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As you can see, I had no post last night. I had a good excuse. I was out with some of the guys from our engineering lab.

We headed out onto the lake for some waterskiing, wakeboarding, and anything else we could thing of, including a late dinner at one of the lakeside restaurants.

We did hit a couple of snags along the way.

First, my compadre's boat had a dead battery. That problem was easi8ly fixed with a battery transplant between The Boat and his boat. (The Boat has two batteries.)

Second, The Boat had issues with some water in the gas, causing all kinds of problems when we wanted to go fast. Considering the distance we needed to cover, using The Boat was not a viable option. So we headed back to the docks where I returned The Boat to its slip and we headed out again in my compadre's boat.

Finally we made it to the restaurant and had ourselves a leisurely meal.

Just before we headed back home the moon rose, giving us a 'night light' to steer by. When we got back to the docks I and the others helped my compadre get his boat back on his trailer, reversed the battery transplant, and returned to our homes. I finally got home to The Manse just in time to catch the rest of second half of the Patriots-Rams preseason game on the TV.

All in all, it was an awesome 'night out with the boys'.

It appears Skip is back on the straight and narrow, having pulled away from me again. It didn't help me that I backslid a bit over the past week. As I told Skip, "I can resist a lot of things: candy, chocolate cake, and a whole host of other sundries. But I have absolutely NO will power over black raspberry ice cream. None. Not one iota. Zip. Nada. And particularly Jordan's black raspberry ice cream." It didn't help that we picked some up last Friday and I indulged, heavily. But at least I didn't go backwards too far.

Here are this week's results:


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Apparently Skip spent a little too much time indulging himself at the buffet line while in Las Vegas, allowing me to pull even with him for the very first time. However I have no doubt now that he's back home he'll return to the straight and narrow and pull ahead again.

Here's this week's results:

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Here we are with the results for the 28th week of the weight loss challenge between Skip and me. For the first time in a long while I have almost pulled even with him, but it's not because I lost a whole bunch of weight since last week. I'm still losing, but slowly. Skip is still hitting the political rubber chicken dinner circuit and it's been playing heck with his efforts. As he wrote in an e-mail this morning, "[I] am heading to Vegas for the RightOnline conference Th-Sat: Buffet City, dude!"

Oh, Skip! Whatever are we going to do with you?

Here's this week's results:


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Well, it looks like both Skip and I are back on track as we head for our goal of 195 pounds, though he's still ahead in the count.

Here's this week's results:

This is a late post about the ongoing weight loss challenge between Skip; and me.

Skip has resumed his downward progress while I, on the other hand, backslid a little. Almost all of that was due to the two family gatherings over the weekend where I chose to indulge myself. The fact that I gained a little over a pound was a small comfort, but I'm now back on the straight and narrow.

Here are this week's (delayed) results:


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We've made it through another week and Skip is back on the straight and narrow path to decreasing girth, having gotten through the endless rubber chicken political dinners (and returning to work from vacation). He's dropped a couple of pounds and I, unfortunately, have had no change since last week. It doesn't help me that I indulged in not one, but two not small pieces of gooey birthday cake over the weekend.

Here are this week's results:


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Due to a miscommunication Skip never sent his weigh-in data last week and I never followed up. But here are this week's results.

I'm still losing (slowly), but Skip has hit the GOP rubber chicken circuit, meaning he's backslid a bit. As you can see his lead has dwindled quite a bit. But I have confidence he'll more than make up for it in the coming weeks...as long as he lays off the rubber chicken!


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Here we are, twenty weeks into our challenge and Skip has widened his lead. Not that it really matters because "even the losing loser wins!"

My weight didn't change much from last week, but I expected it considering some of the things I ate over the weekend. So I am not disappointed that I at least maintained my weight. I'll be back on track next week.

Here's this week's results:


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Skip finally got back to me with his results. Unfortunately for him he backslid a little, but the reason is perfectly understandable. His youngest son has deployed to Afghanistan and he sought some comfort foods, like brownies. We'll cut him some slack...this time.

Here are this week's results:


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Hmm. I don't know what happened but I haven't received an update from Skip yet. Once I do I'll post the Week 19 results.

Skip has pulled farther ahead in our race to our mutual goal, but at least we're both still dropping weight.

As you can see I didn't fare nearly as well as Skip during the past week, but I'm still dropping the weight and that's what's important.

This weeks results:


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Here we are at week 17 of our battle against the bulge and both Skip and I are still managing to drop pounds. He's still out in front, but at least I'm not lagging too much.

Here's this week's results:


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It was a long day today, leaving me with little time to complete the post I'd hoped to post this evening. Rather than doing a really poor job of it and posting it tonight, I'm going to put it off until tomorrow so I can create a halfway decent post that might actually be worth reading.

Skip and I continue in our losing ways, though he's drawn ahead with a little over 8 pounds separating us. (We started a little over 4 pounds apart.)

At this rate I ought to reach my target weight of 195 pounds by mid to late July.

Here are this weeks results:


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It is week 15 of the challenge and Skip has pulled ahead again while yours truly slowed down (but still lost a little weight). But I expect the pace to pick up a little bit...I hope.


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I got in very late tonight, leaving me with little time to do anything but post this brief message. I haven't forgotten to post the results, I'm just too darned tired. I'll post 'em tomorrow. If you want to see them now go on over to GraniteGrok. I'm going to bed....

I did not have a post on our results last week. I could blame it on latent triskaidekaphobia, which is why I bypassed Week 13 of the challenge. But the truth is I got sidetracked at work and never got around to creating the weekly graphic. Mea culpa maxima.

The loss continues, though Skip had a slight set back. I've closed the gap again to our original 4 pound gap but I have a feeling my rate of loss will be declining unless I really start exercising.

Here are this week's results.


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Skip and I have made it through another week, with both of us continuing our downward trip to our goal of 195 pounds. Skip still has the lead but he hasn't managed to widen the gap (we started a little over 4 pounds apart and have, for the most part, maintained that spread).

Here's the latest results:


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