In With the Old

With football season just around the corner, I've had a few things on my mind concerning my Fantasy Football League. First and foremost is finding a new website to host our league. The site we used last year gave us a free year to try out it's new design and what not, but it still wasn't anything special. On top of that, they have increased the cost per league this year, and I just can't see making my guys toss in an extra few bucks to use the crappy site.

So to keep everyone in the league up to date on league issues without using crap.com, I decided to make a Facebook page for our league. After five minutes of trying different names (because FB makes you use a REAL name) I get into the security stuff and fill it out. Last step....you need to give them a cell number to activate the page. Sigh. There is something severely wrong when I could get a fake ID with less effort than it takes to sign up for a second FB page. I gave up on the second page when LM suggested I just start a FB group for the league, and then did that.

Now, while checking everything on FB I looked at my photo albums and opened up one with pics of my motorcycles in it. When I went back to the albums, I noticed an old album titled Pic-a-Day. A few times over the years, either here or on FB....or even Myspace, I've tried the picture-every-day thing with mixed results and have decided that I'd like to try it again. Thinking I will start with August 1st, but may even start today if I can get a picture of something remotely interesting.

This will be primarily on Facebook, since it's so easy to just post a picture from my phone right after taking it, but I am sure I'll get a couple I feel like sharing here every so often. Kinda wish I would have thought about this before the weekend. I'm sure I could have come up with a few pics during the pub crawl Friday night/Saturday morning.

The Heat is (Back) On

Slowly but surely the temp is steadily climbing back up around here. When I checked the 10 day forecast before riding into work today, I saw that 98 degrees is predicted for Tuesday. It was only supposed to hit 89 today, but ran up to 94....right around the time I was driving around in a truck with little/no AC depending on how fast you drive.

Although it was ony about 87 when I left the house today, it was still pretty hot on the highway....even though my riding jacket is mesh. Stopping at a couple stoplights on the way was pretty terrible too. The one thing about my bike I don't like is that the cooling fan (for the engine, not the rider) blows the hot air away from front to back....meaning that my legs absorb most of the engine heat when stopped on a hot day. Guess that's one of the reasons I love to find riding routes where stopping is at a bare minimum. But, kinda like pizza, a "bad" ride is better than no ride at all, even if it is just a hot freeway ride to work.

With the Tigers hosting a game tomorrow night and the complete hell that is our parking situation on Mondays when there is a home game, I plan to ride tomorrow as well....as long as the weather plays along and there isn't any significant rain in the forecast. With that in mind, it's time to check the weather report again and see if I'm at risk for a wet ride home tonight. Owning a motorcycle in Michigan can be a real pain in the ass with the way the forecasts change. When I jumped in the shower before work, the forecast called for spotty showers up until the hour or so before I usually leave work. Now, it seems like the opposite. If we do get any rain it'll probably be right before and/or as I am riding home. Remind me again why I think rain gear is too expensive to be a priority yet.

Too Many Mondays

Unlike most people, Monday isn't the first day of my work week. When people are moving slow on Saturday and recovering from the night before on their first day off, I put my nose to the grindstone to start off my week. While Monday is smack dab in the middle of my week, with my shift jumping schedule, it's also my busiest. Not only is it my busiest work day, it's often the day of the week that gets me thinking the most.

Partly because it's the start of the work week for most people, Monday has become very symbolic in today's society. For a while now, Mondays have been getting an increasingly bad name. It's been a while since I have seen Office Space, but I can still hear that "case of the Mondays" quote like I just watched the movie. Even when I started my week on a Monday, I wasn't someone who ever got a case of the Mondays. I enjoyed my job, and even though I didn't like the fact that I HAD to show up on Monday to start the week, it wasn't all that bad.

Lately, it's taken its toll on me.

While I may not suffer from the Mondays myself, I understand it. As a matter of fact, Monday seems to have hit me pretty hard while writing this post....and I have no idea where I wanted to take it now.

I'm pretty sure I was headed in the direction of Monday being a clean slate day, and a chance to start something new every seven days or some blabbery BS like that.

Or you can always just hate it and do what you have to to get through it.

Same Old Situation

Not much going on the last week or so, mostly just dealing with work and getting ready for our new summer schedule with the kids doing their summer programs. Tomorrow will be the first full day of it, and juggling their stuff and our stuff together officially begins.

When I actually do post here, I am hesitant to post stuff about weight loss and/or working out anymore. For years it has been the same old thing, talk a lot about it and how this time it's going to work, get to the gym for a while, cut back a little on calories, show a little improvement, then fall off the wagon. This year has been no different. I started off the year pretty well, dropping more than 20 lbs in the first three months, even though I didn't start seriously working out until February. Since then I have gained back a little more than ten of those lbs with my sporadic gym visits and bad eating habits. Tomorrow I again begin my quest for healthy weight loss.

I doubt I will post much about my progress or lack thereof here, unless I hit a milestone weight. If something weird or worth talking about happens at the gym, I'll undoubtedly mention it here, but I don't want to really put out here what I am doing weight/health wise right now.

Other than the same old same old, LM and I did get to go out to Como's the Friday before last to meet up with some friends we hadn't seen in a while. As usual, the pizza was great and I ate too much of it, and the time spent there with our friends was fantastic. Not many people were in town since this was the Friday before the 4th of July, but the small group that went out had a blast and this gives us a reason to have another Friday night out in the near future so the rest of the crew can make it out....and I have an excuse to have more Como's pizza.

There was a lot of talk about our upcoming wedding, and more than just a little bit of talk about the rings. This is the first time most of the people out with us had seen LM's engagement ring, and there was a lot more talk about ring possibilities for me than I had expected. Throw in a little Vegas talk, and the time flew by.

All but one of our group took off somewhere around 10:30 or 11, so the three of us headed down Woodward a bit to try out a new place. We decided to try out John D Bistro, which is where Club Bart used to be. I had never been to Club Bart, so it was all new to me anyway, but it was a nice place. Not very busy for a Friday night in Ferndale, but like I said before it was right before the 4th, and the music a little too loud for the crowd size, but I did enjoy the music and watching the DJ bounce around at certain times.

Since we all just ate, no food was ordered but we did all get a drink. Our friend got a glass of wine, I got the Sidecar which was made very well, and I can't remember the name of the drink LM got (and I don't see it on their website either) but it was even better than mine. All in all, I dug the place and will make sure to head over there again when we are hanging out in Ferndale.

Time to get back to the same old situation now, but will hopefully be back soon with something else to ramble on about.