Kaethe Ward is due today, so she should be giving birth to her and Johnathen’s first child any day soon. So I just want to send the best of luck to them. I hope all goes well when the child is born. They have elected not to know the the gender of the child until[…]
Tonight I went out to Shoots to play pool with one of my co-workers, and another friend of mine showed up. My coworker (Mike) and I played several games of 9-ball. I am not really good at pool, but I do enjoy the game of 9-ball the most, 8-ball is fun but I rather play[…]
Well today I got some biking in, I got 54.79 miles in. Looks like I will hit the 400 mile mark tomorrow with my bike ride to work. I started out with a bike ride with a friend of mine, Bill, we drove down to McKeesport, and biked south for about 21 miles, then biked[…]
I did get a nice bike ride in today, I was hoping for 30 miles but I only got 25.01 miles, but it is still nice to get those 25 miles in. I went with a friend of mine. He and I are talking about maybe going for another bike ride on Monday.
I must be a major stick in the mud, I have a friend that I am debating music in the church with, also debating hymnals and the new up comming hymnal for the LCMS. God have mercy on me.
Today I had lunch with a friend of mine from church that also work at Union Switch and Signal. We talked about a few things, it was a good lunch. The one subject that we covered that I wish to put here was that he said that he found one day an ad on his[…]
A couple of friends of mine got married today. You can see the pictures I took at it here. I wish Mike and Kellie all the best. That is so far 1 out of 2 weddings that I will be going to this summer down, and 1 more to go. Mike and Kellie are friends[…]
Well Yesterday after work I went out to get my bike, only to find my back tire completely flat. So I ask my pastor to give me a lift home, I did not plan on it snowing last night so I did not take a coat. After I get home, I stash the bike in[…]
Many months ago I helped some friends of mine with a video. I was the first (besides them) to find out this info, they had me hold onto it for a while. Last week I was asked if I could put a link up for them so they could post it to their blog, so[…]
OK, as I promised here is a post that has some real content in it, and for me this is also some big news, probably the biggest news I have shared on my blog since I started it up in July of 2004. Back then I had been work here in CASOS group of ISRI[…]
Today after the WPLUG meeting, a few of us decided to go out and have some fun. We first went down to Dave and Busters, but that was a mistake, after and hour and a half we decided to go to a different place since they had such poor customer service, they still did not[…]
First off this is not the post I promised in the post where I talked about a big post coming I am planning to put that up on Monday night. Tonight we had a function at church; we had dinner and then watched a movie. The movie was Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Dekalog 7. After watching it[…]
Well this was funny today. First before I get into what I found funny, I will admit I am 1 of the 5 non-football fans in Pittsburgh, yes there are about 5 of us in the city, please please don’t hunt us down and kill us ;-). Also I have a friend that lives in[…]
Well I just got back from the skiing trip with my friend from church. I will admit I was a bit nervous about it before the trip, but I believe things should be tried at lest once. I was nervous because two years before I tried snow boarding, and ended up damaging my knee and[…]
Well I was hoping to go to DC on Friday afternoon after work. But those plans fell though. I will still be going down, but I will be picked up early Monday morning (I am going down for the annual March for Life), and comming back late Monday night. I promise I will take my[…]
Today I weighed myself and came in at 130 pounds. When I started I set a goal of 125 pounds. So only 5 more pounds to go. I am a long way from where I started, I started at 300 pounds on March 31, 2022, it been about 15 months since I started this diet.[…]
With summer coming buy, and me still on my diet, I came up with a snack, I have always enjoyed popsicals, so what I am doing now, is I am taking those water enhancers that say they have 0 calories and use that as the flavor for my popsicals, and I have some popsical makers.[…]
For my friends I did a video to show my friends how I have my apartment setup, because I did some changes to the living room and the bedroom. Here is the video
Posting a new updated before and after picture. First one was taken in 2021, the second picture Just this last weekend.
March 31, 2022 was the day I hit 300 pounds and decided to loss weight, today I weigh in at 135 pounds. To date I have lost 165 pounds. My goal still remains 125 pounds, so I only have 10 more pounds to go. I feel so much better, later on I will post a[…]
Today I did some meal preping for this week. Cooking both in slow cookers. First dish, is a ham and veggie soup contianing Ham Potatos Celery Spinish Carrots Onions Veggie Stock With the amount of stuff and what I put in it, the whole slow cooker has about 1200 cals in it, this should make[…]
Today I did my daily steping on the scale this morning, it read 140 now. So since I started my diet last March, I have lost a total of 160 pounds, and only 15 more pounds to go, till I can start working on keeping the weight off. But I been feeling a lot better[…]
Today, when I did my morning weight in my scale read 143 pounds, so to date I have lost 157 pounds. And now I have only 18 more pounds to go.
In the past I have used a 4G T-Mobile hotspot, that was costing me about 50 a month for 10GB of data. But for that same 50 I could get T-Mobiles home internet. So I cancled the hotspot line and added the Home Internet for my backup internet. First they say there is no data[…]
So in my journy of cutting the cable. I just setup a Plex server for my local network. I have a lot of mp3 still that I ripped from my CD years ago. Now I wonder if I can rip my DVD to the Plex server, not to replace them but to have them accessable[…]
