Magical

Where does one begin.

I'm having some problems with words here. I have a feeling but can not describe it. I feel like Data from Star Trek. He has no emotions but in one episode he felt anger for the first time. When ask to describe it he could not. How do you describe an emotion without comparing it to other emotions. It would be like a blind man trying to describe a color. If you have never seen any other color you have no reference.

This is sort of how I felt watching the Inauguration.

The very first President I was ever aware of was Kennedy, but only because he died. I remember having to erase the blackboard (I had been naughty, one of many times) in school when Robbie Gates (the class bully) came in and said Kennedy had been shot.

Since then we have had eight Presidents all pretty bland and boring. Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush. As you see, not a stellar crowd. Some not as bad as the others and some likable but none of them real exciting.

Then along comes Barrack Obama out of know where and it it seems the world has had a couple earth sized drops of Valium dripped on it.

You can tell the people that were against Obama, they are the ones that will remind you not to expect everything to be fixed right away.

I'm pretty sure 98% of the people that voted for Obama know that and I feel it's almost an insulting thing to say. I'm pretty sure that there will be problems in the future and controversy and things will get stalled and so forth. But my feeling is that Obama has done a LOT for this country and for that matter the world already that no other candidate could have done, or even dreamed of doing.

The question I wonder is, does he have Bush to thank for this? If he was taking over for, lets say Clinton would the outpouring of emotions around the world be so great? Probably not.

But I believe he is the perfect person at this time in history. I believe he has a chance to be something special and maybe with so many people with so much emotion, maybe the politicians will back off and look at how to fix America as a team.

Maybe he will be a deer in headlights and nothing will get done. Maybe the Republicans will go back to being Republicans and Democrats will go back to being Democrats. Perhaps not. But
I have never in my life seen a day with so many emotional, happy humans with tears of joy and relief from so many people around the entire world.

This very moment in history, I think Americans can stand a little straighter and feel good about themselves and THAT has not happened in a very very long time if ever. It might only last a few days or weeks but bask in it while you can. Take this moment to stop worrying about the future and revel in the moment. It might not happen again in your lifetime.

We did good.
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One of the magical moments from January 20th happened last night at the Inaugural Ball. Beyonce, who I believe is one of the classiest woman around (her mom designs all of her clothes) was given the honor of singing the first dance for Michelle and Barrack.

The very ending you see her emotions creeping in. I think there are many Americans today a little dehydrated from crying.
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Another magical moment is happening tonight as LOST returns. Tonight they deal with time travel. As you remember in the final episode last year the Island moved. The question is not where did it move to but . . . . when did it move too.

Three hours tonight with 7:00 being a recap. I can not wait (although I'll probably DVR it LOL).

One last thing is I have a new fun toy. A bathroom scale. How can a bathroom scale be a fun toy you ask?

Since DJ and I have been working out a lot lately at 24/7 in Columbus we weigh ourselves to see just how morbidly obese we are. DJ says we need a digital scale. I say cool and we go looking. I find one that not only weighs you you but tells you your body fat composition AND water . . . .whatever number. SWEET - lots of numbers (do I feel a spreadsheet in my future?)

We input all the specs, DJ is 27 years old and I'm 32 and we're good to go. As luck would have it the 24/7 scales are 9 pounds off ON THE HEAVY side. WHEW! but the number I was interested in is body fat. I was at 20.4%. Not bad. Not great.

But how does it know that? It's called Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis. A small electrical current (that's why my hair stood up and sparks flew from my finger nails) is passed through your body. The electrical current passes more quickly through fat free tissue like muscle. Then it runs through a formula and figures it out.

It's not perfect but gives you a close number. THAT number is then what you watch and hopefully it will grow smaller.

People say they want to drop 10 pounds but it's not weight that is making fat, it's fat that is making you fat.

The best way to lose body fat is adding nice heavy muscle. Diets do not work at all, your body has this magical ability to adjust to any diet. Eat better and exorcise (to be free of an evil spirit?) oops wrong word, wait a minute . . . . . exercise. Your goal is to increase your metabolism. And you can do this by adding some muscle. THEN you can sit in front of the TV and lose weight. Just having muscle uses more calories. By doing NOTHING you can burn pounds off just by watching The Office!!

That is my goal. Do nothing and lose pounds.

With that said.

Cheers
Rod

OH COME ON NOW - that little Google ad below this is IS YOUR HUSBAND GAY??? Just because I was talking fashion yesterday??????