For Once, “Leon” is NOT Getting Larger
I started a pretty intensive diet two weeks ago, reducing my daily calorie limit to 1,500. Only one day during that time did I exceed that limit, and that was only by 69 calories. My average per day over the past two weeks (including that one 1,569 day) has been 1,206. I’m not exactly sure how many calories I was averaging per day before starting this diet, but it was probably between 4,000-5,000 (if not more).
I weighed myself this morning, and my total weight loss so far is 17.6 lbs. in two weeks. Needless to say, I have a long, LONG way to go, because I weighed so much to begin with that this was pretty low-hanging fruit and really isn’t very much percentage-wise. But, I do seem to have (at least to this point) succeeded in reversing a lifetime of bad eating habits and finally have the scale headed in the right direction.
P.S. For those of you not old enough to remember Airplane, one of the running jokes throughout that movie is a guy who keeps saying, “Leon’s getting larger!” My name’s not Leon, but it seemed an appropriate title for this post.
It’s Still 1981 in Houston
I just got back from a taking my kids and their Grandma to Galveston for a mini vacation, which was mostly fun, but particularly troubling in one very specific aspect. Due to a variety of factors, the in-car listening options were limited to terrestrial radio. It didn’t take long for me to find out that despite claiming they have two classic rock stations, it turns out Houston actually has two Billy Squier stations.
Now don’t get me wrong – I enjoyed Billy Squier back in the day…well, all the way up until he decided to commit career suicide by making a music video (for the song “Rock Me Tonight”) in which he spent five minutes in a pink teddy dry humping himself while writhing around on satin sheets. BUT, before shotgunning the doorknob off the closet door, he had given us some rockin’ jams over the years.
Unfortunately, these two Houston stations chose to narrow the microscopic focus of their all-Squier playlist to his 1981 album Don’t Say No. And while that is a great album – clearly his best – these stations didn’t even take advantage of his many hits on that one album. Instead, they chose to play a two-song rotation of “Lonely is the Night” and “The Stroke” on endless loop. No “My Kinda Lover.” No “In the Dark.” Just those two.
As if there aren’t already enough reasons to think Dallas is infinitely superior to Houston, this certainly adds to that seemingly never-ending list.
Let Me Tell You About #the2300
I’ve been a huge fan of Dallas-based sports radio station “The Ticket” since way back in its second year of existence, 1995. So much so, that me and a couple of other guys started a website for one of the drive-time shows, The HardLine, back in 1997. That site, hardliners.com, went by the wayside over a decade ago, but I’ve continued to be a loyal listener (a “P1”) ever since.
One of the main reasons we started hardliners.com was to extend the community of Ticket listeners to the (then) new online frontier known as The Internet. Back in the mid-to-late-’90s, things were still in the very early stages of technological evolution, so it’s taken until now for this concept to be successfully executed with the proper technology.
Thanks to the miracle of Twitter and a few enterprising P1s, an online community of Ticket listeners called #the2300 has totally revolutionized the internet P1 experience. Named for the military term indicating 11:00 p.m., #the2300 not only allows die-hard P1s to indulge in late-night banter and repartee from the comfort of their PC, laptop or mobile phone, but it even allows them to ask questions in real time to a variety of local sports media and athletes who often show up to be “Twitterviewed.”
Now that I’ve finally gotten with the program and become a proud member of #the2300, what are you waiting for? As Rhynes would say, “Fun is going on.”
For more info, check out their website at the2300.com
Updated Top 100 TV Shows
I’ve finally caught up on several TV series which I hadn’t yet seen at the time I originally created my list of Top 100 TV Shows, so I have updated said list accordingly at https://bobhasablog.com/top100/tv-shows/
The shows I’ve added to the list are Mad Men (9), Sons of Anarchy (10), Archer (18), Parks and Recreation (23), Eastbound and Down (25), Modern Family (27), Breaking Bad (28), Freaks and Geeks (49), The League (57), Louie (62), Party Down (66), Eagleheart (71), Dexter (80), Treme (86) and Terriers (95).
Nailing The Triple Lindy 