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Cabbage Diet Day 2

06/19/2007 / / 5 Comments

Live updates from cabbage diet day 2 – fruits, veggies & cabbage soup only…

8:04am
Just got to work. I’m starving, and I haven’t had a coffee. No one better talk to me or I’ll bite their head off. Trying to stave off hunger pains by eating celery stalks. Who eats celery for breakfast?!

8:53am
I’m still hungry. The celery lasted 20 minutes. How are vegetarians not hungry all the time!!!?

9:21am
Good thing I’m at work. My bowels are very upset with me right now. At least my colon already feels cleaner… Snacking on some grapes now.

10:37am
Some serious mind over matter shit needs to start happening soon. I’ve never been this hungry in my life. I ate all of my celery sticks, baby carrots, and grapes that I brought for breakfast. I’ve drank my entire 1 liter of water.
<sarcasm>I can’t wait for lunch when I can eat cabbage soup.</sarcasm>

1:18pm
The soup is good. It filled me up decently, but I am having this overwhelming urge to raid the vending machine at work. Even the unidentifiable pastry looking green “Lucky Puffs” are looking delicious.

1:44pm
Hungry again. I sent Christa an email explaining how I feel like a starving kid from a third world nation. She was not amused.

3:32pm
There is an eerie calm in my belly right now. I just ate an apple and finished off my 2nd liter of water today. Round 2 of cabbage soup starts once I get home, but for now I’m out of food.

Cabbage ain’t just for the kraut

06/18/2007 / / 1 Comment

Let me just preface this by saying, I like food. I like to eat, and I like to eat food.

That’s why when I was notified today that I would be taking part in the 7 day cabbage soup diet with Christa, I was less than amused. As a matter of fact, I was a little ticked off.

But, as we all learn sooner or later, marriage is all about compromise. That’s why I’m going to be taking part in the new and improved condensed version of the cabbage diet (since we only have 5 days to do it to “prepare” for the wedding).

We skipped right to day 2 and had a nice salad & baked potato for dinner tonight. I’m in the process of making the soup right now to have over the next few days, and so far I’m pleasantly surprised. I’ve added some extra special seasoning and the soup smells downright good now, though I’m fearing what an update 2 days from now might say.

Stay tuned…

Your dog is smarter than you think

06/04/2007 / / 2 Comments

I read an article on MSNBC this morning about new research that is revealing dogs are smarter than we previously thought.

The experiment suggests that dogs can put themselves inside the head of another dog — and perhaps people — to make relatively complex decisions.

“This suggests they can actually think about your intention — they can look for explanations of your behavior and make inferences about what you are thinking,” Hare said.

This explains perfectly why Monty chewed up the arms on my glasses when I wouldn’t pay attention to him on Saturday night. That or he just thought my ear grease was tasty…

Into the great wide open

05/31/2007 / / 3 Comments

Bailey the Cat has only been outside a handful of times in his entire life. Recently, he has started standing at the back door staring at the screen. Christa thought it would be funny to put him on a leash and take him for a walk.


Bailey1 Bailey2 Bailey3

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It WAS cute.

It’s not cute anymore. Now he tries to go out any time the back door is open. He snuck out this morning when I let the dog out so I had to chase him through the back yard in my underwear. Now he sounds like he is dying if he is left inside while we go out.

Lost without it

05/30/2007 / / 1 Comment

It’s Wednesday night. It’s time for Lost, right?

Lost

Nope. No new episodes of Lost until February. Yes, that means 8 months of waiting.

Thanks ABC, thanks.

I didn’t know it was over, until it was too late

05/28/2007 / / 6 Comments

I admit it, it’s my fault. I didn’t make it to the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) at all this weekend. I feel like I owe an apology to a lot of people for plans made, and plans broken.
To Jason, Justin, Phil, Jeremy and others: you were right. Now that it’s over, I’m regretful I didn’t go. I know I intended to meet up with you all several times over the weekend, but it never really panned out.
To the city of Detroit & Paxahau, sorry I let you down. You know I’m still proud of you and will continue to support.

Without going into too much detail, between the crappy weather on Saturday and family obligations on Sunday we were pretty much limited to going on Monday. Unfortunately, today by the time we got around to it just didn’t seem fair to pay 60$ for the two of us for entry and parking downtown for just a few hours.

And the moral of the story? If I had ponied up prior to Friday I could have gotten 2 weekend passes for both Christa and I for a few dollars more than what it would have cost us to get 2 individual day passes. It probably would have meant we would have gone for a few hours here and there instead of waiting for it to be over to meet up with friends.

Orbital was right; it’s better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you haven’t done. Next year, DEMF, next year…

Blank VMware Guest on Server Console

05/17/2007 / / 0 Comments

Note: if you are intimidated by geekspeak look away from this post.

I spent the better part of a few hours this morning trying to figure out why I could not get a virtual appliance to boot on one of my VMware Server boxes. I would start the guest OS, but would get nothing but a blank screen in the Console.

The why:
The problem is due to a permissions error; in order to see the machine through the console the .vmx config file must be executable for the user you’re starting it as.

The how:
Log into your VMware Server machine and find the directory where the virtual machine you are starting is located at. Find the .vmx file and chmod it so that it’s executable (ex. chmod 755 vmachine.vmx).

Thats it!

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