Breakfast, Laziness, Lunch

So I got up when my alarm went off this morning, and therefore enjoyed a delicious breakfast.

Low-fat Granola Cereal is where it's at, mother******.  I know what you're thinking, "But Fatass, granola is only for hippies and pussy earth-saving liberals".  You know what?  **** You!

That's right, I even had some onion flat-bread (toasted, carbohydrate) with a botched over-easy egg (protein) and a goddamned hippy liberal Sesame Street juice box (fruit).  The breakfast of socialist children's programming, we'll call it.  Really, I like granola for some damned reason, and the Nutrisystem granola is my favorite shelf food on the diet for breakfast.

I didn't work out this morning, and ended up taking a slight nap for a few hours, but I woke up in time for delicious toaster lunch.

Yes, the Toasted Ham & Cheese frozen meal, an old favorite, and one that makes being back on the diet not seem difficult at all.

Now, it's back to applying for jobs and staring into the abyss, but before I go, enjoy this image of a Netflix movie I got today.  It shipped yesterday and the disc was intact, so I'm not going to complain about it through their system, but I thought it was pretty special that the USPS managed to maul it like this, and then had the balls to put it back together with tape.  Both ends of the envelope were taped back together, but they didn't even try to hid the busted dot.

Back to the Grind

Woke up a bit late today, since my schedule's been all out of whack, and ate lunch at noon.

I had the Cheesy Homestyle Potatoes, which are rather good, if you add enough water to them.  If you only add water once, they end up like a horrible glue, you need to keep adding water and mixing until they're stable at the fill line.

I spent the early part of the afternoon applying for jobs.  There weren't a whole lot of new engineering jobs since yesterday, so I mainly applied for administrative/business jobs in the field.  I also realized that the main reason I'd been putting off formatting my old laptop with Ubuntu was that I had my copy of Rosetta Stone installed on it, and I didn't know where the damned activation code was.  Fortunately, the kind folks at customer support helped me out with a new code, when I explained my problem to them and provided my old proof of purchase info, so I'm in the process of installing it on the newer computer.

For dinner, I had the Lean Cuisine Pepperoni Pizza.  I'm continuing to eat some frozen foods to ease back into dieting.

For sides, I had some light ranch dressing (fat), celery and cucumber (unlimited vegetables), and cauliflower (vegetable).  I felt a bit hungry after dinner, as I haven't really adjusted back to good portion sizes yet, so I moved on to dessert.

For dessert, I had a South Beach Living Peanut Butter Cereal Bar.

I really like these.  For their calorie count, they're a pretty significant size, and they're definitely one of the better tasting options for something this size.


So that was Tuesday.  I finished writing this up at around 3:30 AM Wednesday, because I woke up in the middle of the night to hit the head and realized I had never finished this.  Currently experiencing an exciting back twinge and trying to psyche myself up to work out when I get up for real this morning.  I think I'll have better luck psyching myself up to return to the bed.

Still Alive

Alright, me droogs, I think I owe you an after-action report.  Clearly, I've been off the wires for a bit, and I owe an explanation.  The epic road trip had to come to an end, because I ran out of the cash moneys, so it finished up in Indianapolis for the 4th of July weekend, with pitstops in New Albany, IN at the New Albanian Brewery and the Creation Museum on the Kentucky side of Cincinnati (which probably deserves its own entire post later).  The New Albanian Brewery had good beer, and the Creation Museum was home to the worst science I've ever seen.  I will definitely get a writeup of that together at some point.

The Fourth was pretty excellent, as it was spent with good friends, booze and explosives.  I was drinking and blowing shit up for the rest of the day after this was taken, so I have no pictures of the actual explosions, but friends do, and I may post them at a later date.  For now, enjoy the pile of explosives that was completely used that day and night.  4 cakes, 3 300-shot saturn rockets, a boatload of mortars (with custom launch rack), boxes of firecrackers, novelties, roman candles and bottle rockets.  We celebrated the fuck out of this country.

Of course, this leaves the bulk of the last week being spent back in PA unpacking and decompressing.  As of today, I'm back on Nutrisystem and prepared to begin regular blogging again.  No weigh in this morning, as I got up rather late, but I ate a Nutrisystem lunch, snack and dinner.  I've continued applying for jobs and am hopeful that someone will someday want me to engineer for them again.

I'm probably not going to weigh in for a few days, as I don't want to shock myself too much with whatever damage I've done, boozing and eating takeout for about 2 weeks, but I'm fully back on the diet, and will resume the blogging of it tomorrow.  I also intend to resume working out tomorrow or Wednesday, as it has been some time since I have, and fear the result of my laziness.

That is all!

I LIVE!

So it's been a couple of eventful, diet free days, and I've got a quick recap for you.  I drove up through Tampa Bay from Ft. Myers, FL and into Georgia, where I stopped at a Comfort Inn near the Alabama border for the evening.  I then jogged west into Alabama and Mississippi on my way to Memphis, where I intended to visit Graceland.

Upon reaching Graceland, I realized a couple of things.  First, parking was 15 bucks, and there were probably going to be more charges once I got past parking.  The area is also a complete shithole, check cashing places and pawn shops everywhere.  I also realized I don't really like Elvis all that much.  His music's great and an important part of American musical history, but I can deal without the shag carpets and purple wallpaper.

So I decided to go to the Jack Daniel's Distillery, on the east side of Tennessee.  I stayed in a nearby KOA for the night, and went to the distillery in the morning.

The tour was awesome, and there were great shops in downtown Lynchburg, all of which had the same Jack merch and gave you a free shot glass with a 10 dollar purchase.  Needless to say, I spread my shopping across all the shops.  The picture above is a bronze of Jack with the cave spring that the water comes from in the background.  While at the distillery, I bought 2 commemorative bottles of black label and a bottle of single-barrel, all of which I had signed by the "Master Taster", who happened to be in the tour area signing bottles while I was there.

I then went to the New Albanian Bank St Brewhouse [www.newalbanian.com] at the request of one of the folks I'm visiting in Indianapolis, and picked up a few growlers of beer.  He wanted the Hoptimus, and I bought the Haggis Laddie for myself (I have a weakness for the reds).

Today, I'm going to visit the Creation Museum outside of Cincinnati and then move on to Indianapolis.  I hope not to be arrested.

I've tried to get weighed at a few of the places I've stayed, but there hasn't been a decent flat surface for the purpose, so I'm probably just going to not do it again until I reach home next week.