290 to 269 in just over five months is a pretty great pace! Good for you, sir or madam!

You need to get a Darkseid figure to stare derisively at Mongul & Thanos as if thinking, "Pffft! Amateurs…"

I often think of doing that then never do because I don't trust Disqus to let me back in.

All in a day's work!

They were (justifiably) not kind to that Diff'rent Strokes episode.

Mine has never actually been opened. It's a novelty energy drink that I got at the comic book store forever ago.

Good luck.

On the desk:

Not creepy! Good for you! Glad to be of assistance!

@JudgeReinhold:disqus , I'm not, not yet, but that's something else I'm going to start after vacation. I'm going to start doing the workout(s) outlined at hundredpushups.com and (eventually) it's various related sites.

Also, "running" it is, from now on!

Thank you.

The hotel I'm staying in for five of the nine days I'll be away has a fitness center so I'm going to make use of it at least two of those days. I just need to watch my eating, which will not be easy. I'm going to California with my family, and my sister's planned first stop after the airport in In-and-Out Burger. The…

I have considered something along those lines, maybe I'll try it after vacation.

I had a Coke Zero on the drive home! That counts as fun for me.

My minimum end goal is 262, or fifty pounds from where I was on January 1st, but that's the minimum. I'd like to get to 255, as that was my personal best weight of the last, like, 15 years (this was in late 2010), but we'll see what happens.

About ten years ago I dropped off one very drunk friend back at his house, and another very drunk friend got into the front seat with me so we could drive back to our homes on the other side of town. As we turned off our friend's block, we made a left down a heavily tree-lined, and thus very, very dark street. I took…

Weight Loss/Fitness Thread

If Tumblr had been around at the time, Knives would have been ALL ABOUT Tumblr.

Last month my best friend's wife got him tickets to the MLB All-Star Game for his birthday, and I contributed to the cost (in exchange for one of the tickets). This involved a lot of surreptitious text messages and emails, and one secretive meetup between me and her. I am still amazed that we pulled this off without…