it works every time

her: (while looking at my ID) Romo... Tony Romo huh
me: hes my cousin.... to bad he plays for such a crappy team
her:*looks at me to get a good look, probably to see any similarities*
her: hey now.... Im a Cowboys Fan
me: well they are still a crappy team
her: well what's your team
me:Chargers
*silence*
her: well Im a lakers fan too!
me: *rolleyes* you are just saying that because you are in LA, everyone is a Lakers fan right now
her: *confused stare*
me: okay, since you are a lakers fan name a player who isnt Kobe or Lamar Odum...
her: uhhhhhh mmmmmmm that one guy.....
me: what, hes black right?
her: no, hes uhm, short....
me: Famar?
her: no hes bald.
me: five, four, three, two, one, zero....
her: Fisher!
me: oh my god hes not short, hes like 5'8, its because you are wearing like eight inch heels thats why
her: hes shorter than everyone else!
me: wow, you call yourself a lakers fan? haha okay
her: *gives me the most flattered/confused look*
me:you should be a 76ers fan
her:you mean a spurs fan
me:whatever
her:uh huh
me: well nice talking to you I got to go now, I'll see you later lets keep in touch....

Fitness update

May 1 2010

Weight #147 (up from 139 back in Feb)
Max Bench #135
1.5 mile run without stopping 10.36 (was not pushing it)

(Im too embarrassed to take pics of my progress haha)

quitting fizzy pop diabetes in a can

I decided a few years back to kick the coke habit.  I loved drinking the stuff and I would never go a day without drinking something bubbly and loaded with caffeine and high fructose corn syrup.
It all started when I felt a painful heart beat.  I found out it was a cardiac arrhythmia, and I thought that maybe I should stop drinking sodas and energy drinks and anything that had caffeine.
After weening myself off, well no, actually I quit cold turkey; the pain associated with my beating heart seemed to go away after just a few days.  It was then when I started to also look more deeply into the ingredients and concentrations of contained in the very popular coke a cola.
I worked with a few doctors and I knew their brains were loaded with information and figured they would be the best people to ask.  I also have a very close friend who is a Ph. D (so is his wife) and very knowledgeable in what I wanted to know.

I asked what did 38grams of sugar mean, what did high fructose corn syrup do and what about "diet" coke.  I found my answers and doing so helped me never to crave this shit again.

Ive heard, from Dr Ray Strand http://www.releasingfat.com, that you are better off if you got a cup of sugar and spoon-fed yourself 35 to 40 tablespoons of sugar.  Natural cane sugar is lower glycemic, meaning it had less of an impact on your blood sugar, you didnt get the spike.  High fructose corn syrup was a high glycemic cheap alternative sweeter.

A credible source I then went to was the Journal of American Medical Association.  Found in this link http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/292/8/927 I read a few other problems associated with HFCS.  Coke will help you gain weight, and you will have a higher chance of getting type 2 diabetes.

Type 2 diabetes used to be called "Adult onset diabetes" but they renamed it because so many young adults and children have started to develop diabetes.

Makes perfect sense right: dont solve the problem or warn the public, simply rename the condition.

If you took the time to read this and you have decided on your own, with the help of this blog post, to quit soda, carbonated high sugar beverages, high fructose corn syrup food, and energy drinks then Ive done my job.

Fuck you high fructose corn syrup.

SpeakEasy’s Double Daddy

This is one IPA that packs a punch.  IPA typically has a very bold taste and this one is no exception.  Compared to other India Pale Ale’s out there, this one is a little higher alcohol content then most.  9.5 percent to be exact.   Brewed in San Francisco, this IPA contains double the hops and double the malt to give your pallet about as much flavor as it can take, thus its name “double daddy”.
Not many people might have the sophistication to appreciate the taste of this kind of beer; I am still building up towards it.  I dont think I can ever drink a fizzy yellow corona the same again after this.
Enjoy responsibly.

Fitness update

First IFA (initial fitness assesment)
37 push ups in 2:00 minutes
42 sit ups in 2:00 minutes

Second IFA three weeks later (today 4-22-10)
45 push ups in 2:00 minutes
71 sit-ups in 2:00 minutes

I think I'm good

Navy DEP IFA

Modern day philosophers

In many of the philosophy dialogues I have studied they have almost always taken place in a bath house.  People get into a debate that becomes crazy enough to last hours or days or weeks and then someone decides to chisel it into a clay tablet for their archives, later to be discovered and made into a subject worthy of majoring in.
Today's gym experience made me think: we still have philosophical debates.  These debates are had by the strangest of people in the Sauna of the Gym that I go to. 
So far I have just side-lined whenever a debate starts or when I happen to walk into the Sauna and there is already a debate going.  The people and the debates seem to always be the oddest and pretty far fetched.
I know my day will come when I have to put in my two cents and have the people around me soak it up like water to a dry sponge.  I just hope I don't stigmatize myself.

Personality change pinpointed

My Mom told me she knows when I changed.  I was in the 10th grade in high school and she told me that is exactly when my personality started changing.

I used to be an introvert.  The biggest introvert anyone ever knew.  I was a wall decoration who would cling to the bricks of the outside of woodshop during Nutrition and Lunch.  In the group of friends I had I was the most quiet.

In the 10th grade I joined the wrestling team and I was to become familiar with the most extroverted people of the entire high school.

Little by little they took me under their wing and trained me.  They directly trained me in wrestling skills and maneuvers but indirectly showed me the ways of socializing.

I was never really that good in wrestling, might have been due to my introvertness.  I was always so timid and shy that I let that get in the way of winning matches, but I guess now that is a thing of the past