Quotes from tonight:

I can't do it anymore. Its like when I caught my balls on the screen door. I just can't do it anymore.

Pretty much everything is worse than music if you're judging by chuck talking.

Can you feel me up too?

I'm going to get Wookie and bang him.

Do you like ribs? Do you like ribs? Do you like ribs? DO YOU LIKE RIBS?!?

Everything burns

Don't breathe the air . . .

Don't breathe the air . . .

There's pollution in the air . . . Code red!

I suppose the heat is just another completely random event, right? Or is it that pesky La Nina again? At least that is what the news and weather man will tell you.

I guess they don't want to sacrifice ratings being downers and telling you the game is over, we had our fun, and now we have to pay the price. The planet's slow death is now our theater, albeit with locked doors so you can't get out, the AC is broken, and it's 115 degrees.

Sent from my iPad

Tonshio Ramen

With pork, egg, corn, and seaweed. Delicious. Happy birthday tummy

On the home stretch

7.5 lbs to go to my goal of 225 lbs, losing on average ~2 lbs a week except for on vacation, when I only lost 1.5, so about a month to go.  Will have lost 10% of my body mass, and will be at my grad school weight. 

 

After that, we'll see about a run for 200 lbs.  Might as well keep going if the trend continues.

Alexander Hamilton the Great

Katy found some great quotes from Alexander Hamilton in her book on his life by Ron Chernow:

"Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep in their composition . . . I hate Congress, I hate the Army, I hate the world, I hate myself. The whole is a mass of fools and knaves."

"Over time, the inflation has acquired a self-reinforcing momentum. Economic fundamentals alone could not account for this inflation, detecting a critical psychological factor at work. People were governed more by passion and prejudice than by an enlightened sense of their interests . . . this misfortune affects me less than others, because it is not in my temper to repine at evils that are past but to endeavor to draw good out of them and because I think our safety depends on a total change of system and this change of system will only be produced by misfortune."

Don't know much about him but I like him already. Guess things haven't changed much since this country was founded after all! Even with all our technological advances, we're still just dumb monkeys.

Bettica before and after

shows the back yard before and after 3 tons of mulch. 2.5 tons in the back and a lot of trimming.

current conundrum: two paths

Have an offer from the Navy and need to decide what to do. Looked online for some descriptions of Catch-22-like situations. Found some great ones relevant to my current conundrum:

Definition of conundrum: 1. A confusing and difficult problem or question. 2. A question asked for amusement, typically one with a pun in its answer; a riddle.

Cornelian (Carnealian?) dilemma: a dilemma in which someone is obliged to choose between two courses of action either of which will have a detrimental effect on himself or herself or on someone near to him or her. In classical drama, this will typically involve the protagonist's experiencing an inner conflict which forces him to choose between love and honor or inclination and duty.

Sophie's choice: a choice between two persons or things that will result in the death or destruction of the person or thing not chosen

Hobson's choice is one between something or nothing.

Morton's Fork: a choice between two equally unpleasant alternatives, or two lines of reasoning that lead to the same unpleasant conclusion.

I have to say my current situation seems to be a Morton's fork. At this point, I don't think it matters at all what I do, it's all the same.

Driftwood

This root was buried on the beach at la Push. The tip of the tree was protruding from the beach 100 feet away. Awesome.