Roofball

I played some Roofball and won. For those of you who don’t know what Roofball is you can check out the leagues site here. Loren, Philipp and I were invited to play in the 2008 Roofball games by the Roofball founder, after we had him on our TV show, Portland Men on Sports. Loren took third in the time trial event. Then Loren, Philipp and I took first in the team event. Afterwards a head to head time trial event was put on. I took third while Loren took second. Ryan also participated in the time trial event.

We were invited back for Sunday’s 2008 US Open event. However Philipp had to fly out to NYC for work, and Loren had a fence to fix. I decided to play in the invitation only competition. And you guessed it folks I won. Check out the pic.

All in all we walked away with 7 medals out of a possible 10.

A tale of Tuesday

Last night (yes I’m writing this on Wednesday) Fransico (Rob), Jaun (Shaun), Pedro (Joe), and I went to the Beavers game, Portland Beavers that is. I had gotten four free tickets from the Oregonian. They were good to any game, and since this Thursday is the last home game of the year I figured I should use them. Luckily Tuesday was a double head so we had free tickets to both games, even though they only played seven innings each game which is lame. Joe and I are the only to that have an interest in sports and while we would like to see the home team do well we are not too invested in the outcome. We had a good time, attempting to explain what a force out is to Shaun, getting Rob to dive to head first into the next row and eating $1 hot dogs.



Afterwards Joe, Shaun and I headed over to Voodoo Doughnuts to grab some fat. All the while talking about Wii fit and how it would go about telling me that I’m fat. That and listen to Shaun tell us how horny he is. Fun times.

Logo's

Lately I have been feeling very busy. I generally have something to do after work everyday, sometimes it's a fun something sometime it's a must do something. Anyway not sure why I started the post that way but I'm mostly here to deliver some good news, well I think it's good or exciting anyway. Perhaps mostly to me than to anyone else. Last week I received my first shipment of Bookie Productions shirts, and today I received our new finished logo for Portland Men on Sports. I've posted it below. Carlyn who I work with designed the logo for me. You can reach her at carlyndesigns@mac.com. I hope you like.

You have to slide

So I played in a softball game the other day in which the umpire informed us that if there is a close play the runner must slide or would be called out. I guess I still need to work on my sliding technique.

foot longs

So this losing weight thing is not really going so well. Turns out by eating a Ditka at Wayne’s Chicago Red Hots does not help you lose weight in fact it might have the opposite effect. Oh well where else am I supposed to get my recommend intake of ½lb hotdog, chili, cheese and onions? I’m still holding steady at 197lb somehow. Now the question is what should I have for lunch?

Voice Mail

One of the most irritating things to me is voice mail. Specifically trying to leave a voice mail on someones phone. For instance say I want to call you, leave a message the says "Hey blog reader, this is Derek call me back." Now that should only take about 2-3 seconds. But lets take a look at the entire process.

Phone must ring 4-5 times before voice mail kicks in: 35 seconds

Listen to the message from the person you are calling: 20-50 seconds (I used to be guilty of this by leaving movie trivia questions on mine, in addition some VM systems will let you hit the pound key to jump right into the message, however if this is a system that does not have this feature you could be jumping to a whole new set of menu options)

Listen to the automated voice telling me how to leave a message: 15 seconds (by far the most annoying part of this process)

Leave your message and hang up: 2-3 seconds.

So we have a total of 1 minute on the low side just to leave a 2 second message. I don't you know about you but I need things down NOW, I'm and American aren't I?

OK back to Weber Weight Watch 08. I have taken a few steps to curb my tummy. I've tried to eat sandwiches instead of burgers or chicken instead of burgers or...well OK I eat a lot of burgers. I've also tried to be more consistent when it comes to exercise. So one week and 4 pounds later I'm at 197.

Really?

Now I’ve never been one to count carbs, drink lite anything, or really watch what I eat. However ever since Bree became pregnant she has been eating more and that means I have been eating more, and I really have no “portion control” ability. So last week I took out the bathroom scale and weighed myself. You could say I was a bit surprised. Now before I get into the exact number, I debated on whether to let you know or not. But I figure this will give me some accountability. Anyway to make a long story short I need to drop a few pounds, normally I’m not concerned with the actual number but rather if I’m in shape or not. So here we go, my weight as of 7/8 is 201 lbs. Scary I know. But you can be my witness I would like to get down to 175 lbs. That’s 26 pounds. I don’t really have a goal date or anything but the sooner the better, heck soccer season starts in September and I’m not sure I can round around like I am. So keep me in check please.