My wife is enjoying the show The Bachelor this season.

How is the show not prostitution?

Just wondering.

Two weeks ago I started seriously trying to lose weight.  That first morning I stepped on the scale in the bathroom and wrote down the value it displayed.  The scale has a history of inaccuracies so I took two precautions.  First, I weighed myself twice and made sure that the value was the same both times.  Second, I assumed that the value was totally wrong and kept myself from getting worked up about it.  I just want to keep track of the overall trend, even though I know the figures are probably off.

One week later I stepped on the scale (twice) again.  The scale said I had lost weight in those first seven days.  It actually said I had lost 16.6 pounds.  Yeah, right.  In seven days I had lost 16.6 pounds.  I mean, I did get a haircut in that time so maybe it’s close, but 16.6 is just silly.

I stepped on the scale again today (twice).  The scale said I had gained 8.8 pounds over the second seven days, but lost 7.8 overall.  That’s probably close to accurate as I tend to drop off a lot of weight really fast, and then level out after a few weeks. 

Still, it’s not something I am going to focus on.  The current value is less than the original value.  The overall trend is downward.  That makes me happy.

Of course, I forgot my slim fast breakfast and lunch at home this morning.  I’m going to have to get lunch at the cafeteria.  Not a good start to week three.

My wife is browsing the iTunes store and torturing me by playing We Built This City by Starship. I tried to fight back with Jefferson Starship’s Ride the Tiger and Jefferson Airplane’s The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil, but it’s a losing battle when her Mac fights my iPad.

In keeping with the theme of the weekend, I just put on Star Wars Episode III. When it’s done my step son and I will have watched all three prequels in just over 24 hours.

Awesome!

My step son and I saw Episode I in 3D today. The 3D effect was really well done. It was subtle. There wasn’t any goofiness with things popping out of the screen at you. It just provided some additional depth that was pretty cool.

The movie is still far and away the worst of the six Star Wars flicks, but as I often say, bad Star Wars is still better than just about anything else.

After seeing it 50 times on the small screen the crappy parts of the story start popping out and over power everything else. Seeing it on the big screen has the opposite effect. Except for every single shot of Jar Jar. In the theater, Episode I is a good time.

Today is a huge day. Today marks the official start of the Boston Red Sox redemption. Last season’s collapse was epic. The new season offers a chance to wipe the pain away.

Today is truck day. The day that the Red Sox load up their trucks with all of the equipment needed for spring training and start rolling for Florida.

John Lester has already reported to camp. Spring training is imminent!

Go Red Sox!

We haven’t had any real snow at all this winter. It’s been so warm that what we have gotten has been gone within a day or two.

The forecast called for 4 inches over night. We didn’t get anything. Now they are saying we will get an inch of slush today.

Bullet dodged.

After last year’s twice-a-week blizzards, we’ve earned a winter off.

What’s on the agenda for the weekend?

Piano lessons, Star Wars, snow, band practice, spending time with my family.

Sounds perfect.

I didn’t do any musical work last night.  I did laundry and started watching Downfall.  You know that meme we had a few years ago with Adolf Hitler freaking out over things like Michael Jackson’s death and what not?  Hitler throwing a tantrum over pop-culture crap?  Downfall is the movie that scene is taken from.  It’s intense.  It’s also in German.  I had to stop watching less than half way through last night because my eyes were getting heavy and I couldn’t read the subtitles fast enough.  I’ll try to watch the rest tonight.

The Bruins play tomorrow and apparently Tim Thomas is too dumb to realize that by taking a job as a public figure, such as a professional athlete, you sacrifice a great deal of your privacy.  He also apparently believes that the 5th amendment covers hockey locker room interviews.  That’s all I’m saying on this.  As for the Bruins playing tomorrow, they play a good team so they shouldn’t play down to the competition the way they did against the Sabers Wednesday night (they played waaaaay down to the Sabers and got the shit kicked out of them 6-0) so we can hope they’ll put up more of an effort.  Unfortunately the game is a Saturday matinee so they are clearly going to lose, regardless of their effort.

Oh well, I’ll be at the movies watching Star Wars Episode I in 3D.  It’ll be awful.  I’ll tell you all about it.

Some things in life are necessary. Something’s aren’t. An example of something that is necessary is oxygen. Yeah, we need that, you know?

One thing that is totally unnecessary is Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace in 3D. I mean, really… Is there a point? No. It’s a sad money grub, that is all.

Having said that: my step son and I are going to see it on Saturday. I am such a fanboy it’s just embarrassing.

But the lightsaber fight is sooooo cool.