Saturday, August 31, 2002

We booted Jonathan's (our 4 and 1/2 year old) computer this morning and realized that I had long ago installed some trial version of XP on it that I had gotten from Microsoft. So we went to CompUSA and got him XP Home Edition and I got 100 feet of Ethernet cable that I have now got running down the hallway to my Cable Router. He'll be on at Cable speeds, gosh darn it! Update: 35 "Updates" since XP released! Damn good thing I connected his PC to the cable router to get the 49.3 MB of updates! 3:45:33 PM

Ok, time to go a little deeper and talk about non-technical things. Its inspiring to read Russell's chronicle's with weight loss and Dave with smoking. I have been battling my wieght too and its real, real hard sometimes. I joined Weight Watchers about 10 months ago on the advice of a real good doctor who explained that it was not a diet but a way of life. It focused more on building a life and getting good education and support than numbers. It has been awesome. I lost 40 pounds in the first 6 months. Thats good. But the sad part is that its only 1/2 way. I have to lose 80 pounds total. The problem is that for the last 4 months. I have not been able to budge. Well, it oscilates between 42 and 36 pounds off but stays for an average of -40. I am so frigging fustrated as I am doing everything right. Three people in WW have looked at my food diary. Everything perfect. 2 doctors and a Nutrionist have looked at. Perfect. There's really nothing to change. The only thing the nutrionist said was to add vegtables which is good but won't change things much. Today I gained 0.6 again. Sometimes I just want to give up on it. 1:14:20 PM

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