Where have I been?

Crap. It's February already? I haven't posted a damn thing this year...

Well, that's got to stop. I've got a lot that I'm trying to do right now, so there's not lack of material. I guess this post will be a bit of a digest to get all my millions hundreds couple of readers caught up.

It ain't so cold, you wimps.

I rang in 2012 with a swim at Coney Island. We got there a little bit late, and so we didn't get in on the official Polar Bear rush, but we still swam! I'll tell ya, all the barefooting in 2011 really seemed to help, as the first steps into the water were no shock at all. And this time, my lovely wife joined me for the first time!

I'm just going to rub against you until I'm dry, okay?

This year I've also decided, again, that this would, once again, be the year I lose a bunch of weight... again. It's hard to call it a resolution, when I've been exclaiming I'd do it since roughly 1990, and never made a very serious effort, with one exception in 2003 that didn't start until the summer.

"Top level predator" my ass... nomnomnom.

So this year I decided to put some real incentive and pay for my weight loss. Did I join a gym? Hell no. Pay a trainer? Nope. Weight Watchers? Please... I started my own Biggest Loser group on Facebook. I've got 21 competitors, each paying in $34 over 17 weeks, and the people with the 3 biggest weight loss percentages by Memorial Day weekend will win a share of the total buy in. So far, I'm in second place, having lost about 11lbs total at the last weigh in. I'm sure I'll post more about that in later posts.

Ok, I think about does it, you're caught up! Congratulations!