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Really short book review: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
It’s been a long time since I blogged. I’m paying $11.95 a month for this stupid site so I ought to write something more often. So here is a really short review of a book I read recently. The book is “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson. I stumbled upon this book…
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Some thoughts on prayer
On Wednesday afternoon, April 22, 2009, I was at a varsity baseball game at Legacy Park in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. William Chrisman High School was playing Fort Osage High School in a tournament. Just before the game began, I saw a shaven-headed fellow in an Indians baseball uniform walk out of the Fort Osage dugout…
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Day 72 of fitness plan
All this working out is for the birds. I ran two miles yesterday and did 53 push-ups today. Weight:285.5 pounds Yesterday’s exercise:Week 8 Day 1 of the couch-to-5k plan. Today’s exercise:Week 4 Day 1 of the hundrdedpushups.com plan. 5 sets (12,14,11,10,6).
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Day 60 of fitness plan
Today is Jill’s 15th birthday. I took her to the license bureau this morning to get her learner’s permit, and then I let her take the wheel for the drive to school. She did pretty good. I was sick with the flu on Monday and Tuesday so I skipped my workout both days. The neuropathy…
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Day 49 of fitness plan
I took the dog for a 40-minute walk today as is becoming my Saturday habit. I take lots of pictures with my phone while we’re out, so I decided to start a Flickr set to contain the least crappy ones. The set is called “Seen While Walking the Dog” Weight:285.0 pounds Exercise:Day off from running…
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Day 26 of fitness plan
I’ve stuck to Weight Watchers four days in a row now, and either the scale is broken, or I’m losing a lot of weight fast. I’m betting the scale just sucks. It’s a 10-year-old digital bathroom scale in which I haven’t changed the battery in ages, but until its proven one way or the other,…
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Many homes on the web
I was updating my media collection on Amazon today so that I can get better recommendations of new books to read, and I realized that I’ve got public profiles on a bunch of social networking sites. I thought I would try to keep better track of what they all are, and get rid of the…
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Day thirteen of fitness plan
I’m on vacation today. So, I’m going to goof off more than usual, but I did manage to get my exercise done. I’ve been having a lot of trouble dragging myself out of bed in the morning lately, so I’ve decided that I’m going to spend today thinking of reasons to get out of bed…
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Thinking about joining a spiritual organization
I was reading this article on Slate about whether atheists or religious people are happier. It came to the conclusion that religious people are happier on the whole, but not because of their religion. They are happier because they are connected to a community. That makes sense to me. So now I’m thinking that I…
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Day seven of fitness program
Weight: 279.5 pounds Exercise: Took Ollie for a 25 minute walk around the neighborhood. It’s my off-day from both the pushups and the running. We’ve had our English Setter, Ollie, for 10 years this month. He was a full-grown stray when we took him in. Michelle’s sister Billie found him outside of her work near…