104.3 kg = 229.9 lbs

Weight: 104.4 kg = 230.16 lbs *with cereal in stomach!*

My methodology here will be very simple, but will require a lot of self-motivation to keep myself from stopping. I plan to jog every morning and every night for these seven days while (and this is the important part) maintaining my current diet. That isn’t to say that my current diet is absurdly unhealthy. I eat a bowl of Fibre1 cereal with milk (for those that know me, the “with milk” part may be hard to believe) in the morning, and I’ll usually grab a 6″ roast beef w/cheese sub from Subway, with Baked Lays chips for lunch. Dinner always varies between Swiss Chalet (chicken) and Japanese (more chicken, albeit presented in a different fashion), and other things not terribly healthy.

By posting here with an update once a day, I hope to retain that motivation to continue and see this experiment through. Although if one thinks about it, I’m really only holding myself accountable to the 2 or 3 people that still visit this website, so perhaps I’ll post to Twitter as well.

This morning’s jog will be especially tough not because it’s the first in a long time, but because I’ve been feeling pretty awful lately. The long weekend of holiday food got the better of me, apparently. So with that, I will end my post with my current weight.

104.6 kg | 230.6 lbs

For now, I’ll just write down what I’ve been thinking lately. I want more and more to learn either Mandarin or Cantonese (or both). I wish I had more of a background in mathematics and physics. I’m pretty sure Richard Feynman is an idol of mine, if I had to have one. I love taking care of my wife. No matter how hard I try, I can’t stay away from politics. Perhaps one day I’ll run for something in the US. Maybe start campaigning now? A historic 10 or 15 year campaign? Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was a great television show. Finished the first and only season the other night (Thanks again Chad for that gift on my birthday), it was very entertaining. It’s really too bad NBC cut the show.

Yes, I still have a website.

The two and a half years since that weekend in October have been a roller coaster, and I’m lucky enough to say there have been far more peaks than valleys. I’m finally settling down in Canada, as a permanent resident I have a full-time job, and our amount of housework is becoming a routine. If you had told me just three years ago, as a sophomore in college, that by this time I’d be where I am now, I would have laughed you out of my dorm room.

So what does the future hold? Startlingly, this has only been the beginning; the introduction to the rest of my life. My hope for the near future is that I can really begin pursuing the passions of life after buckling down in a new home and a new life. My hope for the long term is only that I get to spend each and every moment with my wife – my better half, and my best friend.

A Happy Anniversary, indeed.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/04/poll-texas-republicans-approve-of-rick-perrys-secession-remarks.php

I saved the best poll result for you to find out at the end of that page. Trust me, it’s worth it for the shock factor really.

Personally, I’m against using it as a personal status updater. Why limit your personal status to 140 characters when you have a Facebook account? Or your own blog? There are so many more methods of getting out what you’re doing this very instant much more effectively, and Twitter will not survive as a fad for long if more and more people use it in this very way (and they are).

My unfortunate prediction for Twitter is the following: Although it will remain useful as a means for professionals in certain industries to communicate effectively, it will die as a fad within a year. Growth has been extremely high recently, given the popularity given to it by certain celebreties (Opera, Ashton Kutcher, etc.), however these new users are almost all using it as a limited Facebook status. They will use it for a month, and slowly move on to other things and forget about it entirely. It’s just the nature of things, but mainly the nature of fads. Harumph.

“Don’t fix, prevent.”

Anyway, you can now see my four latest tweets (why four? Because that’s what I decided, haha) on the far right sidebar of this page. You can also click the link “Follow me on Twitter” to see my Twitter homepage.

Cheers!

So, my remedy? After sitting and stewing in anger, I followed this advice and gave in. I took the background property off of the table row and put it on its parent, the table itself. Problem solved averted.