Sleep deprivation headache

The next big thing…

We got a paper route. When I was a kid, I delivered newspapers. In college I delivered newspapers to the racks and then to the paperboys. I even printed the college newspaper for a semester. The opportunity came up to get a paper route right near our house. I took it with the goal in mind of giving the kids some work to do and some money in their pockets.

We started at 4:30 am this Monday. It has turned into the family activity. All seven of us go out to do it. The kids get five cents for each paper they deliver. My youngest, the future accountant, knows exactly how much money he has earned at any given moment on the paper route.

So now we have to learn a new schedule and get used to getting up early in the morning.

It will be a lot of fun, especially when it gets cold and snowy.

The Brethren

Finished this Grisham book a few weeks ago but have not written a review. The reason I have not reviewed it is because It wasn’t that great.

Three slime-ball judges blackmail losers and draw the attention of the CIA. There is more to it than that but not much. Not one of Grisham’s better books.

See more progress on: Book Sl*t. I will read anything but I am really looking for book love.

Lose 5 pounds

My goal to lose 30 pounds is not going well at all. Then I wanted to lose 15 pounds and get below 200. That is not going anywhere either.

So, today, August 8th, 2006 I am setting the goal to lose 5 pounds. I would like to weigh 210 pounds by the middle of September, the 15th to be exact.

I will do this by:
Snacking less, and not at all after 9:00 pm
Walking more. The dog needs to walk too.
Eating right. Not too much at meals.
Telling others what I am trying to do.
Getting off my backside and going outside.

More later.

Brilliant!

Kennebec Man Faces Assault Charges

KENNEBEC - A Kennebec man faces a number of charges after he is alleged to have swerved his vehicle toward a highway patrol trooper, who was checking out a vehicle parked along I-90 last weekend. The trooper was doing an inventory on a vehicle whose driver had been arrested for DUI on the I-90 Business Loop in Oacoma, when the incident occurred early Saturday morning. 27-year-old Laddy Christensen faces charges of Felony Aggravated Assault, DUI, Reckless Driving, Expired License Plates, No Insurance and No Seatbelt. The pickup he was driving westbound on the Interstate was going at a high rate of speed, when it swerved toward the trooper. The patrolman ran between his patrol car and the vehicle that was being searched and was narrowly missed by the passing vehicle. Troopers pursued Christensen for a short time. Once the vehicle was stopped, it rolled back into one of the patrol cars, which left about seven hundred dollars damage. A preliminary hearing for Christensen will be August 8 at 9:30 a.m. He was released from jail after posting bond.

I think I have found a way to lose weight

The Purina Diet

I used to have a Labrador Retriever and one day I was buying a large bag of Purina at Wal-Mart and standing in line to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog...

On impulse, I told her no, that I was just starting The Purina Diet again. Although I probably shouldn't, because I'd ended up in the hospital last time. But I had lost 50 pounds before I woke up in the intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both my arms.

I told her that it was a nearly perfect diet and that the way it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry and that the food is nutritionally complete. So I was going to try it again, despite the hospital stay.

I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was listening closely to my story, particularly a tall, black man who was standing behind the woman. Horrified by the mention of a hospital, the woman asked if I had been poisoned by the dog food.

I told her no, that I'd been sitting in the street licking my balls when a car hit me.

I thought the black guy was going to stagger going out the door!