Spacegoat’s Portal

Hello all. Gosh, I’ve really been neglecting my blog. It’s been three weeks since my last post. I’ve been using the Facebook a little, and I guess I’ve been scratching the social networking itch with that. But you really can’t post 1,000 word rambles in Facebook, and I’m well over due for a good ramble.

A lot has been going on at work this spring. I got “reorganized.” Not as bad as it sounds. I used to work in the Help Desk department back in the day. I worked as an ipso-facto programmer and system administrator, until I was shifted to Web Services and became a genuine Programmer three years ago. Well now I’m back in the Help Desk as a genuine Programmer. The move has worked well for me so far. We are upgrading our Service Desk management application this year, and I’m the guy doing the installation and programming. I feel like I’m where I belong now. That’s a good thing. My job was becoming tiresome and needlessly stressful. Not to disparage my old department, but I never really found my niche in Web Services and I felt like I was being guided into a role that I didn’t want to fill.

I have a couple of trips to Chicago coming up. The week after next I’m going to a week long class for for the Service Desk application I mentioned. It’s actually Lisle so it’s not like it will be exciting or anything. But maybe I’ll be adventurous and go exploring between classes. Probably not. In June, Brother and I will be heading out to Chicago for real on a little Baseball road trip. We will see The Brewers play the Chi Sox in Milwaukee and then head to Chicago the next day to see the Twins play the Cubs. Then we plan on seeing the sites over the weekend. It ought to be real fun.

On my last entry, I told you I’m going back to the diet thing. That’s been going OK. In three weeks, I’ve managed to get my weight back down a little. My weigh-in weight was 201lbs on Wednesday, but it was down to 200 this morning. I’m in no hurry or anything. I’m in great health. I wouldn’t call myself athletic or anything, but I can spry when I want to be. I go to the gym on the weekends and do 5k runs on the tread mill, and I’m still walking on the week days. If I want to really get the scale moving again, I think I’m going to have to take the physical activity to a whole new level. I certainly can’t eat much less than I am now, so the only way to increase my deficit is through exercise. But gosh darn it, I’m a couch potato! I don’t get enjoyment out of lifting heavy things and doing labor. I’ll be happy to do just enough thank you very much. It took me 18 months to lose165lbs. If it takes me that long to lose the next 20lbs, so be it.

Because I’ve learned in the last 2 months that there is no after. I’ve always said that I could never go back to my old habits, but what I have been coming to terms with lately is that I can’t let up even a little. Maybe one day I will get used to it, but for now I’m going to be hungry after meals.

On that happy note, I will bid you farewell.