So I've given up modified corn products and I feel pretty-good. As a side bonus I've dropped from 208.6 lbs to 200.2 lbs as of this morning. What's nifty is that I'm not suffering. Corn syrup is one of those mysterious things. It makes crappy food addictive. It's a strange thing to be sitting in a drive through cue thinking about how none of the food sounds good, I'm not even hungry. Yet my plan is to get the biggest burger as an upsized meal, and a milk shake. But who cares!?

What's important is that I'm almost under 200 pounds. I think my peak was in the mid-220's. To my recollection this would be the first time since the year 2000.

In that year I got a sinus infection that, of course, I didn't get treatment for. Western Medicine is for whinny wussies and all that. The infection spread to my lungs. Bummer. But I was pretty well committed to my strategy of no treatment. So for three weeks I ate almost nothing, slept for 18 hours a day and occasionally limped over to campus to take quizzes. When I was up and about I was a bit weaker but I was also beautiful. And that's what's really important, yes?

As a sidebar: The college I was attending, UC Santa Barbara, has the highest rate of male eating disorders.

I promptly resumed my 75% Jack-In-The-Box diet.

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# posted by Max : 8/20/2006 09:11:00 AM 0 comments

It's entirely unclear how I'll accomplish this feat. Though I do think I should avoid the career path of physicist and boxer. The temptation for comparison would be to great. I think the first guy to beat is this Weber chap. Who has heard of him? the hardest might be a three way tie between Baucus, Kellerman, and Planck. The good new is that eventually Baucus will be out of office and forgottern, and Kellerman's show might well get canceled. Leaving only Planck.

Oddly enough, Max Baer is from Livermore like me.

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# posted by Max : 2/28/2006 11:36:00 PM 0 comments

The Australian Aborigines (I think it's them, perhaps its the Mongols?) rate the coldness of a night by how many dogs you'll need to cuddle with. The coldest is a 3 dog night. It was also a band from the early 70's; but I digress.

For the last couple of days the low has been in the negative 20's and the highs have been in the single digits. Currently its about 2 and I'm enjoying both degrees. Truth be told its not as unbearable as one might think. We don't have winds so no wind chill, normally its sunny, and the air is very dry. Though I've learned a lot of interesting things about the cold. Let me enumerate a few of them.

• Trucks start but they don't like it.
• The refrigerator never turns on. Its more like a cabinet
• Below -10 it hurts a bit to take a deep breath.
• In the short trip from the supermarket to the car flowers will wilt and die.
• Pipes burst
• Locks freeze
• Large amounts of store shelf space that used to hold ice melt, space heaters, and heat-tape sit empty between shipments
• Pedestrians become less willing to dart in front of cars on icy streets.
• Ice cream sounds less appealing
• The office admin has trouble typing with gloves on.
• You find yourself dry-humping a space heater
• You can make zero radius u-turns. With some practice you can even do them on purpose.
• An apparently unfrozen bottle of water will flash freeze when you try to drink it.
• You drink more; not only because it warms you up but also because alcohol remains a liquid at colder temperatures,

Speaking of burst pipes: Over the summer we scavenged the power cords for the heat tape. And come this year only some of it got plugged back in. I discovered the oversight and plugged it all in. It, of course. had froze and burst. That basement is pack to the gills with hastily stacked trim, doorframes and faux brass headboards. To turn off the water I had to scramble over all this while getting drenched. When its -20 out and 20 inside, it's not fun to be wet.

The Continental Divide in the Morning from the Colorado Mineyard

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# posted by Max : 12/08/2005 05:05:00 PM 0 comments

I've had a few comments on the hair. Allow me to summarize:

• Good God where did it go?
• You look fine but when does the hair return?
• I hated it at first but now I'm kinda feeling it.
• You shouldn't cut on yourself.
• Where you drunk?
• Well, I guess its easy to keep.
• Stressed?
• You've inspired me to butch my own.
• Is it ok if I don't tell you what I think?
• Where did you get that scar?
• The great thing is that it will grow back.
• Did you lose a bet?
• Did you join some kind of brotherhood? And is that brotherhood OK with us still being friends?
• That's such an unnatural look for you.
• Oh my God! Are you sick? How long do you have?
• Can I put an Astros hat on you and push you around in a wheelchair so that I can get into sporting events for free?
• Did you change something?
• You look like the crazy dude from Full Metal Jacket and or Slingblade.

For the record: I'm not married to the bald. The hair will be short for the winter as it makes the hat wearing less of a disaster. After that it's hard to say. Not having bedhead, hat hair, or cowlicks is awfully appealing.

Like I'm all mysterious or something.

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# posted by Max : 11/18/2005 08:13:00 AM 1 comments

Yes winter is cold. But the ramifications are different than one might think. For me one of the more annoying things is the need to were a warm hat. Since I don't have heat in my office I tend to wear one all day. When I were a hat my hair goes all crazy. Only a shower can get it back in line. I'm a bit sick of it, so....

Problem Solved

Do I look good? I'm getting a mixed response. What I can say is: it may not look good but it wont ever look bad.

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# posted by Max : 11/04/2005 11:11:00 PM 1 comments

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# posted by Max : 9/07/2005 10:30:00 PM 0 comments

I purchased a mess of books. Mostly accounting, econ, dog training, and some audio books on history. I also got Full Metal Jacket and the book of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (hopefully not the bastardized movie version).

Feeling some stress today so I've rethought my scheduling. I hope to start farming some tasks out to Keeley but I may well go farther. Now that I've moved to the Washington Street it should be easier to work more standard hours. I'm going to put in 8 hours a day (9-5) on SBP and two to three for SBS (5-dinner). On weekends I'll play catch up but nothing more. This is my new plan in brief. Though if I know me it won't make it though tomorrow.

Time for a hobby I think. Perhaps art? Writing a novel? The apocalypse preparedness program says I should load ammo. Keeley, our friend and new admin, promised to teach me to pay guitar. I'm debating taking Rocky with me tonight (first night at Washington). It might be more trouble than its worth but hopefully he will do his thing in the backyard and make the place feel less empty.

My pants seem loose but yet I feel fatter. Might be time for an exercise routine. I've found myself short of breath. Jogging is hard on my knee. Might require a rowing machine. Perhaps I should bite my shy bullet and join the gym and get my swim on.

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# posted by Max : 5/29/2005 11:18:00 PM 0 comments

For the time being I live on the mezzanine in the back of what used to be the "Montana Bar". It's a temporary home. Its fun to live in a 105 year old building and have a loft sorta set up.

My home, The Bar.

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# posted by Max : 3/31/2005 02:25:00 PM 0 comments

Who says I don't pull my weight?

Putting in A Good 20 Minutes of Pulling Nails.

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# posted by Max : 3/21/2005 01:11:00 PM 0 comments