They say you want a Resolution

Here we are, at a new year, with new resolutions. I don't make resolutions, never really have but there is one thing that I need to work on, my fat ass, or more, my fat gut. So, once again, I'm going to try to work out of some sort. I'm going to try to walk again. I've done that a few times here on this blog, and it never lasts. So this time, I'm going to make it a little more interesting. Something I do love, is maps. So my goal for this year, is to walk to Salt Lake City, UT from my home in Indiana. Why? Well, there's a rumor that a government has set up there and it is considered a safe zone. Why do I need a safe zone? Well, because I'm now in a zombie apocalypse. That would be something else I love, apocalyptic stories. I'm a huge the Walking Dead fan and I read apocalyptic thrillers all the time, about all I read anymore so I'm going to combine those things I love with something I hate, exercise.

I chose Salt Lake City because it's approximately 1,500 miles away which is an average of 8,000 steps a day for a year. I chose 8,000 because while I generally am close or over that on work days, it'll be the making that up on the non work days which will be more difficult. I plan on doing some walking on my work days when I get home to get over 10,000 steps a day. Which will make my weekends a little more relaxing. I still plan on walking on those days but not 10,000 steps. I learned last time, that is a lot of steps to be taken just on one walk.

I'll blog about it, I doubt every day, but maybe I'll throw in a story about something that happened that day during the zombie apocalypse, maybe not. I do plan on posting where I was sleeping that night, hence, the use of the maps.

Sure, I could change my diet, but I love food so I just don't see that happening. Although it's ironic that I'm sitting here eating M&M's while I type this out. I hate exercise and to be honest, I'm not sure what all I could do as far as lifting weights and such because of other issues. Hurt shoulder, bad knees, ect. With walking, I usually enjoy the time jamming out on my headphones and it generally takes less than an hour a day. I don't want to take to much time away from my sitting on my ass time. (Haha, but not really).

This may accomplish a couple of things.

1. It'll get my fat ass out there doing something to work off this gut.
2. It'll get me to blog more here. Maybe I should track how many words I post as well.
3. Let's face it, if I can lose some weight, my body would feel better.

So we'll see how far this goes, hopefully further than the last time I tried to exercise.

Weekly Catch-Up

I don’t really have anything to say.  It’s been a nice, lazy weekend.  I’ve been working on putting out posts on My Sports Obsession because I was getting low.  I can bust out a bunch at once on that blog and then just publish one a day without having to put much efforts over there as I do here.  Sometimes I’ll have a few already set up for this blog, but that’s rare.  I didn’t work this weekend which means next week is my 5 12 hour days so I wouldn’t expect to much out of me this week as well.  I have Wednesday and Thursday off but I’m usually so tired from the 12 hour days that I tend to sleep half my days away when I have them off.  But since I have nothing for today, your going to get a Weekly Catch-up just because I haven’t done one in forever.


I posted this status after watching one of Trevor’s classmates climb into the front seat of a vehicle while picking the kids up from school.  I’ve seen kids younger climb up there as well.  Trevor is only 8 and all the warning labels on my car say they should be at least 13 to sit in the front seat with an air bag.  I know I’m not the only parent that feels this way but I’m amazed at all the ones that don’t.  I know I never would forgive myself if I lost my kid in a minor crash and my airbag killed my kid because I was too lazy to tell them no, they had to sit in the back.

I updated my cover photo.  I thought it was fitting.  But considering most of the people, actually, all but maybe 3 or 4 don’t even read my blog, it didn’t last too long.

I couldn’t get this video to post on my blog so I screen capped it and linked it to the video on YouTube so click it and go check out this prank.  It’s in a foreign language but you don’t need to know what they are saying to laugh.

December 1st, I can officially start with Christmas stuff.  So I changed my profile picture to this.  I believe I used it last year in December as well.

I picked up Samantha and her friend from a Girl Scouts trip and I let them pick the music off my spotify.  They chose Taylor Swift so I drove while they sang along, more or less.  I even heard Samantha tell her friend that they could sing out loud because daddy can ignore us.  They are referring to when Cheri is in the car, she has trouble ignoring noise around her.  She doesn’t allow them to sing out loud.

Told you my cover photo didn’t last long.  You can never go wrong with a zombie cover photo.

Guess you need these to posted since I can get my Twitter widget off to the side to work.  Anything I posted on Facebook and Twitter I won’t repost again.  Just whatever you haven’t seen.

You didn’t live in the 90’s if you hadn’t heard those songs.  Actually, she lived in the 90’s and I skipped it, but somehow I knew the songs and she didn’t.

I retweeted this from Men’s Humor, they are great for humor but they do throw a good one out there every so often.  But this one was fitting because that’s why I wear my headphones when I’m standing in the line to clock out at the end of the day.

Pretty sure most of you will recognize who’s account this is since it’s a fellow blogger.  Brett does “the Transformed Non-Conformist" blog.  I liked this, because I never get up to get the remote.  For instance, today, it was over by Cheri’s chair and I didn’t want to get up to change the channel.  So I grabbed my phone and used the Xfinity app and changed it with that.

This was tweeted today after the Colts pulled out a great win against the Lions.  Detroit played very well and the Colts floundered the whole 2nd half but managed a come from behind with less than a minute left.  I’d like to see where Andrew Luck will take us in the next few years.

This is hilarious.  If you follow the NFL, you’ll get it.  If not, your loss.

    
The picture on the left is a picture of the donut that Frank brought me.  I put the calculator in it just so you could see the size of it.  Frank brings me one of these every week because I help him out after he goes home and run a little bit of his job till I leave.  It’s filled with lemon filling and my shirt is usually covered in the powdered sugar by the time I finish it.  The picture on the right is obviously our Kitty.  She wakes us up when the sun comes out so we can open the blinds and she can get up there and look outside while we sleep.  She can be a pain in the ass in the morning.

November 29th, 2011 – Friends

  

November 29th, 2011 – the Walking Dead

November 29th, 2011 – Indiana Jones

November 30th, 2011 – Star Wars

November 30th, 2011 – Star Wars (Return of the Jedi)

  

  

   

  

November 30th, 2011 – Jean-Claude Van Damme

November 30th, 2011 – Star Wars

December 1st, 2011 – Elementary

December 1st, 2011 – Peanuts

December 2nd, 2011 – the Walking Dead, Star Trek

December 2nd, 2011 – the Walking Dead

Currently Reading.

Short week at work so I haven’t finished any others, been working on this one all week.  I’m 52% done now, but I’m guessing I’ll be done by the end of the week since I go back to work tomorrow.

To see what I’m doing, go check out the first part of this post, 
Currently listening to – All Items (760 tracks) – Artist with the most songs left (Petra – 31 tracks)
Currently transferring to – All Items 2 (188 tracks) – Artist with the most songs removed (Say What? – 9 tracks)
Total songs (948 tracks)
The reason Say What? has more tracks in the All Items 2 list is because I added them to the list after this started.  Any new songs I add to the list of already listened to songs, that way they don’t get an unfair advantage of not having to be listed in the beginning rounds.  Petra is actually in the lead of removed songs as well with 8 tracks.  I have a lot of theirs so I’m guessing they’ll lead for awhile.

Randomness

A couple of quick things.  The good news is it’s really slow at work (not normally good news) but it means I get to read more.  This generally means when I’m working and have nothing to do, I read blogs on my Google Reader and on my breaks, I read books.  I got almost all the way caught up on my blogs today.  This is how I looked.

That would be me sitting on a 5 gallon bucket with my head on my desk (sweatshirt for padding), reading on my Kindle Fire.  It helps that I’m in the slowest section on the line.  I’m sitting in front of my fan as well, if I had some hair, you could see my locks flowing in the breeze.  It may be 40 degrees outside, but it’s still warm inside.

I know none of you really read my sports blog, but I was having issues and started a duplicate blog on Wordpress.  I did the same with this one.  So if you would rather follow this blog on Wordpress than you can at http://randomthoughtsfromjccsst1022.wordpress.com/.  The blog posts will be an exact duplicate as here so if you don’t want to switch, then don’t.  This will still be the main blog and will have more sidebar activity as well as pages.  I don’t like the Wordpress site as much as Blogger but it may just be because I’m used to Blogger.  I do like that people can like your post without having to leave a comment.  And I like that now I can comment on Wordpress blogs and have account to link to.

Special thanks to Brian from “Brian Jones’ Diary – the Ramblings of a Menopausal Man” for my 3rd Chairman’s Choice man card for my post “Surprise Package” and for giving me another blog to read.  Be sure to check him out as well as the other guys over at Dude Write.

Always a good time for a couple of Apple Sucks posts.

Since this is so short, I’ll throw up a couple of things that I posted on personal Facebook account.

Some days this is the hardest thing I have to do.

If I keep eating fast food, I won’t be their fast food.

It’s funny how the unlikeliest characters become the most popular.

And a picture from my wife’s Instagram.

If you remember my last post where I said I crashed on the couch for a few hours.  Apparently Kitty found a place to sleep as well.  Right on my back and ass.

Haven’t done a Track of the Day in a little while so we’ll throw another one out there for old times sake.

Track – Sunday’s on the Way

Artist - Carman

Another classic christian song.  This was chosen because I did some service work at a church in Kentucky.  And one night we did a skit to this song.  It’s about the demons and devils partying after Jesus’ crucifixion waiting for Sunday to come to see if he comes back.  Anytime I hear this song, I go back to Thousandsticks, Kentucky and all the fun I had on that missions trip.  We did all kinds of cosmetic and maintenance to a church and surrounding buildings.  We slept in the church sanctuary on the pews and the floors.  That was back when I was a good guy, before I got corrupted.