For The Record, Scale Check

It's been a chunk of time since we last looked in on this situation, but there's finally progress to report, so take a look. This again marks a low point in the now seven+ year project of me trying to become a normal person. I really want to get past 270, because that will mark 70 pounds total lost since the whole thing begun. As I saw last year, if I remember right, this is an important notch on the belt, because it's a low point that comes before the summer, when losing weight tends to be substantially easier than at other times. (Note: this picture dates from Tuesday March 24, so it's going up a few days late.) If things go swimmingly, I'll see the sunny side of the milestone before the opening kickoff in the fall.

In fact, having just reviewed last year's entries, I see that in May of '14 I was clocking in at 281.0, so this represents real progress in less than a year, and given the full purview of all the entries, the rate may be picking up a bit. That's good news. There may be hope yet.

Reel Reviews

Draft Day -- So it's come to this: the NFL is now producing propaganda films like some 1930s dictatorship. One wonders if there is as much veracity in this exhibition as one might have found in, say, the movie within a movie in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Either way, the Sabols are either spinning in their graves, or dancing in Hell, depending. Much of this movie comes across as Stupid with a capital S, though I must grudgingly admit that there's enough entertainment here to keep the viewer engaged. This is the kind of role Kevin Costner is good at, though everyone else in the cast is basically a cardboard cutout. Watch it if you really dig sports movies; just don't let yourself fall too far under the spell of "the shield."