So much good advice from people. Nice, helpful, friendly comments. Much appreciated, even if I took over a week to write a follow-up entry.

I had my weigh-in today. Not good, but not nearly as bad as Wii Fit suggested. I went to the gym a few times and got a better handle on the food thing again. Was tolerable, all things considered.

Came up with a bit of a modification to how I count points. I scaled back my base amount, but if I go to the gym, I get bonus points for that day AND the following day. So if I go every other day, I'm back to what I had been getting before. If I go more often, I get a few bonus points. If I slack off, I lose a few points. I don't know if I can explain it without making it sound complicated (and I know that Don might be the only person who will read this and maybe care at all), but it works for me. I've made it to the gym five times since writing the last entry.

In other news, I booked plane tickets to Calgary yesterday. I leave a week from today and am gone about six days. Gonna spend Mother's Day with my grandparents. I had booked a week off in April, but when our workload spiked, I decided it wasn't a fair time for me to leave. So it's a bit of a delayed vacation, but a vacation just the same. I have no great plans while I'm there. Just relaxing and stuff. And spreading swine flu.

I was delighted to realize that my flight is timed so that I might maybe possibly be able to get a curry chicken pita before I leave. It'll be close, but I hate missing out, even for one week.

While I'm gone, my beloved yellow car will be in the shop getting a few dings fixed. Hooray for racking up my insurance to pay for someone else hitting me! Oh well. That's life, right? Or at least a particularly irritating component thereof. I look forward to getting my yellow car back into tip-top shape.

In other fixing-stuff news, I got my netbook, Bushwick, back from Chad today. He was putting TinyXP on it. I still have to install all the software, but I think the worst is over... maybe. These things always take longer than they should and wind up being more complicated than you'd think. As long as I get basic funcationality back by the Calgary trip, all should be well.

Effective very shortly, jameskalyn.com will be no more. The domain will still exist, but it will point to this blog instead of a separate website. I am losing my work-for-hosting deal (mainly because I was never given any work and, thus, never did any work) so my website is going away for the time being.

This also marks the end of my wonderful site about Rob. I don't think he meant it when he said it was sad that the site was going away.

Anyway, it feels really weird to be without a website for the first time in... wow, since my first Geocities site in 1995 or '96. I'd expound on those feelings but I gotta run to the park to hear the Weakerthans. If I wanted to pay cash money, I could go SEE the Weakerthans. This won't happen.

1:15 a.m. Sleep? No. Blog? Yes.

Not that there's much going on. Spent the weekend in Saskatoon, just like most weekends. Got together with the family for a holiday-free big turkey meal on Saturday. While there, we booked our plane tickets to North Carolina. Only going for four days. Not sure what all we'll do, though I do have tentative plans to go to a Cracker Barrel and a Sonic. And a wedding. NOT MINE

I STRESS, NOT MINE

Work is uneventful. A bit on the busy side and more than a little irritating, but that's nothing new and nothing I can't manage. They replaced my laptop this week, so that's kind of cool. The new one is zipping fast and has inspired love that I have never felt for my computer at home. May is a three-paycheque month, and I think I will use some of the extra cash to buy Windows XP Media Centre edition. I'm probably mangling the nomenclature but you know what I mean. My home computer is being choked by Vista and my work laptop has opened my eyes to the possibilities inherent in scrapping Vista once and for all. Maybe I'll get more RAM too. Can't go wrong with more RAM.

Went for lunch with Colin this week and had a long chat about our future plans, and the difficulty in making and sticking to plans when your present life is mostly comfortable. In some ways, we are in the same boat, Colin and I, only he has the gumption to actually make plans and work towards them. I just talk a lot. I'm in the mood to write a long whiny post about my life so maybe I should just go to bed right now.

Maybe.

What the hell should I do with my life? Leave a comment and tell me. I'll leave it at that for now.

Went to Dave's place to watch wrestling tonight. Josy showed up too. The show itself was decent-enough, in that I ignored most of it and instead tormented Dave's cats with my camera. Also, I bought Mario Kart for the Wii but haven't tried it yet. Just got home not too long ago. Will have to give it a spin tomorrow. See, 'cause it comes with a steering wheel.

Ate too much on Saturday. And snacked all night tonight. These things happen but I really shouldn't let them happen as often as they do. I look and feel like I've put on a lot of weight lately and I really need to smarten up. Granted, my definition of "a lot" is a lot less than it would have been five years ago, but that's not the point. I don't want to undo all my hard work. But I also don't want to eat right or exercise. You see my dilemma.

I got a new alarm clock last week. Recently, there have been several times where I bought something cheap only to trash it and buy the more expensive alternative that I had originally considered. This is one of those times. The new alarm clock does everything I want it to do. It plays CDs, it has two alarms, you can set each alarm to a different source (so one is the CD and one is the awful buzzer), you can dim the numbers, it's easy to read, and the sound quality is much improved over my old alarm clock. It's a substantial improvement over my previous alarm clock, which sounded like crap and was way too bright. I celebrated the new purchase by being only mildly late for work instead of vastly late. Hopefully I will be only mildly late tomorrow. Going to bed a few hours ago might have helped.

Pretty well, thanks.

The weekend was fun.  Dave showed up and set up my wireless network with only a minimum of swearing.  My computer is named Terminator X and my iPods are named Big Boi and Mixmaster Mike, so in carrying with the hip-hop theme, I named the wireless router Humpty Hump.  Mostly because if any of my neighbours search for an access point, I bet that name will make them giggle.

Watched the first Ring of Honor pay-per-view, finally.  It's hard to care when you don't know who any of the dudes really are, but it was still a really good show.  No production values to speak of, but who cares.  It's just nice to finally see some wrestling that I wouldn't be embarrassed to be caught watching.  A far better show than WWE Unforgiven was.  Unforgiven, meanwhile, didn't make me nearly as angry as the five minutes I saw of Raw tonight.  I'd explain why, but you either already know or you don't care.  I have given up hope that I will ever truly be done with wrestling, but I'm certainly done with Raw for the time being.  And I can say I'm done with pay-per-views for the time being too, but we all know that the next one will roll around and I'll watch to hang out and talk and laugh and eat and ignore the show.

Enough wrestling talk for now.

Also this weekend, we went to McDonalds and I discovered a vaguely Weight-Watchers-friendly meal that I didn't hate.  Six McNuggets, one pack of honey dipping sauce, a side salad, most (but not all) of a pack of sesame Thai dressing, a big ol' Diet Coke, and apple slices with caramel dip.  12 points.  Not awful at all for McD's.  Of course, I'm still going to have to start paying WW dues again once I weigh in next week.  There's no way I'll be under the limit.  I can feel it in my clothes.  Too much time off over the summer.  Oh well.  I know what I need to do to fix things.

Tried treadmilling tonight, in a related note.  I have been walking around the lake, which is nice.  But the treadmill is a bit more effort, which raises my heart rate.  This was how I discovered that when my heart rate goes up, I can feel my heart beat - pulse... pulse... pulse... in my wisdom tooth holes.  This creeped me out.  Seriously.  Between that and the garbage on Raw, I decided that God was talking to me and He was telling me that I shouldn't treadmill. 

We also tried trading in some video games this weekend, but Regina still has their stupid bylaw in place.  If you're not a pawn shop, you're not allowed to do direct trades.  So I guess Tramp's counts as a pawn shop, despite the fact that you can't, y'know, pawn things there.  But whatever.  EB only takes games on consignment, from the sounds of it, so we opted against that.

Instead, we went to Moose Jaw and traded games there.

It was stupid, really - Dave lives in Saskatoon, and I am going there this week, so it's not like we couldn't just go game trading in Saskatoon.  But no, we had to go to Moose Jaw.  Dave was a bit reluctant, but I get REAL excited whenever I am presented with the possibility of a stupid road trip.  Road trips are fun, but ones for dumb reasons?  Double fun.  At any rate, it's only about a half-hour to Moose Jaw, we found the store with no problem, and I got a second wireless guitar so we can now have Guitar Hero duets.  Or duels.  I even have $7 in trade credit left.  They also gave me a stack of song download cards, but I just tried using one and it was a royal pain.  I got the new Kanye West single solely because it was in MP3 format.  The new Kanye and the new 50 Cent appeared to be the only albums on the whole site available in MP3.  The rest won't play on my iPod so it can go screw.  There are workarounds, but I am a busy, lazy man.

I am trying a new thing.  Between now and January 1, the challenge is to spend no money on reading material, music, videogames, or movies.  We shall see how this goes.  I am stubborn (and I am also quite broke which helps).  I have a pair of gift cards here in case of emergency awesomeness, and I have some free movie passes and whatnot, so it won't be terrible.  But I bleed money, which is bad, and an expensive summer was capped off by my tooth removals (not sure how much insurance will cover), so I'm hurting moreso than usual.  This makes it sounds like I will have a very sad few months, but in actual fact, I have CDs I've never listened to, games I've never played, movies I've never watched, and books I've never read.  I should really learn to make use of what I have instead of immediately thinking about shopping whenever I get bored (which is often). 

Lottery tickets are also on the forbidden list because I tracked my ticket purchases and it turns out I lose more often than I thought I did.  Not that anyone wins all that often, but I'm used to hitting fairly frequent $2 winners on $1 tickets.  Turns out that I don't get enough of them.