After several months of studying and over 18 months of personal achievement, I have finally passed my Certified Personal Fitness Testing. SO now what? Who knows, we’ll see how the Lord will use it. It’s been a long journey, but I’m excited to see the results of dedicated hours and discipline toward fitness.
Thanks for everyone who has been so supportive during the last year or so, it’s been a trying but wonderful journey!
James
OK, I haven’t posted in a while, but here’s a good reason to. I finally had to break down and get some spectacles. Now I feel like a full fledged geek!
Hope everyone is well, we are doing great.
James
Can you imagine paying $400 plus to get your van repaired and then while leaving the repair station the stupid thing breaks down again? Well it happened to me.
Here’s the kicker. After all that, the parts, labor etc. The repair place said they replaced an EGR valve on my van. This regulates the fuel/O2 flow; so I’ve heard. So in trying to keep from having to take my car BACK to them, they told me to replace the ‘other’ item that needed replacing.
No problem. $81 later, opened the bag, popped open the hood… it was the same part they replaced, they just wrote it down wrong. So now it’s off the dealer again for a third part. I should just buy two so I can have a matching set for the future. Ugh!
Oh well, I’ve reached out to my ‘personal’ Ford technician, Cody… so maybe he will have some answers for me soon.
Until next time.
Ok, in 10 months I’ve dropped over 80 lbs, gained 40% more muscle mass and feel better than I’ve ever felt before. Just to let you know, I’m going into the coaching business for people who need motivation in health and fitness.
For those who have been behind me during this endeavor, thanks! For those who I’ve run out of town, sorry 
It’s great to know that at least I’m not contributing to an early death and that my kids and my beautiful bride can look forward to a longer life from dad.
You can check out my coaching start at www.manlawfitness.com
James
What a time it can be parenting four children. Last night was an ‘icing’ evening. With Robyn in Seattle, I was up late as I am scared to sleep by myself :). When I went upstairs to go to bed I checked on the children. One, two, three and uh oh… number four is nowhere to be found.
Ruby is great at hiding and even better at being very quiet when you need to find her. So I figured she had just moved to another bed in the house or was hiding from me. The first two minutes were frustrating but the next 20 were freakish. When you can’t locate a child in a locked house at 1:30 AM for 20 minutes it causes a hopelessness that quickly turns to panic.
I went into each child’s room, pulling back covers, looking through closets and calling her name waiting for the little giggle. Needless to say I was in a panic. Finally I noticed her little foot under the ‘wall’ side of our bed under the bedside table. She had crawled under our four foot high rice bed and gone to sleep.
I pulled her out in panicked relief to discover that she was in a very, very deep sleep. Ruby is usually a very light sleeper so this startled my already pounding heart and then my mind began to make suggestions at this time of night when it should have been sleeping.
“What if she hit her head and is unconscious?” “What if she has choked or swallowed something poisonous?” What if, what if…
After about ten minutes of this my goal was to wake her up to which I had no success. Next step: Call mommy. So I began calling Robyn’s cell phones and hotel room to no avail. Text messages, Twitters and smoke signals; nothing. After a failed attempt to even contact several friends who were with Robyn I did what all rednecks do, they call the police!
Well, not the police, but I found that when I called the hotel saying I needed them to page my wife for me they sent a security officer to her room who pounded the door until she woke up and called me. Sorry about that Robyn!
All-in-all, it developed as my wife’s comforting but extremely tired and irritated voice said, “If she doesn’t wake up in the morning, then you know something is wrong.” Well that makes sense… So here it is morning and she was the first one awake. Unfortunately is was before 7 AM and I was up until around 5, so I am beat~
Not that you wanted to know all of that but it goes so well with this:
As Ruby was waking up this morning, I happened to be on the phone with my tired wife (sorry again). I said to Ruby, “Daddy and mommy were scared because you were under the bed.” She replied, “It’s so you can’t find me daddy…”
That stinker hid on purpose at bed time to delay her bed time and in essence fell asleep hiding. Boy for two years old she certainly has some wit… must come from mom. 
Nuff of this little rant, just another day in the life of a South Georgia boy in NORCAL!
Grace is on the phone with my mother talking about her wedding on December 22nd. I just heard Grace ask if her and Earm were going to have a redneck wedding? I don’t think my mom heard it. I am laughing too hard.
This is what happens when you get in to an argument at Old Navy in Emoryville. ALL the police come out to see you. There are two more patrol cars off camera. They all came whizzing by with lights and sirens and ran in like there was a bomb in the place.
Don’t see this where I come from
OK, my sweet beautiful wife can now go public with her big news. I’m proud of you Robyn, I’ve always believed in you. Come home soon, so we can celebrate!
Talk about a superstar I love you.
“Tris Hussey breaks the story that Robyn Tippins is leaving MyBlogLog (a Yahoo acquisition) to head up the Developer Tools program on the mother ship and hints at what that might mean.”
So just as I thought I was in a foreign country, I see the General Lee… yeee Hah!
This was taken on the toll exchange going into San Francisco on the Bay Bridge in Oakland. You can take the boy out of the country…
So here’s a taste of the cheap electricity in NorCal… what’s for dinner? Just gas and light
*Account numbers are hidden for security reasons. This is not a joke.
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