Weight stuff

As those of you who've met me know, I'm overweight. When my doctor commented that I was "a bit overweight" some months back, I replied, "No, I'm a *lot* overweight".

And it *does* interfere with my life. But I'm over 350, so standard scales are useless. I'd been intending to shell out the bucks for a heavy duty medical scale ever since I saw one on a site linked to from a web page eleri used to have. But I'd been trying to find the bookmark.

Last night I gave up and just did a google search and started weeding thru the hits. I found what I wanted at not *too* outrageous a price. And I ordered it.

So in about a week, I'll know *exactly* how heavy I am. And I can start tracking things.

If I can lose just a pound a week, I'll be at what *I* consider a livable weight in a couple of years.
I won't be near what the silly charts say I should weigh, but I consider them to be badly broken. That's one of the reasons I've picked up one of those body fat meters.

Space is really big...

A little something I threw together to get across the scale of stuff in space:

At 1 cm = 1000 km

NY to LA ~5 cm
diameter of earth ~13 cm
geosync orbit ~37 cm
distance to moon 3.84 m
distance to sun (1 AU) ~1.5 km
1 parsec ~300,000 km

And the nearest star is about as far as the moon...

Silly meme

What will your Funeral be like? by rashock
Username
You will die by:	You die in sweet bliss while having sex with your lover or partner. Seems they were so good your heart couldn't stand it and stopped. Talk about a heart breaker, but at least everyone sees you inyour casket with a smile of your face.
Death Date:	January 1, 2043
Number attending your funeral?	110
How much will you leave to friends and family?	$1,590,250
Created with quill18's MemeGen 3.0!

Drat. I don't make 100. But how I die is okay, I guess.

A little hard on my lover though.