So if I continue on that track and assuming the same weight/HDL percentage, 40 lbs weight lost would translate to about 12 poins. So my HDL could get up to 62 if I reach my ideal weight of 175 lbs.

06/02/2009 @ 220

It's been one year since I've started tracking my weight and I've lost 60 lbs in one year.

I have 31 lbs to go to get to not being overweight (189) and 45 to go to my ideal/target weight of 185 lbs.

My 38 inch pants are loose, and I wonder if I get every get to a 32 inch waist with 32 inch inseam. Is this goal doable?

Current Weight: 220 lbs

05.19.2009 @ 223

I had another solid week and I lost 2 lbs which is about 1% of my total weight. I want to average about 1.5 lbs a week, but I like having really good weeks.

I was thinking about my workout routines. I've been working out a lot lately. My normal routine is to walk 2 miles to work and 2 miles from work. I also like to take a short walk during lunch as well. I've been working out at the gym maybe 4-5 times a week and my wife and I have dance lessons on Tuesdays. My workout at the gym consists of running for 50 minutes with 5 minutes warm up and 5 minutes cool down. I've been able to run for 4.1 miles at an average speed of about 5 MPH (12 minute/mile). I have the incline set at 1%. I'm really happy with this results.
When I have time, I try to do some weights and sit ups.

To me, it seems like I should be able to run a 10k (6.1 miles) race with no problems. I would like to increase my mileage on the weekends to 60 minutes/5 miles. I don't think that'll be a problem.

I would like to do something else for exercise, because I don't want to get bored. So I'm looking into the following:

1. Running - For running if I run at 5 MPH, 1% incline for 50 minutes. I burn about 750 calories.
2. Swimming- The 24 hour fitness has a lap pool, but I've been nervous about doing it. When there is a pool, I usually just steam after a workout. On the weekends, I should just run for half hour and swim for another half hour. According to this calculator I would burn about 816 calories if I swam laps for an hour.
3. Martial Arts. I'm interested in taking some Martial arts classes. I'm going to take some Krav Maga classes because I've always been interested in that after seeing it in the Bourne Identity movies. I think that would be about 900 calories according to this calculator.
   
4. CrossFit or some sort of core exercise routine. I interesting in working the whole body and something I could do myself. I heard about this program on the Fat2Fit Podcast, so I'm going to try looking into it.
5. Dancing. My wife and I like to go dancing, so I will continue to do that at least once a week.
   

Current Weight: 223 lbs

225

I've made it to 225 lbs. I safely out of the obese range. My scale this morning read between 224.5 and 225 lbs, which made me feel like I have a head start on next week.

I've adjusted my goals.

• less than 220 by June 9th
• less than 210 by August 4th
• Less than 200 by Sept 15
• less than 189lbs by November 3
• ~ 175 lbs by my 44th birthday (Early January)
• ~175 lbs by March 9th 2010

Current Weight: 225 lbs

Not Obese ...

I've made it! I'm below the Overweight/Obese line.


Current Weight: 226.5

Weight Loss: Much better

This week, I felt much better, I lost 3 lbs over the week and I felt like I did much better.

It's nice when you get on the scale on the first time you read it it says 228.5, but then you check it again and it says 229. It's like you're cheating for next week. I'm almost out of the obese range (>227). The BMI measure what your ideal weight should be it's simple your weight divided by your height. The BMI categories are:

• obesity > 30
• overweight = 25 - 29.9
• normal = 18.5 - 24.9.

So for me:

• obesity > 227 lbs
  
• overweight = 189 - 227 lbs
  
• normal = 175 lbs (23.1)

I've adjusted my goal weight, It's still 1.5 lbs a week, but I've matched it to this week's weight. I'm still on track for my goals. So maybe next week, i won't be obese anymore. :)

Weight: 229 lbs

Weight Loss: When success feel like failing

I lost two pounds this pass week. I'm currently at 232 lbs. For some reason, I thought I should have lost more. I worked pretty hard this week and I've been writing down everything I ate.

I've changed by goal weight line to minus 1.5 lbs a week. I can still make my end of May goal of 225 and my August first goal of 210. and my goal of 175 by my next birthday. I'm a little below my goal line, I should be 232.5 lb this week, but it doesn't make me feel any better. If I lose another two pounds this week, I'll adjust the goal.

I don't know, I just feel like I didn't make it this week. But I will continue to work hard.

Current Weight: 232 lbs

Weight Loss check in

I'm getting really close to not being out of the Obese range. I still have 7 lbs to lose to get to 227lbs. This last week being Easter made it tough for me to do it, but I did work out a lot and eat pretty good except for the weekend. No more Easters for a while.

I've been inspired by the TV show "The last ten pounds". I consider these last ten pounds to non-obesity to be a good short term goals. I've tried to work out several times a week and I've been writing down everything I eat. It's my own personal boot camp.

My exercise routine on normal days is to walk to and from work for about 4 miles total (90 minutes), but when I go to the Gym, I've try to work out on the thread mill for 48 minutes. I'm averaging about 4.6 m/h with a 1.0 incline. My heart rate can max out at 167 bpm. I don't know if I should be concerned with my heart problems. I know I should take it easier, so I try to get my heart rate down by slowing it down to 140 bpm and making sure I cool down for the full 5 minutes after wards.

During my Heart Rehab, they said that the cool down is the most important part of the work out because you blood pressure and heart rate needs that time to adjust from being revved up. That's when most heart attacks occur during exercise, during warm up and cool down.

My current goals are:
- 225lbs by the end of may
- <205 lbs by the end of july (family reunion)
- 175 lbs by the my next birthday (january 2010)

Current Weight: 234 lbs