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Windshield wiper motor dies after twenty minutes of operation. Guess how hard it was raining when I learned this?

*laugh* Fun! Reminds me of when I was still living at home. My mom was taking me somewhere via freeway thru a really bad part of town, in heavy rain. Naturally, her wiper blade tore. I ended up hanging out of the passenger window, left hand clinging to the frame, as I used my right arm to act as a wiper until we could pull off the road.

And that's not even getting started on how we managed to get it repaired, her fearfully shrinking from every pedestrian like they were going to attack us.

Well, I doubt anyone wants to hear about my exciting adventures of counting calories and trying to lose wieght to get healthier. Or drawing.

I've been doing the same thing. Not drawing.

I can tell everyone about the exciting world of quality assurance procedures!

Mach Sabre wrote:Well, I doubt anyone wants to hear about my exciting adventures of counting calories and trying to lose wieght to get healthier. Or drawing.

I'm in the same weight-loss boat. I've been doing [a personally customized variation of] Tony Horton's 10 Minute Trainer for the abs, and it's worked fairly well. Last I checked I was 172 lbs, which is good considering how close/over 200 I used to be. The belly is still there, but I can suck it in and ALMOST pass realistically. When I can, I walk 22-25 minutes to work, then again to get home (one of the few advantages of working where I do).

Aside from that, I've tried to cut back on some stuff. If I have ice cream, it's only once a day if we have it in the house ('cause on days off, I might be tempted to have an ice cream bar in the afternoon, then a bowl of Kemps or Edy's after dinner), I've cut back on cheese since moving to Wisconsin (I-RONY!), and soda ONCE a day, if at all.

I've been trying to eat somewhat smarter. Been eating a lot of roasted garlic Triscuits and if I get a candy bar on a break at work, I try to go for either the Hershey's Dark Chocolate or Almond bars (I hear the whole wheats/grains and monounsaturated fatty acids help you trim the fat). Then there's the acai-related diets I've heard melt away fat, and something about lemon and a used teabag in water.

I was pondering using Xenodrine (available at my local Walgreens). I've used pills and shakes to lose weight before, but I never felt like it took. But now that I'm more physically active, I might get some results. However, a week's supply (21 packets, taken thrice daily) is $25. Granted, I spent over five times that much to get a big, honkin' plastic T-Rex based on a 25 year old design...but still.

Aside from that...I'm mentally beating myself up for lazing away so many days off instead of trying to write some stuff in my and head and not getting in gear to move somewhere. Curse this brain and it's...too-much-thinkifying...ness.

SporkBot, I'm going to tell you right now that's a bad idea. That stuff is hard on your heart!

*sigh* Nothing ruins your day quite so quickly as comparing your current take-home pay to your grad school stipend, and realizing that the difference could be made up in a part-time job. I'm really underpaid.

pay in general sucks for most people.

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Thanks for that heads up, Tink. Did a little reading and turns out that Xenadrine isn't remotely worth it for me. I've already been to the emergency room twice in about 5 months. I don't need ANOTHER series of bills for them trying to keep my heart from bursting out of my chest like in the car-toons.

It's worth it for pretty much no one. You don't want to mess around with stimulants that strong unless you're under a doctor's care. But I've been tempted too- it's so easy to take shortcuts.

These days, I use Gyminee. The free content on the site is pretty solid, it's user friendly, and it's NOT blocked at work!

Is it just me or did the beautiful big navigation arrows on the main website suddenly shrink?

*lol*

What does everyone have against big arrows!? It's just blatant arrowism!

I like big arrows and i cannot lie, you otha brutha's can't deny...

They look the same size to me...

It's something from the Podcast