Finally, hairy, another good move, boom

Finally after almost exactly 3 years, almost exactly double the amount of time I was told it would take, I am finished with my braces.  I have one nasty looking before pic of my teeth.  I don’t want to show the after shot until I get them zoom bleached.  They look pretty dingy right now, especially where the braces were mounted. You can tell from the before pic why I was never one who wanted to open his mouth with a toothy grin.  Looks like I have Billy Bob teeth.  Wait for the after shot. It is going to be weird to not have to go to the ortho office every month.

Randall dug out this pic he snapped of me and Ali after a volleyball tournament in Fort Lauderdale.  I think it was last year and he says it was after we won BB.  I don’t quite recall. Anyway it was when I was in my ultra-hairy state.  I was letting my hair get long.  What I found was when my hair was long the only time I liked it was when I had a hat or visor on, it looked cool spilling out of it.  I generally have the same feeling about long hair on women.  I think long hair on women looks the best when it is pulled up.  I also am sporting ample facial hair in the pic.  It’s as grungy as I get.

For those of you that read this for fitness tips (same people that read it for my reality tv reviews) I tried a new exercise yesterday that I saw a guy I talk to at the gym do before.  You grab a 12 pound medicine ball, the type that is flat and does not bounce.  You grab it with two hands and swing it over your head and slam it down to the ground on the side as hard as you can.  Then you pick it up immediately and reverse the movement and slam it to the other side.  It is sort of the movement you would make chopping wood.  Make sure you keep your core taut.  I did sets of 20.  It makes quite a racket as you slam the ball to the floor.  I wouldn’t have been able to do this at JFZ, far too noisy.  I guess workin out in a shithole has it’s advantages.  The move is also a great stress reliever.  Imagine the ball is whatever/whomever is annoying the piss out of you and enjoy slamming it to the floor again and again.

This morning as we were getting ready I heard a loud noise like something heavy had fallen against a wall.  It shook the house.  I went from room to room looking for something but found nothing.  The noise scared Nicki off the bed and Ali heard it in the shower.  It turns out what we heard was the sonic boom the space shuttle makes when it reenters that atmosphere over Florida. Wild stuff.