Speech

In case you missed Barack's speech last night, it's definitely worth a watch...



-M

People Actually Voted?...

One of the things I did not like about the Iowa Caucus was that it was in Iowa. Clearly not exactly representative of the melting pot of America. Also the amount of weight that it carries is kind of absurd when you think there there are so few people who actually live there. Regardless, it is what it is and there's nothing I can do about it. I do like the fact that candidates have to go out and prove themselves to those salt of the earth people who live there. It's actually a much better alternative to having them get glammed up and go to some super sweet 16 party for candidates.

But I was pleasantly surprised at the huge number of people that turned out last night. I mean when you have over 300,000 people turn out in a state that has less than 3,000,000 people then clearly the people are speaking. That's 10 percent of the entire population, not just the voting population. Generally I think there is something like less than 10 percent of registered voters turn out to the caucus so this number is pretty amazing. It turned out pretty well for me. Obama did better than anyone could have predicted and Edwards and Clinton are pretty much tied for 2nd. Biden and Dodd dropped out and I'm not sure exactly what happened to Richardson though he said if he didn't get his 15% to throw his support to Obama which may have helped Obama get the huge numbers he did.

It's a good sign. It was a really interesting night I think not just for politics but for American History. Obama winning that was not only inspirational but hopefully indicative of a positive change in the coming years. Hopefully this momentum carries over to NH and then to Super Tuesday but we'll see. There's still a long way to go and miles to go...His speech last night was awesome. I said it a long time ago but really, this is what I imagine it was like to be a supporter of Bobby Kennedy.

I'm out for now. Happy New Year. Bored today so I am gonna try and catch up on a lot of posting I meant to do. Go big.

-M, p, z & shredder

oh ps - if you live outside of michigan, please vote!!! since my vote doesn't matter I need to live vicariously though you people!!! please vote, it's very very important!!! Also, someone should ask Mike Huckabee this question...

Slowing Down...

So further evidence that I'm getting older is the fact that everything is just that much harder on my body. About a month ago or so I noticed I was starting to pack on the pounds and while I wasn't close to hitting my fat peak when I was 182 lbs, I was at a slightly unsettling 174. I decided I needed to lose some weight immediately and figured 10 pounds this month would be enough. When I was at 182 I was 22 years old and it took me 3 weeks of running a mile every other day to lose 15 lbs. This was only about 3 years ago so I thought it should take about as long to lose 10 lbs. It hasn't. I've only lost 8 lbs and to do that I've not only been running more than a mile just about everyday, but also I changed my diet. I have 2 days left before I leave for DC for new years and hopefully I can lose those pounds.

It's strange to start thinking about my health when it seems like just yesterday when I was in high school eating 3 bags of chips, cookies and a coke for lunch. But I'm getting older and if I don't start doing it now it will only get harder the older I get. Now I have to cut back on carbs, I try and not put salt into anything I cook, I have only been drunk once in the last 2 months and I cut out fast food which turned out to be the hardest thing. I have never really been one to eat a lot of fast food, it's not that great and it extremely bad for you. But as I had pretty much been living in my car and on the road and city to city from August to November I had grown accustomed to getting a regular fix of chicken nuggets and spicy chicken sandwiches. It's been a while since I've had any fast food and while I feel great I find myself craving the aforementioned golden nuggets of pure deliciousness more often that not.













Also as a reminder of my age, I was knocked over playing basketball 2 days ago and my back and ass were sore the entire day yesterday. I had to take 2 Tylenol to not wince every time I moved. It was ridiculous. I have never been so sore from one seemingly innocuous fall. I remember recently feeling the same after a trip to Florida when I got pounded by some waves and I vowed to regain my body of my youth by falling a lot and building up tolerance for it but that's a pretty lame idea. Falling sucks and I don't really want to do it anymore.

Anyways, I'm going to try and get out the few blogs I have been to lazy to write before I take off to DC on Sunday so look for many blogs over the next few days. Go big and stuff..

-M, p, z & shredder

oh ps - Last year one of my 'resolutions' was to cut out all meat but chicken and seafood. I have done that pretty well. I had a few slip ups when I ate things that I was unaware that had pork in them and also amended the resolution for include turkey. But other than maybe 5 meals I stuck to my convictions and it's pretty awesome. Chicken, even though it's the greatest thing on the planet, is also not that great for you. So for this year I plan on slowly phasing it out. Eating more seafood and less chicken. I am going to try and cut back from eating it pretty much 7 days a week (usually twice a day) to no more than 7 meals a week. It sounds like it's still a lot but if you think about it there's 21 meals a week and I'm only having chicken in 33 percent of those meals. Hopefully I will have about 10 that include various types of seafood and turkey and then at least 4 or 5 that are vegetarian.

Merry Christmas...

And a Happy New Year. If you're going somewhere, travel safe. People like to drive crazy on the roads so you gotta watch out for them.



Out like Santa

-M, p, z & shredder

oh ps - make sure you recycle your wrapping paper!!