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DAY SIXTY-TWO: Mid-Week Blahs

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I’m posting from work because my home computer is becoming so tiresome to use. Also, by the time I get home from work I’m so tired that I don’t feel like posting, or like doing much of anything else. My efforts toward accomplishing anything have been negligible so far this week.

I see in the news that pro cyclist Jens Voight, at age 43, set a new one-hour distance record of 51.1 kilometers last week. Also, Bradley Wiggins has won the world road-racing time trial championship for the first time.

I have not turned so much as a single pedal rotation on my “cruiser” style bike in months. The bike is sitting out in the laundry shed getting rusty.

DAY SIXTY-ONE: Eighty-Twenty Rule

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The price of a two litre bottle of soda has increased from $1.25 to $1.50 in the last week. “It’s only a quarter, no big deal,” you might say. Actually, it is a big deal, because this is a twenty percent price increase. Twenty percent seems to have become the norm for price increases. Property taxes increased by twenty percent. Insurance costs increase by twenty percent. Electricity rates have increased by twenty percent over the past several months.

The only thing that is not increasing is my income. Continue reading DAY SIXTY-ONE: Eighty-Twenty Rule →

DAY SIXTY: Hopeless

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I’m feeling very much as though all my efforts toward accomplishing either cleaning out the house, listing the house for sale, paying off debts, or losing weight and improving my health and fitness are hopeless and pointless.

In addition to my car not running well enough to drive to work, my computer is almost non-functional at this point. The USB ports barely work – plugs require considerable jiggling to make contact. The built-in CD drive does not work. The hard drive often will not power up after the machine is shut down, so I now leave the computer turned on all the time. The trackpad is becoming unresponsive to clicking.

I do not have the money or the credit to replace either the car or the computer at this point.

So what am I gonna do about any of this? Whine? Okay, yeah, for sure. But that won’t fix anything. What else can I do? I dunno, but when I figure it out I’ll let you know. ‘Cuz, y’know, that’s basically what this blog is supposed to be about – figuring out how to do stuff.

DAY FIFTY-SEVEN: Friday

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I think I’m mostly over my cold. I still have a trace of a residual cough, and I’m quite tired by the end of each day.

Tonight I shall be trying to sort and price items for the yard sale that we hope to hold tomorrow. Of course the weather is looking damp.

Again, I am feeling extremely frustrated because of the endless amount of stuff I have accumulated, and the way that no matter how much I think I have removed, the room still seems cluttered to the point of being impassible. I had to move a half-dozen boxes and bags to access the computer to type this post.

DAY FIFTY-SIX: Thursday

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Last year, Thursday was my “official” weekly weigh-in day. That was back when I was exercising regularly and maintaining a mostly Paleo eating style. This year I am back at or above my starting weight of a year ago. In fact, my weight seems to be creeping upward. As of today I weighed in at a wopping

197 POUNDS

On the way to work today I stopped at WalMart and picked up a few more plastic storage bins. I need additional larger bins for odd-sized items.

DAY FIFTY-FIVE: Wednesday

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Moving things from cardboard boxes into plastic storage containers, and pulling out stuff for a yard sale.

Back in 1912 or so, Theodore Roosevelt got shot prior to giving a speech. The bullet lodged in his rib. He spoke for an hour before going to the hospital. He recovered in about two weeks. It is taking me longer to recover from a mere COLD than it took T.R. to bounce back after GETTING SHOT! 🙁

DAY FIFTY-FOUR: Tuesday

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Tired. Still coughing and easily tired. I sold the white key tops and the black wood keys from the piano I disassembled through eBay this past weekend. The white key tops sold for $26 including shipping and the black keys sold for $25 including shipping. I mailed off the white key tops today. I am awaiting payment on the black keys. Recently about one in three eBay sales results in a non-paying bidder.

Work is stupid and I hate it. How’s that for a mature, thoughtful, productive response to a situation?

On the bright side, my 37-1/2 inch stomach and 36-1/2 inch waistline are still smaller than the national average.

DAY FIFTY-THREE: Another Monday

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Another Monday. Another early morning. Another day at work. Still feeling the vestiges of the cold, so I’m pretty well wiped out by the time I get home.

I stopped at WalMart on the way home from work and purchased a dozen plastic storage bins in a variety of sizes. I am intending to leave nothing packed in cardboard boxes by the time I’ve finished cleaning out The Room of Doom.