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I bought a FitBit Aria Wifi scale. This makes tracking my weight much easier. I just step on it once a day and it automatically uploads to my Fitbit account!
...and after a week of better eating and exercising, I am finally starting to make some progress:
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Unfortunately, I'm heading to New York City a week from today, where I'll probably get less exercise and eat more calories than I do here at home. But the good news is, I can come back with a renewed effort to lost that other 25 pounds by my birthday in June. I can still do it, losing only two pounds a week.
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This thing is awesome. I can track the number of steps I take in a day, calories burned, and even sleep! It's so awesome. It's also so small I may lose it!
Another challenge has been the cold weather - we've never seen such a cold winter here. As a result, the temperature in the garage has been in the 20s and 30s. Not great for the BowFlex and Elliptical I've been using. I do have a heater in there, and I've cordoned off the area, so that can help get it into the 40s sometimes, but in a week like this one, where temperatures are expected to be in the single digits for several days in a row, there's no hope.
The solution: The Amazon Kindle HDX I got for Christmas fits perfectly on the treadmill in the AccuWeather.com Fitness Center at work. I can now continue to watch "Gold Rush" Season 4, a great show that I've been with since Day 1.
Most of my trips on the island that week were by taxicab. During each ride, I put my GoPro HERO2 miniature video camera in the cab window, and recorded some footage. I finally got around to putting all of those into a movie, nearly a year later.
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But, I feel much better now and am redoubling my efforts to meet the Jesse 39.9 goal. I'll be in New York City for Social Media Week next month, so I'm going to see if I can lose 10 pounds before then. That will put me at 25 pounds down, 15 to go by June 5th. Easy peasy. Back on the horse. Along for the ride. And whatnot.
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Less than a week ago, he was rallying fans for Philippines Typhoon Relief. And, in fact, he died after leaving a charity event for the relief. (Side note: Vin Diesel had hoped to film F&F 7, 8 or 9 in the Philippines).
An unsettling quote from Walker in the video above: "Sometimes, you just have to check yourself."
The success of the franchise is undeniable; Buzzfeed says:
"Fast & Furious 6, which has pulled in $788 million worldwide. It has become the crown jewel franchise for Universal Pictures, affecting the livelihoods of not just the actors involved, but also the many artisans and technicians who make the films possible."
The question being asked is, can the franchise continue without him? I would say probably not, they've been lucky to see the long success they have and this makes more sense than letting it jump the shark. Buzzfeed goes on to say:
"It’s unclear how many scenes in Fast & Furious 7 that Walker had left to shoot. But even if the 40-year-old actor had wrapped his part of the film, Wan has the deeply unfortunate job of finishing a movie in which one of his lead actors died under circumstances that are profoundly close to scenes in which that actor himself undoubtedly took part."
It's hard to explain (to my non-blue-collar friends) why I'm so into the movies. Part of it, of course, is simple machismo - as a guy, I'm a sucker for a move that is, essentially, one long car chase. But there's something more to it than that, and the attraction to the series has been examined in a couple of blogs, including Complex.com calls the series "smart" and CriticWire says "It's not just smart; it's actually elegant. It's borderline ingenious" [in its complexity]. Even Variety weighs in with "5 Things F&F Got Right."
For me, in the end, I think it's the characters, and that's why I took time to write this blog today.
