The assorted ramblings of a Midwestern writer in New York City http://www.rumored.com/journal Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:32:56 PDT http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080818.html Aside from the Rockies, the Brewers are one of my favorite teams, and although you miss a lot of the fun when you're watching them at an away game at Dodger Stadium (sausage race, Bernie Brewer, Miller Park, indoor plumbing, a stadium that doesn't suck complete shit) it ... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:32:52 PDT http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080818.html http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080813.html I bought these tickets mostly to see two teams I'd never seen, in a stadium I'd never seen. I had almost no vested interest in either team, except maybe a minor interest in the Mariners, because I lived in Seattle for four years and never saw them. The drive to Anaheim took about an hour, and had its moments, but ... Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:06:12 PDT http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080813.html http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080811.html Something about Weight Watchers - you set an end goal for your weight loss after you lose 10% of your body weight. The goal has to be within your BMI range, but you decide where it is in there. Then when you reach goal weight, you have six weeks of maintenance, where you still come to meetings, still weigh in, except instead of trying to lose, you're trying to stay within two pounds of your target. Once ... Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:27:12 PDT http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080811.html http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080728.html keeping the weight off, because I can't keep eating at Subway every day forever. I did, however, lift my ban on Quizno's recently, and I ate there once ... Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:22:30 PDT http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080728.html http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080725.html this hand-edited mess that takes forever to edit. This is much easier, and I can also get other people to guest-blog an entry, like all of the authors in the zine or books. So it should be fun - adjust your bookmarks accordingly, or for more fun, get some kind of RSS client and drop in the feed address. (I wish every single thing in the world had an RSS feed. So like, if I was sitting here and ... Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:57:44 PDT http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080725.html http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080723.html own bed and Sarah and the little ones. I went to a Rockies game again last night, and it was much better. My seats were good, up in the club level just above the home dugout, and ... Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:41:11 PDT http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080723.html http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080722.html carry-on in the car, and when I got home from work and opened it, all of the clothes were STEAMING like I just took them off a drycleaner's press. ... Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:28:40 PDT http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080722.html http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080718.html There must be a low pressure front moving in. I have four barometers in the house. Two are attached to my ankles and are size 11. The other two are chasing each other around the house like mad. If I want ... Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:56:30 PDT http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080718.html http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080716.html drive my car these days. Most days, I either eat lunch and dinner from the fridge, or walk, mostly to Subway, but there's another sandwich shop (Hogan's Heroes), that I hit when I can't do the Jared thing anymore. (Oddly enough, my favorite sub is now the Veggie Max. I still love the BMT, but my old holdout, a 6-inch BMT with cheese, bacon, and mayo, is about a weeks' worth of fat.) Anyway, I don't drive my ... Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:31:36 PDT http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080716.html http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080701.html three or four of those now; I should collect them and coat the outside of a suitcase with them. Or maybe put one on cafepress and make a t-shirt. (Actually, I would LOVE to, before my next Dodgers game, make a shirt that's a parody of the old "Raid Kills Bugs Dead" logo, but with "Penny Kills Umps Dead" and a sketch of an umpire getting hit in the face with a ball.) ... Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:08:14 PDT http://www.rumored.com/journal/html/20080701.html