Summer madness

It's been a long time since I updated this site so I thought I'd throw in a few words just to keep it active. I'll try and be more diligent working on this. That being said looking over my state I can say that practically no one comes through and reads my page so if you are then you are a rare bird.. a precious stone perhaps LOL...

Well let's see what's new... A good friend of mine has a brother two years older than me who was recently diagnosed with diabetes. He is overweight, drinks too much, is under stress and work and at home and does no little or no strenuous excercise. Now I'm not as overweight as he is and I don't drink anywhere near as much as he did and my stress levels are way down in comparison but I too excercise very little... until now :) Somehow I've managed to put myself back on the healthy eating diet that I now call my Ipod Diet... thanks to that little video gadget that's sweeping my life. I've discovered Podcasts and of course I'm going crazy with them. I now have reason to walk... so I stick in my earphone and head out the door and walk for an hour everynight... then each morning at 5am... I'm on my treadmill for 45 minutes listening to the latest BBC podcast.. and I've created a food schedule that's not really a schedule rather more like a list of how many times a month I can eat fish, beef, porc, chicken and vegatarian. Limiting beef and pasta to low numbers and raising fish and vegatarian.. the result is dropping from around 202 lbs to 189... my goal is 185 and if I reach that I'd ultimately like to get down to 175 my original perfect weight. Woo Hoo!.. I'm down two belt notches as well and for once I look in the mirror and think it's starting to look ok.. not perfect by any means (that's 175 with muscle).. oh I've also starting lifting a few weights to just tighten things up. So I feel good in other words.'

Outside of that work is going ok. My personal life is ok but nothing major or special happening in either case. I was suppose to go to Europe in April but it's been postponed to September now. I might make a sidetrip if I go back. I've become very enamoured with Flickr lately.. posting a ton of pictures and meeting people from all over the world. (Alan where are you?) My cousin from New Brunswick came into Montreal last week and we met up for the first time in many years. It was great seeing her. She's had a lot of drama in her life lately. Kinda sad in the end. I might post a blog about it sometime later.

Anyways it's warm now.. summer's almost here and it's too beautiful outside to stay inside for a change. I'm going to put on my Ipod and go for a walk.. the Feast of Fools is waiting for me. I need a dose of Fausto and Mark. They interviewed Sulu from the original Star Trek, George Takei the other day... it was great :)... what a voice he has, so animated. So I'm off... Leave me some comments, I'd like to know who's dropping in :) Thanks!