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April 30th, 2009 in Uncategorized by nicsboy2
I am now weighing in at a lofty 220. Of course this may seem like a lot since the last weight updates, but I actually ballooned up to 229 a few weeks ago. We got a treadmill and I am going to start using it regularly.
13 is the number of wins the Celtics need for the championship. I am not confident, but they can start by reducing the wins needed number to 12 by winning tonight.
That’s all for now.
April 21st, 2009 in Uncategorized by nicsboy2
I was reading comments from fans on ESPN.com and came across this one:
“I know Bull fans and Celtic haters are thinking that the Celtics will lose in Chicago, but you gotta remember that Paul Pierce hasn’t had a good game yet. So you never know what factors can round into a game. You’re not always gonna get beast games from Rose or Gordon to bail you out. I’m a Laker fan and I hate the Celtics as much as the next guy, but I’m just saying that the Bulls can’t relax just because they are at home now. ”
I added the emphasis on “beast.”
Brandon walks around talking about how beast things are and how beast he is and how beast everything is… unless it is epic. Sometimes things are both beast and epic.
I guess my reaction is similar to what my father’s reaction was when I started calling things “massive” and “awesome” back in the early 1980’s. The difference is that “massive” and “awesome” where always adjectives. I’m not sure when “beast” changed its part of speech.
I have never really used the word “beast” all that much except for a couple of years in college when people referred to what they were drinking as “The Beast.” The Beast was the nickname for Milwaukee’s Best Beer which is far from beast by today’s standards. It was cheap though. Of course, sometimes it was hard to get ahold of beer in those days so just having some of the Beast was beast enough for the night.
March 9th, 2009 in Uncategorized by nicsboy2
“Bacon double cheeseburger with onion rings?” she asked, jolting me out of a daydream. I looked down at my chicken strip basket with fries as if to confirm to myself that I had not ordered the bacon double cheeseburger with rings. It sure sounded better than what I had been eating.
“No, that wasn’t me,” I replied, sending the Dairy Queen employee along her way to find the owner of the burger.
I sat alone at a table and ate my lunch. When I left for work that morning to do research in one of the most depressing little towns I have ever seen, I thought to myself that since there were only a Dairy Queen and a McDonald’s there, I might want to bring my lunch with me. I took the lazy route and instead left without packing one, knowing I could certainly eat at either of those places if I wanted to eat lunch that day.
“Bacon double cheeseburger with onion rings?” I heard the server asking another patron at a nearby table. Unlike me, this man had no food in front of him so it was certainly more likely to have been his than mine. The older gentleman with the reddish flannel shirt shook his head.
“No, that’s not mine,” he said.
I looked out at my car in the parking lot. I had several thousands of dollars worth of work product and work equipment in the car. It made me happy to know I could watch my car from the restaurant as I ate lunch, but made me somewhat uneasy that I had to leave it unattended while inside doing my courthouse research. I do not worry so much about my car being stolen, but I do worry about my computer and my work being stolen. I never know if I am better off bringing my stuff into the courthouse with me and taking my chances there or leaving it in the locked, but unattended, car.
“Bacon double cheeseburger with onion rings?” the woman shouted. No one in the restaurant was taking ownership of it and she was getting frustrated. She walked back towards the counter.
I wasn’t sure how I ended up here. As I drove to eat lunch, I noticed a Popeye’s Chicken and a Pizza Hut that I had forgotten about when considering my options that morning. I thought I had only two options and had settled on Dairy Queen. I ordered a chicken basket and wished I had ordered a bacon double cheeseburger with onion rings… or wished I had gone to Popeye’s to get chicken. I briefly considered taking responsibility for the orphaned burger order, but wasn’t hungry enough to do that.
I noticed the cashier motioning over to the older gentleman with the red flannel shirt as she directed the server as to where the burger belonged. The server went over to him again.
“Bacon double cheeseburger with onion rings?” She asked him again.
“No,” he replied in protest. “I ordered a bacon double cheeseburger with onion rings and a coke.”
I decided it was time to go back to work.
March 4th, 2009 in Uncategorized by nicsboy2
216.
I need to step it up a bit… get some cardio into my workout routine.
February 27th, 2009 in Uncategorized by nicsboy2
I know you are all shocked by this title. “A Mexican cleaning woman?” What the hell kind of nonsense is he talking about? We had one though as this story is true.When I was in college, we had a team of housekeepers who were responsible for cleaning the common areas in our dormitory. When I first got there, we had one guy named Paul and he was good. The guys on our floor had a good relationship with Paul. He did a good job and didn’t complain about cleaning up after college kids. For our part, we did not mention how this guy was like 50 years old and cleaned college dorms for a living. It all worked well.Our world was rocked one day when we were told that Paul had quit. He was being replaced with a Mexican cleaning woman. I did not know her name. I just knew her as the new Mexican cleaning woman. To show my naivety at the time, I did not realize that there were different types of Mexican cleaning woman like Guatemalans and Puerto Ricans, for example.
On my floor we had one bathroom which had 3 showers. This was shared by about 25 people so there were people taking showers frequently. This meant that the NMCW would almost always have to clean the bathroom while someone was in there showering.
It was all ok though. There was a curtain on the shower stall and then there was a private drying off area and another curtain to get into that. She could come in and clean the toilets and sinks and not be directly exposed to naked college guys. If she heard someone taking a shower, she would avoid the shower area until they were gone.
The Mexican cleaning woman had a special trick that she used to like to pull. When a guy was in the drying off area, she would pull the curtain aside and then act surprised when she saw someone there.
At first we thought it was all perfectly innocent. A few of us discussed this and decided it was happening far too frequently to be so innocent. I would try coughing when I knew she was in there, just to alert her that there was someone behind the curtain. It didn’t matter though, she would still “accidently” open the curtain to clean the shower. (In retrospect, I don’t know why it never occurred to me to just yell to her that I was in there, but it didn’t.) By the time we would be in there sounding like tuberculosis patients and were still being walked in on, we realized it was not a mistake on her part.
After considering whether or not to turn her in, I decided to let it slide. I did not care that much and I figured if it gave the NMCL some small thing (and I mean that figuratively) to look forward to when she came to work, it was the least I could do.
February 27th, 2009 in Uncategorized by nicsboy2
217 today. I did not exercise though. I hope to drop another 2 or 3 pounds by Monday as I will be busy this weekend and will try not to eat too much.
February 26th, 2009 in Uncategorized by nicsboy2
So, today I weighed 218. That is a pace of 2 pounds of weight loss per day. That is pretty good. I do not expect to keep it up, but I’ll take it while it’s happening…. at least for the next 10 days or so. After that I would start to wonder if I had run over some old gypsy woman or something.
I did get up to exercise today. Brandon got up early and did it too and made fun of all of the cracking he could hear coming from my joints.
February 25th, 2009 in Uncategorized by nicsboy2
ok, so today I weighed 220. I did work out this morning. I know these entries are boring, but I am trying to find a good way to document this stuff and hold myself accountable for my decisions to work out or not work out.
We are probably buying a treadmill next week. That should help things too…
