Getting back on the diet that threw ya

One of my resolutions for this year was to lose some weight and get down to 275 pounds. Being me, unfortunately, I had been slacking off hardcore and have actually started gaining weight again. So, I have started working on the weightloss again. Let me tell ya, it sucks ass trying to get back into a workout routine. I had been comfortable with it until I broke my leg last year and now just walking a few miles kills my legs and feet. Also there is no bike seat in the world that can really support 340 lbs. so my ass is killing me too. I'm just trying to lose enough weight so I can get on the Wii Fit so I can see if it's worth the money :)

In other news my daughter Genna is 'graduating' from Pre-Kindergarten this month. I think it's pretty cool, especially because I think she's really looking forward to both the graduation and to going to the "big school". On the other hand, I kind of freak out about it because I don't know where all the fucking time is going. Seems like yesterday that I myself was graduating from high school. Now, there's a wife, a house, 1 kid going to kindergarten, 1 going to pre-k, and another on the way. It's like Ferris Bueller says, "Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. " Truer words were never spoken.

I've been getting busy in Singstar. It is fucking hard trying to get all the trophies. First of all, it's impossible to get 9000 points on hard on 95% of the songs, which require you to buy more to get the right ones. Also if you don't have a camera, it's impossible to get people to view your stuff unless you beg them or do something really stupid, like dance around in a dress. I don't know if I'm really going to be able to get them all. I'll probably give it a few more weeks and then give up if it doesn't happen and move to some other games.

I've also been playing around with the iPhone more and venturing into the paid Apps section. I've found several to be useful in my Fitness work. The Daily Plate is a website where you can get healthy advice through Livestrong (Lance Armstrong's foundation) and also track stuff like what are you eating, how much you can eat in a day calorie-wise, how many calories you are burning by exercising, etc. The website itself is free, but the iPhone app is $2.99. I really don't know why they just didn't make a free ad-supported one. It seems to be the case for a lot of apps (I suppose because selling ads doesn't really pay for shit.) The other app is Trails. Trails is kind of sweet because you can take GPS readings of your runs, cycling, hiking, etc. then you can upload it to a website or e-mail it to someone else where they can download it and follow your trail. It's mostly for hiking and geocaching, but I'm using it to get accurate times and distances for my walking and cycling runs.

One last thing. How bout dem Brewers, eh? I thought it was going to be a shitty year after losing Sabathia and Sheets, but they've won 8 of their last 10 games and sit in a 3 way tie atop the NL Central. As I write this they are up 3-1 over the Marlins which, if it holds, will put them in 1st....at least until the Reds and Cardinals play their games. I know we're barely through a fifth of the season, but there is cause for some hope that not all is lost. I'd like to see another big aquisition by the trading deadline to help put us over the hump and back into the playoffs again. If the cards fall right maybe I'll find a way to see them play in the postseason. If not, I'm sure I'll make it to a game this year. Nothing beats the experience of actually being at the ballpark.

*ring* *ring* Hello, Josh...this is reality calling. You need to go to a meeting now so stop blogging *click*

Well, I can't deny reality, so I will take my leave now. :)

Jaaaaaaaaaaail-break

It's been a busy past few days. Spring is now upon us so I spent most of my weekend doing yard and garden work. I expanded the garden and we're actually planning it this year instead of just throwing whatever in it. I'm hoping for better results. Last year we got way too many cucumbers and no peppers. We got one bunch of peas and no tomatoes, etc. I'm not really an outdoorsy guy but I really don't mind gardening...at least not when it's 70 degrees out.

I've also been busy dicking around with AT&T this time. Pam's data use got shut down because they were saying that her number used 115 MB's of data in a week. The problem with that is that on her phone, you'd have to be on the Internet 24/7 to get that kind of data use. I looked at the usage and found that during the day they had our phone numbers switched that they assigned all my data use to her number. What the fuck? Can't they tell which model of phone is making the request? Especially because 80% of my use in those 2 days we to Apple's app store which obviously her Samsung can't reach. On top of that, she didn't use her phone for the first day because of problems with porting her number. Anyways, AT&T is going to fix the billing problem, but they can't until we actually get a bill....which doesn't make sense, but I suppose that they don't want to credit us the $1200, then we quit their service and they owe us that money....even though if we quit right now it would still have us at 115 MB of usage that are unpaid.

Essentially, it boils down to change sucks. When doing major changes like this there's going to be fuckups, but once you take care of those then usually theres's never another problem.

Soooo, the whole point of this post was to say that I jailbroke my iPhone. It's as freaking easy as advertised. Essentially you download either Pwnagetool or Quickpwn, and make sure you're getting the one for your OS Version (2.2.1 for me). Install it on your computer and follow the instructions. It's just that easy.

Once it's done, you'll have a program called Cydia on the phone. Think of that as an app store for non-approved apps. The main reason I wanted it was for the ability to put groups of icons into folders so I don't have to swipe 5-6 times to get the app I want. I got that functionality from the Categories app. There's also apps to turn your 4 column layout for apps into 5, giving you up to 20 apps on a page. There's "Poof!" which you can use to remove the links to useless apps such as Stocks, Weather, and iTunes. Winterboard is used to apply themes to your display, such as changing the lock screen and keyboard color etc. I was also able to change the unlock action from having to slide your finger across the iPhone to just hitting a button.

What's stupid is that all these features are not necessarily illegal. You could technically put your phone on another cell network or put a bittorrent client on the iPhone, but all I'm doing is changing the way it looks. I just don't get why Apple didn't include any options for different themes or colors for the display. Isn't Apple the "Think different" company? Well how can I think different when my phone LOOKS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE'S! Not to mention, I paid out all this money to use the damn thing, I should get to decide what's on it, not Apple.

Rant aside, I really do dig the new look and I'm glad that someone made it so easy that even an Apple user could do it (sick burn!)

Anyways, since I'm apparently the only one here taking calls (grrrr) I gotta get back to work