Cycling Down

Okay, accidentally nuked the first version of my intro, so here's go #2 -
A lot of what I've been writing about the last couple of months has been very general, with an almost tangential focus on the health and fitness topics that I was originally hoping to target this blog at (and more specifically, to use it as a record of my fight to lose weight and regain something from my youth).

Over the weekend, I've given a lot of thought to the focus of this particular blog, and I believe it's necessary to make some changes - both to focus this diary more on what it's original aims are, as well as to pull the other stuff out and into a separate blog, or even blogs. This means that I'm likely going to move to a different, more multiple blog friendly back-end, and that I'll be writing more. Woo! Maybe

With that bit of administration now out of the way, it's time to make a REAL post about the diet and fitness 'stuff', and my quest to lose 60 pounds...

Be warned. There are pictures of a 32 year old pasty white fat man following...

Yeah. So this is kinda what I expected to happen - two weeks w/o an update.
Go me?

Anyway. yesterday was the 10th anniversary. We decided to actually spend some quality money on dinner, and to catch the premier of the new X-Files movie...

This is more of a general thoughts kinda post (and yeah, I know it's showing as being made on Sunday, but I'm typing it up before I crash Saturday night :p)

When I was younger, I used to read voraciously. Primarily Science Fiction and Fantasy, as well as the material that was part of the classroom curricula. This allowed me to read quite a few of what would be considered "classics" in the literary world, both honing my ability to read and understand what I was reading, but also to allow me write somewhat better than the average moron.

While going through the forums on an old text-based BBS that I've been on since 1995 - ISCA BBS - a posting in the Literature forum there caught my eye. Apparently there is some 'list' of 100 works that everyone should take the time to read. Some of them are absolutely wonderful reads, while others are by authors I cannot personally stand (Bronte, Austen, specifically). Apparently, many claim to have read a large number of the books on this list, when in reality the average adult has read only 6, or so.

Here's my take on the list, which ones I've read, and which ones I haven't (and in the cases of a collection of works, which ones are partially read - like Shakespeare's work).

Okay... I'm beginning to think that these once a week bicycle rides are probably not getting the job done properly. Kinda like how I should be updating this blog more often than once a week... lol

Anyway...