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The last vacation…

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

…before the baby comes that is. We are going to Galena Illinois for a few days. Never been there before, don’t know much about it… I just hope it’s fun and restful.

Here are some of the links that I looked at prior to choosing Galena:

http://www.galena.org/
http://www.galena.com/
http://www.galenachamber.com/

I’ll let you know if we like it or not.

Weight loss in the age of overconsumption, the game is afoot.

Monday, January 5th, 2009

A few of us from my church are doing a type of “The Biggest Loser” contest that started on January 3rd and will be going until April 25th. We will have weekly weigh-ins and prizes will be given out every week for the “biggest loser” of the week, with a grand prize to the overall “biggest loser” at the end. To that end I have signed up to track my caloric intake at “Calorie Count”, an about.com website.

This is a great site that helps me track calories, fat, carbs and protein as well as exercise. My favorite part of the site is the recipe analysis feature where you add a new recipe and it spits out all the nutritional information based on the raw ingredients entered. It is not 100%, for instance, it is not easy to switch out a single ingredient with something similar to adjust the recipe when the analysis comes back slightly off, but that is a little thing. I have found that the database is fairly comprehensive and it is easy to add items not listed and tag them for quick reference in the future.

The best part about the site is that it is free (actually ad sponsored). About.com has always been really good about the quality and type of ads allowed so having to put up with that to get such a good service for free is more than acceptable to me.

BABY!!! (Three exclamation points for emphasis.)

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Can you believe it? Me and Heather are having a baby. Me as a father, what is the world coming to?

The due date is June 23rd, 2009. Barring a moment of weakness, we are going to go ahead and let the gender be a surprise.