despite…

Despite what have seemed to be my best efforts in the other direction for the last week, I am apparently down 2.5 pounds since mid-April. This isn’t a huge amount of weight, but it’s a lot better than being /up/ 2.5 pounds since mid-April. So I’m getting back on the bandwagon, or whatever, and going to try harder about eating right and exercising again. Tonight I’ll go on a 5 mile walk, even if it is icky and rainy out. I probably won’t melt. :) Oh, I watched Buffy last…

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hee hee

“I feel people should wear bathing suits more often. Then they might get to the gym more.” — Pamela Anderson Y’know, she might have a point. :)

ow, my head

Head exploding. Well, no, but aching, anyway. Meeting that was at 10am Monday got postponed to 2:30 Tuesday got postponed til 11:30 Wednesday got postponed til 8am today got postponed to 10:30 today, sigh. Finally met. Now my head hurts. That is practically all I have to report this morning. I’m hoping Ted will want to go out to lunch.

a v. fine day

Today was a v. fine day. I spent some more time poking around trying to find PANEL ONE for less than $50, to no avail, and after a while I thought, “You know, I bet the Nat Gertler who wrote this is the Nat Gertler who wrote some of ElfQuest a while back and whom I met several years ago at a signing up here in Anchorage.” Okay, I didn’t think it that clearly, but for the benefit of you, my gentle reader, I’m spelling it out. So I went…

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Minas Morgul

So I was talking back and forth with Carl, and I said I’d thought of biking to Mordor, but I didn’t know how far it was and I’d been too lazy to look it up, so he went and got this information from a friend of his: “From Minas Morgul to Hobbiton is 327 leagues (981 miles) as the crow flies. The actual distance on the ground between the two would be somewhat longer, and in the case of the Black Riders extended by the fact of various detours and…

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