Thursday, March 15, 2007
Busy, Busy, Busy
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Mmmm...Bad!!
I kept telling myself that my diet was not in jeorpardy since I was going to eat mainly meat and since I am trying a modified Atkins Diet (more protien, less carbs, starches, sugar, etc.) that I would do fine. Well, let's just say I ate plenty of meat but.....I also made the mistake of "trying" their homemade blackberry cobbler. BIG mistake!
My wife and I agreed, that this cobbler was the best we had ever had in our lifetime. Now that's a pretty bold statement considering we both come from the south and have eaten all kinds of cobblers from people who know how to make them from scratch. After making this rather bold statement, I felt a little remorse for uttering such a boastful comment since I had made this claim many years before, confirming my Mom's and my wife's Ma Jobe their honorary place in cobbler enshrinement history. As I struggled to make sense of my seemingly blasphemous guffaw, I quickly remembered that my mother had never made a "blackberry" cobbler or had never tasted a "blackberry" cobbler made by Ma Jobe and that I was simply stating that this flavor of cobbler was the best that I had ever had. As I wriggled my way out that sticky (no pun intended) situation, I leared over at my Dad's "peach" cobbler that he had ordered...knowing that I could never, ever "try" that cobbler as long as I lived. For me, the best "peach" cobbler I have ever tasted is that of my Mom's and Ma Jobe. Their legacy never in question.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Prepare for Glory!
Went to see the 300 last night at the Palace in downtown FW. It was awesome! This is definitely a keeper when it comes out on DVD. The battle sequences were very well choreographed and digitized with plenty of blood and life-like mutalations. This kind of mvie inspires you to train even harder in the gym, since everyone children, women and men are all ripped to shreds! I highly recommend this movie and will probably see it again soon. Here are some cool links to the behind the scenes of the making of this classic.
http://300themovie.warnerbros.com/
http://imdb.com/title/tt0416449/
Movie Quotes:
This is madness. - King of Persia's Messenger
No....this is SPARTA!!! - King Leonidas (just before he kicks him into the bottomless abyss)
Well, that was a good start. - Spartan (after 300 killed the first wave of 3-4,000 Persians)
We will turn the day into night with our arrows. - Persian General
Then, we shall fight in the shade. - Spartan Stelios
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Good Stuff
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
It Hurts So Good
I pretty much kept it simple and light, doing 3 sets of 8-10 reps on bench, dumbells, and curl bar. It's gonna take awhile to get back in the shape I was in 1.5 years ago when I was practicing Jeet Kune Do with sifu Mike Goldberg at the JKD Institute in Fort Worth.
Jeet is great for flexibility and speed. As fas as martial arts goes, Jeet is very different from say, Judo, Karate, JuiJitsSu, etc. Simply put, JKD teaches you how to basically take people out and therefore must be practiced with plenty of restraint and protective gear!! Anyway, I plan to get back into JKD and get ranked within the next year or two.
Gotta go...just took Advil and Asprin...just trying to head off the inevitable!
Monday, March 5, 2007
E = mc2 or the lack of...
Sunday...woke up to my Dad calling me to ask for help in getting one of his rental units cleaned and painted...ugh...8:00am on a Sunday! Anyway, leave to go help and don't return until 4:30PM....long day. I stll have some energy left and made a comittment to myself to get back in shape and start running again. So I do a short 1.5 mile run around my area.
Man, I am beat. I am 20 pounds heavier than I have ever been and feeling it. Gotta work on my diet too. At least I ran without stopping...err...much. I was sure happy to see the house though! Gotta lose this weight fast!
Here's a cool link to the USATF Map Router. This tool allows you to map your own running routes anywhere in the country!