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Weekend update

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So we want to Casey and Margaret’s wedding this weekend.  Fancy Fort Wayne wedding!  The ceremony was at the Catherdal downtown and then the reception was at the Summit Club which is on the 25th floor of a building downtown so you have a nice view of the city.  The only problem was that we went to find our table (lucky #13) and it was already full!  It turns out there were two tables worth of 13’s so they had to set up another table in a different section from everybody else.  Later we found out no one was sitting at table #3.  Mystery solved!  Since Casey and Margaret both went to Dwenger and Casey and Margaret’s sister (and Casey’s dad for that matter) all worked at Dwenger, it was like a Dwenger reunion!  It was great to see everybody again though.  Schafer lost a TON of weight!  He looked like a Greek god!  He said he was under 200 lbs.  It’s definitely the first time he’s weighed less than me.

Then, after we came home, I attended the self-proclaimed “largest booksale in the midwest” at the Hyde Park co-op.  It was okay.  I only bought 6 books (for a grand total of $3.75!).  There were a lot of books there, but I was spoiled by the Wayne library’s book sales, where the selection was much better.  In particular, the sci-fi section at this book sale was pretty much non-existant, the fantasy section literally was non-existant, and what little horror there was was just mixed in with the fiction!  Since that pretty much encompasses all I read, it wasn’t that great for me.  To be fair though, this was the second day of the sale.

So, if you recall, we were trying to lose some weight between Jeremy and Casey’s wedding (61 weeks).  Sara and I both blew our goal’s out of the water!  My starting weight was 219.6 lbs. and my goal was 209.0 lbs.  Here are the final statistics:
                   Original          Final            Difference
Weight:        219.6 lbs.      204.6 lbs     -15 lbs (6.83%)
Upper arm    36 cm           35.5 cm       -0.5 cm
Forearm       29.8 cm         27.9 cm      -1.9 cm
Thigh            67.6 cm         64.7 cm      -2.9 cm
Calf              39.0 cm         38.0 cm      -1 cm
Chest           113.7 cm        110.6 cm    -3.1 cm
Waist           100.6 cm        96.2 cm      -4.4 cm
Low waist     105.8 cm       102.0 cm    -3.8 cm
Hips             114.3 cm        111.9 cm    -2.4 cm
The whole thing went pretty well.  Aside from working out more (which I kind of slacked off on at the end), it was really just eating better.  I watched what I ate some, but also we just started making more meals at home and making healthier things (read not 100% frozen food).  So that’s that.  After seeing Schafer at the wedding I’m sort of inspired to try to lose a little more!

Okay, check this out, here’s an honest to goodness serious science article about teleportation.  I mean, it really sounds like they’re actually making advances in that field!  It’s not a joke, check it out!  That just blew my mind, very strange.  Speaking of which, way to go America!  Sweeping the science Nobel prizes for the first time since 1983!

And finally, here‘s a nice time wasting game.  Basically, you are a stick-figure archer.  Click and shoot the bad guys.  Straight forward.  Just the way I like it.

Classic arcade games!

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Here are some sweet classic arcade games including Spyhunter, Rampage, Joust and (my favorite at the moment) Tapper.  You have to throw rootbeer down the bar and knock patrons out the door while catching their returning empties.

Good times!

Also, if you want to feel as frustrated as I do at the moment, check out this incredibly hard word puzzle.  The most words I could uncover was 11.  If you work on it, let me know, I am sort of curious if anybody else can get farther (without getting annoyed and giving up!)

I done scribble good

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Mixed Bag

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Random things today to catch up on:

From: Sara
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 9:59 AM
To: Shane
Subject: doctor
“there is a doctor here named kori feldman.  how unfortunate.”

Sara and I are going to try to lose 10 lbs. each before Casey’s wedding in October.  I could stand to lose some weight and also I think I will feel better in general if I do some modicum of exercise. I ran on the treadmill tonight for the first time in like 5 months.  So, as of this morning, here are my vitals:
Weight:        219.6 lbs.
Upper arm    36 cm
Forearm       29.8 cm
Thigh            67.6 cm
Calf              39.0 cm
Chest           113.7 cm
Waist           100.6 cm
Low waist     105.8 cm
Hips             114.3 cm
I also took some “before” pictures, but I’ll spare you from those.  ::shudder::  I’m probably not going to go all out like I have in the past for weight loss ventures, but I do fully intend to do whatever it takes to get to the goal. 
So we went over the weekend to see Jeremy and Jamie get married on Mackinac Island. It was a really great trip. We had a really good time! Our hotel was great, we went hiking, we rented bikes and rode around the outside of the island (it’s only 8 miles around), we went on a dinner cruise and we had some fun with some Irish singers and a pub. It was great seeing all the guys again, especially since Rupley leaves for Colorado on Wed. and Casey leaves for Texas on Friday. Talk about the old group breaking up…I think only Dan, Rody and Schafer will be left in Fort Wayne.

And finally…Oregon Trail.  (Didn’t work in Firefox for some reason)

 

It’s done!

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Well I finally heard back from the job.  They did offer me more money!  So I finally proved that you should turn down the first offer!  However, I also proved that you should not get your hopes up because the amount of money more they offered me the second time was like 1% more than the first time…I don’t know if it was worth the stress of asking for more money!

The only question to settle now is do I want to start May 29th or June 5th.  I’d prefer the second date, but they wanted someone as soon as possible.  I’m waiting to hear back from them.

In other news, there is this fantastic game called Kingdom of Loathing.  It’s a simple online game, best explained by their “What is KoL?” page.  I used to have a  Pastamancer named “Felix the Al Dente” but I always secretly wanted to be a Disco Bandit.  Anyway, you should play this game and waste hours and hours of your free time.

But why do I bring this up now, especially since I don’t play anymore?  I bring it up because i was recently reminded of the game by a reference to it in an article on this sick puppy.  Basically he was just a regular guy, as demonstrated by this quote:

“Regarding a potential motive,” Purcell Police Chief David Tompkins said Saturday, “this appears to have been part of a plan to kidnap a person, rape them, torture them, kill them, cut off their head, drain the body of blood, rape the corpse, eat the corpse then dispose of the organs and bones.”

Oh, and also:

“He said one of his main interests was the online role-playing game “Kingdom of Loathing,” in which stick figures battle one another.”

So basically, what I’m saying is, you should really check out this game!  ALL the cool kids are doing it.