So, I weighed in last night.  Well, actually, I weighed myself twice.  First
time, when I first arrived to the gym and changed, I was down a pound from a
week ago.  Then, after working out, apparently I sweated off another pound of
water to get to my first new year's goal weight loss point!  So, if I'm at or
below the 15 lb loss mark next week Monday, I'll claim this goal has been
obtained.  Woot woot!  And finally the pounds are coming off the middle
section.  For guys, fat will come off every other part of the body first
before it takes from the mid-section heavily.  I'm hoping the next 10 pounds
will really cut down on the belt size area.  

I'll even let you in that I'm at 189 pounds as of late last night.  I figure
another 10-15 lb more is about all I want to lose.  I figure when I get to
that point, I can get back to lifting more often than 2x a week.  I want to
get back to those new year's lifting goals that are slipping at the moment. 
My lifting endurance is way down right now.  My reps at 235 are down about a
third from what I was doing, which annoys me a bit.    However, on the flip
side, I'm anxious to get to this lower weight level and get back to playing
racquetball again.  I'm curious to see how much better my cardio workouts will
help me in the 3rd and 4th games when I would tired out before.

Another slooooowwww day at work.  So, I ended up puttering with shipquests
once again.  Did the cargo and galley quests.  Cargo ending is a bit
confusing, but it does become clear once you re-read Mel's quest hint.  On the
other hand, the galley quest is straightforward, except killin' all of those
noob mobs once again screws my knight valor rep.  Good grief, I'm down about
100 take prisoner mobs to make that all up again.  *sigh*  Good thing I'm not
trying to do a serious knight reinc. this time around.  I need to dig up the
cash to do the next ship level (4 if I remember right).  Then I can see if any
more new quests besides ship quest 5 pops up.  I still need to work on
teleportation chamber (ugh) and then all of the various ship sailor quarters. 
I need to make a path down that ship hq island so I can start those quests. 
puuh.  Damn you Mel!  Although, I think I'm better than half way through the
shipquests.  Woo woo!  Tonight's blog entry brought to you by "Head Like a
Hole" Nine Inch Nails