Er, an update?

[andyhat]

For those few of you I haven't seen recently at Gaylaxicon or Readercon or Trinoc*Con or ladykalana's Scanner Darkly outing or other real-world events, as of five weeks ago I quit my old job and started a new job with Motricity in Durham. So no more travelling elsewhere every week; though that seems likely to result in more travel on the weekends for fun (like the trip to Chicago last weekend or the trip to Anaheim for Worldcon this weekend).

I suppose it's possible I'll even have time to update this thing more frequently now, but then again, I've been home for the last 5 weeks and am just now posting this, so probably not.

Since I no longer have a company-issue laptop, I had to buy myself a new one. I went for a Thinkpad T60p, with built-in Verizon Broadband Access. Now that I've had it for a few weeks, I don't know how I ever lived without it. And with the Anaheim Convention Center's curmudgeonly policies on WiFi, I'm sure it'll be very handy this week, too.

A couple weeks ago, I dropped below 300 lbs. for the first time since around 11th grade, which means I'm down about 90 lbs. and 8" around the waist in the past 12 months. I expect to be continuing my firm adherence to my pizza-four-times-a-week not-really-a-diet for the near future until I reach an as-yet-undetermined target weight.

I got a couple new bookshelves last week. Hooray for more bookshelves! One can never have too many bookshelves.

And I think that's about it for recent news from me.

Comments

[lapin-de-lune.livejournal.com]

Wow, great news about the weight loss. Congrats. Good luck with the new job.

[ladykalana.livejournal.com]

Does the fact that Worldcon is next weekend mean you'll make it to DCon this year, perchance? I would love to see you there!

It is a testament to the fact that I've seen you altogether too infrequently lately that I hadn't noticed, nor commented upon, your diminished girth. Bravo!

[andyhat.livejournal.com]

I don't currently have plans to attend DCon (it seemed like two huge cons two weekends in a row would probably be more than I wanted to do). But that doesn't mean I might not change my mind between now and then. I think it was only two weeks before DCon that I decided to go last year, too.

[ladykalana.livejournal.com]

I can understand being wiped after WorldCon. But if you should have the energy left over for DCon, I'd love to see you there! I don't know a whole lot of people who are going and I want to show off my and Afelah's ensembles... which may end up being very sexXxy ;)

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Wow! Nice to have some stability, I'd imagine. Good news on the health front, too! Hope things continue to go well.

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

I am all sorts of happy for and proud of you!

Woo hoo

[cspowers.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the diet program! That's a huge turn around! And sticking with it ofr a year shows a huge commitment.

Congrats also on your new job. Seems like the constant travel in yur old job stood in the way of your social life quite a bit, so I bet your having a lot more fun these days.

Re: Woo hoo

[andyhat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my social life has picked up quite a bit these past weeks. Almost too much for an introvert like me, but better that than being bored, I suppose.

Re: Woo hoo

[cspowers.livejournal.com]

there's no "I suppose" about it. Book your calendar until your go home every night exhausted, clamoring for sleep. It's good for you. lol

[jlundberg.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the weight loss! I thought you looked trimmer at the Shriek event on Saturday.

[curvyart.livejournal.com]

hey hey - nice to hear from you! it'll be nice to have you around more of the time. congrats on the positive body changes :)

[knight--owl.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the weight loss.

>>I suppose it's possible I'll even have time to update this thing more frequently now, but then again, I've been home for the last 5 weeks and am just now posting this, so probably not.

Haha! This sounds like me!

[a-nightengale.livejournal.com]

I'm down about 90 lbs. and 8" around the waist in the past 12 months.

Congratulations, that's awesome!!!

And great news on the job, too. Maybe we'll see more of you now, even though there's less of you to see. :)

[readingthedark.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the weight loss, that's impressive!

Bookshelves on the other hand, be wary. Too many bookshelves can lead to books, which can lead to thinking differently than the norms of our world.

Was great to introduce myself to you at ReaderCon and realize we'd met at Quimby's two years earlier!

Best,
Geoffrey

[andyhat.livejournal.com]

It was nice meeting you again at ReaderCon. I'll probably see you there again next year, if not before at some other con.

And the book infestation has already happened; the new shelves will barely be enough to get the stacks off the bedroom floor. I'm convinced the books must have been surreptitiously procreating during the weeks when I wasn't in the house to keep an eye on them.

[joerg.livejournal.com]

Nice to see pa new post from you.
Congratulations on the weight loss - just awesome!
Do you like your new job?

[andyhat.livejournal.com]

Yep, I am indeed liking the new job so far. It's nice to once again be out of the world of large corporations.

[h-postmortemus.livejournal.com]

Cool! Congrats on the new job, hope that's fun. Looks like an interesting company to work for, though it gives me flashbacks to telecom. shudder

And good work on the weight loss!

We haven't been to Trinoc*Con the past two years due to schedule conflicts, costs and I think a bit of burn-out. But we're definitely going next year to see Mr. Martin!