At Our Pace

Let's Review---The Ron Burgundy Awards
(and yes, this idea is completely ripped off from Bill Simmons)

It's almost time to renew the hosting on the website, so I've decided to have a little review of sorts of our first 3 months in existence.  We've already had a lifetime of successes and failures as a group here, so lets have some highlights, set in the framework of some quotes from one of my favorite movies.

1.  Ron Burgundy: You're so wise. You're like a miniature Buddha, covered in hair.

      I just discovered something tonight... I can go through 10 beers in two and a half minutes!

      For those of you that know me, no I don't mean the alcoholic kind; that kind of heavy drinking would get me so sleepy drunk I would wind up waking up in the Catskill Mountains someplace 20 years down the road.  I found something better!

For Halloween yesterday I treated myself to a trip to Fleet Feet in Syracuse.  It came highly recommended by a lot of people as THE place to go to get sneakers. 

    Wow..Halloween already.. with all the candy, and chocolate, and ... well you get the drift.

I've decided to blog this week about a concept that's been running thru my head for some time.  I'm hoping putting it out here will help cement it in my mind for the next time I decide to derail my personal "Healthy Lifestyle Express" into a bacon processing plant.  Maybe I'll be reminded of this blog and stop while there's still time.

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There are two powerful forces at battle when embarking on any healthy lifestyle program - External Forces and Internal Forces.

I sympathize with Wile E Coyote sometimes.  Poor dude just wants some fried chicken.  The machinations that unlucky fellow has to pursue just for some RoadRunner-flavored KFC are pretty extreme.  I remember one time the dude had a lasso waiting in the road for the RoadRunner.  As he was backing up, he realized that he was back off a cliff and was falling.  As he fell, the lasso latched onto a rock on an outcropping.  Thinking the outcropping could hold him, but miscalculating the length of the rope, he ties the other end of the lasso around his waist.  Unf

What am I doing? Have you ever been in the middle of something that you know is not a great choice, thought to yourself, what are you doing, and then come to the conclusion that you’re going to do it anyway? This is the complete story of my life. I thought I had been very good about it lately. I WAS WRONG! When you combine a lack of time with a lack of will power what do you get? About an extra 3 pounds smack dab back on the place that you just worked a month and a half to get it off of.

Alright, this is a call to all our users and lurkers...we're looking for ideas for outings.  Kickball and Paintball have been wildly successful, and will be hosted again.  We're looking for more ideas...wacky, crazy, idiotic ideas are all in play.

Here's some ideas.  Post your own or throw some feedback our way!

Our staff photographer (who doesn't exist yet) hasn't attended any of the outings yet, but we have a few paintball photos that we might be able to coax Mike into posting for us.

            Ok,  so I admit, I've been slacking a bit on this forum.  It's hard for me to come up with some content after sitting at my computer  talking to clients the last thing that I want to do is work on a computer at the end of the day.  It's hard trying to fit in the time and the motivation to excersise, we have all been there.

Last couple of weeks, I slipped into one of my typical funks.  Usually happens about the time it gets cold.  My good friend the grill is next to useless due to outside temps, seasonal fresh ingredients dry up and are replaced by bland, flown in imitations from countries with questionable food sanitation practices, and my usual small stack of dishes doubles in size.