189.0

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For me, this is big news…

That’s what I weighed when I stepped on the scale this morning. It’s the first time I’ve weighed under 190 since January 2010. This means that my initial baby-steps back to proper diet and fitness are paying off. It means I lost 3.7 pounds this past week. If I could only keep it up until my birthday April 7th, then that would really be something.

Now it’s time to quicken my pace, lengthen my stride as it were–no more baby-steps. I need to start actually working out again and stop being reticent–or is it just lazy.

I’m thinking about writing up a longish post about what’s going on with me right now which will explain some of my rationale for this–what I’m calling my Mid-life Recalibration. I’m feeling pretty good about it all…

Last Year/This Year

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I’ve never really been much of a New Year’s Resolution kind of guy. In fact, over the years I’ve become less and less goal oriented in general, other than for accomplishing a specific task.

Even still, I do have a habit of making up short lists of things I’d like to accomplish during the year–let’s see how I did for 2012 and what I have in mind for 2013…

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Head Start? It’s useless AND expensive…

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As our New Year begins and we've theoretically averted going over the “Fiscal Cliff” (yeah, right…), here's a great article giving a glimpse of what we're in for (thanks, as always, to the Cato Institute):

“Cliff” Deal Offers “Head Start” to American Insolvency

It's this kind of BS–plenty of which we're going to see over the next four years–that will utterly destroy us. Significant findings/programs/legislation slipped past us in the dark of night by federal government buraucratic tools more concerned about saving their own necks than anything else. But you have nobody but yourselves to blame.