Rome Was Not Built In A Day…

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So what were the final results with my participation in “The Biggest Loser” competition? Let me go back to the Beginning Weight:
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I started the competition at 258.5 lbs with a32% BMI. At the end of the 12 weeks (which was sometime in July) my weight was 248 lbs and my BMI was down to 28%. I had wished I had done better, but I’ll take it.

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Since the competition had ended. I have done absolutely no exercise. Life had just taken over yet once again, and I just did not make a conscious decision to make the time or effort. Shame on me. However, I still have refrained from over eating; I am still drinking lots of water (6-8 bottles a day).
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As of today, I am currently sitting at 242 lbs. And this is the “naked” weight taken right when I step out of the shower, without the couple of pounds added from clothing. :)
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So what are my current goals? I am going to hit 225 lbs. My target date will be December 31, 2009. So, that is about 3 ½ months to drop another 17 pounds. That might seem like a lazy mans goal, but hey, Rome wasn’t built in a day, and this body won’t get chiseled overnight either. It’s time to get into another routine…

No More Papers To Be Delivered…

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Not by me anyway. Even though I was reaching major burn out from the early morning routine, I had put in to continue throwing papers, as I heard the money was going to be better. As July 12th grew closer, I had only heard rumors of the opposite. I had spoken with the new boss and he kept telling me, “we are crunching numbers and should have some definite numbers for you by tomorrow, I’ll call you.” So when I didn’t hear back, I called him again. I got the same answer, day after day. I think it was only a few days before the transition was to happen, and the new boss gave me a call. He wanted to know if I still wanted to deliver and if I wanted to get the new route list, etc… My initial response was, “How much?” He seemed as if he wanted to dodge my question. So I asked him again, “How much? Are you done crunching the numbers?” He finally gave up the info I think he had been holding onto for several weeks in an unsuccessful attempt to string me along. It was more newspapers, more time, and half the money. I didn’t hesitate one bit to decline. A part of me was ecstatic, the other part was say, “hmm…what will I do now?” My wife on the other was quite concerned of how this overnight change in our household income would affect us. We had plans, we had goals. She thought it would be hard for anyone to find work these days, and that it would be difficult for me to pick up another side job. Nonchalantly I kind of shrugged my shoulders and said, “Don’t worry, I’ll find something”

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And I did…

White People Stole My Car

Real or fake? “White people stole my car” is big on Google.

For the past week, the phrase “white people stole my car” has been Googled like crazy.

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Perplexingly, though, there were few results yielded by this popular search and most links lead to some fairly nasty malware. Finally, the above screenshot surfaced, which seems to at least solve the mystery of why the phrase was so popular on Google. As the screenshot above implies, Googling the term “white people stole my car” results in the search engine asking if black people stole my car. Well that’s… really not cool, Google!

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But is it real or fake? As of now, Google does not correct the phrase in a racially insensitive way. And while it does appear that at one time Google did, it’s entirely possible and plausible that someone misspelled “black people stole my car,” got the correction shown, and altered the search text as a prank.

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I tried to re-fake a screenshot, but it seems that Google is not correcting any searches to say “black people stole my car” anymore. Bummer.

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[Source: Snopes message boards]