The Goal To Eat Healthier

It's a lofty and attainable goal. I try hard. I've basically given up alcohol (I've had about a dozen beers since early January), walk away from fast food, try to eat the veggies, add protein shakes to make up the difference. Yet still I have trouble losing weight.
I've been going to the G-Y-M regular for 2+ years. I've ramped it up quite a bit in last two months, typically going at least 5x per week. I do weights and cardio. Different says means different things.
So while I have lost weight (lb-wise) it's not all that much I think. But when you look at SoulSlam you can definitely see a difference. A lb is a lb. But from my looking into, a lb of muscle takes up 4x less space than a lb of fat. That's me.

So people say "you've lost weight!". Not really, I've just changed. I used to stress about losing weight. Now I stress about getting bigger.
Bro!

A Week In

to NJ HS Baseball season...OSSS' team (BULLDOGS!) has first scrimmage tomorrow AM. He's looking forward to getting out and playing. He'll start at 1B and get his ABs in. Sweet.
YSSS was designated as a "floater" on his HS team (DEVILS!). He'll be playing both Varsity and JV this season. That's best of both worlds since he'll get the starts on JV and spot start or fill in on V as a freshman. Good for him. They have him doing some catching as well as CI and OF so we have to get some work done on that.

Springlike

From the looks of this here screen capture you could say we're having some warm weather:

Boys are actually having HS baseball practice outdoors already (last season they didn't practice outdoors until late March). But the weather twerps have a way of taking the air out of the ball and say April and May will be cool and wet due to El Nino! Great.
While we're here let's plug a few random TV shows SoulSlam enjoys:

Outsiders (WGN)

Supernatural(AMC)

Major League Legends (Smithsonian)

The People vs. OJ (FX)

Colony (USA)

NJ HS BASEBALL

STARTS TODAY!

Sons of SoulSlam from a couple years ago!!!

And just a couple of months ago!

March Is Here

We've had really mild weather the last few days so March kind of came in like a lamb...but the wind is picking up and the air is getting colder so the lion lies in wait.

The best thing in March is baseball. We've got spring training games where we get to see players again. And in NJ, we begin HS baseball this Friday in earnest. OSSS is a senior and is ready to go. He'll be starting at 1B and batting someplace 3-4-5 in order. YSSS is a frosh on a team of tech kids. So he's got a decent shot at seeing some real varsity time this year. They both go to different schools so that should be fun zipping around all over to see them.

Death Penalty for Parking Infractions

I'll bet that would stop people from:
a) parking in handicap spots, even though they are "just waiting for somebody"
b) eliminate the parking in the fire lane at most supermarkets
c) keep people from parking wherever they want regardless of parking lanes at the movies, church, mall, fill in the blank

The Economics of Cheating the American People

Gas is pretty cheap right now...in North J we are around $1.50 a gallon. It was a couple-three years ago that gas was upwards of $3.00 if I remember. And at that time, everything at the supermarket went up in price or down in size. A lb. of turkey from deli went from $6.99 to $7.99. The response was "gas prices have made companies raise their prices!".

So now gas prices are low. But the things that went up in price haven't come down. So that's The Economics of Cheating the American People.

Just received the forms for health benefits through work for next year. For me to keep the benefits I will pay almost 32% more than I did this past year per paycheck?! The Economics of Cheating the American People.

Property taxes in my area are high. But they iumposed a 2% cap on property taxes. Now a cap does not mean you have to go all the way to the threshold, you just can't go over. But looking at the analysis of PT for 2016, it seems that every town is meeting the 2% cap. The Economics of Cheating the American People.

In Flint MI, they have tainted water that they have known about for a long time. The kind of water that might just kill you eventually. But it was cheaper to give that to the citizens of Flint than do the right thing. The Economics of Cheating the American People.

It's Election Year. And right now I would say the candidates still standing are bleak. I have zero hope any of them are going to do what's right for the people instead of their own self-interests and party grandstanders. The Economics of Cheating the American People.