I did my push ups early today with the promise of an ice cold Guinness or two as a reward. I can feel a difference in my arms now while doing the push ups. I don't know if they feel easier, but they feel better. If that makes any sense.
My totals went up considerably since Monday and I'm pretty happy about that. The push ups felt easier today, but I still punked out at 20 on the final set.
We are watching the 1983 mini-series V right now. The execution is very cheesy, but it has strong storyline. While we have been watching we are pulling up imdb to see where else we have seen these actors.
This got us talking about other movies in the genre and I brought up one of my childhood favorites, The Last Starfighter. My wife wasn't certain that she's seen it so I pulled up the imdb page for it. I thought to myself, why not check out the other things the writer has worked on. It turns out, not much, but he does have what looks to be a sequel in production.
I'm sure it won't be great but I'll most likely see that one in theaters if it ever comes out.
Edit: I love how they make "scientist" a dirty word and an evil profession.
Today was much harder than I expected. I did the next to lowest total number out of the 4 days today. I think that it should be getting easier.
...that I am married to the right woman.
We had a guest pastor at church yesterday and he was teaching on the giving of the gift of the Holy Spirit. He was trying to illustrate this idea by making a computer analogy. He said that the gift of the Holy Spirit is like an upgrade to your operating system, similar to going from xp to Vista or from Tiger to Leopard. This gift is better, faster, more efficient and best of all free! At this point my wife leans over and says "Shouldn't he be talking about linux? That sounds like Ubuntu."
I am a lucky man!
Friday should have been Day Three, but I felt awful when I got home from work and had to take a nap. It was also my wife's birthday and I needed to spend time with her on her special day so the push ups got postponed. Naturally, Saturday would have been the next best time to do my exercise, but I spent about 8 hours moving furniture into our new building at church so I didn't feel up to the challenge. Today was a very long day but I needed to push through and get Day Three out of the way so at 10:30 pm I got down on the floor.
Today was easier than I expected and I haven't had any soreness or fatigue yet. So, by my reckoning this is pretty successful already
This is the first real day of the 100 Pushup Challenge. It went a easier than I thought it would.
We'll see how it goes from here. Looking ahead at the program I should be doing 99 with intermittent breaks just 2 short weeks from now.
So I have decided to start the one hundred push up challenge. I used to be able to set down my beer, crank out 100 and pick my beer right back up again, but apparently something I was doing there was acting against the goal of being healthy or fit.
I took the initial test and I did 38 push ups. This puts me at level 4 out of 7 and I'm ok with starting out that way. Hopefully, soon it won't be hard to hit 100 again. I'm going to track my progress here and hope that the four of you don't mind.
This is totally safe for work, but the absolute grossest thing that I have ever seen.
I have never, ever been that drunk!
US swimming rep. talks about how to curb drownings
John Cruzat heads the US swimming diversity program. He came at the request
of members of the Brookland Baptist Church, where they met to talk about
how to curb the recent drownings in the Midlands.
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We have a US Swimming Diversity Program?
How will we know when US Swimming has reached maximum diversity?
Do we have an exit strategy for when maximum diversity has been obtained?
Is this department large enough to need a head?
Is it safe to assume that the department is funded by tax payers?
"Silver Alert" could be a reality in SC soon
Thursday on Nightcast, we told you about the "Silver Alert." It's just like
the Amber Alert, except the focus is on finding senior citizens like
Barbara Brunson, missing for five days so far.
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Maybe I'm too callous, but I think that this is totally funny.
One of these days I would love to see news get back to reporting actual news items. It's been a sad reality for quite some time now that, due to the 24 hour "News" networks, all of our input is pure fluff.
I am now officially excited for the start of the new season of The Office.
If you're not familiar you can get caught up at hulu.
I have finally updated my music page. Please check it out here and let me know what you think
Somehow I always pictured thing being a lot cooler and faster in the future but, it seems that we have settled for hyper color beer.
This came out a couple of weeks ago so if you knew about it / wanted to see it you probably already have. This is for those of you who may have missed it.
There is a poll up on the site. Please click through and answer whether anyone actually reads this blog on the upper right side.
So it's been an extremely long time since I have updated here and even when there were posts they haven't let anyone know what's going on in my life. With that in mind I'm going try to fill everyone in as much as possible.
My wife and I celebrated our third anniversary one month ago today. It seems like we have been together for much longer than that and at the same time like we were just married yesterday.
We have found a church and have been attending there for at least the past year and it has been a great blessing for both my wife and me. We have met several couples around our age who share similar interests and are likable. These are all things that we had been praying for for quite a long time.
We are still living on the family compound with My wife's Grandmother, Aunt, Uncle, Mother, Father, 2 Sisters and Brother as our neighbors. This is both a blessing and a curse. While we love them all and greatly appreciate the closeness that we share with them; at times it feels like we can't get started making our own lives together.
On the topic of making our own way we are about 20 weeks into our first pregnancy. We found out a week and a half ago that we are going to have a little girl, due sometime in the middle of December. This has proved to be more exciting, scary and overall emotional than either one of us expected, however, we are both very happy and can't wait to meet our daughter.
On the work front, I did not get into the program that I was trying for back in April of 2006. I also didn't get in when I applied in September that same year. I did, however, get a new position that satisfied all of the prerequisites so that when I applied in September 2007 I was accepted, albeit begrudgingly. The classes started in January this year so I had 3.5 months in a job that I knew I would be leaving very soon. I do not recommend that if you can avoid it. Once the classes started, work seemed to take over a lot of my time. There was a lot of overtime for reading and programming required. I finished the 3 month course at the top of the class and have now been in my new job for about 3 months.
It's been slow going but, it's a huge blessing as well. The raise was enough that I have been able to tell my wife that she does not have to work. If she chooses, she can go back but, she's not getting any pressure for me and I know that it's a weight off of her shoulders. With that in mind she has gone into full nesting mode and is, daily, making plans on how to best arrange the house for when the baby comes. I love seeing her light up and get excited about these things.
That's all that I can think of for right now.
This was forwarded to me by a long lost friend and it immediately rekindled my love for this band that I spent so much time following. I lost track but I know that I was present at more than 100 shows around the South East from 1997 through their breakup sabbatical in 2005.
