Get ready kids, the onslaught of RPM Challenge posts is coming. I just signed up for the 2023 run this February. Musically speaking I’ve been asleep at the wheel for months, but once February gets here… woah boy, it’s going to get obnoxious around here.
Bring it on, I’m ready.
How many days left until SantaDay?
I still have one present left to get. I won’t have the car until after work tonight so it will have to wait until tomorrow. Why not go out after work? Because I am planning on doing some holiday themed baking. Can you believe it? Jen and I had talked about baking cookies and I think that has to happen tonight. I also want to make some Tewksbury Tweets. I can’t eat any of these things myself, but I want to have them around for anyone who comes over on christmas eve. I snuck out to Market Basket before work and got the last thing we need to make the tweets (no relation to twitter, of course). We should be good to go. I just have to get through the work day, and then cook dinner, and then eat dinner, and then it’s baking (or no-baking for the Tewksbury tweets) time.
Santa will be here in three days. You had best be extra good if you’re on the presents vs coal bubble, right? Good luck, you naughty people.
I don’t have a clue how to properly edit photos. Not a single clue. I’ve been messing around with Lightroom on my iPad though and thought I’d post something for shits and giggles.
This picture was taken in my first roll of film and developed at a drugstore.
Once I got past the glee of seeing my first film shots it occurred to me that this kinda looks like moldy shit. Was it me? Was it the film? Was it the developing? Was it the scan? I didn’t know.
Here is a similar picture taken with my DSLR.
The colors here look accurate while the colors on the film pic look like two day old diarrhea. I tried messing with the film image in Lightroom to see if I could fix things a little.
I think it’s better but still not right. I also don’t really know what I did to get here.
What does all this mean? It means I don’t have a clue, but I want to do more. It also means I’m not getting film developed at the drug store anymore because none of the film developed and scanned by Old School Film Labs looks this crappy.
We will see how the first black and white shots come out. Hopefully soon. Fingers crossed for happy results.
I really like that our bedroom has its own reading nook. Comfy chair, foot rest, and bright lights.
My father has been in a rehab hospital for weeks now. Today we got some good news. He is very likely coming home tomorrow. We’re not 100% sure, but it’s looking that way. Oh, what a relief.
Changing the subject, dinner last night was meatballs and gnocchi. It was delicious. Today for lunch I had leftover meatballs. Again, delicious. I had scrambled eggs for breakfast and they gave me a little trouble. Not a lot, but enough to make me pause for a while in the middle of the meal. Lunch? No trouble at all. 3.9 ounces of meatballs without issue. Oh, what a relief.
I think I have one more person to get an xmas present for. Not sure when I am going to take care of that. Tonight after dinner maybe? Depends on what else is going on. I should try to play guitar tonight but I kinda don’t see it happening. I should do what ever needs to be done outside of the house today though, as we’re going to get spanked by a huge storm over the next couple of days. Yeah, I should go out tonight. Shit. I don’t want to. Oh well.
I really want to go out to shoot some pictures tomorrow. I don’t think the storm will hit until later in the day. I should have gone this morning though because it was sort of sunny and tomorrow will likely be cloudy. I wonder if the weather will be clear on Saturday. Should I go to the ocean for sunrise on Christmas Eve? That would be fun.
Okay. Lunch break is over. Clicking that little blue publish button now. Until next time, my reader(s) and only friend(s).
I couldn’t resist. Sorry.
Today is the first day of winter. The shortest day of the year. I hate winter. On the upside, the days are going to start getting longer which means more time for pictures before work and more time for daylight after work. Those are both great things Unfortunately it also means three months of it getting colder and colder before the weather starts improving. I hate snow, I hate cold. I like light.
I wanted to take some pictures before work this morning but here I am typing to all of you instead. I’m trying to eat some scrambled eggs for breakfast but it’s going slow. My stomach is a little weird this morning.
Three work days left until our three day Christmas weekend. Four work days after that and we hit our New Years weekend, which extends into the Disney trip. That means December 30th is my last work day before we go on vacation. You may notice that I am going to mention that a lot over the next two weeks. Why? Because I really, really, really want to go on vacation. I literally cannot wait.
For now though, it’s time to sign in to work. Happy first day of winter, everyone. Try not to freeze your ass off over the next three or four months, m’kay?
Boston Harbor, taken next to the Aquarium. That is Logan Airport’s tower in the distance. Too bad the image looks like crap, eh?
It’s Wednesday morning. I’ve done my 30 minute jog in place thing. I’ve had three days in a row with consistent stats and I finally figured out why. I slowed down my pace a little and for some reason my watch can handle that. The faster I trot, the messier the stats get. Why? No idea. Anyway, it’s Wednesday and like all Wednesdays I stepped on that scale. Happy Wednesday is Weigh In Day, everyone!
I wasn’t expecting much. Last week was spectacular (six pounds!) but it also followed a few days where I was feeling pretty sick to my stomach and didn’t eat a lot. I think the last two weigh in posts mention that I wouldn’t be surprised if I have a gain in the near future, just as my body’s correction to the few bad days. That didn’t happen, but the loss this week is pretty small. I am down 1.4 pounds. How do I feel about that? I feel awesome about that. I was a little nervous that I might gain a bit and my total would drop below 200 pounds and that would make me sad, but it didn’t happen so it’s awesome.
My current weight is 247.2 pounds. My BMI has dropped from 30.3 to 30.1. I did the math and I will change from an obese BMI to an overweight BMI when I hit 246 pounds. Weight loss since the surgery is 184.2. The goal is to get that over 200 pounds by January 19th, but we’ll see if that is possible or not. We need to see how things trend over the next few weeks. I’m hopeful I can get there. It would be cooler to hit it a couple of weeks earlier than that while we’re at Disney World. We’ll see. The total weight loss since the first check in is up to 204.8. That’s amazing.
So there you have it, folks. Happy 33 weeks! Happy 63.46% of a year!
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