Weight management

Bulking vs cutting. If you don't know, bulking is when you eat more and work out harder to get bigger. You also, sadly, get fatter. It's part of the bigger. Cutting is when you eat less, and work out just as much so you lose the fat.

People usually bulk when it's hoodie weather, and cut in time for summer. Trouble is, I get cold. I get so cold. The less I eat, the colder I am. During the summer, that's fine because I don't need all that. But it means I go into summer big, and I go into winter small, and that's exactly the opposite of what I'm trying to do.

I have got to get warmer clothes.

Orphan

My Tiny One just lost her mom today. :(

The loops

Every tax season, my dear wife makes a paper chain. Each loop has two pieces of information: that days date, and how many days left until tax day. The wall it hangs on fits it perfectly, and if it's in the background of any photos, I can usually tell what time of year it is by how far along it is.

Either way, this is a picture of my favorite loop on the chain

 

Total Solar Eclipse

Everyone was excited about the solar eclipse. My house was in the path of totality, I got a good four minutes.

 

 

It was exactly what I expected for living in Central New York.

Bad joke day

April 1 is always exhausting. Not only do I have to be constantly on guard for silly pranks, I just finished a 31 day march. 

He's how old?

Today my oldest turned 15. He's taller than I am now, by an inch. He's starting to grow a bit of a 'stache, and he fits my shirts. I'm serious, I bought a pack of shirts and didn't like how they sat on me, so I tossed them at him. They fit him perfectly. It's almost unsettling. He doesn't fit my shoes - yet. He's surpassed my ability to mod games and consoles - which shouldn't surprise me but still somehow does.

I wonder how tall he'll get.

Such uncertainty

Remember this? Over the last month, we've had both extremes multiple times. Two days before our trip to the Great Wolf Lodge, it was 70 degrees. The day we left for that trip was a blizzard - I had to brush off the van twice and we fought snowy roads (for half an hour, we knew the snow band was localized and we just needed to get south of the city so no, we weren't being stupid), but late the next day when we returned there wasn't any snow on even the grass. It had melted off in a day.

The next week we had balmy mid 60's, but another snowstorm by the end of the week. One day I'm in a t-shirt, the next I'm in a parka clearing snow off the driveway wondering if the plows are going to come. It's become almost impossible to plan for what's coming. This is nuts.