Class II Power Supply

Why are cemeteries wasted on the dead? All that prime real estate given over to dead people. Think of all the golf courses, housing complexes and shopping malls that could be built on cemeteries if they did not exist. If we continue at the rate we are going, there will eventually be nothing but cemeteries. My solution is to cremate everybody and put the ashes in fertilizer.

I woke up early this morning, probably around 1:30AM. I like waking up briefly at that hour because I know I can go back to sleep for a long period of time. What I don't like is waking up close to when my alarm is to go off because I really can't get back to sleep at that point, knowing that at any minute, the peace will be shattered by the alarm.

I woke up shortly after 5AM and took the dog for a walk in the unusually mild weather. It was about 33 when I went out this morning - much better than 1 above! Then I headed off for what proved to be a brutal day at work. Nothing bad in particular, just a long day with a lot of problems to solve that never seemed to end. I did get a decent walk in at lunchtime to break it up. But I did not get home until after 7PM and I spent the next 45 minutes getting the trash and recycling ready for pickup tomorrow after which I took the dog for another walk. By the time I finally settled in at home, it was close to 9PM.

Yesterday I walked about 11,500 steps, today about 17,500.

Breakfast, once again, Stonyfield strawberry yogurt. Lunch, low-carb bagel. Dinner, chicken stew with some crackers; two handfuls raisins, two handfuls of Virginia peanuts.

Liquid: Three coffees, four Pilsner Urquells.

Today marks a full week back on the "diet." I'm glad that I thought of this the morning of January 1 as that is a perfect time to start something new. Already I can tighten my belt an extra notch and I feel much better. Got 51 more weeks to go and I expect to be at my target weight by December 31. This is quite a contrast from 2003 when I lost over 100 pounds to go from 304 to 197 in just seven months. Now I'm looking to lose maybe 40-50 pounds over 12 months to get to the 190-200 range.

Download of the Day: Cass Mccomb's "That's That."

And the first week of 2008 is just about over.