Blog Number 255

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Well I just enjoyed a nice 1/2 cup of coffee.  But Jon, you say, why would you only be drinking a 1/2 cup of coffee instead of your normal 2 cups?  Well, I am glad you asked.  I am (once again) weaning myself off of coffee only this time I am doing it in a more intelligent way.  As you may recall, the last time I lost an entire Sunday suffering while I tried the cold turkey method.  This time, I am trying a smarter approach.  It is really not I who is weaning me actually.  It is my wife.  For she is going to have us go through some sort of detox thing starting Saturday.  From what I have been told by the wife, this detox thing will not be fun but it will be good for us.  I will have to let you know.  I drank only 1 cup on Tuesday and Wednesday and tomorrow I will again only have 1/2 cup and then Saturday I am done.  I can only hope my body is kind to me.

We went to a friend's house to watch the football games on Sunday.  It was terrible to watch the Colts first and then the Cowboys lose.  What a bummer.  It really put a damper on the crowd that was there.  The wife and I were quite depressed but we were able to offer comfort three hours later to the bulk of the people since they were all big Cowboys fan.  I feel your pain people (having just gone through it earlier in the afternoon).

Spanish is still coming along.  The lesson I am on now talks about various articles of clothing (raincoats, skirts, shoes, etc.).  As with previous chapters, nothing I can really use if I were to fly to a Spanish speaking country tomorrow.  8 lessons down and 76 to go to complete the first level of Spanish (I have purchased the 100+ lessons for level 2 as well so it will likely take me 2 years to get through it all I am sure).  I didn't expect to have Spanish down in 3 months or anything but 2 years (dos años) seems like a long time.  There is a level 3 available too so I will be in my early 40's by the time I am done!

Well I better get going to work.  Until next time...

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon