New Year Randomness
A few things for the new year:
- Congratulations to those in New Hampshire for being another state allowing gay marriage. It’s a crime that it’s not globally recognized, but we’ll get there eventually. I guess I wrongfully assumed that the phrase “…all men are created equal.” in the Declaration of Independence actually applied to ALL men.
- I was bad during the holidays and ran very very little, however I was able to at least maintain my weight, which is as good as one can hope for.
- I have removed the CAPTCHA from my site. Apparently my WordPress upgrade last week broke that plugin.
- I am fixing the RSS feeds as they apparently haven’t been updating since about July. Oops!
Have a great new year and I’ll post again soon – hopefully later this week.
Happy (almost) New Year!
Here’s to the end of 2009 and the beginning of a new era! It’s been a busy year which has certainly flown by quickly for me personally and professionally.
What I’m hoping for in the coming year:
- More rights as a person who happens to love a guy
- Continued weight loss thanks to Nike+ and diligence
- Moving out of my apartment
- Attempt to continue the more frequent updates to this site
- Attempt to continue to keep a relevant header based on the time of the year
- World peace
Have a great last few days of the year and party like it’s 1999!
Christmas is gay
Mr. & Mrs. Claus have no issues with their gay son and neither should you! Happy Holidays!
Running from the weight
As I posted a few weeks ago, I have been actively using Nike+ and have seen real results from sticking with that program. Well, here are those results. The chart to the left is my progress. Every Sunday morning I weigh myself on the same scale at the same time of the day to have a good comparison. As of this morning I weighed in at a nice 182 lbs. I hadn’t been tracking my weight since I restarted the running, but so far I’ve lost about 20 lbs. While I am beyond happy with these results, it is pushing me to just keep going and see how much better I can make my body.
While looking around the Nike+ website tonight, I saw that I can create a “Mini” which is a character version of myself that will help motivate me. As I continue running, so does the little guy. As I have run more, I thought it proper to visualize that here so I’ve edited my header to have that Mini as well.
Real results with Nike+
Nike+ Hardware - Picture © Apple Inc.
Many months ago I started working out. Needless to say, it didn’t really work out that good. I had originally tried working out by doing all the weights and using the treadmill and biking machines. It was nice for a short time and all, but I very quickly lost the enthusiasm to keep up with it. I then purchased the iPhone fitness app iFitness to try and get me back but ended up never going back to workout again.
Yep, I’m still alive
Just a fairly quick post. I’m still alive and kicking, just have been even less frequent in posting than usual (I’ve been trying to post at least one a week or two).
Some quick updates:
- We took a nice trip to Buffalo NY and Toronto almost two months ago. Pics here here and here.
- A few weeks later we went to Indianapolis for lunch and then went to a Corn Maze in Lafayette. Want to see some pictures?
- Last weekend Justin, Dad, Corey and I went to Chicago as a bachelor party for Corey. We went to the Museum of Science and Industry, ate at Subway, then went to Shedd Aquarium. It was a pretty fun trip ending with us getting drenched. More pics!
- I had stitches a few weeks ago after a few moles were removed (all normal) and finally went running today for the first time in several weeks. Felt great!
- Lastly, I’ve been secretly working on a project that will go live here in the near future. It’s coming along nicely after having been stalled for quite a long time. I’ll post a decent update for that once it’s ready.
In the meantime, I’ll try to actually post some stuff occasionally.
Purdue University Airport – UAV Exhibit
Earlier today we went to view a scale model of the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk unmanned military aircraft. When we first went into the airport we saw the model of the engine used (pictures at the end) and a representative from Rolls Royce was listing off specs which, naturally, made no sense to me at all. 
After a short while we went through the airport to the tarmack and saw the full-scale model of the UAV. Although just a model it was still cool to see.
Sinead’s Hand
Why can’t we all be equal?
Ice T Mac Repair
I shed a tear. From laughter.
Wedding bells… or not.
Recently, Justin and I have been discussing more and more about getting married. A few months ago Corey and Danielle announed that they were getting married next September 25. I am very happy for them and glad that Danielle will become part of the family.
The talk of marriage brought me back to wanting to get married to Justin. Sadly, because of the state of the country and with the current laws, that’s not quite as simple for us. Along with getting married to really express our love for each other, we thought that it be good for his future also in that it may help when he graduates in order to try and stay in the USA.
However, our dreams were pretty much crushed this weekend when we started looking into things far more closely.
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- A kid from that house walked around the pond with me for my cool-down lap. Cute kid.
- ran 4.01 mi on 2/7/2010 at 4:33 PM with a pace of 9'06"/mi http://bit.ly/b7B7V0
- Someone is grilling something that smells burnt. Makes it hard to run outside but still got in 4 mi at 9:06 pace.
- ran 4.02 mi on 2/6/2010 at 3:21 PM with a pace of 9'38"/mi http://bit.ly/cmriNm
- ran 2.13 mi on 2/4/2010 at 5:41 PM with a pace of 9'45"/mi http://bit.ly/coWh8p