Binary Revolution Radio read one of my emails, schooling them on 80′s vs 90′s movie quotes. Click here to listen to episode #183 to listen to StankDawg & savant read my email. Skip to 21:55 if you don’t want to hear the whole episode, then 25:30.

No school for the kids today. We went to BTH for lunch and to the library. I dropped off the Roald Dahl book that I finished (Boy) and we picked up a bunch of new books. I got Charlie & the Chocolate Factory for both me and Emily. I read it all tonight and it’s pretty good. It’s kind of hard to say which movie followed the book better. Both had their strong points, but I still like the old 70′s version much better.

My weekend was boring. I think I watched 15 to 20 episodes of The Pretender. Plus I watched one tonight. I’m nearly done with season 3, now. I’ve been just deleting them as I finish them since I doubt I’ll ever watch it again. But it’s a great show and I’m enjoying it a lot. I found out that there were two Pretender movies made too, so I’ll have to find those next. There were supposed to be 4 Pretender movies made, but due to bad ratings, they only made 2. But at least the reviews on the 2 are good.

Oh yeah, I finished watching Early Edition a week or so ago. All 4 seasons of it. That was a great show too, even if they couldn’t seem to keep any characters. On all of their season finales, instead of having some great buildup of what was going to come in the next season, they were always lamely coming up with some weak story line to get rid of a character that didn’t want to be on the show anymore.

I put some shelves in Payton’s room over the weekend, which he really needed. He’s pretty happy about that. His room was trashed before because he didn’t have anywhere to put anything. Guess that’s about all I did this weekend. Pretender took up all my time. Stupid TV.

Over Christmas break I was able to do some major cleaning out of my storage unit in Illinois and bring back a lot of good stuff with me. Among my favorite things to have back are…

My lineman’s handset. This would have come in very handy several times this year.

My keyboard. I’ve had Sonar 4 Producer Edition and Reason for months now with no keyboard.

RTF gave me this when I visited NYC last year and I had to dump it in storage for a year.

Ten years of home video. And my photo albums.

My rotary dial telephone. How did I survive without it?

The kids’ Gamecube. Not that I play it, but they sure are enjoying it.

DVDs!

Despite having no money, I plunked down $99 to join the gym yesterday. On Sunday I used my free pass and spent 90 minutes there, on the treadmill. I left 500 calories behind. Yesterday evening it was 400 calories. Today I went during the day for an hour. 300 calories in an hour. When I was just going on walks around town, I was luck to 200 calories. My goal is going to be to burn 400 calories a day, 6 or 7 days a week there. Just walking, that takes 1 hour and 20 minutes. But throwing some occasional running in there helps it go quicker. Podcasts sure make the time go by quickly. This whole thing is perfect for me. I get to catch up on my podcasts, I get out of the house and away from the computer screen, and I lose weight.

My ultimate goal is 40 – 50 pounds. Fitday.com says I need to lose 2 lbs a week to have that done by July. I’m still doing pretty good with eating. I think I’m completely done with soda. I had a little on the plane last month, but none at all during my stay in Illinois and none since I’ve been back. Oh wait, I had some at the movie in Illinois. Anyway, I’m not drinking a bottle a day of it like I’ve been doing the past 20 years. No more than 1 per month on average.

A couple weeks ago, I switched my journal to WordPress. Then last week, I switched phonelosers.org to WordPress. And today, I decided that WordPress is so great that I should just run all of brad-carter.com from it. So I’ve been manually converting all of the pages on phonelosers.org into WordPress pages, which involves stripping the tops and bottoms off the pages and pasting the rest into a WordPress entry. Plus I’m constantly noticing mistakes and broken links, which I’m fixing. I’ve also been converting all the updates from the past 9 years into separate entries. It’s a lot of work but it’ll be worth it.

Today I screwed up a little of the old database on brad-carter.com when switching the whole site to WordPress. So I’ve been fixing that this evening. WordPress is the shit. It does so much. I’m still a little nervous about running my sites in a program that I don’t completely understand, but I’ll figure it all out eventually.

To everyone that’s commented and/or registered for an account here in the past month, sorry but those are gone now. I promise it won’t happen again, though!

Excuse this. I’m messing around with some stuff. The old page will be back up shortly.

The Delta Park Project played another one of my voicemails. It’s here:

http://media.libsyn.com/media/deltapark/DPP-2007-01-09.mp3

Scroll to 22:35 to hear me talk about wanting to adopt lots of African babies to impress my favorite actress with.

Barely from the Barely Podcast doesn’t hate me for taking his voice hostage on the latest PLA Radio. Listen to the following show and scroll to 35:18.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/barelypodcasting/047Barely.mp3

Dear Dex Phone Directory,

It’s the 21st century. Please quit mailing me 2 sets of phone books every year. They go straight in the trash.

Love,
Brad