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I was given a food plan by my trainer. And a special book for writing everything down in. I have a calorie total and a list of alternate foods and tradeoff values. Sounds like they’ve basically ripped off the Weight Watchers point system with a bunch of categories. That’

I have a trainer now. I don’t know how long I’ll be able to afford a trainer, but this one seems to know his stuff, so after a few weeks meeting with him three times a week maybe I’ll knock back to twice or even once a

I don’t feel the pull that some do to get drunk during the holidays. I’m grateful for that. It’s not like I don’t have a lot of emotional crap come up at this time of year, but I don’t have the same association some do

I’ve been searching for Iraj Pezeshkzad’s My Uncle Napoleon, the novel that made “going to San Francisco” a euphemism for sex in Farsi, for almost a year now. The San Francisco Public Library doesn’t have it, and none of the respectable booksellers with People Who Know About

OK, well, I keep on getting older. Thanks go out to for taking me out to see Kill Bill at the Parkway tonight. I was actually pretty depressed most of the day, not really related to turning 34 I don’t think, but the steadiness of my crawl toward death

The latest death toll from this morning’s earthquake in Bam, Iran is over 20,000 with 50,000 additional injured. The quake was measured at 6.5 on the Richter scale, the same magnitude as Monday’s Paso Robles quake which killed two. Just yesterday I was saying how