I’m not doing too bad on my goal. I’d say that overall I am eating better. I did not manage to go bike riding a third day this week, but I did go play tennis with Harlan today for almost an hour and a half, so I got my three days of exercise in before the week was up, and that was the goal. Go me!

I looked at bikes today while we were at the sports store and it turns out that they’re really expensive. I had no idea. Unfortunately, Ali’s bike really sucks, so I might have to break down at some point and get one. I guess I’ll see if I can stick with it, first.

Y’know when you’re really out of shape and you go and ride a bicycle for a while, and then when you get off the bike your legs have that strange sensation like they want to continue in the motion that they’ve been going in while you were on the bike, and you’re not quite certain you can walk correctly? I love that sensation…

When I was growing up in Twin Rivers, there were back roads nearby where you could ride. There was stuff to look at, and not too many cars. It was nice. Where I live now, there’s nowhere to ride. Riding around the development is just plain boring and doesn’t take long enough. In order to ride for a half hour, I’d probably have to ride around the development at least 4 times, and that’s no fun. Everywhere outside of the development generally has a lot of cars. I might have to start driving my bike over the park to ride, but that becomes less convenient and therefore makes it less likely that I’ll do it on a regular basis. I’ll have to explore a bit more and see if there’s somewhere I can get to where I only have to be around lots of cars for part of the ride.

Hey, look! That last post was my one-thousandth post.

So, I’m watching Live With Regis and Kelly and they have on the winner of The Swan. The thing is, I don’t think she’s all that attractive. I mean, she went through all this plastic surgery and whatnot to make her “pretty” and I just don’t think she’s that good looking.

Oh, and she’s dumb as a post.

Let me share with you now one of the many joys of owning your own business.

There I am in bed. It’s around 7:30 am, and my alarm is set for 8. I hear my cell phone start ringing in my office, which is on the other side of the house. I know there’s no point in trying to get up to get it because by the time I get there, it will have stopped ringing, and since I’m planning on getting up at 8, anyway, I can just answer it then. Immediately after that, the office phone starts ringing. I don’t get up for that, either, for the same reason. At this point, though, I’m thinking that someone really wants to get in touch with me.

Of course, when I get up at 8 and discover that my contact at Lockheed Martin is trying to reach me because they’re trying to have a meeting and there’s a constant buzzing coming from the sound system, it just starts my day off on the perfect note.

This, my friends, is the joy of having your own business. It’s great that I don’t have to commute, but I never get to go leave the office…

I promised someone that I would post more here, so I’m going to try to do that.

I just got back from my first bike ride since I decided to start exercising. Damn, am I out of shape, or what? I rode twice around my development. My goal was to ride for a half hour. I’m not sure if it was a half hour or not. Probably a bit under. But twice around the development seemed to be about all I could handle. I don’t want to push too hard too quickly, and considering that I’ve done almost no physical activity for quite some time, I think easing slowly into it is a good idea.

I just got back from seeing Supersize Me. It’s a documentary in the Michael Moore style about a guy who goes on a 30-day McDonald’s only diet. He talks with a lot of people, visits several doctors and dieticians throughout the process, and talks a lot about how he feels over the course of the 30 days.

Here’s the thing, and it’s going to sound really stupid, but this film almost made me cry. The reason is that while watching the film, I realized that most of what he was describing about how he felt is how I feel all the time. He was fatigued, depressed, run-down, had a feeling of pressure in his chest (not like a heart attack, but just pressure), and just generally felt “not well”. Of course a bit of it is the power of suggestion, but as the film progressed, I felt worse and worse. Still, even before the movie started I had noted to the people I was with that I wasn’t feeling all the well, and the truth is that I haven’t felt well for a while. Especially since getting back from the road trip, during the course of which I gained 15 pounds. 15 pounds in 16 days.

I’m tired of it. I’m tired of feeling horrible all the time. I have to do something about it, and this time I’m serious, because I can’t live like this anymore. I have to change my diet and I have to exercise. It’s not really health concerns that I’m thinking about, although that has something to do with it, but it’s just a problem of how I feel ALL THE TIME. I can’t do this anymore.

I need help, though. I’m pretty stuck in my ways. If you’re with me, encourage me to NOT eat unhealthy crap. Don’t even suggest that we go to a place like that. If you’re talking to me, ask me if I’ve done any exercise that day. Encourage me to do it. Make me do it if you have to. Because I can’t keep feeling as bad as I do at this moment.

I’ve gotta give credit where credit is due. This article has a mention of Tim Pearce (they spelled his last name wrong) in the last paragraph of the article. He is one of my freelance technicians and friends, and he’s damn good at what he does. It’s about time people started to recognize that.