All Things Rowdy

So pretty much every morning I have had peanut butter (pb) on something; toast, frozen waffle, english muffin or whatever. Now I knew pb has some fat in it but I really just didn't think about how much. Well I looked at the label tonight! Each serving is 180 calories and 14g of fat!!!!!!!!! YIKES. I threw it away. No way am I eating peanut butter again! (in comparison a whole can of chili has 25g of fat and your RDA of total fat is 60g) Today and tomorrow I am on a liquid diet of Ensure with one solid meal. I'm trying to limit myself to about 1,400 calories each day. I weighed 144.2 earlier in the week and that is too much. Thankfully with some increased exercise and this quickie liquid diet I was 140.2 this morning. This week I have also scrounged things around to make some of my meals. We had what I like to call 'spicy salad' with our ground turkey spaghetti the other night. Taking the left over shredded lettuce from chicken taco night and going through the fridge to ...

Alright, looking at my analytical data for which countries visit my blog most often I have a few surprises. I can't say I know anyone personally from any of these countries but since you have shown an interest in me I would like to learn about you. Here are the top 10 foreign countries that visit this blog or my shark pictures blog 1. Poland 2. United Kingdom 3. Germany 4. Canada 5. Australia 6. Singapore 7. Croatia 8. Italy 9. Japan 10. Brazil PLEASE, IF YOU ARE FROM ONE OF THESE PLACES, LEAVE ME A COMMENT OR EMAIL ME. I WOULD LOVE TO MAKE THIS AS INTERESTING AS POSSIBLE FOR YOU AND TO GAIN SOME NEW FRIENDS.

Today's "Tough Tuesday" workout was as follows: 3 pull ups 4 push ups 5 squats either holding a 10# medicine ball and twisting at the top or just holding a 25# dumbell. Doing this equals one rep. So me and R. did 20 reps of this and on the final rep did the exercise until failure. In thirty minutes I did 63 pull ups, 100 push ups and 115 squats with weight. And as if pull ups aren't hard enough we did half of them pulling on the sleeves and collar of a jiu jitsu gi strung through my rings. See video for an example. To finish it off we did bear crawls for a few minutes around the grass, some crunches with the medicine ball held between the knees, stretching AND THEN A LITTLE BIT OF ROCK CLIMBING ON MY WALL TO COOL DOWN. "If you wake up in the morning, brush your teeth and then sit at a desk you are not going to be a champion. If you wake up, brush your teeth and go for a run, then you'll be a champion." F.S.

What is it about shampoo that makes it the best hair styling product?

and proceeds to eat of the Mike&Ikes and Hot Tamales. Fall off the wagon much?

so i have an interview and test ride on tuesday to be one of those people driving around on a scooter towing a billboard. thats right, i could be getting paid for the next 3 weeks to just ride around all day. hopefully though i don't have to be dressed like the above picture!! i think i will wear this instead for my interview> sweet! i also applied to be a repair tech in california for wind power turbines. so you get to climb up there and in this case be the person that checks out the fan blades and their integrity. when the job was described as being "outside in all weather 320 feet off the ground and climbing in an enclosed space" how could i not apply, i mean, that sounds like fun to me not work.

Fabio Santos Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy is moving. Over 15 years in one location and now it's moving. When I lived in Yuma AZ and trained with guys in a garage I came with them once or twice to Fabios' way back in 2001. Then I didn't train again until May of 2008. A 7 year absence in training...Dang. The academy is moving just a little bit closer to my house, so I can still ride my pedal bike to it! Nice. Here are a few pics of the old building, school and moving. One week off if gonna drive me crazy! I can't wait to compete and come back and have a new building to train in! You are all welcome to come check it out. Fabio Santos BJJ Academy 6156 Mission Gorge Road, suite L SD, CA

0540 is the wrong time to find out you dont have any suitable (or at all) pants or tights for running in 30 degree weather, in snow, in the Cuyamaca mountains for a 6 mile run.

incoming text "hey r u up?" my reply "i am now. whats up? u bored?" incoming text "no. i thought the church was on fire, but it was just the boy scouts" Classic!

This pic from Iraq is the only one that I can find that close to conveys the emotion I feel right now: @#$#@%#^$%^$$@#$#^REFERT#$^T$%Y&^%Y%^YHRGR%T%$$#RERF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel so stupid! Like why do I even try sometimes to grow and stretch myself or do something new? I'm sick of feeling stupid and worthless. And by worthless I mean in a monetary sense. Do I have absolutely nothing that is worth paying me for? Have I ever been able to develop anything and have it last? Obviously my telephone job interview did not go so well. I ended it feeling confused, dazed, stupid, unprepared, unskilled, muttering and just a stupid facade of an intelligent person. Have I really wasted most of my life? I'm just stuck in this downward loserness. I hate it! Every time I try to climb out of it, BAM, beat back down. And its got to be all my fault to, that's what makes it even more horrible. ----My recent job failures----- Iraq: Crohns, dysentery, cowardliness UCSD: Crohns, poor str...

Heading to work this morning I was merging onto the freeway and got a BIG dirty look from the Prius driver I passed. I don't know what his problem is but let me just rant a little bit.... 1. I am legally able to go in the HOV or carpool lane just like you pal! So don't give me a dirty look for being a single person using the carpool lane, you are in it to! 2. Guess what!?!?! I get 65mpg on my motorcycle easily! When it was stock I was getting over 70mpg. What are you getting? 3. Don't be mad that my little 250cc vehicle is faster than your 1.5l (or 1.8l) engined vehicle. 4. Guess what else, mine only cost $6,000 brand new. And when it comes time for it to be recycled I will have less to put in a landfill than you. And let's not even get started on the material in your batteries!(lead, nickel, lithium and so on) Mine also required less resources to produce, can be parked more places and costs less to operate. 5. I watched the Topgear test, at 80mph a BMW M3 gets better ...

At this time last year you could have added 18 prescription pills a day to the mix!! So I am glad for just a handful of vitamins!!

When I think about all the crazy stuff I have done, this is another level........

So, I have been attending every advanced class possible and open mat. I have been totally open and taking it all in. I have been taking some private lessons and just really being focused on how I learn and how I practice. Now to even increase my preparation for the next two weeks I am upping my cardio and functional strength training. The academy is closing to be moved to a new location the week before the tournament so I have been doing all I can to be ready. 9 hours a week of jj training, 1 hour private lesson each week, strength training once a week and cardio once a week. The jiu jitsu training is staying the same but I am upping the strength and cardio. The cardio especially, which for me is mountain biking and running hills or stairs. The most shocking change is going to be that for the next two weeks I am eating no candy at all, no soda, no restaurant food, no snacks. Believe it or not! But I am motivated Two weeks. Two weeks. -run hills or stairs 3x a week -strength training in...

So, in the spirit of the blog "You don't gnome me" that I stalk, I started a new photo blog called AROUND WITH A SHARK IN 80 DAYS that can be found at http://www.arowdyshark.blogspot.com It will just be hopefully funny photos of some of my toy sharks in various places and such with oh-so witty captioning. Not quite lolsharks but you get the idea.

The supercross race was so-so. The lites class was much better. My cousin was not racing this year, so I had no one special to root for. Here are some pics of the arena, the track, us, public transport in and out and some video during the opening ceremony. Enjoy, I did.

A friend of mine, who is surfing in Hawaii right now , emailed a bunch of his friends and asked for help in naming his wife's new business. She is now a licensed acupuncturist and Chinese medicine doctor lady thing. Here are my name ideas for it- 1. San Diego's Center for A Thousand Points of Pain 2. Your Health; sometimes it hurts 3. Chinese Medicine Center of San Diego: To the Point 4. Poh Qu Acupuncture 5. What could it hurt? 5. Lei Lo Acupuncture

Two years ago I was in Las Vegas taking a class to prepare me for my job in Iraq. Iraq. I saw a show on TV the other night that had some scenes of places I had been and it didn't seem real to me that I had been there. Two years ago I was in a crappy hotel off the strip in Vegas, preparing for Iraq. Wow.

Last night I had a massage. I knew my right upper back and shoulder were 'tight' but I had no idea how much scar tissue and adhesions I had in there from over the years. Needless to say I felt like she had beat me up by the time the massage was over. She spent a whole hour just on that one part. ARGH, I guess I needed it. I can't ever remember whimpering and moaning and wincing in pain during a massage ever before. I slept horribly last night, I had to apply heat and Tiger Balm and I was visibly swollen in that part of my back. So what do I do this morning? First is a 3 mile bike ride. Then a hour or hard core circuit training in the garage on my rings and box and with the medicine ball. R. from jiu jitsu came over to see my workout as he is another 'light' guy and wants to negate as much as possible the weight advantage people have over us as possible. Fit to FIGHT!! The rest of my afternoon is going to be candy, candy, magazines, researching a possible driving vac...

I just watched an early Werner Herzog movie, 'Even Dwarfs Started Small" and it is one of the most raucous subversive movies I have seen in a while. I loved it.

Talking about sleep, soon after Remicade that I would have had nightmares last night. Especially the one that had me yelling out multiple times and finally sitting on the edge of the bed panting and frightened.

One of my favorite movies is The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a German expressionist film from the turn of the 20th century and one of the very first horror films made. It is about a mudering sleep walker basically. Excellent story telling, beautiful cinematography and you should watch it. Heck, even the remake from a few years ago is worth watching as it is a good homage to the original. But back to me, because it is always about me. Got it?!?! I don't sleep to well. I have nightmares and I wake up about every 45 minutes. Not fun. So other than melatonin and valerian root and ambien and exercise and total silence and dark as possible I couldn't think of anything else to help my sleep better. But then I got to thinking. (Danger Will Robinson, danger!) Times I have flown long distances, like the 20 hours from Kuwait City to Washington DC non stop, I have definitely made sure I used earplugs to separate myself from the rest of my surrounding environment so that I can rest and relax a...

squid squid squid i know, i know. stylin profilin im finally realizin (LL Cool J-Goin back to Cali) A year ago I rode my 2008 Yamaha WR250X supermoto home. I was the second person in San Diego to get one. I had put a deposit down on one the day after they first were previewed on the Yamaha US website. Since then I have continued to have soo much fun on this motorcycle. Heck, the video of its exhaust note on my youtube page has had 21,205 views!! Over twenty thousand! (This blog averages about 30 hits a day and you need about 1,000 hits a day to make any money of ads) This motorcycle does have its small faults but it really is the best small street legal supermoto made. coach Troxel would be proud! (To keep us busy our mom would send us to football conditioning camp in the summers at Kennewick High School) Soon to no longer be such a squid. (squid is a pejorative used to describe a clueless motorcycle rider. someone who doesn't wear gear and thinks they are fast when really they ar...

Sun Diego, rrrrrrrriiiiiiight.

OR: Random Rowdy 25 on my blog 'cause I don't have Facebook and I'm never going to. So there. Now for a list of things you probably didn't know about me before. 1. I shave my armpits. Not with a razor and shaving cream but with electric clippers. I think it looks better and my deodorant seems to work better. 2. I don't like chocolate. 3. I had my left nipple pierced for a year. I now know what a natural endorphin pain killer high feels like. 4. I don't like to touch raw meat and have a box of latex medical gloves to wear when handling raw meat in the kitchen. This only happens about 50% of the time though as this 'thing' or 'phobia' or 'weirdness' hasn't totally taken a deep seat in me. 5. I have never seen the movie Titanic. 6. If there is something on Ebay with "rowdy" on it, I normally buy it. I have tins, beer signs, clothes, books and license plates from 4 different states that all say Rowdy on them. 7. I have had more ...

Dear Reader- After discussing the 6 P's in the previous post. What, you don't know the 6 P's? Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance . Moving on......... Due to popular demand I feel I need to clear some things up for some folks. As you know I did not get accepted into the school program I wanted. That really was supposed to be the icing on moving to Utah. I had so much wrapped up into the school thing though that I am kinda off track now. Sooooooo, here we are today. People have been asking me "what next" so I'm gonna break it down for ya. I have kiddos from a previous marriage living up in Utah. Once I left living Arizona I was able to live fairly close to them and had for years. Then in 2005 when I was in the hospital and getting another surgery beat-down they moved to Utah. I ended up moving to San Diego. So the separation began. Now years later I really really really want to be living back near them. But you can't move without "stuff...

So I have applied for two different EH&S positions dealing with health physics and as a mobile PET/CT tech. If I end up staying in SD, then that is what happens. It won't be the worst thing in the world, just not what I wanted. A real job, here or there, would be nice. I might go write a bit today as well....

Time to walk my own talk. Copied from the email I just received, " I regret to inform you that you are not among those selected to have the opportunity to matriculate in the University of Utah Physician Assistant Program. " Not even wait listed. Wow. A whole new level of rejection for me to experience. ps-it's raining today as well.

I know my header photo is Scrabble themed, but that is just because I thought it was unique composition when I was playing around with a camera. I never list Scrabble in any of my hobbies but secretly, I really enjoy playing and am perturbed if I score less than 300pnts in a game. As a fun variant I like to play with 9 tiles rather than 7, all other rules standard. This just opens up so much more and tonight I found a new one for me. "Gaze" was the vertical word and underneath it horizontally I spelled "raconteur" and turned 'gaze' into "gazer". Sadly I was one space from a double word square but still, I was happy to pull out a 9 letter word from the tangled recess of my mind. Does liking to play Scrabble make me a nerd? Don't answer.

The doctor who has done the in-vitro for the woman who just had octuplets should be charged with malpractice!!

I love this picture.

I was only scheduled to work 3 days this month. Tomorrow was one of them. Notice I used the past tense, was. No patients tomorrow equals no work. There is only one patient, one at all, on the books for what I do so maybe I can work one of the remaining two days this month. Just my luck, I get an unexpected day off and it is supposed to rain tomorrow. But today when I am tired, busy at home and have a very sore elbow it is beautiful outside. Rar!

They asked me which animal I identify with at my interview and I said, "a shark." If only I had seen this picture before hand. I would have hesitated to tell them shark even less. LET'S GET READY TO RUMMMM....BOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You don't? Neither do I! So here are some pics of me with my hair other colors. And styles. When in Iraq... I can rock the 'hawk Medium length blonde/red Kitchen beautician brown. Eyebrows included? Short blonde.

My Monday was spent in downtown San Diego serving as a juror. Rather my civic duty required me to serve as a potential juror, as I was never selected to be a juror and was dismissed from the panel at around 4pm. While pacing the jury pool room in boredom I noticed they really did have a complete cross section of the SD population. I don't think there was any race, religion or socio-economic class not represented. The case dealt with child molestation. Great, just want I want to sit and listen to for possibly days on end. But if it was me, and I'm innocent of something nasty I would want good jurors. So I kept and open mind and listened. Initially I was not selected for the first 21. (one of the questions dealt with your experiences dealing with police officers. i think 75% of the 40 people in my selection panel had DUIs!) After the first wave of dismissals I was an alternate and then bumped up to being "#2". (i guess they really do know me!!) Sample Questions: What is...

driving up Big Cottonwood Canyon, no avalanches that day gps says i'm there! i have never fallen getting off the lift "laid back, with my mind on my money and my money on my mind" so yeah, i got fur on my hood. and?