Sheep Guarding Llama

Medifast Status: Day 47, Down ~28.5lbs

I got up this morning and continued working on Fable III.  I was tired of it last night but Dominica felt that we needed to complete all of the “non-evil” storylines and quests, even those that seemed pretty trivial.  So I got to work on those this morning just for “completeness.”  It does help us to get the most value possible out of a single game but it does tend to wear it out as well.

By late morning I had everything done except for some of the “treasure hunt” parts of the game like tracking down the last of the gnomes or picking up the last of the silver and gold keys.  I have most of both but have not taken the time to do them as their own quests.  They take forever and are only mildly entertaining.  I might come back at some point and do them when I am bored and need to zone out for a bit but I am thinking that that is not very likely.  I did the silver keys on Fable II and the last key ended up being a glitch and the quest couldn’t be completed.  I did the gargoyles but Fable II lasted much longer and it made more sense.  Fable III ended so quickly that it made the treasure hunt bits not really fit well with the rest of the game.

Overall Fable III remains an awesome game but I would not say that it is as good as Fable II.  Fable III suffers from a bizarre change of gameplay that occurs partway through the storyline and suddenly turns the game from a Fable II-like action adventure game into a somewhat bizarre strategy game that has so little precedence that you are mostly lost and confused and it is over so quickly that you don’t make good decisions simply because the game doesn’t do a good job of leading you.  Then, once the game is “over” you are dropped back into the original game sans storyline and you aren’t sure what you are supposed to do.  Awkward.

This afternoon Watson called and felt like going to eat at Chili’s so he came over and we went out to eat.  At Chili’s I’m able to get a bunless avocado burger which is really tasty.   That was a nice change of pace.  I’m not sure how often I should eat that though.  It seems a little bit higher in calories than I am likely to be supposed to be eating.

Medifast Status: Day 46, Down ~28.5lbs

I did lunch at Rockfish again today.  Rockfish and La Cima are about the only places that we can easily eat now that I am on Medifast so we have been using them extensively.  La Cima is actually less expensive, though, so we try to use that as much as possible.

I had my Medifast checkup this afternoon.  After hearing about La Cima my trainer at Medifast is seriously thinking about joining himself.

Got home late after deployments and spent the evening hanging out with the family.  We spent the evening playing Fable III as a family.

Tonight we managed to complete Fable III.  Not only did we finish up the main game but we completed the bulk of the extended storylines as well.  Fable III went really quickly.  I feel like it was quite a bit shorter than Fable II.

Medifast Status: Day 45, Down ~28.5lbs

I went to lunch at La Cima again today.  We’ve been using La Cima a ton in the past week.  The construction is really coming along.  We won’t get to see the end of it until we return from our summer in New York, though.

I had another hot outdoor phone call today.  It’s nearly impossible to have a call outside in this heat.  There is no way to not just sweat and sweat when trying to talk on the phone.

I was racing to get home and was a bit late for my weekly conference call this evening.

Medifast Status: Day 44, Down ~28lbs

This afternoon we went out for a late family lunch outing to La Cima.  Liesl and Luciana are so good when going out to lunch.  Luciana is so calm, she is the easiest baby ever.  Liesl still does very well for a toddler.  She is, of course, a struggle but she tries hard.  Being two and a half doesn’t make for an easy time but she does surprisingly well and loves going to the club.  She gets very excited when we go.

We barely made it in time for lunch today.  They had to hold the kitchen open just for us.

We have figured out that if Dominica and the girls pick me up from work we are able to have a lot more time together at lunch and it works out well to go to La Cima to hang out.  Everyone really enjoys doing that for lunch and really likes that it gives us a lot more time together as a family.

Medifast Status: Day 43, Down ~27.5lbs

Filler.  No idea what to write but don’t want to get stuck on a day that I can’t remember so I’m moving on.  Face it, not every day is interesting enough to write about.