Okay. So I am at lunch. I take my lunch every day from 2pm - 3pm right after my boss gets back from his lunch break. Well, today after I eat I have some things to get done so I call the library to re-check some books and then change the lightbulb in the spare room so that ---oh wait, wait a minute, it's not lighting up --- what the heck, I KNOW this is a brand new bulb. Oh, what's this? The LIGHT SWITCH seems to be completely screwed up. Probably from the EARTHQUAKE we had yesterday. So I call ...

First, the bad news. Nothing here is as catchy as anything on "Under Construction". The good news : it's better than anything else anybody else is doing in hip-hop. The bass sounds are huge and the tunes make you want to either dance or pound somebody's face in with a rubber mallet. I was a little dissapointed by what seemed to me to be a lot of repetition on this album. Still, the beats are great and the creativity is there, just in smaller doses this time around.

Today I thought it might be fun to share some of my favorite things throughout the week. So, let's start off on Sunday. You wake up and the week is new. Time to brew some coffee from Gevalia. They have all kinds and even tea if coffee isn't your thing. Monday --- and many of you are back to work. But I'm not. I have Mondays off. And one thing I love to do is watch episodes of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 that I have collected. Ahhhh Tuesday and it's so hard to decide what mus...

Things I Have Learned You know, I've learned a few things in my years on this planet. So I thought I would share a few with you. You cannot mix silverware and stainless steel in the dishwasher. In fact, utensils are better off if you just handwash them. The same goes for pots and pans. The best way is to just buy some Palmoliv wipes that get all soapy when you add water. Though they are both good, Diet Pepsi does taste better than Diet Coke. When you first buy curtains, yo...

Nobody's Watching Me! Things I Do When Nobody Is Looking #1. Pick My Nose. #2.Scratch My Butt. #3.Talk To Myself. #4. Strip Down To My Underwear and Clean The House While Chanting: "I Will Sell This House Today" #5. Bite My Toenails. Then I Put Them In My Cats' Fur. #6. Pinch My Abdomen to Try and Determine if I am Losing Any Fat. #7. Floss. #8. Pleasure Myself To The Nine Inch Nails song, "Closer". #9. Check My Moles and Wonder if Any Have Changed. Ponder...

When I first conceived this idea for a blog, I thought "oh it'll be one of those funny, hahaha type blogs where people would go 'oh yeah that guy REALLY hates kids" --- but then I thought about the person I want to be, and I don't WANT to hate kids. Right now, wherever I am, wherever I do, I see children --- big children, small children, black children , white children and they all make my skin crawl. I may have a serious problem. Because my wife wants kids and I do to, in an abstract kind o...

So it's Sunday morning and the official end of my first week of re-commitment to GETTING ABS. And, well. I'm the same. 147.5 pounds and 14.5% body fat. The same percentage that I once read our president has. So I did just enough to maintain the STATUS QUO. With that in mind, what do I do about today? I was going to give myself free rein to eat whatever I wanted. But now --- So I am compromising. I had lots of cereal this morning and rice crackers but I am going to eat my normal hea...

Hey don't get me wrong. I love Miss Lauper. Her "She's So Unusual" was one of the first albums I ever owned. I was given the album on vinyl and now we own most of her albums on CD. I love even her lesser known work, like "Sisters of Avalon". Well, I've listened to "At Last" and I'm sorry to say that these covers are mediocre at best. Nothing grabbed my attention and Lauper's fantastic voice never seems to be used to it's fullest potential. Lauper has entered her 50s now and I'm hoping we'll see ...

Just a quick blog : it is a little before 1am and I've once again slipped up and eaten more food at night. At least it was food fat free cottage cheese, skinless chicken breast, and a turkey sandwish on rye. But calories are calories. And I did so good the rest of the day today, too. Oh well. The problem is it doesn't really "click" in my head that "oh yeah, my eating is through... stay in bed". Until I start to get full. I mean, Wednesday and Thursday I did great but then tonight --- I don't kn...

Okay so many people believe their boss is incompetent, or a jerk, or maybe just plain lazy. I just can't decide about my boss. Mainly because he is a pretty decent guy. So he is not a jerk. At least I have that going. A few quick details about my boss: *He is Japanese (not Japanese american, full japanese) and he works in an American company. His grasp of english is okay but limited. I know a little japanese but it is not even as good as his english so there can be communication issues. ...

So I was taking a shower and thinking about the gadgets and gizmos I'd like to buy one day and all of a sudden it dawned on me that the techno-savvy community at JoeUser.com might be a great place to solicit opinions about what are the best brands in each category. So below I am listing the things I would like to buy and I am respectfully asking for any opinions and commentary about products that have served you well. 1. a Book about Computers : any reccomendations for a basic computer book?...

I have been browsing the other BLOGS here at JoeUser.com and I am not oblivious to the fact that a blog about health and fitness sticks out like a sore thumb. I am enjoying immensely all the other writers but I wonder why there are so many BLOGS that seem to be started up and then simply abandoned. Many have no entries at all. There is also the TECHIE factor. Many bloggers seem to be very well versed on computer programming and such. It is something I have always wanted to lea...

I am so crazy that it has taken me this long to uncover a habit that is completely destructive for me! Last night I decided to make myself a healthy sweet treat by mixing cottage cheese with SugarFree, FatFree chocolate pudding mix. Well, it WAS good but I ended up eating three servings, even though I wasn't hungry anymore. The rest of dinner was crab and salad greens, steamed broccoli and whole wheat pasta with salsa and mushrooms. Well as if that wasn't bad enough, it set of something and I fo...

Let's get one thing straight : I am not out to "lose weight". I am out to "lose fat". My philosophy towards exercise and diet is that it should be part of your life, and your ultimate goal should be to just be healthy. That being said, I do desire to have a six-pack. It's free (you can choose to pay for the gym or supplements, but essentially all it takes is a time investment) and I don't see why I don't deserve to be able to take my shirt off and have hard abs. You know how some people ...

Basically I've decided that if I'm down to 145 by Sunday then for lunch Sunday my wife and I are going to this Italian Restuarant. She's doing BODY FOR LIFE and she's doing great and Sunday is her cheat day so I'll come along and cheat too. IF I meet that goal. YESTERDAY'S DIET : Breakfast - shake (strawberries, fat free milk, supplement powder, egg scramblers) , peanut butter, english muffin, crackers with cottage cheese almonds and cheese LUNCH - chicken breast, brown rice, veggies...