Josh the Aspie’s Blog

I’m nearing my second 10 lb goal as a part of joining weight watchers. There are so many rewards for loosing this weight and exercising. I look better, I feel healthier, I am in less pain, and I have greater endurance. Even thinking seems easier, though that’s more likely attributable to the exercise and the decreased stress, as well as the altered blood flow to my brain than the decrease in weight.

A month after starting my 3 month journal with weight watchers I find that I have also dropped an inch and a half off of my waist line, and half an inch off of my hips, actually putting me at the point where my waist is narrower than my hips, and I can rely on that fact. Not only is this a great for my appearance and comfort, but it means that I have transitioned from having an “apple” body shape to having a “pear” body shape. While both body shapes are a negative indication for your health, the apple body shape is far more so.

I definitely intend to claim an extra reward sticker at weight watchers later this week.

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Also known as Acupoint Pressure Therapy, Acupressure is the art of manipulating pressure points with one’s thumbs and fingers, rather than with needles as is done in Acupuncture.

I recently took an Acupressure course from Doctor David Bole, a former Tibetan Buddhist monk who became a Lama at the Kagyu retreat. He holds two doctorates, one in Psychology from the University of Florida, and one in acupuncture from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in Oxford, England. The course was about 7.5 hours long after taking the lunch break into account.

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For those of you that have been paying attention, I have recently joined Weight Watchers, and while my morning weight at home was 275, I weighed in there as 280.4.

Well today I weighed in at 274.8, a loss of 5.6 lbs, and my first 5 lb goal met in the Weight Watchers program in only 2 weeks! Read on for how I did it, and how it feels!

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Well, as some of you may remember, it’s been nearly a year since I moved into my apartment. And yes, my apartment still isn’t entirely clean.

Between my Job, learning how to live on my own, and a host of other things that needed to get done “clean” has described the areas I let others into in my apartment for perhaps a month full of days. I realize that this will likely sound like whining. After all, many of you likely manage to get your homes clean and keep them that way within a week or a month of moving in. Right?

Unfortunately I have several things working against me in this particular endeavor and despite that fact I am grateful for many of these factors.

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Many people who want to punish free speech hold up the example of how “You can’t shout Fire in a Crowded Theater,” and according to some of my friends, now many are trying to use this example to impinge upon other rights as well. Well even according to Messrs Justice Douglas, and Justice Black, the speech in which one calls fire, and the resultant acts which descend from one’s speech are inextricably linked, and it is the resultant actions for which the speaker is responsible that he is tried. Yet if there is no resulting action worthy of being tried — perhaps because there was an actual fire, or perhaps because everyone ignores you — there is nothing on which to try the person calling out “Fire!”

Liberty is a two edged sword. One edge is called freedom, the other is called responsibility. For in order to gain and preserve freedom, someone in our society must shoulder the burden of defending our way of life. Those people are the armed forces. Further, anyone who exercises their freedoms needs to own up to the consequences of their action… because if we expect other people to bail us out of our mistakes not only are we demeaning ourselves, but we are trying to remove the freedoms of others.

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I’d like to share a recipe that I created today to help myself stay on track with my Weight Watchers plan in a healthy and delicious way. I did get some of the recipe off of the rice box, but I adapted it.

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Hello all!

It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted here on My Blog and I’m rather excited to be posting again. Due to my move, combined with my new Job, combined with cleaning and sorting items, and being in various stages of “catching up” with things I needed to do to take care of my new apartment, as well as being ill a few times I’ve been a touch neglectful.

Also a constant annoyance is the huge amount of spam I have to slog through each time I come back to my blog, just to make sure that I haven’t missed one of the rare and special comments from a new commentator. Any time a new commentator decides to comment, or an old commenter changes their contact information / commenting name I need to approve their first comment before my blog lets them comment freely. As a result, I get many spam comments submitted for every non-spam comment.

Now, a bit more detail on what I’ve been up to while I’ve been away from my blog.

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For those of you that don’t know, I’m one of those people that actually names his computers and other networked devices. I don’t mean that I just randomly assign names to differentiate the computers, I christen them with a name that reflects their qualities. For example, my main power-tower is named Kusanagi-Makoto.

Well, since my phone is capable of being hooked up to a Bluetooth network, and needed a device name, I included it in this trend. It’s a small device that I keep on me all the time, and includes a wide selection of built in tools. Remembering Bob’s little bracer side kick from the Computer Generated (CG) TV show Reboot, I named my RAZR “Glitch.” Unfortunately I couldn’t have come up with a more appropriate name.
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Yesterday I spent my day getting trained by the Red Cross. In exchange for nine hours of my time, and a few hours worth of pay, I learned skills that may help me to save the rest of one of my family members lives. I’d recommend that anyone out there who can, take the class.

The full version of the class is for First Aid, Adult CPR+AED and Child/Infant CPR.

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Previously I talked about what HDCP is, and how it does what it does; as well as problems With HDCP, and why big media uses it anyway. This time we’re going to talk about what HDCP means for consumers.

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