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Christmas Menu

Mr Papa — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:34:24 +0000

Its that time of year again – Christmas.Â That means time to cook up some good meals.Â Being on NutriSystem, I dont get to cook that often anymore, but gonna do it for the holidays.

Its been a while since I have posted anything about NutriSystem.Â Thats because of work travel, the Mexico Cruise and the holidays, I havent been doing all that well.Â I believe I am still down 15 lbs but certainly
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Halloween and NutriSystem Update

Mr Papa — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:30:13 +0000

Our little rural community of Sonoita celebrated Halloween this weekend. Living in the country, there is no real way for the kids to trick or treat. They might walk two miles and only visit 4 houses.Ã¯Â¿Â½ Instead, the community gets together at the county fairgrounds and holds a Halloween carnival.

The chamber of commerce sponsors the event. They have booths set up for the kids to visit to simulate trick or treating. Local residents bring candy to hand out to the
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Germany Trip Details

Mr Papa — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:08:33 +0000

A bit more on my recent business trip to Germany…

Thanks to some wonderful planning on the part of one of my colleagues, we had a 6:29 AM departure out of Tucson International Airport. Living a good solid hour from the airport, that meant a 3:30 AM wakeup for me. The poor itinerary continued as it had us going through Chicago then London before ending up in Munich. Chicago has not been historically a good gateway city for
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Back From Germany

Mr Papa — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:03:12 +0000

Well, I am back from Germany and my business trip. You may have noticed the lack of posting here. I went over there last Saturday for a conference that my company was hosting in Landshut, Germany. Landshut is about 40km North of Munich.

During the trip, in fact on the first day, you may have noticed that Mr Papa’s World was hacked by some Turkish hackers. I apologize for the crap they left here. Luckily, they
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Another NutriSystem Update

Mr Papa — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:03:47 +0000

Well, another week down on NutriSystem. I think that makes eight. I know another shipment has arrived so my cupboard is once again stocked. Though, once again, some of my items could not be filled so they substituted something completely unrelated. In fact, they substitute stuff I dont normally order which baffles me. There is a reason why I dont order it. They must either use a random number generator or purposely choose something
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Whew – Long Day…

Mr Papa — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 04:11:31 +0000

Wow, what a long day today was… We left the house at 8:45 this morning to get to Benson for the football game. It was another typical sunny, hot Arizona day for football and a visit to Apple Annies for some family fun.

The football game went in typical fashion for Sean’s team. They lost to Benson 38 – 7. Sean’s team is still winless over the last two
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Risk: The Clone Wars and NutriSystem Update

Mr Papa — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:28:16 +0000

We recently had picked up another boardgame that we gave our first spin to this weekend. The game was Risk: The Clone Wars. Its another in the modification series of the long living, popular Risk boardgame.

I grew up as a kid many years ago playing Risk. I have very fond memories of many Summer days playing Risk with the neighborhood kids. We played for hours every man days of the week. We introduced Risk to
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Weekend Musings and NutriSystem Update

Mr Papa — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:10:37 +0000

Wow! What a busy weekend. It was even a three day weekend for me as it was my Friday off week. Some of the activities though were self-inflicted.

I put myself in a hole sleepwise early as I stayed up until 3:30 AM on Thursday night playing America’ Army. That game can be quite addictive for me and has cost me much sleep. When I get to playing it at night, time just flies. Version
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Treadmill Dies

Mr Papa — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:39:19 +0000

Well, as usual, timing seems to be perfect. I was about 30 minutes into a treadmill routine last night when the treadmill decided to die on me.

I was walking along at about a 4.0 mph clip when it suddenly stopped. Of course, I didnt stop that fast and promptly walked into the front end. No big deal, but it was a bit of a shock. I took a quick look at it and nothing stood out as
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NutriSystem Update – Loss Continues

Mr Papa — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:53:21 +0000

If it’s Monday, it must be time for another update on my efforts to lose some weight with the NutriSystem dieting program.

I am happy to announce that another 2 pounds were lost last week. That brings my total loss for the program up to 18 pounds. Thus far, the NutriSystem diet continues to work for me. Only time will tell how it does in the long run.

Also, last week, I began a new workout program. This
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NutriSystem Quick Update

Mr Papa — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:57:53 +0000

I just noticed that I hadnt posted an update about my NutriSystem results for last week so I thought I would quickly put something up.

Last week was a bad news – good news story. The bad news: Last week broke my string of consecutive weight loss weeks. The good news: I didnt gain any weight. So last week was no change from the week before. I had hoped to continue losing a couple of
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NutriSystem Delivery

Mr Papa — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 04:14:40 +0000

Wow, we were cutting it close – or should I say that NutriSystem was. I was all but out of food when the new shipment finally arrived last night. That is kind of strange, since we signed up for the auto-shipment.

Each shipment is supposed to be four weeks and then a new shipment arrives. I guess they figured since they sent us the first shipment and included a free week of food, that we didnt need the
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NutriSystem Diet Update Week 4

Mr Papa — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:49:04 +0000

Week four of the NutriSystem diet for me is in the books. I was a bit apprehensive this morning as I approached the scales. I was expecting bad news as last week was not what I would classify as a good dieting week.

We had the wine tasting on Monday night where we sampled many different, new wines. For the first three weeks of the diet, I hadnt had any alcohol to drink in the spirit of dieting.
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Sonoita Labor Day Rodeo Weekend

Mr Papa — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 19:33:14 +0000

This weekend is the annual Sonoita Labor Day Rodeo. I think its the 91st annual rodeo this year. Its a long and storied rodeo and has long been a part of rural Sonoita. The rodeo began yesterday (Saturday) afternoon and runs through Labor Day Monday.

The rodeo features most events for the men and women. The Sonoita rodeo is on the regional rodeo association tour and gets its fair share of Southwestern Cowboys and Cowgirls that compete
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NutriSystem Diet Week 3 Update

Mr Papa — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:46:20 +0000

It’s been three weeks now on the NutriSystem diet and things continue to go well. I lost another 2 lbs this week. That makes a total of 15 lbs for the first three weeks. I must say, its better than I had hoped for.

So the diet is coming along pretty much the best I could have hoped for. I expected a big loss (8 lbs) the first week and then a smaller, but still significant loss
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NutriSystem Diet Week 2 Update

Mr Papa — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:59:05 +0000

Week 2 is in the books for the NutriSystem Diet that I have begun. This week was just a bit harder since we had a family outing at Benihana’s Teppinyaki Restaurant to celebrate Sean’s birthday. I believe that I made very good choices for dinner but I am also sure that I ate more than would be allowed on the diet plan. I had chicken and vegetables with a salad and some stir fried rice. Both
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Not So Fun Day Off

Mr Papa — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:52:07 +0000

As today is my Friday off (I get every other Friday off), I was looking forward to a nice, relaxing day working off my to do list. I had lots of catch up work to do on the four computers scattered around the house. Suzanne was going to get on the riding mower and cut the field grass on our property.

Well, she had problems getting going as she couldnt get the mower to start. The battery was
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NutriSystem Diet Week 1

Mr Papa — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:41:08 +0000

Well, the first week of the NutriSystem diet is over and the results are pretty encouraging. After the first week of this new diet, I have lost 8 lbs. I have a little trouble with that number because I had my doubts about the starting point last week. It seems that the last week of non-diet food before the NutriSystem was a bad week. Anyways, I am pretty excited about losing the 8 lbs.

After one week,
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Website Development Work

Mr Papa — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:42:48 +0000

I havent had much time to really do a post lately. I have been very busy on some of my website and php projects. Everyone thinks its strange that a 42 year old Senior Manager comes home from work and codes until he is ready to fall asleep, which is usually pretty late. I probably average 5 hours of sleep a night. To me the coding is lots of fun and very stimulating to the brain.
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NutriSystem Diet Day 1 – Dinner

Mr Papa — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 02:33:37 +0000

Okay, last post for a while on the new NutriSystem diet

Dinner tonight was Pasta Fagiola with some snow peas on the side. I got to have a side salad and a whole wheat roll too. So, once again, a pretty fair amount of food. I didnt leave the table hungry and felt satisfied. The pasta wasnt gourmet but still tasted quite nice. For dessert, I got to have
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