After another stop at Home Depot to get a quart of test paint for the home makeover that Susan’s coordinating, we headed up into Griffith Park for a hike from the Charlie Turner Trailhead located behind the still-under-construction observatory up to the 1,619-foot summit of Mt. Hollywood. Up and down with explorations of Joe Goldman’s …
Today marks the conclusion of the seventh week of my diet. And though I skipped last week’s weigh-in (on purpose), I didn’t stop eating healthy or increasing my exercise output. I had five straight sub-2,000 calorie days this past week and walked three miles a day for those five days — with a strenuous 17-mile …
A few moments ago I was sitting in front of the TV trying to kill some time before running some errands. I flipped over to HBO and The Ice Storm was in progress — specifically the scene where Elijah Wood’s character stands before a class at school woodenly delivering an oral report on molecules. I …
I did it, I got on The Phoenix and did the Griffith Park loop this afternoon. 17.11 miles and 113 minutes (and an 1,100 foot elevation gain) later and I had just enough energy to create a Flickr photoset of the experience.
I’m about an hour away from going and getting me and The Phoenix some of my as-yet-unattempted Griffith Park Loop, but in the meanwhile I’ve just been concocting in the kitchen. See lately, as part of my healthier eating kick, I’ve been doing the egg-substitute veggie scramble for breakfast. Then if I get a touch …
“Trending downward,” as they say. “Interesting,” I say. It actually may be too early to even make mention of this as anything other than an anomaly, but nevertheless my previous three days have seen a marked decrease in caloric intake with no effects… no hunger, no blood/sugar irregularities. Nothing. It’s all good. Perhaps its my …
A couple days ago I went and got something I’ve wanted for awhile: a sub-hundie basic digicam that would fulfill my personal directive never to be anywhere without an image capture device. I’ve been making due and good on that promise with my phonecam, but it’s last resort, at best. Not that we’re deficient in …