Nothing like making a commitment to exercise to get me off on the wrong foot. Working out regularly is something I have to sneak up on. Ergo, no working out since last post. Oversleeping regularly.

On the plus side, have become Viggo Mortensen fan. What a guy. Viggo is Aragorn. The Corner of Viggo is going into my permalinks. But, again, yet another modern male without a dot com home page. Why is that? There's plenty out there. The tasteful award goes to Antipodean Viggophile. This one is dramatic and well-themed. Here's a hokey one, but it yielded some nice things like Viggo's address. Unfortunately, the great, kind, gentle man is no long accepting fan mail. Something about a deluge. He wrote a nice letter about it.

No workout yesterday or today. Overslept both days. This is the problem with early morning workouts at the company gym. I could go after work but I have to rescue my TV from the repair shop. I did go dancing last night and had a blast! Then I took the dog for a short walk, so all is not lost. That didn't do a lot to reduce my wing flaps but I got exercise and practiced my social skills.

My latest resolution is to blog about my workout routine. This way I'll keep track of it and get positive reinforcement by seeing it published, even if I'm the only one reading it. So, okay, Tuesday, July 15: 30 minute work out. 15 minutes on a machine I don't know the name of, 15 minutes on weight machines, working on my arms. I was shocked to see flab hanging over the back of my elbows. This is my initial motivation—get rid of that flap over the top of my elbows. On the weight machines I did 2 sets of 8-10 reps each on three machines plus one set of 8 reps with a five-pound dumbell. (per arm, of course) I have committed to do 3 sets of at least 8 reps but I had an appointment at 8:15 a.m. to give blood.

Blood not accepted. I lived in England for a year between 1980 and 1981. There's some wierd disease from foreign processed meat that they can't test for yet. However, the kind attendant informed that they have been using blood from the military for 20 years and now, suddenly, it's no good. It's okay. I still got a tee shirt.

The work out/exercise thing is good for my PNI which I am raising. Got any good jokes?

You gotta see this! It's a Godzilla Temple. All things Godzilla by Barry—even original Godzilla stories and art. Check out the "Toy Boy" section. My favorites: the Godzilla ball, the hand made wall plaque and the key chains. So cool. If you go to Barry's home page you can have a new sense of humor installed. (I know some people who need that page every day!)

In the interest of improving my writing, I am learning about web writing by using the links on this page. So cool. What I always hope for when I browse the net, free stuff that's actually worthwhile. Some of the examples of good writing are pages that tell you how to have good meetings and/or effective meetings, so I've bookmarked them in case I'm ever in a meeting—which may actually happen in my lifetime.