James Maxey - Jawbone of an Ass
Friday, October 26, 2012

Week Seven

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259. I can tell I'm starting to plateau a bit. May need to bump up my workouts to compensate. Stay tuned....
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Quick thought on the foreign policy debate

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A lot of pundits are commenting on how often Romney agreed with Obama last night on a whole string of foreign policy issues. Even when he ma...
Friday, October 19, 2012

CPAP Q&A

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I've been using a CPAP machine for two months now. This week, I had a follow up with the CPAP tech who confirmed what I already knew...
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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Week six: 260

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Despite eating out all weekend, Cheryl and I both had good progress on our weight loss this week. I've now lost 24 pounds since starting...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

Week Five

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262 pounds at my work weigh in this morning. On my home scale undressed I'm consistently getting weights under 260 most mornings. I ha...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Doublespeak

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This weekend at Capclave, I'm going to be on a panel with James Morrow called Doublespeak. The panels topic is: "The proliferation ...
Saturday, October 06, 2012

A political debate

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Long time readers of my blog know I used to write a lot about politics. I eventually shied away from such posts for a couple of reasons. Fir...
Thursday, October 04, 2012

4 weeks, 20 pounds

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Weighed in today at 264 pounds. A bit of a surprise; I'm obviously clothed at work for these weigh ins, and my home scale had me at 266 ...
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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Week Three Addendum

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I got my bloodwork results in the mail today. Results were even better than expected! Last year, most of my cholesteral numbers were right o...
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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Week Three

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Weigh in today: 267. Can I hit 264 by next Thursday? I know I'll probably plateau soon. But, for now, I'm happy with my results. I...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Week Two

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Today at work I weighed in at 271 pounds. That's 13 pounds gone since starting my dietary changes two weeks ago. I'm less than a wee...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Week One

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I weighed in today at 274 pounds. Losing ten pounds in a week is a nice start, but I'm realistic that the path ahead won't be quite ...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Lifestyle changes ahead

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I'm fat. For the first half of my life, I had the exact opposite problem. When I was a sophomore in college, I only weighed 140 pounds...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

A few thoughts on Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand has been in the news lately since Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan is on record as saying that his thoughts on government have bee...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Social Darwinism

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Robert Reich had an opinion column after the Paul Ryan pick for VP in which he said, "Ryan exemplifies the social Darwinism at the core...
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Sunday, August 05, 2012

A little late to the "you didn't build that" party...

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I'm late to the party on the whole "you didn't build that" controversy. Obama's statement at first struck me as just v...
Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Has Global Warming been Debunked?

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I've long been skeptical of the theory that global warming is man-made. More accurately, I've long been skeptical of the evidence. T...
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Sunday, July 01, 2012

Thoughts on the Health Care ruling

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It looks like I let June be my first month since starting this blog without a post. Sorry. I have a deadline of July 31 to turn in my next b...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

New house photos!

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We've finally reached a point in our move where we've carted off the 5000 card board boxes that formed a maze in our living area an...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Yesterday's Progress Toward Legalizing Gay Marriage

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So, gay marriage advocates had a bad day in North Carolina yesterday. Or did they? Roughly 40% of voters came out and voted against an amend...
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