Lewies Blog

Brrr! It’s cold outside. I went for a nightly walk to wear off some of that weight gained from thanksgiving. My face feels like it is on the peak of being frozen. The weather klip says that it is 42°F, 17 mpg winds and … Nippy. I haven’t heard that word for a while now. Usually someone blurts out the wrong word when I hear it.

I also setup our Christmas tree. I had a hard time getting the box out of the attic. I was happy to find that all of the pieces were accounted for when I started putting it together. I fear that the cats might start playing with it - preferably Skyler.

Tags: Cold, Walk, Weight, Thanksgiving, Freezing, Frozen, Weather, Klip, Nippy, Christmas, Attic, Assembly, Cats, Skyler

Blah… pffooot! That is the sound of okra. I think I have a passion for really hating this stuff. At thanksgiving today, there were not any green vegitables that I could eat, so I had to have 4 servings of vegies for dinner tonight. I figured that I would double the okra and brussel sprouts. Yuck!

I can’t wait until all this okra is gone. I would throw it away, but that would be a waste of money. I can deal with it for now, but … Yeouck.

Tags: Yuck, Horrible, Bad Tasting, Okra, Hate, Thanksgiving, Vegitables, Veggies, Brussel Sprouts

Angel wants me to stop losing weight. I can’t understand the logic. I’m down to 256 pounds, but that doesn’t mean the health risks have deminished. I’m still upset over my weight. I want to be healthy. I don’t want to be like this. It’s not like I purposly put the extra weight on for good looks.

Well, anyway - I’m going to keep up with it. I’ve been on diets before that instantly fail. The main reasons were lack of commitment due to confusion. I understand this plan. I am confident I will reach my goal of two hundred pounds by July 7th. I have made progress - a lot of progress.

My mother in-law was trying to deter me from doing this diet at first, but now she is helping me out with it.

Tags: Weight, Weight Loss, Dieting, Angel, Stop, Logic, Health Risk, Upset, Healthy, Health, Extra Weight, Good Looks, Diets, Confusion, Commitment, Goal, Progress, Mother In-Law

Ok, I’m not all god happy and such when it comes to politics. However, I do see when people take this seperation of church and state a little to far. Apparently, a teacher was using some documents from american history in the class room such as the Declaration of Independence. The school was banning any document that the teacher was using that referenced God or Christianity. Is this crazy or what?

I’ll go into more detail here with the story as I understand it from the court documents.

The teacher was an orthodox christian. The school board told him not to convert the students. The teacher agreed and stated that it was not his intention.

A parent complained when he handed out a document detailing the proclimation that president bush made about prayer in schools - the lesson was about presidents making proclimations. Ever since then, the teacher has had to submit his lesson plans ahead of time to the schools staff.

It appears that most of his accompanied materials were revoked due to references of God or christianity. The staff felt that the mere references of such things in american history would be in “violation of church and state”.

So in the end, the staff tried to cover there ass against any law suits, but went so far as to go overboard with the censoring. A lot of the materials that were censored were approved by the state for fifth graders.

School Bars Declaration Of Independence

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I went to my grandmothers for thanksgiving today. I had a little bit of mashed potatoes, cranberries, and turkey.

After supper, my brother and I headed over to the railroad tracks and took a few pictures. We went over the brige over gunpowder falls and met someone along the way. They were shy and didn’t say anything.

Anyway, you can check out my flickr photostream and see all the pictures that I took.

Tags: Grandmother, Thanksgiving, Holiday, Mashed Potatoes, Cranberries, Turkey, Brother, Railroad, Tracks, Railroad Tracks, Pictures, Bridge, Gunpowder Falls, Shy, Flickr, Photostream

Happy Thanks Giving guys. Try to eat in moderate portions this time. It is going to be hard for me, but hey - I know I can do this. Just remember, there are people just like you all over the country going through the same thing. Lets give each other stregnth and be thankful that we understand each others temptations and support.

Tags: Thanks Giving, Moderate Portions, Thankful, Holiday, Temptation, Support, Food

I forgot that today is Thanksgiving. I need to sleep before I take off for grandmoms house later today. I was having some cash problems, but a co-worker lent me a few bucks to get some gas. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I was really starting to get worried.

Good night morning everyone and happy thanks giving.

Tags: Thanksgiving, Grandmother, Gas, Co-Worker, Cash, Worried, Morning, Holiday

On Tuesday, I mentioned that I was working on a little project at home involving my web-cam (I’m so vain). Well, I just completed it. If you have internet explorer, you will notice that there is a random picture of me with each post.

Firefox - I’m still working on you. Apparently there is a five year old bug with the style attribute - “display: inline-block” in Mozilla. I’ve been racking my head with this problem for a couple hours now.

Well … let me know how you like it. I must admit - a lot of these are bad pictures. Uck! But it took a lot of time to come up with 100 of them and resize them. If you want to see all of the images for my profile, then here you go:

Tags: Me, Project, Tuesday, Webcam, Internet Explorer, MSIE, Random, Random Picture, Picture, Firefox, Bug, Mozilla, 100, Images, Profile, Vanity, Vain

Man, I just came accross this article on one of the msdn blogs about an astronaut that voted from space:

NASA Astronaut Votes from Space Using Microsoft Outlook 2003

On Election Day, NASA Astronaut Leroy Chiao cast his ballot from the most remote location to date: aboard the International Space Station, some 230 miles above the Earth’s atmosphere. After the Galveston County Clerk emailed Chiao an encrypted ballot, NASA Mission Control took the lead. By relying on its Orbital Communications Adapter that uses Exchange Server 2003 and Outlook 2003, Commander Chiao exercised his right to vote. According to Scott Curtis, NASA operations planner, “We have Microsoft Outlook onboard and on the ground and we do regular synch ups with the astronauts two or three times a day.”

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I made dinner for my wife and sister in-law tonight. Lasagna hamburger helper. They ate half of it and the rest stayed in the pan tempting, calling my name. If you listen real close, you can even hear it yourself … “Lewie …. Lewie … Eat me … ….”

Did I cave in? Did I dare go astray from my plan? No, I was strong and proud of it. I got out some chicken, brussel sprouts, and some okra. I cooked it up and ate it … slowly. Now I was an okra virgin; ‘never tried the stuff. I didn’t know what it was.

I was passing by the frozen food section and was feeling like getting something different other then broccli and couliflour. Brussel sprouts was an easy pick. I like them. However, I hadn’t seen okra before. It was a green vegetable and I saw it on my list. Only a buck fourty nine with my safeway club card - oh yea.

Well, after cooking the okra, there seems to be this … this um, ectoplasm. Have you ever seen snails with that sticky stuff? If you touch them and pull your hand away, this fine line of clear sticky stuff is hooked between them and your finger. Okra is pretty much the same way. I would just close my eyes and try not to think about the ooze against my tongue and throat. I failed, but I still continued.

I made it through dinner tonight. Dipping the okra in mayonaise helped a bit. I mix my 1 tbsp of mayo with 1/4 tsp of mortons light salt. It’s required of me to take some fat and salt each day anyway. I just keep getting this image in my head that okra would be great if it was smothered in melted cheese.

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