Just Stating The Bobvious

New Scrooge Rules

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:53:11 -0800

I propose that any future retellings of "A Christmas Carol" need to make it known that Charles Dickens did not exist in their fictional universe. Every time I see one of these movies I want to scream at the screen, "Haven't you read Dickens? You know how this all works out!"

Just little throwaway lines that reference other works, but nobody has ever heard of. Or maybe, in that world, were written by someone else. Just something to let us know that this whole adventure that they're going to go through isn't known to them.

So let it be done.

Weight Status

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:16:11 -0800

Of of the concerns I had when I was leaving the nursery job mid 207 was that I'd start gaining a lot of weight. For 10 years I had 5 acres to run around in, carry heavy items and stay pretty active. The new job requires a lot of sitting and thinking. Just how would my body react to that dramatic shift?

When I left back in May I started weighing myself to see what was happening. I started off at 146 pounds...and I pretty much stayed there. I fluctuated ± 2 pounds, but nothing as bad as I had feared. And after a few weeks I stopped doing the daily weigh in.

Then in May 2008 I picked up the Wii Fit to see what I could do there. I wasn't expecting magic, but I thought it would be fun. When I started I was 147 pounds. I slowly started dropping a couple pounds over the next few weeks much to my surprise. I really didn't change much else in my daily habits. Eating the same foods, maybe not as much but I didn't stay away from my favorites. Which as you all know, are not the best in terms of weight loss foods.

I was doing the Fit routine everyday until early July and we had a certain event in the store which took all of everyone's spare energy. I still did the daily body test (weigh in and little balance tests) I just stopped the full 30 minute training sessions. And to my surprise I kept dropping weight.

It was about this time that I I got below 140 for the first time in a long time, which (according to the Fit) is my ideal body weight. I wanted to get down to 135 (somehow that's what my drivers license has) so I still have a goal to shoot for.

So now, 6 months in, I haven't missed a daily test and I'm hovering right around my 135 goal. I've dipped underneath it a few times, but it pops back up. I've found that the weekends are when the trend is in the up direction. I've got to watch my snacking when cleaning up or just relaxing around.

I still go climbing once in a while. Not as much as I want to, and once holidays kick in I doubt I'll go much at all. The weather and short days are also conspiring against going out on the loop much either. I'm going to make an effort to start back on the Fit training sessions and see how that changes things.

So overall. In 6 months I dropped a little over 10 pounds. Not too bad.

Benefits?

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:00:39 -0800

I wonder what Crest employees get for a dental plan.

Friday Felix Impressions

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:46:25 -0800

Felix doing his Emperor Palpatine.

Sunday Felix Blogging

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:11:29 -0800

He's still in bed after all this time.

Do Me A Favor?

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:46:51 -0800

In case you haven't heard, I'm heading to Washington D.C. during the Inauguration in January. I've put in a request to my congressman for a ticket, but I thought I'd hedge a few bets and get all you readers of mine to put your own requests in, and should you be lucky enough to receive tickets...well, maybe you'd give me one.

I'd be ever so grateful.

Bad Questions

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:50:43 -0700

I was setting up an account and they had the worst security questions ever.Here's question #1Here's question #2These have to be questions about facts that don't change. The only one that works is the spouse one, which doesn't work for me.

7 Years Old

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:16:48 -0700

Today is Felix's 7th birthday!No party this year. I was going back and forth on it, but with the launch this past weekend I was too tired to get the arrangements made.I had the honorary hot dog for dinner and went for a nice walk with him tonight.

Another Tuesday Fan

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:23:15 -0700

I went to the Freedy Johnston show at the Folk Music Center tonight. I went up to him after the show to tell him how I use his music at work and he seemed pleased hearing that. He also commented that he loved my "Tuesday" shirt.

That's it. I sent a tweet that said the same thing tonight, but I figured I'd put it here as well.

New Way To Follow Me

Sat, 31 May 2008 17:17:49 -0700

Since I'm not updating the blog very regularly at the moment I thought 'd give you another way to stay up to date on what's going on with me.

You can follow me on Twitter. My name there is Bobvious.

It's free and I update there much more regularly since my phone is nearly always with me.

One Year

Tue, 20 May 2008 21:48:11 -0700

It was one year ago today that I left the nursery for my current gig. In some ways it feels much longer than a year. And sometimes I can't believe that a year has passed already.

I do miss it from time to time, but I'm extremely happy where I am now and what I'm doing. Though it would be nice to drive the New Holland and forklift around again. That was a lot of fun. I don't miss the super heat waves because there's nothing you can to do to escape it.

Conversation

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:00:54 -0700

I went to a co-worker's art gallery opening today and he asked me to bring my new D300 to take some photos of the installation for him. While I was there I was switching lenses someone asked if I was a photographer. I said, "No. I just like to take pictures of things. I take a lot of my dog." He responded, "That's an expensive camera to not be a photographer." I replied, "I love my dog."

Reptile!

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:37:26 -0700

I don't know how it got in there, but this was in my bedroom. It then came into my bathroom where I trapped it and set it free outside.To give you an idea of scale, the lid is the top of a CD cakebox stack.

No Reason Felix Blogging

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:10:49 -0700

Shot While In My Car

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:06:30 -0800

I know. It's a misleading title.These are photos I took while in my car.You need Google Earth to try it out.It starts on photo 2479. Follow the path. Nothing too exciting. I'm just trying out a new piece of software that geocodes my images. I had the GPS alongside me and it puts the location on the image based on the time stamp. So far it works pretty well.It knew which lane I was in for 2483. But off 3 lanes for 2494.Mar8.zip

Leap Day

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:47:37 -0800

I don't have anything really important to say about it. I just wanted to have a post on the 29th.

See you in March!

Feeling A Bit Like Flanders

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:15:16 -0800

Today is January 23rd and I just filed my taxes. I think you can guess if I'm getting money back.

Photographic Evidence

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:38:59 -0800

I was organizing my photo library earlier this week and it's fun to look at how the numbers grow.

YEAR TOTAL
<1997 1
1998 852
1999 46
2000 103
2001 528
2002 131
2003 553
2004 780
2005 2353
2006 4293
2007 2275

1998 was almost all plants
2001 was Oscar and Felix
2005 I got my new camera
2006 I went to Alaska for a week (2200 photos)

Eels Day

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:07:37 -0800

Today I somehow decided that it would be a good idea to listen to everything I have by Eels. It works out to a bit over 10 hours.

My Day

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:42:40 -0800

Today I worked on a spreadsheet...all day.

It's for work, and this is the most complicated spreadsheet I've ever done.

Here's the main formula I came up with.

=IF(Data :: E20=0,"OFF 0",IF(HOUR(Data :: E19)=9,HOUR(Data :: D19)&"-"&9&" "&Data :: E20,IF(HOUR(Data :: E19)=10,HOUR(Data :: D19)&"-"&10&" "&Data :: E20,IF(HOUR(Data :: E19)=11,HOUR(Data :: D19)&"-"&11&" "&Data :: E20,IF(HOUR(Data :: E19)=12,HOUR(Data :: D19)&"-"&12&" "&Data :: E20,IF(HOUR(Data :: D19)=13,1&"-"&HOUR(Data :: D19)+(Data :: D20-12)&" "&Data :: E20,IF(Data :: E20>0,HOUR(Data :: D19)&"-"&HOUR(Data :: D19)+(Data :: D20-12)&" "&Data :: E20)))))))

Traffic

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:26:17 -0800

I'm either getting older or people or driving crazy...or I guess it could be both.

I've been seeing so much road rage lately. Someone feels wronged in some slight way which means that they have to tailgate that other car to teach them a lesson.

Brilliant.

Finally

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:35:49 -0800

They've been talking about this huge storm coming...it should have been here Thursday morning. It finally gets here Friday night. Why can't I get a job where I can be so wrong and have no consequences?

At least it ended up being a good rain.

Big Work Changes

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:07:07 -0800

Things at work are changing a lot...in a good way. We're getting a lot more people to help and those people helping out are getting trained before they start. Even better, I'll be one of the people doing the training.

I just got back from an all day group session on how to facilitate the training and I'm really excited for the new people to go through this. I think it's going to make their job easier and get the customer even better, more consistent results.

As usual with work talk, I've already said too much. Just know that I'm very much looking forward to next week and seeing how this whole thing goes.

Missing

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:38:43 -0800

Can you spot what's missing?

New Years Eve

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:39:04 -0800

This is what I did.

Friday Felix Blogging

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:23:31 -0700

A simple flash shot. I do like that sb-600 a lot.

Friday Felix Blogging

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:24:34 -0700

I missed a few weeks due my new computer arrival (yeah!) but I'm back now.

Friday Felix Blogging

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:12:49 -0700

Friday Felix Blogging

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:07:27 -0700

Friday Felix Blogging

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:17:17 -0700

His new sunny spot.

Friday Felix Blogging

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:51:28 -0700

Friday Felix Blogging

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:32:00 -0700

One of his favorite spots to relax.

Friday Felix Blogging

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:55:11 -0700

Mii edition.

Friday Felix Blogging

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:57:54 -0700

Now's The Time To Say Goodbye....

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:28:45 -0700

Today marks 1000 days in a row for posting to this blog. I've also decided that I'm stopping the every day posting to the blog. I'll still be posting, but now it'll only when I find something I feel is worth sharing.

Lately I've been feeling that I've been filling posts just to fill them. In the old job at the nursery there was a lot of time for reflection while watering or doing some other fairly repetitive task. With the job change I lost a lot of the time I used to have to think about life in general. And I really don't want to write about the new job since I want to keep it.

I started every day on November 12, 2004. It was at one of the store meetings that I found out that quite a few people were reading the blog so I felt an obligation to give them something to read. 1000 days is a milestone I didn't expect to get to, so I'm proud of getting this far.

I will keep up the Friday Felix Blogging. That was a regular feature before I went every day.

The best way to stay current would be to subscribe to the RSS feed.

Postponed

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:23:00 -0700

I got my postponement for jury duty!

I was worried that I was going to have to miss my lecture on the 21st, but I'm safe now. Now as long as I don't get on a month long case as I have to go up north for a week starting the 24th of next month.

Non-Synonym

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:16:35 -0700

Why don't priceless and worthless mean the same thing?

One Thing At A Time

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:06:31 -0700

I went out yesterday to the new Laemmle theatre in Claremont. As I was there I thought how I don't usually do one thing at a time a lot. At home I'm writing this, watching a Flight Of The Conchords episode, checking some e-mail and I have a chat going. Multitasking!

Tomorrow I've got big blog news.

Mileage Palindrome

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:19:27 -0700

Caught this today on the way home.

Left Right Left RIght

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 21:32:24 -0700

The perfect tempo for walking a dog, or just walking on your own if that's how you prefer to do things. Now I just need to find a way to make it longer than 3:22.

I'm So Happy

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:56:34 -0700

It's about time.

Friday Felix Blogging

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:56:11 -0700

Sphinx pose.

Better

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:27:41 -0700

Happy to report that I'm feeling much better today. I had a bit of a Nyquil foggy morning, but I came out of it just fine.

Sick

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:23:29 -0700

I'm sick. ugh

I haven't been sick in a few years, and really, this isn't too bad. I feel lousy and all, but things could be much much worse.

Luckily today was a semi-short day for me. I got out at 3 to make up for a meeting we had on Sunday night. So I came home and sauntered off into bed for a couple hours.

I've got my Nyquil to keep me company for sleep, but I'm hoping I'm all better tomorrow. I only have one dose left.

Reset

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:52:33 -0700

I went to see "Transformers" the other night. THe last movie I saw in the theatre before that was in summer 2005, "Batman Begins". I should be able to get out to some movies a bit more often now that I have just the one job. Now it's just dealing with the price aspect of it. I'm going to be very sure I want to see something for $10.50.

Show What You Know

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:27:12 -0700

Tonight at the gym the motto was "shows what you know" in regards to knowing what you're capable of. We both were able to do a move that we didn't think we could, but when we tried it we showed ourselves wrong.

Slighty Sad

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:56:35 -0700

Now that I have my new phone I miss out on the joy of sitting down at my computer when I get home and seeing who sent me email during the day.

It's a small thing, but I feel it every day.

Redheads

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:30:05 -0700

That Explains It All

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:11:37 -0700

This is the headline I just saw on CNN, "Cheney having surgery to replace battery."

Pro Shops

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:16:31 -0700

I went out to that new hugigantous Bass Pro Shops tonight. I knew the place was big, but stepping in there I just wasn't prepared to get overwhelmed as much as I did. Lots of displays, a pretty cool aquarium with glass that appears to be 4" thick, and according to the map a pistol and archery range.

I didn't really care for it though. Lots of things for sale, but it had a WalMart feel to it. REI (just down the street) just seems to have a better feel to it. REI isn't know for their incredible prices, but the service and product quality are more than worth it.

I might occasionally get somethings at the BPS, but I think my major purchases will still be at REI.