Smart for Life–Week 14 »
by Glen A. After five straight days of workouts on the treadmill, and a 24-hour fast ending at dinner on Sunday, the best I could do for Week 14 was lose a little less than 10 ozs. The week started out promising, with the first weight loss coming Thursday morning. This despite the previously predicted [...]
NBA Basketball–Suns vs. Trailblazers »
by Glen A. Up until last year, I had never attended an NBA game. Cost was ultimately a reason, but so was the actual contest itself. We live closest to the Portland Trailblazers, a team, up until a couple of years ago, that was struggling to win games, let alone make it to the playoffs. [...]
Transporter 3 (iTunes) »
by Glen A. If you’re not a fan of the Transporter movies (shame on you, you should be), and even if you are, there’s three things you need to know about them: a) Jason Stratham, b) Corey Yuen and c) Luc Besson. I’m not ranking these folks in any particular order, but all three have [...]
HD movies for puchase on iTunes (via Apple TV) »
by Glen A. Since I first realized that iTunes would be making feature length movies available to rent or to own, I’ve been waiting for the day that these movies would come in high definition and 5.1 surround sound. A while back, that did happen for rent only, but finally a week or so ago, [...]
Nike Ball Pump 3 »
by Glen A. To complete my basketball buying trifecta Saturday, I perused the rather meager offerings of basketball pumps at our local Big 5 sporting goods store. There were only two kinds, and the one that was more plentiful (6-8) and in a wider array of colors (three–silver, dark blue and red), and the larger [...]
iPhone 3.0–I want my A2DP »
by Glen A. Ever since I bought my Motorola Bluetooth headset, I’ve been frustrated at the fact that the iPhone was not A2DP compatible. While I could answer calls in stereo (and it sounds pretty good), I can’t use the iPod part of the iPhone to listen to music through the headset. Since that was [...]
Smart for Life–Week 13 »
by Glen A. There’s definitely an odd versus even week theme developing. In the posts for week 11 and 12, I told how in the former I only managed to lose roughly 10 ozs., while in the latter, the amount lost went up to 3 lbs. 13 ozs. Well, in week 13, the margin of [...]
Kirkland Signature Martha Stewart Apple Raspberry Slab Pie »
by Glen A. Anyone wondering what Martha Stewart might have been doing with her time while she was in prison a while back need look no further than the frozen food section of their local Costco. Apparently, instead of cranking out luxury license plates or dry cleaning the linens, she was making alliances with Costco’s [...]
Wilson NCAA Wave Triple Threat Indoor/Outdoor basketball (WTB1228) »
by Glen A. Big basketball game coming up between our youth group and the old men. I haven’t personally been out on the hardwood for a long time, so I figured some practicing was in order. We have some basketballs at home, but neither one of them were in very good shape, and some time [...]
Lifetime Action Grip XL Basketball Sytem (Model #1573) »
by Glen A. Our church youth basketball team completed their season about a month ago, and since that time, they’ve been clamoring to play the old guys, thinking that their youth and skill would somehow overcome numbers and craftiness. Up until Friday, there was no firm date for it, just the suggestion that it would [...]
Bertolli Oven Bake Meals: Stuffed Shells in Scampi Sauce »
by Glen A. There are times when food tastes really good. Very rarely is it just because the food itself is awesome. It happens, every now and then. A lot of times, though, it has to do with other factors. Like, being on a diet and not eating normal food most of the time. Or, [...]
Smart for Life–Week 12 »
by Glen A. After only managing to drop a little over 8 ounces during Week 11, I somehow ended up losing 3.8 lbs. this past week, with a final low weight on Saturday, March 14 of 211.6. That put me on or very near a total of 30 pounds shed since I started in mid-December. [...]
Schick Quattro Titanium »
by Trevor A. Throughout my young life, I have used quite a few razors to shave with. And to this day I still think shaving stinks. This is the second time I’ve reviewed a razor, although this happens to be an accident. A good accident. My brother, for some bizarre reason, had to take the [...]
DiGiorno Garlic Bread Pizza–Pepperoni. »
by Glen A. Yeah, I’m on a diet, but I think it’s been well-documented by now that I do come off of it. Something work coming off of it for (in moderation, of course), is the Garlic Bread Pizza from DiGiorno. I can’t say I’ve had a pizza by DiGiorno that I didn’t end up [...]
Smart for Life–Week 11 »
by Glen A. For the first time since I started on the Smart for Life weight loss system, I’ve hit the proverbial wall. Not sure exactly why, though. As I’ve been chronicling regularly in my updates, I’ve not been strictly adhering to the plan, for whatever reasons, but have not done so in any excessive [...]
It’s We the People, not They the Government »
by Glen A. About 10 years ago, our family was having financial problems. That, naturally, led to feelings of frustration and desperation, since it was all that we could think of or talk about. There wasn’t any way to escape it–it surrounded us at every turn. Any time we wanted to move forward, to leave [...]
Smart for Life–Week 10 »
by Glen A. Last week I was short by half a pound in keeping with the average of 2.5 pounds a week. That meant to get back to the average I would need to lose at least three pounds. At stake was being able to claim a 25-pound loss from the time I first started [...]