September 2007

Mandy was recently looking through several older photos for some scrapbooking layouts, and she came across one of me when I was in college. Let’s just say it was more painful than sentimental - I certainly don’t look like that anymore!

So, I have decided to claw my way back. I have to say claw because the only time I have ever really exercised or lifted weights in my life was when I was in team sports. And attempting to have the discipline of lifting and exercising without a crowd of accountability partners is pretty hard.

I went and purchased the Gold’s Interchangeable Dumbbells, and a simple workout bench to get me started. I have spent money on gym memberships before but I am finding that if exercising requires me to go to one more place then it will never happen. So far I have been lifting well and I have set my goals which is always good.

Now I have to just keep Nehemiah from jumping on me in all my sore spots!

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To be quite honest, I am not sure what to think of godtube.com

I dip back and forth between it being wildly lame, and not really a big deal. But as I was going through the site, really for the first time, I noticed something and I wondered what you take from it.

After 10 pages of the top viewed videos over 95% of them were a 5 star rating. I went to other sections and they were almost all 5 star ratings. There is no way they were all that good, no way.

It makes me think godtube is what I first think about it, that it is a group hug of Christian people who have no interest in actually engaging the culture around it. At the same time I have to say that I have been unfairly cynical of the website from the first time I heard of it. So, what do you guys think?

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Jobs offers a consolation gift:

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/

Hey, $100 to the Apple store makes me feel better, how about you?

Well, we are heading towards being without power for 24 hours.
Can’t tell you how excited I’m not about a cold shower…

I was checking out the news on the blackout and they said it was
because of transformers overheating. There are two problems with this:

1. It was only 76 degrees yesterday, if their transformers over heat
in that kind of weather, then they are just ridiculous. Plus all news
about blackouts from overheating came in on Saturday, so are they just
using the same lame excuse for different problems now?

2. I don’t know if you saw the movie or not, but transformers are
advanced robot alien technology. Not only is it very unlikely that
they would overheat (they made it through the atmosphere), but they
really have nothing to do with the power grids.

Unless they had some sweet fight with the Decepticons, it which case
just say so and be sure to show us the sweet film footage.

Neighborhood Power Outage: SoCal Edison where are you?

Well the power has been out in our neighborhood since noon today. I
guess that the power has been out for other just a few miles north of
here for three days. My neighbors and I have all called and we were
all told they didn’t have a report of a problem…. Hmmm

It really is true that no matter what you are selling, everyone is in
the “Customer Service” business. SoCal Edison, you are getting a C-.
Fortunatley for you no one has another choice…

Tony Steward

Ah labor day, it isn’t really that great of a holiday when you are
away from family and the traditions you are used too. That said, we
had a relaxing lazy day that felt like a second Sunday, which was
nice. There has been an unreal heat wave hear in southern California,
with temperatures around 108 degrees - yikes! That meant we stayed
inside slot, and this evening we headed towards the coast for dinner
and a cool breeze. Zoe was very happy to get her macaroni and cheese.