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8 Great Frozen Entrees

Sometimes it’s hard to get lunch packed in the morning. Yahoo Food offers a solution in the form of 8 Great Frozen Entrees. The only one of tehse that I have had is Amy’s Black Bean and Vegetable Enchiladas which are wicked good. I didn’t realize that they were a smart choice until now.


New Blog from J.D. of GetRichSlowly.com

Recently J.D. over at GetRichSlowly.com announced that his new blog, GetFitSlowly.com will officially launch on January 1st. This excites me because J.D.’s financial blog is great. He’s a good writer and a very successful blogger who just recently decided to make blogging his full time gig.
Content at the new blog is sparse but then, it [...]


Gifts Under $30

Today I started sorting through over 1100 starred items in Google Reader. I’ll be un-starring, tumbling and just leaving some of these items starred in an effort to dump and organize all the crap I’ve read or saved to read later.
One nugget of awesomeness that I found was an article at Get Rich Slowly that [...]


Am I a Serial Entrepreneur?

There is a great article with the above title over at trizle.com. In particular, the part about “serial entrepreneurs” struck a chord in me. From the article:
Contrast serial entrepreneurs with those ‘long-term’ ones.
Who’s thriving like a mofo?
The ones who built on top of their experiences, then exploited those advantages every-single-frickin’-day.
Oh snap! Could I be one [...]


My First Moleskine

Over the last year I have heard references made to Moleskine and their life altering variety of notebooks. Last week I got one, not knowing exactly how I would use it. My first model is the ruled Moleskine of the pocket sized persuasion. So far I have used it to jot a couple of [...]


Back in the saddle.

Yesterday I returned from a week long trip to Granger, IL for a work related conference. I went with the best intentions. Every place I stayed had a fitness center, I brought along shakes and bars to stay consistent with my eating habits and I intended to eat as well as possible while there.


Inspiration: John Stone

From time to time I come across someone’s personal story of fat to fit that just blows my mind and is a source of encouragement that reminds me that this can be done. One such person is John Stone. At his website you’ll read and see the results of his decision to be fit (rocked [...]


Lumosity Upgrades

One of my favorite brain strengthening website has upgraded with some great new features. I’ve blogged about my affection for Lumosity.com before and they are wooing me even more with

Two new games

Word Bubbles – a verbal fluency task
Chalkboard Challenge – a numerical reasoning task

Brain Performance Index

From the site: Check your BPI Lumosity calculates a BPI [...]


Pizza, oh for shame!

Last night I had pizza. It was not my free day but boy, was it good. This particular pizza had lots of meat, onions and cheese. The crust reminded me of a crunchy soft pretzel. It had that kind of flavor. It was freak nasty good and if you are ever in South Bend, IN [...]


10 Math Tips For Your Head

I’ve always had a hard time with math in my head. I just have so much trouble keeping track of all the numbers floating around in my head. listverse.com comes to my rescue with 10 great tips for calculating in your head. Until now, I never understood how my friends were multiplying by nines with [...]