Haven't updated in a while

I know.. its been a while.

What is going on?
A lot, work is being really hectic, AuctionNorCal is coming up this weekend, and so last minute things are being done now to get auction day graphics up and beautiful... and that is all me

Weight Loss wise, not so good, i haven't been ghitting the gym as much as I should, and i haven't had my bike.. but that changed this past weekend, i hit up the gym, did hiit, and i brought my bikes to my new place! This weekend (on Sunday most likely), I will be driving the route to work and then if its okay i'll try biking it.. or maybe i'll just try biking it and see how long and how hard it is :-)

Weight wise, i don't have a scale anymore, but i think i'm back up into the low 250's.. NOT GOOD, but on a good note, i did buy jeans this weekend, and i found out i was fitting into jean sizes that i really did not think i would find into...

Well, i'll update you guys later, maybe this week i'l lbuy a new scale and update you on that for sure!
TIll Then
CIAO!
Roy

Alone at last... broke still :(

Okay so finaly my dad has moved out, yes I was living with him in Walnut Creek for those who did not know.

He left me with an empty condo, boxes that I sitll need to drive to his new place, and about 1 meal worth of food in the fridge... what a way to start and have a weekend, I wanted to get out and have some fun.. be a little DRUNK! but i guess that will have to wait!

why?
Beacuse as much as i love my new job, the pay cycle and pay method/timing SUCKS ASS. i mean TOTALLY BLOWS. Let me explain...

The pay cyclen ends on the 1st or 15th, however checks don't get dispursed till 3 business days later (wtf is up with that), THEN my check seems to be consistently taking about 7 days to clear, as is normal with most checks.. but its a PAYCHECK.. WTF!! WTF!! W T F!!!

This is sooo not even cool, 'cause now my "fun filled weekend" where i was going to go shopping, and buy a new suit, and have fun in the bar.. RUINED!!! Why? because i have to wait till Monday at 5pm for my FUCKIN CHECK TO CLEAR!!
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Wel... here I am Sunday, yesterday i did nothing but stay at home, eat nothing (i had an egg in the morning, but ended up having to throw it away 'cause it tasted like ass since the only frying pan left to me was fucked up or something.. i dunno)... Not just did i eat nothing, i laid in bed half the day trying to get some work done and feeling shitty for myself.. what a fuckin depressing day. I was soo unhapy and soo hungry i coudln't even move i just wanted to lay in bed and sleep for any moment i could get away with it.

ALSO, I was just shitty pissed at this whole money thing, i mean my life was going pretty well up to 2 days ago when on Friday i had this fun filled day planned with someone and when i went to the bank to take out some cash so i could take us out... NADA, i walked in the bank to complain.. but NADA they could do "apparently"....

So to those of you who want weigh ins, and updates.. FUCK YOU.. lol I mean it'll come once my fuckin company decides that not ust ar ethey not paying me enough to be REAMED IN THE ASS by them and their policies... but once their bank, who is reaming me in the ass evenmore... decides to clear a check :-) a PAYCHECK!!!


so much for a stable life
Till Then
CIAO!
Roy

Election Day.... Weigh In Day! Both Significant!

		244.2 lbs.
35.8 lbs. Lost
3.4 lbs. Lost Since Last Scale Measurement

Election Day- OMG Election? Bush's term is over? OMG! about friggin time yo! I am hoping Obama really does a great job (well assuming he wins), and I think he wil do a great job, at least a better job than Mccain, although at this point I think even Mccain could do a better job than Bush (lol!).

One thing that kinda irks me is that on Israeli TV they keep on bringing up how his family is from Kenya, and he is a Muslim, and yadda yadda yadda.. i'm like 'really?' Not that i really care 'cause as much as Israel does rely on the US for funding, and defense, and kind of a 'big brother' to hide behind, it also doesn't realize that the US needs some mending, and if we don't mend our own country first... well shit ain't gonna be good for Israel! hahaha

Another thing is that people tend to believe, on this slippery slope that 'cause he is muslim...or related to... he is close with Arabs, and that wil be bad.. well, i think that is BS if anything his relations to Arabs are no where close to Bush's FINANCIAL connection! (i.e oil)

Okay..okay i'm done time for some WEIGHT LOSS!
As you can see I'm really losing the pounds again, and who said stress makes you not lose weight! I'm stressed out of my pores and all i do is drop the pounds, once I get a car (and not stuck at work for 13 hours a day waiting for dad) I can head to the gym and REALLY drop the pounds... To be honest, losting 42 lbs. in just about 2 months is kinda ridiculous, but I"m gonna see how close I can get to 200 by the time January 1st, 2009 hits.. I think its time for Change (as Obama would say) and that is starting to take place now:

• I need new clothes, i kinda wanna be prep/cool
  so no more t-shirts that are ripped and khakis (i noticed i have 10 pairs of kahkis, and not much else in pants)
• New Hairstyle.. well I kinda got that, with the facial hair, just need a hairuct!
• New someone in my life... yes yes RoyBoy is lonely and its time to find someone, SOON

I am hoping that I will meet some of these requirements by January 1st, 2009 and that with a new president will be a new Roy!

Be prepared for more Hiit, more Weight Loss, and more HEALTHY eating... I need to DROP DROP DROP!

Till Then
CIAO!
Roy

Happy November!

		247.6 lbs.
32.4 lbs.	Lost Since I moved Back
0.4 lbs.	Lost Since Last Scale Measurement

Okay so no drastic weight loss figures here :-)

But i woke up, figured.. why not, and it is the begining of nOvember, so I'd have to do my monthly update...

I am hapy I am losing weight, and work is easing up on me for now... SO i think i will have to find a way to work my schedule/gym together, OR i was looking this morning at how to bike to work, an even though its 10 miles each way, I think I can handle it... it shouldn't be too hard.
hmm...
Okay well i don't really have much to update today, its raining..has been, and i have been without a car for a couple days... so need to buy some other sort of transport (or get my bike involved for days that aren't rainy)...
TIll then
CIAO!
Roy

Surprised I have time for a weigh-in ...

		248.0 lbs.
32.0 lbs.	Lost Since I moved Back
1.8 lbs.	Lost Since Last Scale Measurement

What a weekend... what a weekend.. and what a week!

First the Weekend- OMG did i eat, not the most Healthy of weeekends, i'm sure I rocketed back to 252-3 easily after one night of a FULL meal (salad - dessert) at BJ's (along with a beer sampler) on Friday, Saturday was filled with M's, Mongolian (Mall), and Cold Stone... among other snacks, and Sunday was a rest day of at home-eating. I'm sure it was not the best for my weight loss but MAN was it it GOOOD!

This week- OMG did i not eat.. lol. Monday was a bit relaxing preparing for Tuesday, our big launch day of AuctionNorCal...

just in case you don't know my company puts on auctions for home developers and this is our first multi-builder event.. an event that is costing the company over $1 million and about $400,000+ going into marketing alone... as in, my website better be good or else i'll hear about it and be drastically shunned (if not fired)...

Tuesday was a LONG.. LOOONG day from 8am-9:30pm we were on edge and pushing out the last few tweaks, pages, etc. of the website.. yo uwould think "okay well its up, now you can relax" but NOOOOO
Wednesday was an even longer day.. i got into the office at around 8:00am, next time I look at my clock its 4:00pm.. our servers went HAYWIRE overnight causing massive Internet Explorer / FireFox issues.. meaning what looked good in one.. looked HORRIBLE in the other.. that was my morning, also mixed with tweaks by the founder/ceo of our company.

Today.. knock on wood.. is relaxing, i mean i have tweaks to do, but they are not that important, just little visual things that our founder/ceo wanted changed and I had no time to get to them yesterday.

Can i just say after working 10+ hours everyday.. by years end, i better get a raise or something.. i've been here 2 weeks I feel like i've been here for 5 years... so many hours everyday gets to you.. well gets to me..

Anyway, my boss is about to come in and as with any website I have to go through analytics with him and see where people are going, where they came from, etc. etc. So as i said in my title.. surprising i had time for a weigh in
but it had to be done :-).. I will try to update you on my weight loss a bit more later..

Till then
CIAO!
Roy

OVER 30 LBs. DOWN! thank you D

		249.8 lbs.
30.2 lbs.	Lost Since I moved Back
2 lbs.	Lost Since Last Scale Measurement

Okay Okay so its not halfway YET, but I am totally excited!

The harder and harder it is to lose weight, the more and more i realize that maybe I should have not taken any breaks at all... and just worked so hard.. i mean who knows where i'd be at now if for th epast 2 months i was still doing HIIT daily, and eating like a rabbit...

This past week has been a crazy one, to be honest I stepped on the scale expecting absolutely NO Weight Loss but I could not believe my eyes... thanks to carelessnes of my phone it took me like 5 tries to get a pic, so I know for ure that this is not a fluke... 5 times it always came up with the same number (my dad's scale is pretty good).

Why the crazy week? Well when you are the only web designer for a company, and that company has a $1 million project that needs a website, with over 160 pages... it can get prettty tedious stressful... especialy when the deadline is set to 5 days after you hear about it!
Wednesday night I was in the city and I went to 24 hr. Starbucks... did NOT sleep at all.. i mean I seriously worked through the night till 6am, then headed to work for a 7am arrival and just worked from 7am - 7pm ( i got off earlier than usual)... I got home last night, was asleep when I got an e-mail that i needed to respond to so I got up.. got on my comp and worked for a few more hours.... it was insane!

Well i am at work now, and even though the deadline got pushed back to Tuesday night (for a wed launch) I am happy that all is well, i lost some weight, and I"m more than on track for this website's completion.

More to come and follow...
Till Then
CIAO!
Roy

Weigh-In.. not much more :( sorry

		251.8 lbs.
28.2 lbs.	Lost Since I moved Back
0.2 lbs.	Lost Since Last Scale Measurement

Yay so I am losing weight, actually On Sat or Sun i was at like 253.2 so I consider this a good success thus far for this week.. granted i ate almost NOTHING yesterday. Weight Loss is still taking place!

woohoo, hopefully i'll make it to the gym today

Till then
CIAO!
Roy

week 2... maybe things are starting to pick up :-)

okay so week 2 of my new job is starting (started) and even though i feel like i'm gonna get reemed for SOMETHING at any given moment, usually the casual "looks good" is shot my way, meaning the tension in the air is NOT on me... ::knock on wood::.

as to not jinx it.. i'm gonna change subjects

I have a small motivational week going on now with a friend, she has to run daily this whole week and i have to be good on food, and go to the gym.. daily. She has sent me "before" pics of this week, and i know i what i weighed... so we are hoping that I will drop at least 1 lb. (or ideally be in the 240's .. i wish) and basically same goes for her, so she can look good in her Halloween costume.

Day 2 of the week is okay, yesterday I went for a bike ride!

Not very far, but i did do hiit plowing up a few hills on my fixie

side story: while trying to learn how to skid (and i almost got it!) i somehow managed to strip my cog (gear on back wheel that connects to the chain) and the piece that goes in front of it (forgot the name of it). I was attempting a skid an all of a sudden my pedals stopped moving
for a SPLIT second i was like "YES! I GOT IT!" but then i realized i heard no skidding noises.. nor was it hard to do at all...

while limping the bike as it barely was powered by the pedals... I continued to see what the problem was.... LUCKILY i have a flip-flop hub and so with the spin of the rear wheel I was in single-speed mode... and able to ride home safely.

Godamm do i have shitty luck or what! seriously.. me n bikes is a big love/hate relationship. ....

Well... i'm gonna get back to work, hopefully weigh in tomorrow

TIll Then
CIAO!
Roy

The Loves and Hates of Working Life

SO week 1 of my newly employed life is gone.. and all i can say is "Thank God!"

Okay so I may complain a lot, but i do love my job. I mean a company that is willing to give me CC first day on the job to buy a comp to MY spec is amazing, let alone giving me a lot of freedoms... however with great power gomes great responsibility

32 hour work weeks are long gone, now replaced with 55+, oh did I mention I also work from home on the weekends? yaaa its a drag at times.. but it has to be done.
If any of you want to be a designer, especially a web designer for a company that needs websites designed, coded, and ready 100% within 4 days... its not easy. For one, as the project progresses designs are thrown out the window or worked on.. then as days pass new elements are brought in... my first website, launched today and last night at 9pm a relative small change resulted in about 3 hours worth of work 'cause they decided to change verbage around.

I felt bad, i wasn't in the office when I would have been... but i had to leave early for a prior engagement at my house. I told them in advance i would leave early and made sure Friday would be an easy day of just bare QA.. nothing much more. Weellll Friday turned into much more, as new things were brought onto the website's plate and it kept on growing and growing from there...
yay for 55+ hour weeks with weekends.... thank god i'm getting paid a lot more.


Moving on.. Weight Loss is not really moving (which is good and bad) I mean i've been at 252-253 for about 2-3 weeks now.. and I"m happy with that, i've been so busy especially this past week that I can't even focus on weight loss or hiit

I am eating aight, and living with my dad mid-week, well its like living like a cow.. most meals consists of more green than meat, and more vegetables than anything else... I am slowly growing to ike more and more vegetables.. had this really good Spinach dish the other night! 2 points to the step-mom.
My dad will be moving out soon, so that will leave me the condo to myself in walnut creek... a good haven that is close to my new job, and with 2 bedrooms a good crash pad for the monday night tourists.


Life is looking up, hopefully in a few months i'll have good schedule and be back into weight loss hardcore again :-) I give it 1 more month though, hopefully my weight won't go up and only down

Till then
CIAO!
Roy

Day 1 in the new office

So some of you may know that I had to move offices, because when hired they did not have any room for me in their existing space.

So as of today (and sort of last night) I am in my new office today with my new computer setup and running I am set!
Just because I am a computer geek at heart, and maybe some of you are too, here are the specs on my new machine:

• Intel Core2 Quad Core CPU @ 2.4 GHz
• 4.00GB Ram
• Vista 62-bit
• ASUS EAH3650 SILENT MAGIC/HTDP/512M Radeon HD 3650 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card
• 1 500GB SATA HD
  a lot of our stuff is controlled and sent via network hardrives or ftp
• 2- SAMSUNG 2232BW+ Black 22" 2ms Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 DC 8000:1

That is all for now, luckily all paid for by the company :-), going to pick up a Logitech MX Revolution Mouse because I spent 4-days working with my co-workers before I got setup here, and I love that mouse :-)

What else is going on? hmm.. not much Weight Loss isn't moving much, beacuse work is taking up so much time, traffic, commuting, its a drag sometimes but once my life settles I will go ahead and be going back to the gym (there is one like 2 blocks from work part of the Bishop Ranch Community-so cool).

uh... yea so I'll update you guys/gals later!

Till Then
CIAO!
Roy