I'm still here.

It's been a while since my last update. I have 2 unfinished draft-posts floating around out there... one from the first of June and one in early July...  They are no longer as topical and timely as they were... I may re-edit and post them anyway.

As for my weight loss journey.  Things are going well. I'm down a little more than 150 pounds since I started the per-surgery liquid diet at the very end of January. I'm under 250 pound, maybe for the first time in my adult life. Depending on the brand I'm wearing L or XL shirts and a few XXLs that I refuse to give up on yet.  I'm in size 40 "loose fit" cut jean shorts.  Size 42 carpenter cut.

One of my buddies talked about buying himself a new wardrobe of nerd fandom clothes once he loses about 30 pounds or so.  I was a little jealous. I have very little in the way of nerd fandom clothes right now. I have some very nice, quite sensible, professional looking hand-me-downs that I am very grateful and thankful for.  I actually really like my new silk shirt I inherited, but when it comes right down to it. Nothing about anything in my wardrobe is something I went out and got because I wanted it. None of it says anything about me.

One thing about me is I'm broke.  Well not REALLY broke... I'm actually doing better than most, financially... but I have a lot of expensive things I want to buy, so my money is spent before I even earn it. I want to finish stomping our mortgage out of existence... My wife is in need of a newer car... I intend to acquire an upgraded camera... I want to get a new ultra-wide angle linticular lens, too... eventually I am going to pay for skin removal surgery...  All big ticket items that means my clothing budget is in the "you're broke" range, even though we make acceptable incomes and have no debt other than our home.

But since I'm "broke" and want clothes, I go where broke people shop for clothes.

I get a batman teeshirt and boxers, 2 belts I like, the afore mentioned jean shorts, they had polos on clearance, and I got several for $5 each. And though their nerd-tees are not over priced, and there is currently a wide selection... I balk at spending the cash especially since I typically wear my work clothes all day so I'd only dress in my geek-gear 2 days a week at most.

But later... on amazon...  I had a brilliant idea.  Iron-on patches! I'm going to nerd up my cheap-ass polos that I wear to work with some nerd patches, which run between three and four dollars shipped. So for $9 or less I'll have a work-appropriate nerd shirt. Genius!

None of this is actually what I logged into Blogger to post about tonight. I was about to delve into that here... but then thought "tl;dr"

This is enough for one post.  I'll make my intended topic it's own post.