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Medifast Status: Day 32, Down ~22lbs

It was a long day at work and it was around eight thirty when I finally arrived at home.  Friday nights are rough.  The day just never ends.

I got home and immediately got hit with a tough Windows administration problem that has been plaguing Grey for weeks.  So I spent an hour or two looking at Windows / NTFS drive issues with him.  But we did manage to get things resolved so that he was able to go home for the evening.

It was around ten when I was finally to the point where I could relax with the girls.  At least tomorrow is Saturday.

Medifast Status: Day 31, Down ~22lbs

A mostly quiet day.  Still working hard to catch up on the site.  I’ve made up over a week on the site in the last day or so and am working hard to get back on top.  Will take a little while, though.  Doing one post a day is hard.  Doing them when they are behind is really, really hard.

Phone conference this evening.  Boy are my days busy.  Little time to relax after that tonight.  It was a long day.

The Medifast continues to work.  Slow and steady at this point.  Keeping up a continuous loss is tough but it is working.

Medifast Status: Day 30, Down 21.5lbs

My first month of Medifast is over and I am felling quite well.  Twenty one and a half pounds is not too shabby at all.  It’s not all that visible and I don’t feel all that different but knowing that I am down that much feels pretty good.  I am losing fast enough that it is providing motivation to stick with it.

I got stuck at work today and was not able to come home for lunch to help Dominica clean like I was supposed to have done.  I got in a bit of trouble for that.  It was a really busy day at the office and I was just unable to get away.

This evening after work Nicki and I drove up to the house and I set to hooking up a laptop to the television as quickly as possible.  I did what little cleaning and setup that I could but it was a rush to get anything done.

We got the laptop hooked up in the living room so that we could use the television for viewing a WebEx demonstration which worked out really well.  The real challenge was not in getting the image to the television (that’s just a VGA cable) but in getting sound which I had not thought about until the last second.  Oops. But I brought in my powered speakers and hooked them up and it was fine.

Maggie came over a little later.  Watson was going to come over, but it was too long of a drive for him to make it all of the way to Carrollton after being at the office all day.  So he watched from home.  I watched from my office.

We had soda and pizza at the house.  This is definitely the way to watch technical training.  A couch, big screen television, pizza… once again an opportunity for pizza that I cannot take advantage of because I am on Medifast.  I am feeling like I am cursed as to the timing of this.

The WebEx was about two hours long and a little exhausting and then I had the phone ringing constantly as soon as it was done.  It was a big rush to get out the door and drive Nicki home.

It was a long and late night for me.  And then we got to clean up after it was all done.  But it went well and we had a good time.

Medifast Status: Day 29, Down 21.5lbs

Back to the office today.  It is Tuesday, so that means another four day week.  Two four day work weeks in a row.  Rockin’!

It is a hot one today.  Very, very hot.  After work I hit the Grapevine Municipal Golf Course for my golf lesson that I’ve been doing for several weeks.  Boy was it ever not.  The sweat was just pouring off of me the entire time making it very hard to play at all.  My instructor said that I was showing real improvement at least.  I am enjoying the lessons and can tell that I am swinging far better than I was before the lessons.  I hope to be able to do this again next year when I plan to take lessons with Dominica so that we can start playing golf as a family.  Dominica and I used to love playing golf together back in Ithaca before she hurt her back.

Medifast Status: Day 28, Down ~21lbs

Today is Memorial Day and we have no plans at all.  I am home from work and just have to watch the email today to see if anyone really needs me which is nice.  I have nothing scheduled so I spent most of the day actually relaxing, which I really needed.

We did some rearranging in the house today.  We took apart the couch (the “theatre seating”) and moved the mid-section of it into the play room and pushed the ends of the couch together.  Now there is a ton of space around the couch rather than either end of it being really close to the walls and, as soon as we can move the television into the other room, the mid-section will become seating for Dominica and I can use the other chair that is already in there.  That room is looking pretty busy now but the living room itself is looking far nicer.

I got to play quite a bit of Fable III today and I am making incredible progress.  It feels like I am flying through the game.  Much faster than Fable I or II felt.  It is hard to really know as you never know what lies ahead but I get the feeling that I am nearly halfway done with it already.  Of course, this weekend was a really good chance for me to plow into it right from the beginning, but still.

So far we really like Fable III.  Dominica is really enjoying watching it.  It plays out much like a movie, but like Fable II did.  There is no doubt that it is quite a different game than its predecessor.  The game play has changed quite a bit even if the look and feel have not.  This one is much less intense from a game play perspective but moreso from a drama and storytelling perspective.