Just in time for Halloween!

Your loving folks at Wal-Mart have always had your families best interest in mind! Now, through direct shipping from the Wal-Mart.com website, they want to help you during your families time of grieving.

Wal-Mart is now selling caskets and urns to help you through your time of bereavement.  Quality, handcrafted burials products are available at the Online store at great Wal-Mart prices.

I’m not sure how I feel about this… I mean, on the surface, I think I would feel quite weird and put-off shopping for my loved-one’s casket, plus the morbidity of even considering the fact that Wal-Mart is trying to service this segment of the population just seems… wrong.   However, the more I think about it, the more I guess it makes sense.  Wal-Mart has continually grown into new markets as they have expanded, (SuperStore supermarkets, tires and car repair, gas), so I guess it was only a matter of time before they started supplying us with burial paraphernalia. 

I think that this is only the beginning though.  I can envision Wal-Mart taking this to the next step and getting their Sam’s Club outlet into the action, offering bulk savings on buying, say, a 6-pack of caskets, or a drum of embalming fluid or something like that.  You heard it here first!

I have decided I just want to be burned on a burning pyre, like in the olden days… pushed out to sea and lighted by flaming arrow from one of my faithful archers from the shore.

Well, went and talked to the recruiters today
Went and talked to two different branches… Air Force and Navy.  I figured I would start with them to get a feel for what the requirements were and what I would need to do to be eligible.

First of all, both branches have a top-age limit of 34, (whew), so I’m all good there… (I’m 29, btw, not sure if I ever said that here).

Now, some of the somewhat bad news… both branches require certain body ratios, (I was obviously expecting this)… what I WASN’T prepared ENOUGH for was what that ratio would be.  Both branches were pretty similar… at 6′1″, the max body weight the Air Force would take was 207, the Navy was 208… OUCH.  I haven’t admittedly been that light since back in H.S….

Granted a year ago that would have been ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE sounding, (i.e. when I weighed 349), but now I have been fluctuating between 249-255… so while I have lost 100lbs, according to this I will need to lose another 40-45lbs… a DOABLE task, but it will take a MAJOR refocus from me to get anywhere close to this.

So… at the moment, the military will have to be put on hold as I try to lose some of this fatness… blah.

Other than that, a good day!  Thank you all so much for the kind and supportive comments on my last post!  I’ll keep ya’ll updated

So, here I stand at the crossroads… again LOL.

Been contemplating military service for awhile now… more specifically the Air Force, as a career change/opportunity.  I don’t have much to write about at the moment on this, but I am getting information on enlisting currently and am seriously considering it.

This would, of course, be a MAJOR change in lifestyle for me, but a pretty much necessary step as I am pretty much in a dead-end job at the moment and need to pursue other career opportunities.

I’ll keep you posted

Hey, I’m still here, things have been crazy, (to say the least), these past few weeks, but we are finally moved into our new place and the unpacking continues

For the most part, other than the moving, life has been business as usual… been lacking a bit in the fitness department with everything that has been going on, but set up to get started on P90X in the next week or so, I’ll blog a bit about that once I get it started

Other than that, not much else going on… over 65,000 total views of this blog, so I should probably keep adding new material   Still wanting to keep it fresh and interesting, blogging on my own terms, so once things settle out completely, I’ll blog up some good stuff for ya ;D

As always, thanks for reading

Back by popular demand!

So yah, I’m am still here.

Been checkin in on my blog from time to time, since the last time I wrote I have surpassed 40,000 visitors, (woots to the blog), but I am feeling my life is better focused on other, more profitable pursuits

I definitely still want to write!  Towards the end of my usual, scheduled blogging, I began to feel pressured to come up with material, or to conjure interesting topics when I really didn’t FEEL like blogging.

So, I am still going to blog, but it is going to be on my terms.  I have too many other irons in the fire right now to be worried about whether or not I get a post up on my blog for the next day… PLUS it means I can spend more time crafting a piece, instead of just SLAPPING a piece of dribble up for the world to see.

So, stay tuned

Also!  As a quick side note, wanted to plug my friend Tony’s blog over @ At The Trailhead.  For those of you who are regular readers, this is the same Tony who guest posted the awesome Transformers 2 movie review that was posted about a month ago on this very website!  Right now, Tony is starting his seminary work at the Dallas Theological Seminary and posts as time allows, (the best way!)

If you have a moment, give him a read, very thought-provoking guy, I definitely recommend and RSS feed him

Sorry! 

Yup! I’m very sorry for the lack of posts this past week… a few developments have cause for a few delays.

1.  We found out we had to move again this past month, so more time is going to be spent packing and making arrangements for housing in the coming months then playing on the Internetz.

2.  We had a death in the family.

3.  Feeling a bit burned out at the moment.

All this to say, since I have been gone, we surpassed 30,000 reader mark!  QOOT!  TY very much for all your readership and support.  Once we get life straightened out a bit, hopefullyl I will be posting a bit more regularly.

Until then, have a good one!

Premise: A group of young American ex-pats with telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities are hiding from a clandestine U.S. government agency. They must utilize their different talents and band together for a final job enabling them to escape the agency forever.  (courtesy IMDB.com)

Analysis: Being a huge fan of the X-files, I usually go for anything that deals with paranormal psycho-powers stuff… but I was a little hesitant when I looked at the casting lists and the reviews to watch this one… I should have known better…. I should have.  This movie was awful from the get-go and didn’t get any better as things went along.  The only thing that saved it from a 1 rating from me was the pretty cool effects they were able to pull of in one or two of the scenes, but there wasn’t much else.

I honestly thought it was laughable at the end when the characters blatantly set up the “francise” for a sequel, “we will be hearing from her again, I bet“… pah-LEEZE… the movie was so awful, I honestly am surprised all copies haven’t been collected into a big pile and burned… I noticed that both of the most recent movies I have watched, (this and “Knowing”) were from a company called “Summit Entertainment“… note to self, avoid movies made by Summit Entertainment.

I’m sorry, I don’t have anything else to add.  It was a bad movie.  The end.

Bottom Line: /puke

Best Quote(s):

None… it was awful

Official Trailer:

IMDB Website: Click Here

IMDB Rating: 6.1 out of 10

Rotten Tomato Rating: 22%

My Personal Rating:

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Hey! Remember in my posts “A Journey to Fit” where I said I was too “lazy” to go through the exercises I use for each of my muscle groups… well… now I am paying penitence as I have had a few people exhort me to go into it regardless of any “laziness” I had…

So! I decided to take the next 2 months on each Monday to go into each of my muscle group workouts to give you a heads-up on what I do in my rotation… so here we go!

This is a stock picture that I edited to show the 3 major muscle groups... surprisingly I was unable to find a pic that showed this online?!

The major leg muscles, (or the quadriceps (or quads), the calves, and the hamstrings, are located, obviously, in your legs! (see left).  They are all involved in any large movements pushing things away from the body downward (as opposed to the opposite muscle group, the shoulders, which are responsible for pulling things towards the body).

The quads, located at the top of the leg on the front (anterior), can be some of the strongest muscles in the body, driving any number of large movements with the legs.  The hamstrings, found at the top of the legs at the posterior, function to draw the legs into motion.  The calves, located in the lower part of the leg at the posterior, drive more explosive movements with the feet and lower leg areas.

I have about 8 different movements I use to work this muscle group and I usually ONLY work this muscle group BY ITSELF!  (Because this muscle group comprises of the most muscles and usually the biggest muscles in the body, fatigue is easier to achieve and does not seem to benefit as much from super-setting).

Please note that I usually change it up a little each time I lift, and I shoot for about 4 different exercises each session, with between 3-5 sets per exercise, so I by NO MEANS recommend trying to do all EIGHT movements in the same session!! See below:

Seated Calf Raises – (calves)

Calf Press -(calves)

Deadlift -(quads, some hamstring)

Squats -(quads)

Leg Extensions -(quads)

Leg Press – (quads)

Lying Leg Curls – (hamstrings)

Seated Leg Curls – (hamstrings)

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• Fitness Monday – Back
• Fitness Monday – Chest
• Fitness Monday – Shoulders