This year has not been as good as others, so far, and it all starts with appliances. The toaster, the CD player, the light fixture over the dining room table and the one in the closet, all have malfunctioned.

For co-location efforts:

A teen girl who sent a nude photograph of herself to her boyfriend using her cell phone was charged with unruliness after her 18-year-old boyfriend forwarded that same photo to his friends after they broke off their romance. With what would you guess police charged the boyfriend?

There is really nothing very exciting to report. I was sick for three days and missed some work. I only got in four workouts – two with Trevor and two cardio workouts. Eating went OK. I haven’t been on the scale, but feel better and hope mid-month measurements this week will show some progress.

I think the May 12th issue of FIT magazine was a big hit for me. I have had numerous people that I know come up to me and ask to see my food journal. They also have “yelled” at me.

In November, Barack Obama became the first black man to win the White House.
Now, another historic milestone for the black community: The first black animated family on prime-time television.
Martin Luther King Jr. would be proud. Or maybe not.

When I moved out of New York City and needed a car for daily transportation, I decided to do the responsible thing: And so the Ford Escape Hybrid entered my life.

Freedom is not free:

This is the annual memorial day ceremony at the Perkins township cemetary. 

Music:  Perkins High School Marching Band

Lack of oversight resulted in the (statuatory?) rape of a 15-year-old girl in an SPD substation back in 2003.  (3:13 is where special prosecutor Dean Holman says that it happened in the police substation)  The Sandusky Police Department is

The recyclables in my garage are piling up the same way they pile up at recycling centers across Erie County. The last time I went to the drop-off center at the county building near the fairgrounds off Columbus Avenue, there was no room in the bins and junk was flying with the wind.