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Today, I thought I’d put away my space heater.

I live in a basement suite and during the summer, it’s a comfortable cool temperature, but during the winter it can be dreadfully chilly even with the furnace going full out (remember… heat rises and most of the heat will blast into the upstairs suite).

So I have a space heater that I bought a couple years ago.

Except, when I went to unplug it and noticed melted plastic from the plug stuck around the outlet.

“Not good” you say?

I did the only logical thing I could think of.

I plugged it right back into that outlet and let it run!

Actually, I cut the cord and set it by the door so I could drop it in the trash in the morning. I checked the plug to make sure it wasn’t a fire hazard. I’ll avoid using it and replace it later.

Check your plugs people. It would be a bad deal to burn down your house because of this.

Thanks to the generosity of others (Thanks Amy!), I have a bike.

I haven’t rode a bike in quite a while and it’s good to be “back in the saddle again”.

I’ve noticed that my abs hurt though. You wouldn’t think they’d be the thing that hurts most after a good ride, but for me, that’s where the pain shows up. The pain only shows when I’m laying on my stomach… that’s a lot like say “My eye only hurts when I poke it”, but I do like to tap away at my computer while laying on the couch/floor/bed.

Guess I’m more out of shape than I thought.

The bike should fix that though.

I should be in bed.

Instead, I’ve only just finished watching as much of a television series as I can on my computer.

I get like that sometimes… where I forgo rational sense in favor of indulgence.

How productive will I be tomorrow?

Guess I’ll find out in a few hours.

Why is it so difficult to maintain healthy eating habits?

It’s not like good food is tasteless or anything. It’s more likely that the bad food alters my physiology in ways that are “pleasurable”.

Pain or pleasure. They are the only two real options. You either run from pain or to pleasure.

And I do likes me some junk food.

I’m not going back to my fiendish caffeine-induced soda binges though.

If you keep that in mind, I guess I am making progress. Like most people, I was just hoping for better defined progress and that really only happens during musical montages in the movies (Go listen to “Montage” from the movie “Team America”).

For now, I’ll keep on keeping on.