Reformatting Life: Today marked 40 pounds of weight loss. 163 pounds slim, your blogger is now. I've been working my caloric intake back up, am now up to 1300-1400 calories daily, with 130-140 grams of carbs and 35-40 grams of fat. That includes up to 200 grams of protein. We'll see if I can keep the blubber off at this level of food intake. I celebrated the 40# mark with a restaurant breakfast of pan-fried oysters, scrambled eggs, and sourdough toast. I skipped the potatoes which came with the meal, and ate a half-slice of unbuttered toast. That meal worked out to less than 500 calories with cream in my coffees. My entire day's protein was in there, though, with two eggs and 3.5 oz of oysters.
Winter Readiness: Took the final steps for winter readiness with the M-35A2 truck. Bought 3 sets of single cam-lock tire chains + tighteners for it, and my six each, five-gallon Diesel fuel jugs are one day away. Here's the report from the Mountain (My Mountain). Photo below:
Blizzardly day on the Mountain, but you can see that there's damn little vegetation or rocks still showing in that picture. That's all buried. Around my altitude, we have the freezing level 2800 feet above my head, so it's just raw, nasty and showery here. A quick look at the "28km Water Vapor Satellite Loop" on NOAA shows plenty more where this came from, out to the west and northwest of us, all the way back to Kamchatka, Russia, where there's some nastiness brewing up that should be here for Halloween. The hollering about La Nina seems to be right on the mark so far. Put it this way: when the practical denizens of the Deep South take such an interest in what is primarily a Pacific Northwest weather issue, it's an ISSUE! But, don't just take the words of a couple of crusty old Deputies with weather eyes, here's the Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Washington saying similar things.
Political Notes: How about those Obamas, heading to India for what can't be described any other way than as an Imperial Visit? How about the First Lady Michelle Obama planning to sit down with India's prostitutes? Getting pointers, is she? From what I've heard, she doesn't need any, she's screwed the taxpayers ever since her Empress-ness has been in the White House. Oh, well, at least the Obamas won't be anywhere handy to US political reporters so that they might have to respond to questions about a (D)onk beat-down in the election.
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