Fitbit Day 2 9-14-13 Saturday

Fitbit Day 2 9-14-13 Saturday

Weight: 273 (Last I checked)
Calories: 4058

Morale: We will see

Feeling: Upbeat

Today I had to wake up early as last night I went up to St. Cloud in order to get a check for $859.00. Lets talk about that.

Yesterday Shawn had sent me a text message saying he still had my pants, a shirt, and had just received a check for $859.00 from our former apartment complex. You see Shawn is my former roommate and a very good friend of mine. I went up there with him and showed him the Fitbit, he too is trying a new workout routine and trying a slimfast diet. As is tradition I took him to the grocery store so he could stock up on any food that he required as he does not as of yet have a car. He purchased two cases of pop and received a great deal of gruff. He claims he needs the caffeine to stay awake at his job. His job by the way is being a college professor for St. Cloud State University. I know for a fact that his job is not very labor intensive as when I lived with him he would wake up an hour before he had to teach, take a shower and try to figure out what he was going to teach that day while in the shower. He didn’t have a lesson plan very much farther in advance than that. To his credit by his second time around teaching that class he did develop a power point lesson for every class and date them based on class days so that in the future he wouldn’t have to think up what he was going to teach that day in the class as he could now just bullshit based on a PowerPoint.  Also in order for him to maintain control over his class he started wearing a tie. It turns out that college freshman respect a professor a little more when he dresses formally. Something I found a bit comical.

Anyhoo, he and I decided to join a competition. We would see who can lose the most weight the fastest. The winner would be able to lord it over the other. This may not seem like a huge deal but for Shawn and I. It is huge as we are constantly in competition for who leads the better life. We now finally agree on a way to measure our success and that measurement is called BMI. I had brought my friend Nut and my lady friend who had to go visit someone up there on her own. So we drove home and I was exhausted. I set a silent alarm for 8:00 am the next day so that I could go cash the check I had received from him.

I woke up exhausted. Drove to the bank at around 10:00 am Weekends are my only days I am able to sleep in so I was a bit annoyed that I had to be up so early. I got the check cashed with shockingly little effort and noticed that I had already reached my 20% mark for the day. I went home and changed the calorie goal to read 4000 per day. Just for the weekend because I feel on weekends I have more time to do more work. I then went to Elyssa’s house where she had caved and bought a Fitbit as well. So I got to drive her to Target where she then bought one too. I helped her set it up and we decided that we would go to Coon Rapids Dam that day to find a mythical trout lake I had heard about. It supposedly has no boat launch, is difficult to get to because it is off the beaten path, and most importantly has a great deal of trout in it. We went to Nut’s house because I had heard he wanted very badly to be rescued from the clutches of his parents. He recently was forced to move back in there thanks to recent circumstances beyond my control. Lets just blame the recession. I’m sure it won’t mind being a slightly larger supervillain than it already is.

Upon picking up Nut we walked back to Elyssas house which is less than a block away and discussed how little faith we have in this contraption on my arm but if it provided a motivation it may be worth the money. It occurred to us that I didn’t actually look into its theory of operation. Something that is basically a requirement for me to even consider purchase. You see I work as an Electronic Technician professionally and generally when I see a new technology I try to figure out how it works. Many an item I have not bought because I was able to infer it was a scam. Here’s a fun rule of thumb for any readers out there. If it says, “with a little drop of magic” it’s a scam. Don’t buy. Unless you are the sort of person who wires money to prince you met in an email in exchange for inheriting his crown. Elyssa finished charging her Fitbit and set it up on her computer and Nut and I sat outside discussing our options. The dam sounded like the land of milk and honey. A virtually virgin trout lake in the middle of our home town! Why had we not discovered this before. My coworkers showed it to me on google earth before but I was unable to refind it after looking at maps of the place through google earth. Nut and I agreed that if we could find it on foot we could drag a canoe over there another weekend.  When I was unable to find it we decided we would instead go to the Minnesota Zoo.