I'm thirty-five years old now...
What's strange is that I feel a lot better now than I did, say, ten, or even fifteen years ago. I guess a lot of it has to do with all the weight I've lost recently.
I don't talk about it much, but I've lost about eighty pounds. Sounds like a lot, doesn't it? Not off my frame. Standing six feet, seven inches tall (202 cm), I can carry a lot of weight. My job at Sealy is highly physically demanding, and weight dropped off of me really quickly when I started working there. Now I have a bunch of clothes that don't fit me.
fun with my camera-phone thing...
Case in point:
I have a wedding I'm attending early next month, and I was going through dress shirts to wear. They're all like COMICALLY too big for me. I must've lost about three inches from my neck. Shirts that I used to have trouble buttoning the top button with, well - I can get two hands inside the collar now with the top button buttoned.
Don't get me wrong...
I feel great being so much lighter an' everything.
I dunno...
Anyway...
I had a nice, quiet birthday this year. I spent Saturday night out at Whiskey Business with a few friends from work, and my mom came over Sunday with a nice chocolate cake and some presents. If this is thirty-five, I'll take it. Actually, as far as physical appearance goes, I'm pretty good here. If this is as old as I'm gonna look, I'd be more than satisfied. It's weird...
I can see the people around me, the people I grew up with, getting older, but I basically look the same. I just shaved my beard back into a goatee - mainly because I was curious to see how much weight I lost in my face - it turned out to be a LOT. Anyway, looking at myself being as close to clean-shaven as I get, I dunno...
I look the same as I did, say, ten years ago. Actually, I look basically the same as I did fifteen years ago. Although, back then I DID get mistaken for being older than I was. Now, I always get mistaken for being much younger. I still get carded in bars. Hell, if I'm clean-shaven, I still get carded for cigarettes.
I dunno...
Life's an interesting thing sometimes, I guess...
Anyway...
I have a nice, four day weekend I took for myself this weekend. I don't have to go back to work until Wednesday afternoon - which is great. I can use the rest. I might take some time and make some improvements to damnage.com. I've been messing around with Fedora 7, which I downloaded and burned to disk from BitTorrent. It's neat, but they're still having bugs with AMD and with multiple monitor support. I can get two of my three monitors working though, which is an improvement over Fedora Core 5 for me.
I think for tonight though, I might just go and do some grocery shopping at Wal-Mart...
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