Chronicles: Alan B. Rowley II - Success Warrior - ECoach - P90X

So, I've Actually Lost My Mind

More on that story on another day.

In the mean time, a piece of eye candy for Mark. 

 

Look, Something Shiny!

I cover a lot of political and economical stuff now and with the current situation, it's pretty much a downer.  So, to offset that, I was going to start posting something positive in my life on Thursdays.  However, since it goes against my very nature to ever follow through with a plan, here's something that I ran across that I felt I needed to share.

Still, hopefully, this at least made you smile a little bit.

I'm Sharp

Following Mrs. Chili's lead, here's my super hero:

  Glorious, mind you? 

Umm, not sure how the program comes up with the title for the comic but okay.

Give it a try and leave a comment with a link to where we can find your alter ego.

Snippet Saturday - Obesity is not green, sugar poisoning, and my latest insanity

In my effort to be a more kind and gentle blogger, I was not the first to think of this.  It took scientists, cruel bastards that they are, to point this out.

Obese people contribute more to the global warming crisis than fit people.  I am not making this up. 

Here's the logic behind the theory.  Obese people eat about 18% more food than fit people.  That food has to be grown or fed, processed, and shipped out from all over the world.  Every aspect of food preparation and delivery requires energy.

The article also puts forth that fit people probably drive less than obese people meaning that obese people use more fuel and put more vehicle emissions into our air.  They do nothing to support this assertion though.  Regular readers of this blog know that there is a study that says that lean people tend to walk more than 6,000 steps a day and less-than-lean people walk less than 6,000 steps a day so it could be a correct assumption.

Touched on but not the topic of this article is the fact that the 18% extra that is being consumed could be used to feed people that don't get enough food.

Snippet Saturday

I started writing this on Saturday so in my mind it still counts as a Snippet Saturday post.  To those of you that will criticize this (PTE Rick), I'll give my standard reply.  "Bite Me!"

Cruel and Unusual Punishment - Benton County Jail is starving their inmates by supplying them with a meager 3,000 calories a day.  At least, that's what Broderick Laswell is claiming.  He has lost more than 100 pounds since being incarcerated and is all the way down to 308 pounds.  He claims that it's starvation and insists that he isn't exercising to lose weight.  He has filed a lawsuit.

He'd hate life on the outside.  I average 2,700 calories a day and exercise for a couple hours every day.  I'd probably gain weight if I ate 3,000 calories a day and didn't exercise but who would want to do that?

Broderick Laswell would.

Thanks to PTE Rick for sending me the link for this article.

Snippet Saturday - Penis Snatchers, The Secret, and Sailor

Is nothing safe anymore?  Honestly.  You can't ride in a taxi in Congo without worrying about someone stealing your penis and holding it for ransom.  There is some good news.  The police have arrested 13 of the penis snatchers so far.

13 sorcerors of the black arts who can make a man's penis disappear or shrink just by touching them.  You don't get your dick back until you give them some money.

I always thought the weenie thief was a Jeff Foxworthy joke but I guess they really exist.  Trey often has a good hold on his, you know, just in case a sorceror from Congo happens to be in the neighborhood.

Snippet Saturday - Family wagon, Naked Yoga, and Laundry

I mentioned the family wagon earlier this week.  Since then I've heard a couple of people talk about the new "cross-overs" coming out.  Station wagon must sound too family-ish, like that's a bad thing.  Hatchback sounds cheap.  Mini-SUV?  So now we have cross-overs.  What are people crossing over?

Probably downsizing from gas guzzling SUVs.  Trying to find something with the same sort of look but with a couple more miles to the gallon. 

I'm thinking about buying a mini-SUV myself for the gas mileage.  Saturn is supposed to be coming out with a plug-in hybrid Vue.  With my teeny little commute, I'd rarely need to buy gas. 

I'll be one of the hip people, cruising around in my cross over.

Snippet Saturday - Spring, Tek, the Room Formerly Known as the Office

PTE Rick called me yesterday and during our conversation he said that he was already getting calls for business.  He had to tell his most recent customer that he would have to wait until the weather was nice.  I guess there's a blizzard or something back there.

Since he told me the weather there, I felt that it was my duty to let him know the weather here.  I didn't want to but I did it anyway.  I tried to phrase it in a way that wasn't rude or nyah, nyah, nyah.  I don't know how successful I was in my attempt to give an unbiased report on our weather.

It's been in the 50s and I'm running around the house in shorts with the heater off.  Outside my front door, I have bulb flowers that are coming up.  I can't remember what I planted there.  I think they are hibiscus.  They have large flowers and grow really tall and then the wind comes along and they end up laying across my sidewalk.  They are really pretty for about a day.

My roses are starting to bud and Trey went to the park to play with friends yesterday.  I wore a windbreaker to work last night and ended up leaving it there when I left early this morning because it was too warm for a windbreaker.

Other than all that, it's been pretty miserable.

Snippet Saturday - Poop, Chocolate, and Getting It Way Up

Fiber has nothing on Blues Clues stickers and Reese's Crunch Bars.  At least not when it comes to target motivation for a 3 year old.  Trey has resisted potty training until we found this magic formula.  Now he's in the bathroom more than a teenage boy with a Playboy.  He loves earning the stickers and we let him put them all over the calendar.

Speaking of Playboys, I recently read an article that stated that eating blackberries and dark chocolate helps keep men "strong like bull".  I told my wife to be on the lookout for any dark chocolate candy bars with blackberries.  Might as well combine them.  The study did say that the good stuff in these foods helps with all blood flow and that just about anything that helps with body blood flow will also help with manhood blood flow.  Exercise was one of those things that could benefit both.   

Speaking of strong like bull, a study has shown that taking anti-impotence medication can help pilots fly at high altitudes.  It helps keep the blood oxygenated in some way and is something to keep in mind if you are going to try to be part of the 10 mile high club. 

(Should this guy to the right be wearing gloves?  I don't know about you but if my job was collecting bull semen, I'd be wearing a full body condom with super strong ass-covering - to make sure the semen wasn't collected in the wrong place).

Snippet Saturday - Styx, Anchor, Rebate Checks, the Decider becomes the Dictator?

I won't say that I had all their albums (cassette tapes, actually) but I had a lot of them.  Last night I got to see them in concert.  How cool is that? 

Getting to see them doesn't come without a cost though.  Tonight I have to see Josh Gracin.  Does anyone know who Josh Gracin is?  My first impression, when I haven't never heard of someone is that it must be a country star.

The keyboard player (I'm sorry, I may have had a bunch of their tapes but I have never cared enough about groups to learn the names of the members) was playing the keyboard from the wrong side.  I can't even dial a telephone when it's upside down.  How does he play the piano?  He does it in this clip as well:

I did learn that the guy that sings Miss America is James "JY" Young.  They said so in the concert and I now have a JY guitar pick.  Yeah, I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with a JY guitar pick.  Anyone want it?