On topic

Tomorrow will be 8 weeks since I started this, and it has gone better than I expected it would go. I was thinking last night after the little post about the Sox that I should probably be a little more disciplined about staying on topic. Maybe it is a fine line, because I do get some nice feedback about the tangents and I do think that the challenge of taking off this weight is, importantly, one that takes place in the overall context of this occasionally multi-dimensional life that I am living. But I'll try to make sure going forward that I focus at least partially on the specific effort to "get smaller" several times a week.

Meanwhile, just in case you just showed up and thought this was a blog about baseball or music or politics, I will take the liberty here of pasting links to my past posts in their original chronological order rather than the usual blog protocol of reverse order. I do like to write, don't I?

• ▼ August 2007 (2)
  • When I was just 17, if you know what I mean....
  • A burger a month?

• ▼ September 2007 (28)
  • 3516 calories
  • The cake was calling my name
  • For now
  • Rocket science
  • What's up with the shredded wheat for dinner?
  • Blueberries
  • I’ll keep coming
  • The chicken or the egg?
  • Burrito heaven
  • September 11
  • The quinary in the coal mine
  • Happy trails
  • Tasting the coffee
  • A couple of the comments from the past few days go...
  • Kindly step outside the vehicle, sir
  • On the run
  • Fresh strawberries and cream
  • Nap and tuck
  • The arithmetic of losing a pound
  • Man Woman Big Small
  • Fresh Pond
  • Use 'em and lose 'em
  • The key to the plan is the plan
  • Not Pretty Enough
  • Just like I knew that I would....
  • A dark-eyed enchantress from Libertyville
  • Oh Danny Boy
  • Just like a government mule

• ▼ October 2007 (20)
  • Sticky situations
  • Stay out of the kitchen
  • Tuesday's soundtrack
  • Danger
  • Helping Hands
  • Said she'd never been in trouble, or even in town
  • 10% Smaller
  • Q&A
  • The arithmetic of weight loss, as of 10/12/07
  • Viva la difference
  • Creakiness and joy
  • Songs in Service of the Basic Notion that Great Co...
  • Sometimes when you start walking you do not know w...
  • A patsy to his own delusions
  • Sound and fury, signifying....
  • A fundamental struggle
  • As for the Sox....
  • Student of the month
  • Catastrophic
  • Sox take 13-1 lead into 7th

Even after all that, I still gotta have my music. Music gets me through so much, including this.

Thursday's Soundtrack

Warren Zevon, "Werewolves of London"

The mailbag

Got a nice email from my friend Ned with some good links, so I am excising a personal reference and reproducing it here....

Steve,

The video of Bruce singing "We Shall Overcome" while we take a tour of the Katrina devastation led me to Google some sites.

What is being spent on Katrina relief

What could be spent on Katrina relief

What ACORN is doing now in the 9th ward:

A running tally of what the war in Iraq is costing:

As Garrison Keillor always says, "Be well, do good work and keep in touch," and as I would add

GO SOX,

Ned