It's about time

Well, I hadn't posted in a week or more, so I thought I'd put out a brief update. I spent the weekend publishing the pictures from the Australia trip 2006, as well as a brief little section of pictures from New Year's Eve. I could have published them separately, but I was being lazy. Anyway, go take a look at Our latest album and see how much fun we had. I am still not 100% enamored with the JAlbum Editing Software but it is shareware program and I haven't actually contributed any money, so you get what you pay for.

We hosted the largest hold-em party to date. There were 16 people playing. That was amazing. I am glad to see it is getting some traction. It isn't a very serious poker match, but it is a lot of fun. I didn't do very well, but once again I got to playing loose instead of playing tight. That means I lost a few hands I shouldn't have, and ended up getting put all in a couple of times. Once you are short stacked, it is just a matter of time before you get eliminated. I did manage to double up on some folks a couple of times, though, so I didn't feel too bad. Still, it is somewhat hard to be a gracious host and let a ton of folks play poker in your own house. I am getting better at it though. LOL

Colleen and I went with some friends to a Brazilian Steakhouse in Cary for dinner over the weekend. It was quite tasty in my opinion. For some, however, the meat was a bit rare, and the cuts can be a bit fatty, especially if you eat the beef. But, they had wonderful food overall, and Caipirinhas are very tasty, despite being very strong. We wandered over to a pool hall and spent a good part of the evening playing pool badly. :)

Just got word back from my doctor. Looks like my liver functions have returned to normal. That's in no small part to my loss of 47 pounds in the last 6 months. It is also likely due to the dietary changes in general, but either way, I am glad to hear I am back to baseline for my liver. That means I can go to the doctor, see how bad my cholesterol is and then likely get on some form of medication for it. Who knows? Having lost this weight, maybe I managed to fix my cholesterol enough to avoid that as well. I know my primary doctor will still want me to lose more weight, but I am not really sure I want to. I should do more working out or exercise more, but right now I am managing to maintain where I had lost to, and that's goodness.

Well, wanted to try to get at least a brief post out here. I am going to really try hard to do this at least weekly unless I have something interesting going on in my life. For those of you that are out there, hope this is enough. :-)

Cheers!