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Nutrisystem Week Fourteen: Shrinking Dad Indeed

May 20, 2013 / Being a Dad / No Comments

I started out at 268 pounds at the beginning of February. Today, May 20, I’m at 243 pounds. That’s a loss of 25 pounds. In fourteen weeks. Calculate that out and, on average, I’ve lost 1.8 pounds/week. Booyah! Those of you who are paying attention to my weight journey here on my blog will recall that my goal for my four months on Nutrisystem was to be “around 240 pounds”. Well, with two weeks left…Read More

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Family Happiness, The Fortune Cookie Edition

May 14, 2013 / Being a Dad / No Comments
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I’m participating in a fun little competition that my pal Pedro Veloso’s company Limetree is running, a competition where you are asked to “Post 140 character about family happiness on your blog”. As Samuel Clemens is reputed to have said, “ I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” That rather applies here: it’s easier for me to natter on for a few hundred words about what family…Read More

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Has Princess Merida Just Grown Up?

May 14, 2013 / Raising Teens / 8 Comments
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Disney unveiled the newest of the Disney Princesses, Princess Merida from the Academy Award winning animated film Brave, and as part of translating her from screen to full merchandise character they tweaked her appearance a bit, as you can see in the image below: First off, you can see that the style of illustration is different, Merida from the original film looks almost like claymation or some other stop motion animation figure (especially in the…Read More

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Week Thirteen: Weights and Measurements

May 12, 2013 / Being a Dad / 2 Comments
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First off, the good news: I weigh in at just barely under 246 — 245.9 pounds — against last week, when I was at 247. Starting weight of this four month adventure, as I detailed back in February, was 268 so that’s more than 22 pounds I’ve lost. Go to the store and pick up a 22pound turkey. That’s a lotta excess weight! I have found that my whole approach to eating and food has…Read More

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Cheesy Cheetos Art with Chester Cheetah

May 9, 2013 / Kids and Food / No Comments
Chester Cheetah out of Cheetos

After our great success with the Snackadium we made — see We Make a Snackadium for the Playoffs — we’ve apparently become master food sculptors and artists. That’s the only reason I can come up with as to why the cool cats at Life of Dad invited us to join in on the Cheetos Mix-Ups Art Challenge! The rules were simple: they sent us a bag of Cheetos Mix-Ups Cheezy Salsa snack mix (a combination of…Read More

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Snapchat Reminder: The Internet has no Delete key

May 9, 2013 / Kids and Tech / No Comments
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I’ve given talks at local schools about online privacy and about issues related to oversharing with teens, and one thing that I hear back with some regularity is “no, things really do delete” after I remind them that nothing is ever really deleted on the Internet. Given some of the things that kids today are posting (not to mention adults!) it’s no surprise that these highly digital teens are really hoping that what the developers…Read More

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Why I’m getting my kids into boxing

May 5, 2013 / Random / 1 Comment
Everlast Boxing Setup

Rumors to the contrary :-) I’m not a violent person. Given the choice, I’d rather watch waves on a beach than mixed martial arts combat, rather see couples practice their public displays of affection than overhear a couple yelling at each other through an open window. I’m not afraid of conflict when it finds me, but I certainly don’t seek it out. Part of that is related to some bullying incidents earlier in my life,…Read More

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Three months and I’m slimming up nicely

May 4, 2013 / Being a Dad / No Comments
247.0 pounds

Yesterday marked three months on Nutrisystem, three months of really focusing on my food, going to the gym more frequently and even increasing my workouts to attain my goal. When I started, my four month goal was to lose 20 pounds, a goal I attained in less than three. This week I was a bit surprised to find that I lost less than a pound compared to last week’s weight, weighing in at 247.0 pounds,…Read More

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My daughter can buy the PlanB pill (gulp)

May 2, 2013 / Raising Teens / 12 Comments
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The Food and Drug Administration this week announced that the controversial emergency contraceptive “PlanB” tablet has been approved as an over-the-counter drug, and that it’s going to be available for women “15 and older” to purchase. In case you don’t know what PlanB is, it’s levonorgestrel, a drug that a woman can take after unprotected sex to avoid getting pregnant. Or, to phrase it another way, it’s the morning-after instant abortion pill. While the intent…Read More

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Children, Funerals and Exes

April 30, 2013 / Single Parenting / No Comments
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I was sad to learn about the passing of my ex father-in-law last week. He was a kind, generous man and we had a very good relationship for the duration of my marriage to his daughter. But time waits for no man and in his early 90s he’d had a rich and full life and when he did go through the last phases, it was quick and he was apparently pretty unaware of what was…Read More

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  • Snapchat Reminder: The Internet has no Delete key
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  • Three months and I’m slimming up nicely
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