Kicking it into gear...

Finally I have started on my path to the goal I have set for myself.

Last night after work I decided it was time to start. It was quite humorous honestly because I kept seeing everything that was occuring that night that might normally stop me from starting my late night exercising. It was too cold, I started to wheeze a bit, I was tired..... I had plenty of excuses but none of them good enough.

I have done this, the weight problem, to myself. It is now time to face the punishment and start working on it. I have listened to the Doctor's show and although I don't always like that show some of the stuff they say does end up sticking with you. I definitely don't want to increase my rate of having a heart attack, I don't want the increased risk of diabetes.... I don't want any of that.

I want to start enjoying life. I know even this morning I felt better than I have in weeks. It's about getting up and doing something. Sitting around playing video games, watching TV and dreaming about what could be is no longer going to be my entire life. The funny thing is I can still do those things, I don't have to completely give them up. I just need to take an hour or two a day and dedicate it to doing something more.

Variety is the spice of life and I need to spice things up a bit. I have some short term goals and some long term goals for this three months. I look forward to striding towards each one of them.

Next blog will be New Year's Resolutions... My current philosophy is "2008 I started too late, 2009 will be my year to shine!"

Trojan Vundo

For those of you who aren't computer savvy I will just flat out tell you that Trojan Vundo is the title of the virus that I got hit with on December 23, 2008 that made my Christmas holiday a complete pain in the rear!

My Norton Internet Security found the virus and deleted it. I thought I might be in the free and clear but then I kept getting these weird pop up ads from websites that normally didn't have pop-ups. This immediately was a sign to me that something was wrong so I ran my Norton Anti-Virus again it found some tracking cookies and deleted them but that was about it.

The problem persisted... So I've been looking up on the internet for any and all help I could get. I was going into several different file locations including the msconfig, system config utility, services.msc.... You name it for a while there I was trying it. After spending almost 3 days trying to get rid of this I was starting to lose hope.

I was at work tonight coming to grips with the fact that I might have to just give up, save all my pictures on to CD and then reinstall Windows or even worse have to wipe my hard drive and start over from scratch.

Well I came home tonight and decided to take one more crack at the computer and try and fix it. I came across another site that had information about the Error 1058 that I kept getting while trying to restart my Windows Update service so that I could install the fix for my Internet Explorer.

I scanned through the information and they had this program that they said would fix the problem. I had my doubts but I said well lets try this one and hope it works... So I went to this site...

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Malwarebytes_Anti-Malware_d5756.html

I downloaded the free program and ran it. I watched as it found 46 or so files that were infected/corrupted as a result of that virus. It fixed them all and said it needed to reboot my computer.

It rebooted, I was able to go to Services and restart my Windows Update... I then downloaded all the updates and my computer is working as well as it was before.... THANK GOD!

A lot of geek speak to say I fought a battle with the evil doers of the computer world and thankfully was able to find a solution to it all. I just wanted to post this blog with the story of my battle with the Trojan Vundo virus in hopes that if it helps just one person then they won't have to go through the same 3 days of computer hell as I did!

100 Days to Lose 30 or it costs 100.

So as a person who can't say that he has necessarily battled weight issues.... because in order to truly battle them you have to get off your ever increasing in size posterior and actually do something about it. I have really truly decided this is the final straw and it's time to start this and make it a lifestyle change.

I have recently developed this new philosophy with my life "...to turn over a new leaf, sometimes you have to first crawl out from that rock you've been living under...."

I have been lost in thought and I realized that I think oh if I changed this one thing about myself things would be so much better. If this girl showed any sort of interest I would change for her. If something would happen in my life to motivate me to change I would do it. Ummm yeah... How's that working for you?

Well my friend Nicole has a wedding coming up on April 8th. I told her that I wanted to lose some weight for the wedding and of course her being the bride she wanted to do that too. Well I got a little extra motivated tonight and went and climbed on the scale. The number that appeared was not one that I was very proud of.....249.0 LBS.

I thought to myself ouch, well at least it's not 250 or 300, because then I would be seriously overweight. Well then I consulted the old trusty internet and lo' and behold for a person with the height of 5' 11" the maximum weight you should be is 179.0 LBS. So this means that I'm 70 LBS. heavier than I should be.

I haven't been living in complete denial, I knew I had what the doctor's call a bit of a weight problem but I didn't ever think it was that bad. So I did some more research online and discovered that for weight loss losing 1.5 to 2 LBS. per week is considered healthy. I have 15 weeks until the wedding so I decided my weight loss goal is 30 LBS.

Another incentive is softball season is quickly approaching and every ounce of weight I lose is once less ounce I will have to cart around the basepaths with me. The time is now or never for me and as yet another incentive I decided to tell the bride to be that if I don't lose the 30 lbs. I will either give her $100 or I will buy her a super nice wedding present.

I always like a good incentive... It's Game Time. This will be the first blog in a series of the progress I will make. It's not going to be pretty and I think I might even post the unflattering pictures just to further humiliate myself into realizing I desperately need to change.

Moving the Blog

This will be a rather quick and short blog. I just wanted to introduce myself to the world of blogspot. I have been blogging for sometime now on myspace.com but I thought it's time to move my blog to where the world can see it.

I will be commenting on life, work and whatever else I see fit. The reason for the title on the blog is I have found that in conversation I like to sometimes shoot all around the issue but eventually I make a valid point.

We'll see if this continues to be the case...