Well the debates are done

Last debate got mixed reviews as being to (forget the word they used, sort of puffy). I have to disagree. Yes there was puff but more substance came out of this debate than others. Especially when Bush responded to the question "Are you for overturning Roe v. wade?" with his own question about a litmus test. That made it 100% clear to anyone that he IS for overturning Roe v. Wade.

Last nights debate should have lost Bush, The gay vote, the black vote, womens vote, seniors vote, student vote and union vote. Only vote he's left with are the "I'm a Republican so I am voting Republican" vote and the vote of the top 2% of wage earners.

I will go out on a limb here and predict a landslide.

Unless those paperless computerized voting machines are really rigged! Then God help us all. If Americans weren't so fat and lazy I would predict a huge uprising!

This guy must be an A student: Chris Capsule

Chris Capsule

Some high quality editorials. Beats the crap out of all the "slacker" blogs out there.

This guy is worthy of bookmarking and definately worthy of a BlogThis!

All went smoothly at work today.

Well today went great. I got 5 days worth of work done in 2 hours and I avoided calls from one of the guys trying to get me to train them to take my job. I told him to email all the questions he has about my job and cc'd my supervisor and boss on it. I cc'd them so he'll think they asked me to and may he'll think something is up. So far no questions. Hrmm. He must not want to ask me the SAME damn questions for the 5th time. Really, same set of questions 4 times already always ending in him saying "I see now." Only he doesn't! He's an idiot. Complete! Whatever school for programming he graduated from in India should be closed or lose the accreditation, or both.

He's supposed to be programming and addon to software we used. He's doing this by stealing other peoples programs and adding a bit that compiles 5 days in one for someone who doesn't have time to look at all I do in one day. (boring really and shouldn't take but a week to do, if you have a clue at all) I sent him the code from Joels old macros 4 times and he keeps asking for a fresh version. Meaning he is fucking up the damn code. If he is so dumb as to work on the actual file I send and delete the email I sent him, he shouldn't even be able to remember to breath!

So, now he'll have to email me so I can show everyone that he has been at it for 2 months and still has no clue what IT is.

/me pats myself on back and looks at help wanted adds. 15 years down the drain at this company.

Edwards blew it, IMHO

Even though I went in with and left with the knowledge that I will vote for Kerry this November. This debate really gave me pause. I think Edwars blew it big time. From not answering the questions put to him to the constant messing up on the "don't say the presidential candidates name" question. He seemed alot more fake to me than Cheney did!

When he started the story about his father in font of the TV in the "living room" learning to read. It seemed like he was trying to remember the BS he made up to be "touching." Then he ended it as I remember at the Kitchen table. So which was it? Was he in the living room or at the kitchen table? Since this is so long ago and TV's were HUGE back then it must have been the living room. Still the whole story that was meant to show how in touch he is cause of where he's from felt more terribly fake and pandering to me.

MNot to even mention the fact that he gave that "heart felt" respect to Cheney for his gay daughter. To me that seemed much more of a "Cheney has a GAY Daughter" yell for all the people who vote purely on religious beliefs. In case they hadn't heard before now. i think Cheneys response of not responding spoke volumes and he earned alittle points in my book.

I watched this on CNN. What really pissed me off was how Edwards didn't respond to Cheneys assertion that he missed a very large number of votes in the possition he currently holds as senator. How his hometome paper labled him "Senator Gone" if I remember right. How he basically said "well you did it to" when Cheney brought up the fact, is it a fact???, that Edwards Loopholed his way out of paying 600,000 in Medicare taxes. To add to my annoyancewhen Mary beth Cahil was asked pointed questions about the missed votes and the 600 Grand she was all slogans and BS! Do these people hear the question asked? Is the answer so damning they need to pretend that they were asked something else?

As for the republicans, I hate them as much. They instantly started with a line about how the democrats brought in "the best" trial attorney and it still did them no good. What BS. That's the problem with both sides to much MTV sound bites and so much SPIN of everything that if you didn't see the event in full you would believe it happened like they show it on the Daily Show or Fox News Channel. At least the Daily Show says it's Fake News though.

So, regardless of the spin that's happening now. From both sides. Cheney won this debate, hands down and this is comming from someone who loathes Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, ect.

I've seen this link on a few other Blogs, so who am I to break a trend?

http://www.johnkerryisadouchebagbutimvotingforhimanyway.com/

Funny and somewhat informative.

Blogger is acting up :(

I am trying to add a "," to my "clever" discription and it keeps giving a "Page not Found" Err.... Page. It also gives me a page not found when I post a .... post. Well anyway, hope they fix it soon as it's annoying. All the typos I see of mine are annoying also. I know I'm not supposed to change anything after I put it up but I can't believe that would include typos, although it very well could. I'll change it before someone tells me I'm not suppossed to. What the heck!

I managed to find "Trial" as I walked back to the starting possition. It's at 65th Street. This was the one I looked all over for. Walking up due to traffic and not knowing that ON Broadway, really meant ON Broadway I went back and forth between Amsterday and Central Park looking for it. Hope you enjoy my effort.

Tom Otterness On Broadway

After doing shoulders again at the gym this morning. I decided to make use of my digital camera for once. Being that I have Mondays off for this month and I am actively trying to stop overeating. I decided to see the Metal creations of Art by Tom Otterness.

These things are great! Great to look at and great to get a little workout to. I walked from 59th street all the way, lol, to 89th street to find these little things and back down to find the 3rd. I thought they would all be as huge as the Hear No Evil one which caused me to look all over for the third in the row named "Trial." 'cept they are all ON Broadway like it says and I was just on the wrong side of the street to see it.

They go all the way up Broadway to 168th Street. So I only made it to a 3rd of them. Time was limited cause I had to do my gym clothes at the Laundromat and wash dishes. So I will post some or all the pictures I took following this post. If Hello, lets me.

Crosses Fingers.

This one is out of order. There were a couple, homeless, that were sitting and having a fight in front of it. So, I decided to go further and and perhaps get it while coming back down, sans homeless. They were still there coming back so I snapped this from afar. It's called Mad Mom and I guess it's as appropriate a place as any to fight :)

This one is unlike all the others. Totally different style and feel. What's cool is it's hollow. The eyes and mouth are open and the back is pointes towards on comming traffic. So at night I wouls think the eyes and mouth would be quite interesting indeed! I have to see this at night! 

This one reminds me of Monopoly. Guess it's says "With enough money you can have people move the world for you!"  

This is the Top of Escape Leg. It's about 12' tall and I took the picture side ways. So I'll just show thw top and imagine a big foot 12' lower with a broken chain and lock just behind it. Thus Escape Leg! 

Moby Dick! 

That's a Frog and girl. This would be scandalous in the 50'! 

Hear No Evil. The First and Largest so Far. 

The Map 

talk of the weather will do: You think you know, but you have no idea

talk of the weather will do: You think you know, but you have no idea

Something interesting I found while hitting the NEXT BLOG button.

This is me on day one! Long way to go. 

First Blog day weigh in

Ok, so I went to the gym. I did Shoulders using three machines to hit the Front, Middle and Rear delts. I did three sets of each exercise with kind of low weight (50-80). I then did some sholder shrugs with 60 poud dumbells. I squeezed out a sad 10 and almost couldn't place them back on the top rack. Sad.

I hate using weights around other people as I always feel like I am being judged based on how much weight I am using. Which is why I always like to lift first thing in the morning, 7am, so there is like just 2 other people around at all and they're so sleepy they can't be bothered to judge me. They however use really light weight for their size, pathetic really.

Well the name is weigh in and It's about time I get to that. I know weigh 241 pound with 38% Body Fat. So I have gained back some weight but am still the same fat. I will take this as an indication that the weight training is working and I have gain some lean mass.

Since beginning with the weigh in on Sunday I have done a complete body workout, Tricepts on Monday, Shoulders on Tuesday, Bicepts on Wednesday, Chest on Thursday and Shoulders again today. Why shoulders again? Because they are the only part that isn't killing me at the moment. And that's after sleeping in and missing the morning workout.

I always do the elliptical machines at the night time session and have been for the last 5 years. So I know first hand that those machines will not make you lose weight unless you stop eating a lot. Seriously I have steadily gained since meeting my wife and got really fat (not humungus) with her help. Still it's my fault and not hers although she did beg me for 5 minutes to come home with her and not go to the gym because it's Friday. Still I know that if I did then it would still be my fault and not hers so I said NO in about 20 different ways and said goodbye like 7-10 times before she gave up. Still I have the thoughts of "What if something terrible happens to her on the way home" to deal with. It's just another excuse though and I am determined to break all the excuses that come up on why I shouldn't be dieting and why I should just go home and relax.

I will write down all the things my brain throws at me to hopefully show that No one is unique when it comes to why they can't work out or eat right. Taking responsibility is the only way you, or I, will lose weight and get in the best shape we can be.

Ramble... Ramble. Pictures to follow. Really.

Weight Loss, sort of

I will be posting pictures, possibly, to show my weight loss or gain over the next few weeks/months. I am trying to take one picture a day to make this a neat little project. I will also post my weight and percentage of body fat to track how much muscle versus fat that I lose. I will also post what I do at the gym each day and my general bodily sensations.

I hope this motivates me to the point where I feel I have to lose the weight or risk embarrasing myself more than a few fat pics hidden on my computer ever could. Not that anyone will read this, but they could!

Get ready to watch me lose about ~70 pounds of nastyness and gain some good size and definition. I started sunday, pictures to follow, at 248 pounds and 41% body fat. I use a personal Tania scale with fresh batteries. I am currently 238 pounds and 38% body fat. I know it "bad" to loss weight that fast. However if I try to eat more I will undoubtedly won't stop. As witnessed by my swallowing a giant plate of Chinesse food last night.

Still I will do this and it may be fun if I have alot riding on it. The more ritual I can add to the weight lose and diet the more likely it will give me the motivation to keep going. At least that's my premise and I'm sticking to it.