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Monthly Archive for July, 2006

eHarmony

In addition to all the physical things I’ve started doing to take better care of me, I’ve also started to look towards the future. And that future is not one spent alone. For all my introversion and comfort being with myself, I am a social creature who craves contact with other people. My circle of [...]

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Four Tons

Thursday evening during my “personalized workout” session with the trainer at the gym I’ve joined, he talked about the “volume of weight” being the key. In my case I want to lose weight (and size) and tone up my muscles. The way to assist that process with resistance training is to lift less weight [...]

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Relief Gravitas

About fifteen months after we were married, Michele became ill. The illness itself isn’t important, the fact it was debilitating, potentially embarrassing, and chronic is important. This illness plagued her until the day she died.
My character is such that I never shirked my role in our lives. I provided care when care was called for, [...]

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Ten Things I Learned This Week


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Weighing In

Due to a great $10 a month offer I joined the nearby fitness club earlier this week. Tonight I had my introductory session with one of their trainers and learned about the resistance training machines and how to utilize them for my goals. The trick now will be balancing the kendo workouts with the [...]

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Jonesing Explained


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Information Hiding


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planet Fitness

As a part of my efforts to regain some fitness and lose weight I joined the neighborhood gym. I received a mailer from them in the mail touting a $10 per month fee, good for three years, with no contract. Figuring I had nothing to lose I went to look the place over on Monday [...]

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Labeling Me

One of the most dangerous, and perhaps damning, practices in our society today is the fixing of labels to individuals or groups. Any one who is in a minority group (label) already knows what this feels like. With just a word or three you are categorized, objectified, and shunted off to purgatory, never to return. [...]

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