Diet adjustment

So my former plan of eating everything to slow or stupid to get out of my way isn't working out to well.... 210 lbs isn't my idea of a good time.
This called for a return to my old diet plan of counting calories. I'm on day three, and because of this, in theory, I can lose weight, even after eating Taco Bell and enjoying a Sam Adams Cherry Wheat! All I had to to do was dial back the snacks, candy, and soda I normally consume at a rate simillar to a Black Hole sucking matter into it's super massive core. Cool, eh?

Now all I have to do is start the exercise thing back up. Now where did I put my beer?

Rail fan trip 10/18/08

Sometimes impromptu trips are the best!

I was supposed to help Bobi clean the house yesterday, but we got a late start to the day. While in bed, I heard my phone buzz somewhere in the bedroom. Finally, I dug it out and saw that Jeff had called about 10 times since Friday night. I thought that him and Nolan made it up to Michigan for their MEA weekend railfanning trip.

When I called him, he said that they were in Red Wing on their way up to the cities. I hemmed and hawed for a while, but finally I said yes. I could see that Bobi was just heart broken that we wouldn't spend the day cleaning the house. In fact, she even had a sly grin on her face as she fired up Donkey Kong.

I headed out, and saw a set of CP/Soo engines sitting on the bridge over 694, right by Cardigan Junction. I pulled off of rice street, and went on to the frontage road, appropriately called Soo Street. I got off a couple of nice pictures of the engines. I would post them, but I have not a clue where my card reader is.. D'oH

I'll have to finish this later when I can post pictures as well!

Set the Geek - O - Meter to stun!

I think I've pegged the Geek - O - Meter tonight! On a Friday of all nights to!

It started slow, surfing the web, admiring the train picture I uploaded to the Atlas Model Railroad forum. After poking around other news sites, and miscellaneous forums, I cleaned the kitchen.

AFter that, I surfed through the tv, and with nothing on, started a game of Donkey King Country on the Wii. While I was doing that, Bobi called and suggested a pizza for dinner. I left for Cub foods, and that is when the real geekiness started.

For laughs and giggles, I swung by Barnes and Nobles to see if there were any interesting magazines in stock. It was there I found one of the highlights of the evening so far, a new copy of Sky and Telescope's Skywatch 2009!!!! It's like a TV Guide for stargazing. I had to act fast, it's only supposed to be on the stands until 1/5/09! Although, there wasn't much of a crowd waiting to get their copy.

After stopping at cub to get a pizza, and some caffeine free Coca Cola ( being a true geek, I get nasty headaches from straight coke) I got home and turned the TV back on. I turned on the guide, and in a stroke of luck, in about 15 minutes, there's a show on PBS about railroad Dome cars!

Well, gotta go, don's want to miss the Dome car show!

Oh, and to max out the geek factor, I'm hard at work blogging about it! Geek on!