After a botched attempt to have my dad and step-mom visit for Thanksgiving, I was always looking for a time when they could come up. The stars aligned for a visit over Father’s Day weekend. Neither my dad nor my step-mom have ever been to NYC, so I knew it would be an exciting visit […]
After a slightly disappointing May, I decided I needed to step it up in June. And the results for June certainly show that I was doing something right. I lost an amazing 13 pounds over the course of the month. Not too shabby if I must say so myself. I’ve upped my running to 3.5 […]
Well, ok, maybe not a super celebrity, but I did run into someone fairly important in NYC today. I was getting on the elevator with some co-workers after a second-hand smoke break and after I got on, these two huge security guys get on, and then Mayor Michael Bloomberg himself. You know, Bloomberg as in […]
So after posting about it the other day, Maggie and I were grocery shopping yesterday and lo and behold, they had started carrying baked Cheetos in the big bag just like all the other Baked chips Frito Lay sells. I was pumped up. It prompted me to say “Post it, and they will come.” 🙂
On Thursday I ran in the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge 3.5 Mile run in Central Park. The event is designed to get office workers out of the office and doing something active. They hold the race in several cities throughout the year and then have a championship race back here in New York City […]
So I was talking with my dietitian during my appointment last month and I was telling her about finding “Reduced Fat” Skippy Crunchy Peanut Butter. I thought I had found something really good. Maggie did as well, since in her diet, she tries to minimize both carbs and fats. But we were both wrong…a closer […]
Maggie and I were sitting around a couple of weeks ago trying to decide what we wanted to do for our 3rd wedding anniversary. After going through some ideas, we decided that it would be a good idea to try and rent a beach house on the Jersey Shore. We started looking for rentals for […]
Whew, what a month. We had visits from friends and family for two weekends in a row in the middle of the month. I wasn’t my best on those weekends, but I also wasn’t too out of line. Although, the crab stuffed lobster with some England Clam chowder and then the killer, a piece of […]
After making the mistake of seeing Episode I at a Midnight showing, and then actually making the mistake of seeing Episode II in general, I was hesitant to even think about seeing Episode III. Then I read Kevin Smith’s review of a pre-screening and he said this was the Episode all the “haters” were waiting […]
Last Wednesday Maggie and I finally got to use our tickets for SPAMalot, which is the musical version of the movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail“. If there is any reason to catch a musical on Broadway, this is it. I laughed from the minute to curtain went up to the end of the […]
It’s that time again. A month has passed, and I need to give out the weight loss update. I visited the dietitian for my monthly appointment and got on what I am calling the “official” scale. I had a pretty good month, I lost 14 lbs this month. A slower pace than my previous 22 […]
Maggie already wrote pretty much everything I wanted to say, so go check out her entry about our viewing of the off-broadway production of HurlyBurly.
Maggie posted about this already, but I thought I would describe it here as well. Thursday night we went to the “Stars in the Sky” benefit for the Association of Hole in the Wall Camps, a set of camps for kids with life threatening illnesses founded by Paul Newman. This event was amazing! Our tickets […]
I realized I hadn’t posted the outcome of my inquiry of my umbrella’s “lifetime warranty”. I posted previously that the poeple who make the umbrella obviously weren’t located anywhere with some pretty crazy wind. But as it turns out, the company is in NEW JERSEY! Not 20 minutes away. I called them up and told […]
On Sunday, Maggie and I thought it would be cool to go see the nation’s capital during the peak of the cherry blossoms. Neither of us had been to DC before, so we also were excited to see the monuments and government buildings. We drove down to within about 10-15 miles of DC itself and […]
The image most people have of New York is a tough town where no one cares about anyone. And to be honest, on most days, people would rather walk over you than help you. You get really used to basically ignoring everyone around you, especially when dealing with the Subway (be it on the train […]
A friend of mine just sent me this link:http://students.washington.edu/colin2/breakformers/Videoplayer06.htmlIt’s a bit crazy. Some people have entirely too much time on their hands.
I went to my dietician for a followup visit yesterday, which would include the all important “weigh in”. Well, I did pretty damn good for my first 4 weeks. I’ve lost 22 lbs. since my first visit. That’s pretty nice. Although I am well aware that it’s going to slow down. To help combat that, […]
Man, some things should just not be claimed. I bought a “windproof, lifetime guarantee” London Fog umbrella a couple of months ago. It’s really taking some beatings here, mostly while walking along the Hudson on the way to work or on the way home. The wind along that stretch could probably give the wind in […]
Ok, not Apple’s Tiger, but an actual Gibbon versus two Tigers. It’s quite an amusing video: Gibbon vs Tiger