View From the Bushes

While I was getting ready for work, my son asked me if I was going to play my computer game when I got home. My daughter chimed in at that point to say that her teacher had talked about the evil, mind-rotting effects of video games. It's one thing (if people on the far right are to be believed) if my children are being indoctrinated with moral relativism, dependence and communism (not to mention drinking flouridated water), but when you bad mouth video games, you've crossed a line. Things have been said which cannot be unsaid. It's for reasons like this that people end up home-schooling their kids. Of course, that was this morning; now that it's later I'm about to write in my blog about something which started a little over a week ago and I can't get my atrophied mind to decide whether or not I've already written about it. I tried going back and reviewing my entries to see if I could tell, but without the benefit of 3-D graphics I'm having a really hard time maintaining my interest.

In any case, the wellness coordinator where I work came and gave a speech about a week ago (man I have the strongest feeling of deja vu -- damn video games!) and talked about the mathematics of dieting. He mentioned that though exercise is very important, if you really want to lose weight you need to cut out some food. Which can be particularly difficult, since portions are so large. She also mentioned smaller, more frequent meals. In any case, it pricked me to the core and I resolved to start eating less. Basically, my goal was to look at each meal and say how much would I normally eat and then cut something, even if it was a small thing, out. I'm happy to report that I appear to have lost almost 5 lbs already. Of course, I think they say the first five pounds is the easiest, or is it the last five lbs is the hardest? I can never remember.

As you can imagine, it's pretty pathetic to be forced to talk about food and dieting. I imagine that only the weather is more cliched, but maybe not even that. To make up for it here's a link to an article debunking the 1 trillion dollar estimate people have been throwing around when talking about the Mars mission.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross