Start spreadin’ the news, I’m leavin’ today….

This past weekend, Rina and I went to New York City for her birthday and to visit relatives we have there. It was quite an action-packed weekend, despite being only three days long.

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Welcome to Animal Kingdom

Our yard is becomming quite the zoo, it appears. We’ve always had squirrels, but what homeowner hasn’t? They don’t matter though. For a year or two we’ve had a chipmunk running around (near as I can tell, it doesn’t sing). And there’s the occasional herd of deer that wander around our [...]

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Invasion of the Yard Snatchers

Our yard is slowly being encroached upon by a grove of bamboo our stupid neighbor behind us planted. Why they couldn’t choose a grove that stays in its place, instead of one that crawls underground at random and pops up at random, I don’t know. Heck, why they had to plant it at [...]

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Week One Progress

I’m forced to wonder if my original weight information was wrong. Because if it’s true, I lost ten pounds this past week. That just doesn’t seem right somehow. On the other hand, if it’s true, I’ll be done this diet in about three weeks, so one can always hope. [...]

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You’re gonna start seeing a lot less of me

That is, if my current plans come to fruition.
A few years ago, I joined Weight Watchers for 10 weeks. In that time, I managed to lose 18 pounds, which was my first goal in the program. They have you go in 10% increments, you see, so for me, 18 pounds was my first [...]

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Hiking and Cooking

What better way to start off a blog than with two of my hobbies.
I was mostly off work today, and so went to REI for a hiking bag I saw I sale. I just recently bought an overnight hiking backpack, but I saw this one on sale. What distinguishes it is it’s smaller [...]

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Hello, World

Hello.  Welcome to my new web log.  Not much to write about tonight, more to come in future posts when I have something to write about.

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