Even a stopped clock is right twice a day...

Been a rough month. I've had to put in a few extra hours with trips and preparing for trips. Unfortunately I got a bit over-extended and made a few stupid mistakes. Even more unfortunate was the fact that I compounded these mistakes by putting all the messed up stuff in one place.

I "lost" an important document when I decided to place it in my briefcase and hand-carry it to my boss. I thought I had left it at his house the Saturday before my trip. I ended up having to go in for an extra day to get everything squared away before the trip. Nope....it went into the briefcase and forgotten about.

Then I picked up the boss' Passport because I was supossed to FedEx it out last week for a Visa application. I was too busy to get it out last week and packed it into that same briefcase for the trip home. This is actually good because he needed it this weekend and if I had sent it off he would have just been SOL. Problem was that I pulled the file folders containing the Passport and put them into my carry-on for the trip home.

Lastly, I did hand-deliver the boss' camera to Florida as he had asked....but he left it in my room and I hurredly shoved it into.....you guessed it, my briefcase.

Now all of this isn't a big deal except for the simple fact I decided I didn't want to hand-carry my briefcase back at the end of my trip and shoved it in the big box I was sending back FedEx ground.

D'oh!

That was Saturday. Fast-forward to Monday and Tuesday when we are frantically looking for objects I not only don't have, but didn't know that they were in the briefcase.....the briefcase that I stuffed into a slow box home. I suspected the Passport might be in the briefcase, but I didn't know for sure. The document and the camera.....their wherabouts was a total mystery.

Now to add to the frustration and desperation level, when I tried to look up our FedEx account the shipment wasn't even listed. I had to do some sleuthing and remembered I had (fortunately) requested a shipping reciept so buried in my Gmail was the tracking number. Since this couldn't be that simple...when I did manage to look up the status of my shipment, it showed an error and looked like the package was on its way back to the location I shipped them from!

A few phone calls and I was able to ascertain the package was on it's way to Colorado enroute to Boise, but I'd get them sometime on Friday. A bit late, but doable.......oh yeah, I forgot to mention I accidentally left my keys in the briefcase!

Thank goodness the package arrived today and everything I was looking for, even the stuff I wasn't aware I was looking for, arrive safe and sound.

Upcoming trip

Well...it is that time again. This summer marks the 20th anniversary of my departure from the Davis County Community School District. Yep....we all know what that means....I'm old.

Carolyn and I are leaving soon to attend the reunion. We fly into Des Moines and then travel on down to Davis County to have an all-too brief party at some party cabin in the woods.

I haven't seen the majority of my classmates since graduation. I did attend the 10th reunion and that had a decent turnout, but I hadn't been to any of the other reunions. It doesn't help that I currently live about 1500 miles away.

The organizers for the reunion put together a Facebook group, so I have felt the need to face the evil that is Facebook so I can pretend to communicate with my classmates. So far about the best I've done is send and recieve friend requests. I did get in touch with my old neighbor and swap some brief "what have you been up to for the last 22 years". Twenty-two years since she left our sophmore year and didn't actually graduate with the rest of us.

Could be an interesting trip......

Brief Update

I know, I know.....I haven't been posting much lately. I'd love to say it's because I've been having an online affair with my Xbox360, but the truth of the matter is I've simply been very busy at work.

Seriously......I think I've taken one lunch in the last two weeks, and I usually squeeze in a work errand while I'm at it.

Fortunately for me, I really don't need to eat lunch much anymore. After my boss lost something like 80 pounds on his diet, he "encouraged" me to see his doctor and undertake the same diet. It's not really a big secret: I'm fat.

And by fat I mean I was 5'10" (Well.....5'9 & 3/4") and 270 pounds. Now I was considered "obese" back in the Air Force at 189 pounds. Since I started my diet I've lost about a pound a day and I weighed in this morning at 236 and change. My doc thinks that I should probably be 210 or so. That suprised me, but she has been doing some math on the subject while the Air Force's Fatboy Program wasn't so much math, but "cross-reference your height and the difference between you neck and waist measurements on this 1950 insurance chart".

That really wasn't a joke......

Anyway, I've got about another month to go, assuming that my weight loss is steady. It helps to go to the gym, but when work is so hectic that I'm missing lunch and taking work home.....that's hard to do.

Details on my diet....probably should throw that out there. I'm taking some synthetic growth hormone twice a day and eating 500 calories a day. Yep, 500 calories a day. I haven't really been hungry, which is a "side-effect" of the diet. I basically eat two meals consisting of one fruit, one vegetable, and 3.5-4 ounces of lean protein. It's not just any fruit, vegetable, and protien, but "approved" foods.

Very typical day of eating:
Apple or orange around 11 AM
1 Cup of non-fat cottage cheese seasoned liberally with Tomato, Basil, & Garlic Mrs. Dash and some hotsauce around 1 PM
A cup of salad with some "everything-free" dressing* around 3 PM
A chicken breast sauteed in one blended tomato (with Habenero, garlic, and spices) around 7 PM
Another apple or orange around 9 PM

That's it. I've been blessed to find in the diabetic section of the store some dressing that is carb-free, sugar-free, gluten-free, calorie-free, and probably something-else free....and it tastes pretty good. It's on the list of stuff I'll be eating when I'm off the diet.

My very first "Nigerian Letter"

Whoot! My first scam email on my gmail account:

Hello Dear Chris Stogdill,Good Day and how are you? I am contacting you because I need a trustworthy someone whom I will give my life time savings to help me establish an orphanage and also run a charity program with the money as I will depart this wicked world due to oesophageal cancer. I want to help the poor kids as much as I can. I am a British widow and have no one around me to trust as they all want to loot my money and never care about my interest. Presently I am at the hospital. The total amount for this project is £3.5million Pounds and 20% of the money will be yours and 80% will be used for the project by you. I admit that we have never met before but after I got your contact online and prayed over it for 4 days I developed confidence and decided to trust you and contact you for this donation. I wish you are the honest and hardworking type that I am looking for. Please reply me as quickly as you can for further detail on how this amount would be transferred to your account before I depart to the bosom of God my creator, because my health is deteriorated so badly and I can die at any time. Please contact me back at: givememoneyyouidiot@yahoo.com if you are interested and willing to handle the fund and proposed project.
Sincerely Yours. Mrs. Peace Reidaas.

Highly Innapropriate Co-Opted Music Video

I saw this on the Skippy's List blog and had to steal it, which is appropriate since some dude stole this dumb video of some chick showing off her ass(ets). They added some "subliminal" adverts for a zombie horror film.

Not Safe for Work (NSF) or for Bethany!